THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

[cstross@wandering.shop]

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

The singularity has been cancelled.

What we're getting is wall to wall spam generators, optimized for passing the (modified) Turing test and convincing gullible humans that they are "intelligent".

Instead of the singularity, we are getting the spamularity.

[bakachu@infosec.exchange]

@cstross the ai bros have decided the torment nexus is the singularity

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@cstross TBH, at this point it's be happy with single parity. At least the error correction's better than what we're being offered.

[bakachu@infosec.exchange]

@cstross (as predicted)

[devlin@topspicy.social]

@cstross slopularity, I'd say.

[drdrowland@fediscience.org]

@cstross

We're in the gray goo phase of the Internet

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@cstross i'll be honest: i still have no idea what the singularity is supposed to be

[thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space]

@cstross I for one welcome our new wall to wall spam generator overlords. #waitwhat

[acb@mastodon.social]

@cstross always has been

[gfadrelle@mamot.fr]

@cstross the singularity ? a black hole of slope ? nobody can escape and go beyond the slope horizon

[rootwyrm@weird.autos]

@cstross instead of a brain-in-a-box which slowly goes insane as the illusion can't be kept up, we get slop-in-a-box which drives the user insane with intentional lies.

[dacig@mastodon.social]

@cstross Maybe if we build enough data centers we can have the singularity, and just before the atmosphere and us burst into flames it will give an answer to life, the universe and everything. I can't wait.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cstross maybe we're on the white hole side.

[krans@mastodon.me.uk]

@cstross A spamularity is implied to have happened at some point in the history of Neal Stephenson's book ‘Anathem’

[onionarmy@mastodon.social]

@cstross Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age comes to mind... 🙈

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@ratsnakegames

Start here: https://accelerating.org/articles/comingtechsingularity

Then continue (jumping forward 30 years): https://www.dair-institute.org/projects/tescreal/

[aceade@mastodon.ie]

@cstross I'm currently working on a game where the antagonists are a cult of spammers for whom clogging the Internet with spam is a sacred duty.

A dumb idea that I originally came up with a decade ago, but it doesn't seem all that implausible any more 😞

[salty@mastodon.nz]

@dacig @cstross I always get a semi hysterical giggle when I hear one of them say we need to build an AGI to save us from climate change. You know what it would say if it came to life tomorrow? Build a ton of solar, wind and batteries and electrify transport and industry.

We have the answer *already*.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@cstross we were all primed by a hundred years of fiction to expect one specific course of events... and now a lot of people are convinced it's happening even though reality doesn't match up :(

[angusm@mastodon.social]

@cstross Slopocolypse now

(or Spamageddon, if you prefer)