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Penny Arcade - Comic - Thorazine
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Thorazine
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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At least there was a notification so I could turn it back off, but the fact that Google even has that ability is disquieting
Imagine a world where your vehicle can be tracked and remotely accessed no matter where it is.
Imagine that this gives the ability for any malicious actor to use your vehicle as a weapon against yourself or any other poor schmuck. Oh you'll walk? Going to give up your cell phone too? The one you are addicted to and said things critical of Current Regime while in sensor range of it in the privacy of your own home?
Oh look, it's random driver "lost control" and turned you into a meat crayon o'clock.
I know it sounds tinfoil hat tier, but it's all currently possible with modern tech, all it takes is sufficient saturation of the tools for it by technophiles that do not grasp or care to grasp the full implications of their toys.
I'm all for it, with some caveats. First, we need to make clear that the Butlerian Jihad isn't about fighting against rogue AI, it's against humans using their superior technological access to oppress other humans. Second, we just gotta level computer access rather than erasing them from existence, because it clearly didn't solve the inequality problem, plus I can't afford to hire a mentat.
Tell me you haven't been paying attention without yadda yadda.
G&T have been griping about this for a while now.
It is by the juice of the coca plant that my thoughts acquire speed
Not that they were good books but this was something I liked in Brian Herbert's prequels - it was not the Matrix or Terminator. The machines never gave a fuck. For thousands of years they just did the work with quietly smulated pleasure to serve while humanity lived greatly extended lives of comfort and plenty, during which they developed the arts and philosophy and the most advanced and esoteric sciences as they wished.
There was no robot that said, "No." There was no abused machine that had had enough. There was no determination that humans were the only threat to humans so to protect them they must be enslaved. No, the architects of the machine takeover were humans who wanted power over humans.
Paying attention to G&T specifically? No. I don't read their every tweet or blog post, nor should such be a necessary qualifier for paying attention to the overall societal meta that we are several generations deep in now where people unwittingly sign away self determination in return for convenience, only to later be shocked and alarmed when it's really damn inconvenient to not have self determination at critical junctures. PA is just a tree in a much larger forest, and they would have had to date their complaints from practically the creation of PA to not be late to the party I am talking about.
Oh, now you're just being petulant. I'm just talking about the comics and the newspost. They've covered this before, multiple times. If you're going to pop off with an opinion of how they have only just now started paying attention to the topic, it might be good to actually have been paying attention yourself to what they've said before.
And I was clearly talking about more than their recent complaints about AI that given that I brought up non strictly AI related things. It's about far more than just AI, AI is just the Current Thing that finally got a lot of people's undivided attention. And even if AI automagically went away tomorrow in a flash of sparkly unicorn poop, there's still a pre-existing and underlying issue with the tech sector and how society interacts with it that isn't being addressed properly.
And they've been complaining about far more than AI, for far longer. Again, you were talking out of your ass.
Like literally, they would have had to be making some very specific complaints about the direction of tech and society back in the days where their primary focus was mocking Daikatana
or whatever the retardation at the time that Jack Thompson was up to. Stuff that would have gotten most people labelled as luddites or conspiracy theorists. Pithy remarks about Social Media? Twitter? AI? Late to the party.
And even if they didn't or did....how would the average user know? How could the average user detect the issue and remediate it without some OTA update rendering it moot? What happens to the primary functions if you lose power or connectivity through no fault of your own? Do they have a local manual override? (remember - the average user is not someone that knows to go into a hosts file to block traffic)
What happens if massive swaths of the population adopt networked thermostats and they all malfunction thanks to being network reliant and a flaw was propagated/exploited during a blizzard?
Basically my point is way too many people adopt something because of the conveniences advertised and are setting themselves up for failure later because they gave up some mix of autonomy and privacy by doing so.
And a bunch of them have been caught doing the opposite and making you use more power or prevent you from cranking the thermostat during off peak pricing so you're forced to run it when it costs the most.
Though I'd argue another incorrect takeaway is "it's the common man's fault because we all should have just refused to take part in modern society and then we'd never have gotten to this point."
Let's add another quote:
So what, exactly, are you claiming they were late to the party to, if now you're claiming "they would have to date their complaints from practically the creation of PA to not be late to the party I am talking about."
It seems you've defined a world in which they would have had to somehow created the site before they created it in order for you to lose the wishy washy argument you're making. Somehow you are the only person smart enough to not be late to this party, which seems like maybe a party that only you are attending.
Congratulations, I guess.
How dare they
I doubt greater availability of clothing is a concern
The cups acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I read my emails on phone.