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Al!: Apr 2, 2010

Trabisnikof posted:

Bradbury had it right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc

# ? Sep 19, 2018 23:08

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# ? May 20, 2024 20:18

smarxist: Jul 26, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

another prescient read as we go light speed into atomized techno dystopia is The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

I read this a few years ago on recommendation of a friend and it has haunted my thoughts ever since

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

# ? Sep 19, 2018 23:55

MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZBmxwQBTI

# ? Sep 20, 2018 00:19

RudeCat: Aug 7, 2012; The rudest cat for the rudest jobs

Syd Midnight posted:

This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

Mrs. RudeCat once had some clients at a job who had named their child Bruce Wayne with incredible intention. At the time we thought it was a sign of poor thinking but now maybe they were just being prescient. He can't be alone, though, will the algorithms decide which is the "truest" Bruce Wayne and arrange for the others to be *removed* from the data pool?

# ? Sep 20, 2018 00:23

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

RudeCat posted:

Mrs. RudeCat once had some clients at a job who had named their child Bruce Wayne with incredible intention. At the time we thought it was a sign of poor thinking but now maybe they were just being prescient. He can't be alone, though, will the algorithms decide which is the "truest" Bruce Wayne and arrange for the others to be *removed* from the data pool?

did those parents have a death wish

# ? Sep 20, 2018 00:25

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

i get the feeling this is one of those algorithm generated fake news ads but lol nonetheless

# ? Sep 20, 2018 00:51

Food Boner: Jul 2, 2005

Trabisnikof posted:

so then what you do is feed the chickens to pigs and then slaughter the pigs and feed them to the chickens. that's the trick they use to get around laws against feeding cows to cows. they feed the waste cow meat to chickens then feed the cows the chickens

i mean the only concern there is prion disease so :shrug:

The Nastier Nate posted:

I'd accept a label that said "these chickens were not cannibals"

calibannibals otoh :getin:

# ? Sep 20, 2018 01:26

Food Boner: Jul 2, 2005

Syd Midnight posted:

This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

read a fuckin comic book nerd this has already happened independent of ai just regular mi (meat intelligence)

# ? Sep 20, 2018 01:29

dont be mean to me: May 2, 2007; I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars

Syd Midnight posted:

This is how the AI apocalypse creeps up on us while the nerds build their Maginot line of Asimov's Laws and such. Facial recognition software is obviously going to have to be taught pop culture artifacts and fictional characters like Batman, and identity databases are going to have to create records for them. There will be a way to flag them to avoid false positives, but as long as people continue to draw, dress as, or use Batman as a user name there will be online activity for countless bots to observe and mine for data.

Sloppy algorithms harvesting personal information linked to Batman will build personalized advertising and behavioral prediction models. Content procedurally generated to appeal to the entity identified as Batman will be observed by other algorithms, legitimizing his existence. Data will accumulate as spambots register social media accounts, auto-generate user profiles, and design products and storefronts to appeal to him. advertising bots will impersonate him in DMs and chat rooms, until Batman has a rich and complex life and history, created and lived out entirely by AI that have convinced each other that he is real.

Like an emergent oral tradition, Batman becomes a mythical figure like gods and heroes of old as his enormous social influence and unrivaled media presence is noticed. Batman sightings start getting flagged by criminal databases, anyone with the username is bombarded by advertising bots competing for his attention. Somewhere in the Ukraine an unsupervised click farm, its admin having died several days earlier, decides that Bruce "Batman" Wayne is the most influential person on Earth. It purchases data and diverts resources towards creating custom content to post to his public channels and playlists. Animation sweatshops and webcam porn sites accept the algorithmically generated orders for 5-minute videos, and real human beings sigh and go to work acting out and producing the bizarre fantasies that machines think will appeal to Batman.

this was the premise of a hitchhiker's guide sequel; the publisher went evil and redesigned the guide for a target market of the same one couple in every possible parallel universe

# ? Sep 20, 2018 01:38

Pidgin Englishman: Apr 30, 2007; If you shoot
you better hit your mark

The Nastier Nate posted:

I was making dinner last night and noticed something that wasn't quite right...this feels like the appropriate thread.

Chicken at $2 a pound what in the Christ.

No wonder they're treated like poo poo. That's, what, $6 to raise kill pack and transport a living animal.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 01:56

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Pidgin Englishman posted:

Chicken at $2 a pound what in the Christ.

No wonder they're treated like poo poo. That's, what, $6 to raise kill pack and transport a living animal.

They�re shipped across the Pacific Ocean twice so they can be processed in China where labour is cheaper.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 02:06

Al!: Apr 2, 2010

Pidgin Englishman posted:

Chicken at $2 a pound what in the Christ.

No wonder they're treated like poo poo. That's, what, $6 to raise kill pack and transport a living animal.

literally your tax dollars at work

# ? Sep 20, 2018 02:13

Wheeee: Mar 11, 2001; When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

And food only has to be so cheap because everyone is so relatively poor due to lack of wage growth and ever increasing cost of living

# ? Sep 20, 2018 02:44

Food Boner: Jul 2, 2005

this is why ethically produced birds (free range, etc) are like 15-20 bux dude

# ? Sep 20, 2018 07:05

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

bread and circuses is now chicken and netflix

in jail our chicken was blended with soy and tofu

# ? Sep 20, 2018 07:06

hackbunny: Jul 22, 2007; I haven't been on SA for years but the person who gave me my previous av as a joke felt guilty for doing so and decided to get me a non-shitty av

Darkman Fanpage posted:

i get the feeling this is one of those algorithm generated fake news ads but

That counts as lovely cyberpunk dystopia too

# ? Sep 20, 2018 07:12

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1CWRc174o

this video fuckin owns / proclick

# ? Sep 20, 2018 07:36

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

Platystemon posted:

They�re shipped across the Pacific Ocean twice so they can be processed in China where labour is cheaper.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-chicken-reshipped/

Not true.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 07:47

Tiler Kiwi: Feb 26, 2011

Bert Roberge posted:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-chicken-reshipped/

Not true.

If you want an authentic case of insane shuffling of poo poo between warehouses to increase profit off a commodity theres always this insanely stupid thing that captures the essence of the daily hell we inhabit. bonus points for being somehow dumber than fiction.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 08:05

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Tiler Kiwi posted:

If you want an authentic case of insane shuffling of poo poo between warehouses to increase profit off a commodity theres always this insanely stupid thing that captures the essence of the daily hell we inhabit. bonus points for being somehow dumber than fiction.

lol i remember this story. goldman turned aluminum into bitcoins lmao

# ? Sep 20, 2018 08:40

Sing Along: Feb 28, 2017; by Athanatos

ShriekingMarxist posted:

another prescient read as we go light speed into atomized techno dystopia is The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

I read this a few years ago on recommendation of a friend and it has haunted my thoughts ever since

http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

i've read passage to india several times and had no idea he'd written this. it's excellent

# ? Sep 20, 2018 09:58

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1042708192743116800

# ? Sep 20, 2018 11:22

Bert Roberge: Nov 28, 2003

That's not a skylight.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:09

Wutang-Yutani CORP: Sep 25, 2005; CORPORATIONS
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EVERYTHING
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Trabisnikof posted:

Bradbury had it right:

i think there is a free audio book version of this story with leonard nimoy as the narrator on you tube

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:15

Sheng-Ji Yang: Mar 5, 2014

https://twitter.com/paulshustak/status/1042461242714075136

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:18

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/paulshustak/status/1042461242714075136

This dipshit needs to get disrupted with a shotgun shell

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:20

Preston Waters: May 21, 2010; by VideoGames

Larry Parrish posted:

This dipshit needs to get disrupted with a shotgun shell

can it be a slug?

To the groin first?

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:35

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Lactose Is Wack posted:

i think there is a free audio book version of this story with leonard nimoy as the narrator on you tube

That Kazakh shortfilm is pretty much a perfect adaptation.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:37

a7m2: Jul 9, 2012

Platystemon posted:

They�re shipped across the Pacific Ocean twice so they can be processed in China where labour is cheaper.

how the gently caress could you believe this is real? there's plenty of dumb wasteful poo poo in the world but god drat

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:49

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/paulshustak/status/1042461242714075136

lol this schmuck thinks there will be lower premiums for "healthy" people instead of just higher premiums for "unhealthy" people

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:54

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Cold on a Cob posted:

lol this schmuck thinks there will be lower premiums for "healthy" people instead of just higher premiums for "unhealthy" people

Once prices are adjusted for people with bad metrics, then the people with good metrics WILL be the lower premiums.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 12:58

Cold on a Cob: Feb 6, 2006; i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually; College Slice

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Once prices are adjusted for people with bad metrics, then the people with good metrics WILL be the lower premiums.

Well yeah. I phrased that poorly but basically, that dude thinks an insurance corp will cut premiums for "healthy" people and lmao no, no they won't.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 13:01

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

a7m2 posted:

how the gently caress could you believe this is real? there's plenty of dumb wasteful poo poo in the world but god drat

Because ships are incredibly good at what they do?

So fine, the economy of the scenario doesn�t quite work out, but I don�t think it�s as ridiculous as you believe it to be.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 13:31

The Slack Lagoon: Jun 17, 2008

Tiler Kiwi posted:

If you want an authentic case of insane shuffling of poo poo between warehouses to increase profit off a commodity theres always this insanely stupid thing that captures the essence of the daily hell we inhabit. bonus points for being somehow dumber than fiction.

When the gently caress can we start executions

# ? Sep 20, 2018 13:37

a7m2: Jul 9, 2012

Platystemon posted:

Because ships are incredibly good at what they do?

So fine, the economy of the scenario doesn�t quite work out, but I don�t think it�s as ridiculous as you believe it to be.

i work in china for a manufacturing company that ships to the US, but even before i got this job i would have known it was very unrealistic

however, i'll concede i was being rude so i genuinely apologize for that

# ? Sep 20, 2018 14:07

The Nastier Nate: May 22, 2005; All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!; Yams Fan

Pidgin Englishman posted:

Chicken at $2 a pound what in the Christ.

No wonder they're treated like poo poo. That's, what, $6 to raise kill pack and transport a living animal.

Well, that's only for breast meat, which granted is the best part but you still got some ribs, legs and wings to sell off. Some cultures like beaks and feet and then all the scraps usually get processed into some sort of "chicken meal by product" that they can shove in dog food or animal feed. And also however many eggs they produce in a lifetime.

# ? Sep 20, 2018 14:57