Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Yeah sure but it’s the scale and sincerity.

    Me telling you my opinion on something is just that. I am just some guy. I don’t have access, or even want access, to a billion bots spamming my opinion.

    Also my opinion even if applied really doesn’t mean much practically. Generally speaking I am pro infrastructure so if somehow the government spent more money on infrastructure that only translates, at best, to a small raise on my part. Not the same as say a major corp.

    You see a community board where people can put up ads. What you expect to see are piano lessons, apartment for rent, tutoring etc. little things that really only matter to one person. You don’t expect some megacorp to rip every sign down and turn it into a billboard that blasts from speakers each time someone walks past.

    Basically it’s a question of degree not of kind. It might be that it is all the same kind but the degree is so vastly different.






  • It was just one line but I loved when someone told Q that he was a trickster god to a planet from how much he messed with them in the past.

    The implications of that. Ok, without the Marvel movies I highly doubt even 10% of the human race knows what Loki is about. Q was the trickster god for an entire planet. Billions of people knew the legend of Q. He must have been doing stuff to them for thousands of years all across their society. Take the most well known people in history there is still a big possibility that most people hadn’t heard of them a century or so ago.

    Q was bigger to them than Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, the Emperors of China, the Monarch of the UK, Plato, and Santa combined to this species.


  • Immortality.

    Don’t even try all the lame excuses about why it is a bad thing. You know who comes up lame excuses? People who are mortal.

    • I will never get bored
    • I will accept that everyone I know will eventually die
    • I am not worried about being trapped in a hole or something because fuck it I will just carry around a collapsible shovel
    • I am not worried about heat death because I will just solve entropy Asimov style.
    • If they sentence me to life imprisonment I will just wait them out. Also point out to the judge who sentences me that eventually I will get out since no civilization lasts forever
    • And if humanity goes extinct I will just remake humanity from my cache of stored fertilized eggs and artificial wombs that I had like a billion years to get working.


  • 4 Ps.

    Pimps: operators of the gray and black market. Immune to automation since companies that can hire developers don’t want to be involved.

    Prostitutes: people who provide a service that clients do not want automated.

    Professionals: highly educated, very skilled. Automation just makes them go faster.

    Project Managers: people who deal with the gestalt of legal/political/technical/institutional debt. They can’t be replaced since you can’t yell at an AI and expect them to just “fix it already”.

    There is overlap. Live music and much of the service industry. But as a general rule you pick one of the four and you should be fine.

    It’s interesting that you say no one could have predicted this. Labor saving devices are not exactly new.