Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:54pm
: Cooking but listening. Excited for this one! 🤖 ♥ 5:59pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtonartists!   6:00pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! AI-aware commenters! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Deano de los Muertos: “Oh, hi Mark.” ♥ 6:02pm
melinda: hi friends ♥ 6:03pm
San Pedro Girl: Greetings Mark Hurst and Techtonic friends! 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
ultradamno: AI has pioneered new world in giving a runaround over the phone www.msn.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Spikey BXL: The Last Mbender

Hi Mark, luddites

  6:07pm
?: Augmented Idiocity ♥ 6:07pm
Mark Hurst: Hi Handy, ultra, DiL, WtSG, Bas, Deano, melinda, Spikey, and ? - welcome to the show! ♥ 6:08pm
PaulRobeson1925: Hi Hi Hi ♥ 6:08pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:08

Hi PaulR 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
disco_nap_: Omg the “product everyone likes” comic 😂 ♥ 6:10pm
PaulRobeson1925: We also anthropomorphize “the Economy” and this helps to obscure what the economy is made up of. Like Ai, baby 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Webhamster Henry: How about "A-Oy"! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thinking about becoming AIful? Let Mark give you an earful! 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: Shopping for a fan, especially among tower designs, for some reason...'smart' is all over the place. I don't even see why a fan needs a remote. 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry: I remember the old school AI that had to do with making huge dictionaries and thesauruses.   6:12pm
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↳ ultradamno @6:11

smart fans blow 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
ultradamno: On. Off. Three speeds. It's really all I'm asking for. I don't need to put a timer on it. 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Spikey BXL: Choke on emojis 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
tim: Hi Mark, Emily and Alex, and everyone! 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ ultradamno @6:12

Are younsaying you're looking for... only fans? 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
ultradamno: Onlydumbfans. Sign me up.   6:14pm
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↳ Spikey BXL @6:13

still blow 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:14

Sounds like a Nathan Fielder concept ♥ 6:14pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:13

Hi tim 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Webhamster Henry: Stochastic Parrot: It's also kind of insulting to the late Alex The Grey Parrot. 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
chresti: AI is a nuisance 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
disco_nap_:

↳ ultradamno @6:11

💯 that shit drives me crazy ♥ 6:18pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:10

The economy is not doing well.
The economy had a bad day.
The economy had a great day!
The economy has a-lot to smile about today…
The economy took a dive
The economy is out to lunch   🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
SeaCreature: Not actually listening yet but I just got off a call discussing x.AI’s new $5bn fund raise. The robot menace is coming for us all. 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonians! ♥ 6:21pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:20

welcome, chresti 6:21pm
MarciB: Well the tech overlords have a vested interest in making us cowed and surrendering in advance ♥ 6:21pm
PaulRobeson1925: Hi-frequency trading requires little
Human input- but i’m not sure what the economy wants from me!? 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Webhamster Henry: People: AI could more credibly wipe out top and mid level management, because it's pattern matching skills far exceed those of those C-level jobs. A responsible board should replace their CEO with AI, or more cheaply hire some humans as beards for machine learning. ♥ 6:22pm
Mark T: The so called “news” is rife with “the sky is falling…”stories all day, everyday. 6:24pm
MarciB: Brian Merchant's newsletter was about how Business Insider laid off many of their writers in favor of AI 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
mackeral:

↳ MarciB @6:24

his newsletter is crucial, these days 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Webhamster Henry: Gotta go folks, will catch the archive!   6:26pm
A2B: Evening Mark & Techtonicians!

Alex Hanna just mentioned the animation business. Coincidentally, I was going to ask if Alex has any relation to William Hanna of Hanna--Barbera fame.

♥ 6:26pm
PaulRobeson1925: The internet is a total flop ♥ 6:27pm
Mark T:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:10

Hahahaha. Clever 6:28pm
MarciB: This is reminding me of Scam Inc! 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
Spikey BXL: Amazon go stores
Amazon ghost whores   6:29pm
Fredericks:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:18

The economy = rich people's bank accounts. ♥ 6:30pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ MarciB @6:28

Yes - some ghastly parallels - workers in the Global South exploited in service of some internet-enabled scheme... ♥ 6:32pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ Fredericks @6:29

But we are all participating in something larger than ourselves 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Hugo (NL): Yay!!! Very happy with this important interview!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
mackeral: automating coding is an early goal, which is necessary if the AI companies are going to break out into the lead in developing AI. superhuman coding capabilities are a pre-req. See AI 2027 ai-2027.com   6:33pm
A2B:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:26

Needless to say. it's been there before. Remember what happened after the Y2K scare was "alleviated"? 6:34pm
joe_rosevear: So what then *is* thought?

This limerick comes to mind:

There was a faith healer from Deale,
Who said, although pain isn't real,
If I sit on a pin and it punctures my skin,
I dislike what I fancy I feel!

  6:35pm
Fredericks:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:32

Like slaves on a plantation? ♥ 6:35pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Hugo (NL) @6:32

Thanks, Hugo 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
ultradamno: mastodon.social...   6:36pm
Fredericks:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:35

Thank you, Mister Hurst.   6:37pm
A2B:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:32

Some of us with a widely spectral coverage of caution and trepidation. 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Hugo (NL): Wow, i just discussed this at work, As one of our gouvernement leaders is pushing ai in Dutch health care, As a way to save time to give more time between doctor and patiënt.
This is not how it will turn out. ♥ 6:38pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ Fredericks @6:35

Slavery was premised on naked violence.

Go along with the big tech power or loser yer livelihood…a better comparison is like poor whites working along side the slaves during harvest time. Who makes pennies while who makes hundreds and hundreds of dollars?

6:40pm
joe_rosevear: Or another way to look at thought is suggested by Plato's Allegory of the Cave:

en.wikipedia.org...

  6:40pm
Fredericks:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:38

I'll go along with that. ♥ 6:40pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hello Mark and techies. Been listening since 6P, but I was involved in preparing dinner until now. ♥ 6:41pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Peter from Saranac Lake NY @6:40

Hi Peter - hope dinner is good! 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
mackeral: NO
thanks for that
and the "inevitability" argument is about nothing less than ceding 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
chresti: opt out! 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Hugo (NL): Right on. Tune in and opt out 6:43pm
joe_rosevear: Maybe, just maybe, thought emerges from mechanical process: either the firing of neurons in the brain or the propagation of inputs through a computational neural net. 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
chresti: I use the duck duck go video player 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
ultradamno: MSTK3000 never AI free i.ytimg.com...   6:46pm
Fredericks:

↳ chresti @6:46

For what? ♥ 6:47pm
Folsom: one of the youtube creators that I follow posts his stuff on nebula.tv first, I need to check it out 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
ultradamno: I'm going to guess playing video 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
disco_nap_:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:07

I tried using PeerTube once but I was really confused by it lol…I will try again today but I would love to listen to a show about it, especially one that would help a non-tech expert understand how best to use it. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
disco_nap_:

↳ disco_nap_ @6:47

*someday not today, oops!   6:48pm
castor: Loving the show! Mark, I wonder have you ever looked into Duolingo and its problematic CEO who wants to replace teachers with AI? 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
mackeral: Mark and all, if you haven't read the Axios piece from last week on Anthropic CEO, i "recommend" it: www.axios.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno: Addison Rae Says She Used to Get Paid $20 by Record Labels to Post TikTok Videos: ‘It Was Actually Really Sketch’ www.billboard.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chresti:

↳ Fredericks @6:46

It blocks the ads   6:50pm
A2B:

↳ joe_rosevear @6:43

Since you're discussing this subject, I was pondering over how Pavlovian responses develop in the brain through instructive suggestions and experiences, and how one can "retrain" the brain by "reaccustomizing" our brain by substituting established associations with new associations. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Hugo (NL):

↳ castor @6:48

Duolingo is not really a success story...
pivot-to-ai.com... ♥ 6:54pm
Neil Neil the orange peel: www.theguardian.com... ♥ 6:55pm
Neil Neil the orange peel: One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI 6:55pm
estmcmxci: please cancel this show.   6:56pm
?: shut the f up   6:56pm
castor:

↳ Hugo (NL) @6:51

Thanks! Yeah I read an interview with him in the NYer a while ago in which he said all that stuff about replacing teachers, but I was wondering how that was going for him since then. 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark and AI folks! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark!   6:57pm
?:

↳ estmcmxci @6:55

that was directed toward YOU ♥ 6:57pm
PaulRobeson1925: 1859. 1969. 2059. where will we be? When summers gone?   6:57pm
castor: Thanks Mark! 6:57pm
joe_rosevear:

↳ A2B @6:50

Well, that's an odd question, and one I have pondered also. We who are trapped in the framework of our thoughts, desire to step outside of our thoughts and influence the process itself. Yet it *is* possible, and happens all the time. A favorite book on my shelf is _As a Man Thinketh_ by James Allen. It is all about that subject. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
chresti: Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
ultradamno: I think a no is all that demanded 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Hugo (NL): Thanks mark, great show!   6:58pm
A2B: Remember folks: As long as we keep vigilant of all things inconsistent techwise, we're too big to fAIl! ♥ 6:58pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! ♥ 6:59pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ castor @6:48

Neil postman writes about this! In the context of Baltimore public schools. Which book was it? Technopoly? or Building a bridge to the 18th century ♥ 7:00pm
PaulRobeson1925: Thanks, Mark! VG + of a program