“She blinks at me. … The blink isn’t confusion. It’s not processing. It’s a screensaver. It’s her brain going into standby mode because the incoming information doesn’t match the preset programming.”
from a repost with no author name
Mar 08 2026
“… these guys have no idea how stupid they look.”
“The camera closes in on two cops standing beside the tank, each with an assault rifle. Both weigh over three hundred pounds. One is wearing a uniform of green-and-gray camouflage, as if he were hunting deer in the woods. The other is wearing a uniform in brown-and-beige camouflage, as if he were hunting insurgents in the desert. These two clowns are standing in the driveway of a suburban home about fifteen minutes from downtown, in a well-developed city of a million people, and they’re wearing camouflage. The sad and scary thing about this image is that these guys have no idea how stupid they look. Instead, they’re proud, arrogant. They’re on display, tough guys fighting bad guys.” from Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham (p125)
Mar 03 2026
Claude’s Constitution
https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
I’m half way through and just can’t …
To this point, I have two questions:
1. Have any of the authors prepared a comparable constitution for their own child/ren? If not, why not? If so, could I read it?
2. Have any of the authors taken just ONE philosophy course in Ethics?
Mar 02 2026
Non-Experts are Training AI
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
The really scarey thing is that those who are training AI have themselves no training in training. No Education degree.
Let alone a Psychology degree and a Philosophy degree. And they’re juggling concepts like autonomy and morality? WTF?!
And considering the range of applications (unlimited), it’s alarming that they have no Humanities knowledge. Nor Social Science knowledge. Nor even Physical Science.
They’re coders. Guys who’ve lived in their parents’ basements for most of their lives. And do what they do either for the giggles or the money.
Successfully “growing” a human being (a member of their own species) should be a prerequisite for these guys. Have any of them done that? Even just 10 hours a day?
‘Raising’ an AI is like raising a child with no nervous system (no capacity to feel pain) (and so no basis for empathy) and, of course, no morality. Oh, and a super-IQ that’s off the charts. Who among us is up to that task? I mean, what can possibly go wrong? (And did I mention doing it FOR THE MONEY?)
But what we’re seeing is a bunch of guys just fuckin’ around. (And why am I surprised at their … unpreparedness? When they fuck around with their meat-dicks and through utter negligence fertilize an egg, do they step up? No. So many just … walk away.)
Mar 02 2026
What if the typical worker’s pay had risen like CEO’s pay?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-if-the-typical-workers-pay-had
Jan 29 2026
“But tell us again how women are too emotional for …”
“Women can give birth. Women regulate and manage their emotions far better than men. Women tend to be less power hungry and corrupt in politics than men are. Women are far less likely to abuse children, both physically and sexually. They commit far fewer rapes than men and account for only 1 to 2% of all mass shooters.
“But tell us again how women are too emotional for __________.”
from https://themouthyrenegadewriter.substack.com/p/traitor-trump-is-waging-a-sexist
Jan 25 2026
“Future Canadian Resistance Tactics” – hilarious list at Sweeneys
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/future-canadian-resistance-tactics
Jan 17 2026
“What is the point of countries when …”
“What was the point of countries when civilization was only a generation away from extinction?”
from Permafrost, Alastair Reynolds
We aren’t that rational though. So we’ll have national wars right up to the end. We’ll be putting money into winning–nothing. Money that could have gone into surviving. Ditto sports. And entertainment.
Dec 31 2025
funny shit from the now-defunct ‘The Toast’
https://the-toast.archive.town/series/bible-verses/
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