On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 07:50:39PM +0000, mick.crane wrote: > On 2026-01-07 08:41, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > As "AI harvesting" as we know it today is just yet another instance of > > > capitalistic robbery, I'd be totally surprised if they hadn't yet > > > "discovered" this valuable "resource" and weren't already at work > > > strip-mining it. > > > > I would answer to an AI if it would openly ask for advise about a topic > > where i feel apt to issue an opinion. Such a change in harvesting would > > be beneficial for the web, because we could put Anubis et.al. back to > > their graves if the mindless workload of AI harvesters on the public > > web sites would ease.
[...] > I'm responding to this off topic thread because I got some grief for asking > the AI to make a diff and me not knowing what the numbers preceding each > line were supposed to mean. > I had a friend who never forget anything seemingly. Any date in history or > some chemical formula he could rattle it off. > That is memory as intelligence. > Other aspects of human are connecting things in unusual ways > I'm very interested if the AI boffins can work out what thinking is. > mick The problem is that, in the current strain of "AI", the financial bets are so sky-high that the boffins don't have a say. It's just the biggest gamble in the futures casino humankind has seen yet, by a far shot. That's the dangerous part. Just add up the numbers. They let the dot-com of the 2000s, the 2008 financial crisis and the crypto ripoff together. Cheers -- t
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