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I look forward to trying it whenever it gets below £1000 refurbished.

Can you imagine when it’s normal for robots to have significant spending power, and become a target for advertisers? They’ll need another robot to go “well this ad is targeted at robots so I need to make sure to not show it to any of those pesky humans”

Fox Force Five

Make charity obsolete!

You should try following Sumo. Its -extremely- traditional, so the commercialism has a hard time sneaking in. Only the top two divisions are pro. There’s a major tournament starting today (Sunday 9th nov) for the next two weeks. You can easily catch replays on youtube.

Its an open-faced timelike curve.

Theres also “Open As Tab” for when some idiot site wants to open a page in a chromeless floating window.

AI tools are actually really helpful with this kind of stuff. Not with actually resolving the conflict, but with setting things up so that you can see and reason about it.

Which processes? Does it wear them for me?

When you have more options to pick from, you can choose the one that most closely aligns with your views, rather than just picking the least bad one.

There’s a later chapter called ‘Wangs Carpets’ that was first published as a standalone short story, and goes even harder.

I think the whole book is available on the authors site, but other formats are a lot more readable.

You’re thinking of robots as specialists and humans as generalists. All it’d take is a robot generalist.

You gotta read the opening to Diaspora, by Greg Egan. https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html

Chicken Tikka Masala. Nuff said.

Well I think it’s nifty.

Grouse!

A “dimension” is just something that can be measured. Imagine you have a square of paper and it has 5 coins on it. It has a width, a height, a thickness, a coin count. That’s 4 dimensions already. It also has zero elephants on it, now we have 5 dimensions!

The trick is to only consider the “dimensions” you’re actually interested in.

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