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Matt Hall

@artemis

Seriously, I... I read the dictionary for _fun_ as a kid. I know that's not normal but I don't need robots bullying me for it.

Also, using a bot to determine if a bot wrote something is definitely a second layer of stupid.

"Well, the machine said it was written by a machine. Who else would know so well what a machine wrote than a machine? Hmm?"

The most reasonable response I can come up with to any of this is to burn it down. Just... Burn it down.

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Matt Hall

@paninid

Some variation of this is my prediction for the planet. No humans left, or at least not ones that can understand any of the machinery that continues to beep and boop, just machines chattering back and forth at each other without context.

@artemis

Matt Hall

@paninid

Incoming messages from your hairstylists automated scheduling system that communicates with your automated response system that checks with your automated scheduling system if you're available for an appointment on February 31st (because dates are hard) that checks if your heart rate monitoring system has reported a heartbeat in the last three days.

...

Burn it all down. It'd be better for everyone.

@artemis

feld
@401matthall @paninid @artemis

> Incoming messages from your hairstylists automated scheduling system...

didn't Google demo this a while ago where their Siri equivalent was able to schedule appointments for you by calling and talking to them on your behalf? I don't know if it ever went public but it was definitely interesting
@401matthall @paninid @artemis

> Incoming messages from your hairstylists automated scheduling system...

datarama

@401matthall @paninid @artemis It would be better off for everyone *except* a small group of obscenely rich people.

(and weird misanthropic cultists.)

Matt Hall

@paninid

Yeah, just worse. No hopefulness at the end. ;)

@artemis

aburtch

@401matthall @artemis I feel you on this one. I used to read the essays in the physical hard-bound copy of the Encyclopedia Brittanica we had in the house.

argv minus one

@401matthall

I would like to propose “a human who's not an idiot (present company definitely not excluded)” as an alternative answer.

@artemis

Molly Cranberries-Kraig 🦃

@401matthall

I, too, read the dictionary for fun as a kid. Still do, truth be told.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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