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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.

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How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.

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FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    centaur = brain of a man, speed of a horse.
    reverse centaur = brain of a horse, speed of a man.

    substitute horse with ai.

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      Good practical examples are the car driver vs the Amazon driver. When you drive a car, you go where you want, but at the superhuman speed of a car. The Amazon driver has a computer telling them where to go, how to drive there, and even cameras to watch if you drive according to Amazon’s rules. The driver has become the extension of the computer, instead of the other way around. That’s a reverse centaur.

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      Over a long enough distance, men can outrun a horse. Especially in heat.

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        Ooooh! I’ve got a thing for this:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon

        My friend runs it each year. His pictures are nuts

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        Who’s in heat, the horse or the man?

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          I don’t like where this is going, but I approve it.

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            I put on my harness and horse-ears hat…

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              Are you the mightiest horserer of the lands

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            Wherever it’s going, we can measure it in Hands.

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          Whoever is chasing.

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            🤔 😱

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          Yes

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          Have you ever tried running with a boner? You wear out quickly.

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              What is that black ball that falls on the right side?

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                That’s weird, I have no idea. I didn’t see it on my phone screen, but yeah I see it now on my laptop.

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                  Whatever it is, is on him in the scene when he crawls out from under the car, it looks like a cactus.

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        I think the bigger question is why the man is running after a horse in heat. That is not how you make a centaur.

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          not with that attitude

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        But with a horse brain?

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        Practically, better described as endurance, although technically correct.

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      Thank you kindly friend

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