You could go and join the Amish!?

Seems likely. He was notoriously an absolute terror on the pavements around Cambridge in general

I believe so, yes. I grew up really near the European home of the Scientologists

My parents used to buy vitamins from Neil Gaiman’s parents

Ooh, another contender. But I doubt you’ll get about bronze

At this rate, remotely complicated software is going to become a lost technology

Well there’s a contender for dumbest comment of the decade

Well not being terrified of technology would be a good resource

That’s not a derailment, that’s the point of the book!

So it’s a total scam but companies are using it… why? Maybe because… it’s actually useful?

I feel like it’s a very vocal minority, but boy are they loud and obnoxious!

I knew someone at school who was into bus spotting because “train spotting was boring”

It won’t even work as child protection, because horny teenagers gonna find a proxy or a vpn, or gonna find dodgy porn sites that don’t check your age

Can’t happen soon enough. However this is actually about control so any collateral damage is irrelevant

Yeah the same thing happened with the dot com bubble.They didn’t try to replace junior developers with ai, they just gave them pool tables in lieu of having any plan at all! When I graduated there were very few jobs in programming at all, and those that were were flooded by people with a lot more experience than a new graduate.We’ll get through it this time too

I graduated in 2002, just as the dot com bubble burst. Similar scary headlines abounded then. I’m not employed in it, but I don’t recall the tech sector disappearing and us all going to live in caves. Maybe I missed it?

It’s using energy, we need more renewables. That’s not a problem with AI. Direct your opprobrium where it belongs

No we don’t

And photography before that, and pre-mixed paints before that (the media dragged J. M. W Turner of all people for it!). I imagine many of the same arguments were used against pencils and brushes when they were first invented too!

Yeah that’s a damn fine example of a really stupid take. Thank you.

Lets start with the amount of effort it takes not being related to artistic value, otherwise your pictures would be worth more than Picasso’s doodles, wh9ich is clearly bullshit. Plus the fact that’s ableist as fuck - I recently suffered nerve damage and so can’t actually control a pencil properly, and trying get painful, soi are you really saying disabled people can’t and shouldn’t create art?

Now theft - it; not theft. No artist is denied their work, no copies are made, and it can’t reproduce their work. It can mimic a style but most of the people who complain about that are the most derivative anime-style furry porn artists (no offence to furry porn, but what they create is no high art!)

Oh, and I agree that the best ai, like most software, is run locally and is open source. Disliking megacorps is not a criticism of ai

So yeah, thanks again for illustrating my point

Yeah, spot on. Also The Rite Of Spring is one of my favourite pieces of music ever