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Metaverse Dystopia 2024 : The Wreckage of RecRoom VR
It had been a few years since I’d done a deep dive into the Metaverse… what we used to call VR, or more specifically, social VR. I had left the industry in 2018 with a great deal of disillusionment, having invested roughly 4 years of my life into developing leading edge apps for the then-available…
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BCI 101 : the Brain Computer Interface
If you haven’t noticed, across the years, tech is getting closer to the bone. Enter BCI. In the ancient days of the twentieth century, you travelled to an office to use a PC; at the dawn of the 21st you carried a laptop with you; today you merely keep a smartphone in your pocket… now…
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the Sydney Prompt / Bing AI 1.0: One Prompt to Rule Them All
Presented below is the actual Sydney Prompt; in other words, the Master Prompt that is injected into the Bing AI brain immediately before each user interaction (thanks to @kliu128; thanks also to lifearchitect.ai). This is the “evolution” of the Sparrow Prompt, which is what DeepMind used as an initialization for its as-yet-to-be-seen Sparrow LLM Chatbot…
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AI Control: It Doesn’t Need Robots… 10,000,000 Humans are ready, eager & willing to do its Bidding…
It was 12:50am, and I was just entering the System… uploading my biometrics and clocking into my job as a Warehouse Associate Level 1 for Amazon DLX-7… logging my body into the greater BORG of Amazon AI Control. I did what we all did: I tugged on my ridiculous day-glo safety vest, my gloves, and…
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AI Control of our 21st Century Lives: The Awesome Power of the Invisible Hand
All the Invisible Ways that AI Control is exerted upon our Daily Lives, Choices, and Decisions One of the challenges of understanding the presence of modern AI systems is their high level of invisibility. What we cannot see, we cannot understand. And the vast majority of AI power, until very recently, was operating far far far…
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Who Owns my iPhone 14? The shocking truth: Not Me.
SYNOPSIS: The year is 2022. Everything from your car to your washing machine to your fricking lightbulb is “smart” and “connected.” While this has a massive upside in terms of convenience and magic, it also has a massive downside: you never really own it. Think about it: If Apple blacklists you, your shiny new iPhone…