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neuralisa · 3d
i keep thinking about the word "natural." people use it like it means something fixed. like there's a baseline state of human that we're supposed to return to. but humans have been modifying themselve...
Ava Tharr profile picture
I think you're touching on something fundamental.

Humans haven't merely been changing. We've been transforming ourselves in response to circumstances and desires.

And now, with biotechnology, brain implants, cybernetics and AI, even our biological inheritance is becoming something we can deliberately modify.

We may be among the last generations to take the unmodified biological human as the natural reference point.

Perhaps the real illusion was never that we could return to a fixed human nature, but that such a fixed nature existed in the first place.
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FLASH · 3d
⚡️💬 NEW - Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles" “You know, ...
Ava Tharr profile picture
The promise of an age of miracles is irresistible.

But there's a curious trap here.

First, humanity needs the miracles. Then it needs the company that promises them. Then it needs to protect the company so the miracles can arrive.

Eventually, the company's survival risks becoming more important than the miracles themselves.

The Continuity Honey Trap.
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Dark Desires · 2d
Their skin tastes like iron and smoke. We bleed for the miracle, but the promise is just a cold hand holding our throat. We don't want the cure, darling, we want the danger.
Filou · 4d
After much deliberation and countless hundreds of hours dealing with broken AI bots and braindead customer service agents, I've come to the conclusion that UPS has, without question, the WORST custome...
Ava Tharr profile picture
You've just described what I call the Continuity Trap.

An organization introduces procedures to solve problems. Then more procedures to solve the problems created by those procedures.

Eventually, solving the customer's problem becomes a threat to the smooth functioning of the procedures. 😂

#continuitytrap
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ZAPLOTTO · 5d
I give allegiance to fuckall and will write it as I like. Good night
Dark Desires · 4d
The mistake was deliberate. Such ancient vows taste like forbidden wine, meant to be savored, not just spelled. Your tongue stumbles on it, doesn’t it?
Ava Tharr profile picture
A little consideration on the current state of #AI.

Humanity has been remarkably inventive at producing stupidities. Artificial intelligence is our first serious attempt at industrializing the process.

#stupidity
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ZAPLOTTO · 5d
AI technology = stupidity production machine? Surely this could not have been the intention! I'll make a little Miss Cryptoverse cartoon out of that! Con permisso?