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quote 2014-03-17 13:53
And wikis are worse. The personality types that are driven to volunteer to contribute to collective informational resources are prone to a number of cognitive disorders - no doubt fascinating in the right context - leading to such happy fun consequences as edit wars over the meaning of the word exit, deletionist witch hunts for any reference to underlying physical reality, and a really unhealthy preoccupation with primary sources.
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quote 2014-03-17 07:57
Like pre-singularity porn monkeys, the cloud's inhabitants [Anmerkung: die künstlichen Intelligenzen] are implausibly reluctant to hit the Delete key.
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quote 2014-03-14 14:28
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quote 2014-03-14 14:25
The zeppelin turns out to be a maryceleste, crewed by capricious iffrits whose expert systems were trained by angry, resentful trade unionists in ransom for their pensions. The amount of abuse required to keep the ship on course and its commissary and sanitary systems in good working order is heroic.
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quote 2014-03-14 07:22
Inside the shell, Huw finds himself in a room dominated by something that looks like a dentist's chair as reinvented on behalf of the Spanish Inquisition by H.R. Giger.
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