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Rich

@mrbusy.com

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IT guy. Lapsed techy. Husband. Father. Man with intermittent beard. F1 fan. Liberal. Atheist. Remainer. He/Him. Probably autistic.

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 2h

A VPN lets you set where the end-point comes out. So if you want to get around the restrictions placed on adult content in the UK, you pick a country where that's not a thing. Like Spain. Unfortunately, the podcast provider also thinks he's in Spain, and put Spanish ads in his podcast. Busted.

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 10h

Stuff we should change:
-Make it easy to remove twats.
-Make it very hard to get in.
-Make it a meritocracy where government has no say.
-Abolish resignation honours for PM.
-Upper age limit / max 20 years.
-No hereditary peers at all.
-Limit the total size (one in, one out).

Rich @mrbusy.com · 13h

If you’re getting this kind of press, you’re being taken seriously by the right/wrong kind of people. 👍

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

With the greatest of respect Sarah, I don't think you understand the subject very well, and appear to be coming at this from around 2015.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Because I said something you know to be true, but don't like?

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Yeah. You're probably right on that score.

A school run entirely by the PE teachers is a scary thought. 😨

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Wish thinking.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

You evolved, and you're a collection of systems and subsystems that allow you to perform tasks. You might like to think you're special, and magic, but you're not.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Why can't machines grow food. Modern agricultural machinery is largely automated in some areas? Why can't a machine put your laundry in washing machine?

Who said anything about playing with kids? You said "staff". People who need "staff" to play with their kids shouldn't have them.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

LOL

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Why is that an insurmountable challenge for AI? It supposes it's somehow impossible for machines to repair machines, but that's what happens now. You're a machine. I'm a machine. We're just biological machines.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

You’re a machine. A biological one, born out of years of evolution. Your brain is a biological computer and your thoughts are a kind of software. What makes you believe a sufficiently powerful AI won’t be able to recreate that?

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Why? When it can do everything you want it to do, bring you information, implement your instructions, manage your affairs, and exert it's power in the physical world, what's left?

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Fuck off

Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

Terminal, late-stage Capitalism. That's where we are now. Once they've taken everything they can from the rest of us, they'll turn on each other.

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 1d

That's what AI is for.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

The real challenge for tech bros is striking the fine balance between completely destroying humanity and retaining enough of it that their billions are still worth something.

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

🤷‍♂️

Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

That’s fine. Post it “as-is”, but fake pics are still detrimental.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

No. If the picture is faked to look more dramatic, how do I know the story isn’t the same? It undermines credibility.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

Good article.

It’s not just the Tories who are damaged by this though. The fact neither of our main parties can stand up and admit it’s been a disaster is toxic to any real progress.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

What kind of plane is that? An AI one!

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

Got to be honest. That didn’t go where I thought it was going.

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Rich @mrbusy.com · 2d

For reasons I still can’t adequately explain, I hated Mandrake.

Rich @mrbusy.com · 3d

I can still remember numbers for my parents, grandparents, dad’s work, and all my childhood friends. If I needed to call Johnny’s mum and dad, I could. Right now.

…and Going Live! obviously.

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