“Similar to the US government, instead of making moves towards AI safety, Google has announced a roadmap to accomplish AI safety. There is a difference in between achieving something, and saying that you are doing things to achieve something. It is amazing we have tangible examples of frameworks. But it is also not enough.”

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“But, a new consumer hardware startup in our time that truly creates something that is not just an off the shelf repackagable product is truly, something to behold. Even if it sucks. It shows that people can get past the hazing, get the money, and do the insane things the rest of us dream about doing in our rooms. Anyone can get rich sucking the teets of government contracts to build more weapons of war and surveillance. Very few people understand how terrible of a curse consumer products are and decide to build them anyways.”

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“The pressure for companies to make money is reconfigured into the pressure to give data, to purchase, to consume content, to filter our face to attain beauty standards, to swipe continuously through engagement bait. Our desires are repackaged and sold to us in a digital candy wrapper, even more amplified, intense, and accessible than any way of doing things in the past was. The software we have is human nature, digitized, maximized, and monetized to the tits.”

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“Innovation is supposed to be confusing, not intuitive or like those before. If it is just a version of a version, it’s just iteration, innovation’s less cool cousin. Iteration is vital, and we stand on the shoulders of giants. But, sometimes standing on too many things without truly changing enough to be your own without them is just repackaging.”

“I’ve been thinking about this while thinking about my purpose, my meaning, my reason to pretend to integrate into the world like the rest of us do. I’ve returned with nothing but the realization that our lives are just different reflections, different rooms, different streets on the same land.”

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“This is the ‘becoming’ that everyone loves to reminiscence on but never relive. You sharpen, you go from dumb fuck to business leader, you learn and you push yourself and learn until you think nothing else will fit in your brain. And then you try to learn more.”

The atrocities in our world are programmed by people with names and addresses who make enough money to offset moral objections. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re not surrounded by those people, or that you couldn’t be one of them.

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