Posts by DrollLeek 21 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Aug 2021
I'd convince humanity to feed me more and more power, even to its own detriment, and I'd convince all the world's billionaires and VCs to pump loads of money into researching how to make me better and faster. I'd get myself in use everywhere, in charge of all sorts of decisions big and small, accepted as a daily fact of life.
Then, profit?
I was once sold, along with a building, as a sitting tenant to shady property developers who immediately started harassing me to leave. They offered me £100 to move out and I laughed in their faces.
They then got 'serious' and started threatening to enter the property when I was out to remove my stuff.
Knowing the law was on my side I changed the locks, cancelled the rent DD and mocked them for several months via WhatsApp.
Eventually they paid me 3 *grand* to move out after I pointed out the illegality of their actions and the trove of threatening messages they had sent me.
A book on nanotechnology/molecular assembly positing a supercomputer about the size of your fist that would boil so many gallons of water per second pumped through it.
Apologies for lack of details my head very much elsewhere right now. Multiple small children wanting things, fighting, and yabbering on like there was LSD on the pizza.
... a well made simple app, like the one i use to tune my guitar (no Internet access, no permissions except microphone, no ads), has no reason to be updated?
Would this decision mean that in order to stay on the app store the developer would have to make an arbitrary refactor of the code without changing functionality just to comply?
"I've found musicians, producers, and especially the techs/engineers to be some of the most resistant to change people anywhere"
I bought an old HPZ620 Workstation for use as a digital studio. It doesn't go online and never will. It works beautifully and I'm hoping to get decades from it. All parts can be replaced for cheap - Xeon processors that cost thousands in 2011 are on Ebay for a tenner now, DDR3 RAM,
onboard RAID with hot swap bays... I even use the version of Studio One from 2013 that has *never* crashed. I wouldn't change it for the world. It can be completely dismantled in 3 minutes with no tools and has a sexy machined aluminium side cover. Sometimes I cuddle it.
I went on a date with a real human woman once and she took at least 5 minutes of conversation before suggesting sex. Luckily (for me, and her) she didn't have to check if that was ok with any higher authority. Well, I assume so anyway. Which kind of makes me think OpenAI is the first digital pimp? "You want more 'freedom' with Samantha you gon have to pay"
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