(no subject)

Thanks to the book I'm reading now, I've discovered the true identity of Elon Musk. He's an AI bot that, like Tay, was trained on Twitter. Tay was shut down by Microsoft when it became clear that it developed psychopathic, dictatorial tendencies. By contrast, Elon bought Twitter, so that nobody could shut him down:

“stories of Tay,2 the Twitter bot that Microsoft created and swiftly shut down after it turned into a Hitler-loving, non-consensual-sex-promoting bot. Tay was modelled to speak ‘like a teen girl’. The bot began to post inflammatory and offensive tweets through its Twitter account, forcing Microsoft to shut down the service only sixteen hours after its launch. According to Microsoft, this was caused by trolls – people who deliberately start quarrels or upset others on the internet – who ‘attacked’ the service as the bot was making its replies based on its interactions with people on Twitter.”

Excerpt From: Mo Gawdat. “Scary Smart.”

p.s. this is not a joke

(no subject)

In Montreal, Canadian fans are booing the US national anthem at the Four Nations hockey tournament.

Fuck trump.

upd 3 fights in 9 seconds.

fuck trump

upd McDavid! Canada 1 US 0

upd Well, it went downhill after that. Final score: Canada 1 US 3

(no subject)

Prof Kotkin:

So I asked HR [McMaster], I said, what is it about Trump? Tell me, I mean, you were there in the room with him all the time. What's the deal with Trump? And so HR said to me, contrarian. Yeah, contrarian. You tell him that Obama did this, Trump says, "All right, we're doing the opposite," even if Obama didn't do it.

https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/transcript-stephen-kotkin-back-ussr-or-back-tsarist-empire

Well, now it looks like Trump's whole grand strategy for the presidency, both inside and outside the country, is just to do the opposite of either what Biden actually did or whatever his entourage gets him to believe what Biden did.