TheShadowKnows

@TheShadowKnows@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ben Goertzel (2014). Ten Years to the Singularity If We Really Really Try.

  This dude has a backlog of books about the singularity and it’s impending arrival.

  Then there is this:

  Ben Goertzel (2018). The Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. McFarland.

  I’ll spare you the read… For an author about writing about the certainty of precognition, he ironically has demonstrated a aptitude for failing to see the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Semantics: What's the greater security threat to the Federation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My head cannon is that a society that places personal autonomy as a core value avoids utilizing surveillance of their people as a means of societal control. It just does not occur to them to place cameras everywhere because it is so antithetical to their core values. That is also a reason Data gets so much leeway to act autonomously. Aside from people who want to diminish that freedom, everyone is just fine with the blanket protection of personal autonomy. Check out the book Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff. It highlights the evergrowing behavioral manipulation tech companies are utilizing with surveillance and unethical behavioral shaping. Considering Star Trek is beyond capitalism, it makes a lot of sense that they would stop the unethical monitoring of individuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That dude has real “Atlantic City Magician” vibes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Groundhog Day II⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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  I just saw this on my drive. Prepare yourself, we live in in a simulation that’s stuck on repeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Archer’s’ Final Mission: Sterling and His Frenemies Sign Off After 142 Episodes of Awful Behavior. We Will Miss Them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a hotdropped hardrive with Archer on it while launching jets aboard a carrier in the gulf in that same timeframe. Every season that aired while I was on deployment was a great treat in the heat. A friend of mine had a background in flash animation, (blast from the past) and he wanted to create a show with me in the same vein as archer and Sealab 2021, but about Navy pilots on a carrier. So I wrote a few scripts and he began on some scenes. We never made anything of it, because we didn’t have the voice actors (neither of us were vocally inclined). Regardless Archers stellar writing and style got me through a long stretch of extensions in the middle east.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT Guy's Log: Computer Policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Prior to what I do now, which is completely different, I worked electronics on a military ship.

  I don’t know how many officers destroyed equipment trying to do the most asinine things. One officer tried to feedback look a generator to charge said generator. Nearly destroyed the ship. Wasn’t even their work area or under their purview.

  Even on the Enterprise, where all the officers were supposed to be hyper intelligent top tier specialists, I have no difficulty believing they mess things up on the regular. It’s more surprising that it happened so little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew there was a television show, but hadn’t watched it. Its surprising that it was a continuation of the series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Series Due for a Reckoning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much wish that a movie would come along in the same vein as the original MI movie. It is drastically different in tone and execution than any of the following films. I think a proper Tom Clancy Splinter Cell movie could do it. Movies now unnecessarily revolve around a world ending threat. The NOC list in Mi1 was a great motivating force for the characters to be striving to protect or steal. Now Ethan Hunt is constantly trying to save the world. Stakes which should never be left up to one person.