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AI is one of the things that has happened because certain people were allowed to become wealthy and powerful with very few actual obstacles, and who routinely ignore and suppress any attempts to oppose them. The moguls of Hollywood were nothing less than tyrants and the Silicon Valley people are much the same.

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Pretty much. Very annoying that people get suspicious over government power but are completely oblivious to, or actively root for, corporate dictatorships/oligarchy when the latter has a much more tangible and daily impact on our lives.

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But have you seen Zuck surf?

I remember listening to one of these guys talk about how musicians will be superfluous because there will be noises that are perfectly calibrated to elicit certain emotions etc etc. Long story short, I'm not a violent man, but there's a certain magnitude of Philistine that can make even a Hindu cow bark at the moon.

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Yeah, it is literally impossible for Zuck to look cool, regardless of what he's doing.

These tech dorks are not human. They are droids in humanesque morph suits.

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This piece was like a backscratcher for my soul. Thank you. We need more clear, viscous defenses of art.

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Good art is worth defending!

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Written like someone who can navigate a manual transmission without a clutch.

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I can do it in theory. In practice...

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You cant fool me. I know for a fact that AI wrote this.

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Mention of "Historic Vids" triggered me. Fucking worst. You don't find it, it finds you.

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It lurks in the algorithm

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