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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Ian Moss on Twitter

YouGov just asked me "if there were a general election tomorrow which way would you vote" and I felt sad that the question machine had been working towards this moment all its life and then didn't have the sentience to know it had finally made it.

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Posted the Ray Kurzweil thing on Pivot To AI. Let's see how many comments we get that won't be posted.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm so sick of "if only we had more humanities in education the elites wouldn't be fucking up the world." that has nothing to do with reality, it never has, it never will

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

if only king leopold had been exposed to the humanities bro 😞

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

traveling back in time and teaching the rulers of the british empire about a little thing called literature

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