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Nov 23Edited

Valid points. I note the Sub Stack bot dances around certain questions. For example when you ask about certain speech, the bot assumes it is your speech and cautions you to be very discrete.

However when you mention Bibi Netanyahu speech, it cautiously exempts it. Trying to do so in a way that disallows your saying the same words while allowing Bibi safe passage.

Perhaps I lost the message of the Sub Stack bot. If so I look forward to being corrected. Thank you.

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What I don't see directly being discussed...is that the Bot can operate SIMULTANEOUSLY(!) witt TWO SETS OF RULES.

Wait a minnit...maybe that feature was written into da Bot software!

Bow down to yer new Bot God!

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Creative Dissonance

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I have a problem with bots. As the US falls further behind and other countries (notably China) are catching up (Remember with Nixon we gave China the keys to the Kingdom, the Oligarchs were happy with that as they would make more money). We are relying on BOTs to help us compete.

Sadly what is missing is the creative minds of humans. China has taken the lead in innovation and the US is falling behind as we no longer value ingenuity and innovation coming up from the floor of the company. So BOTs are only as smart as those folks programming them. Those folks are losing their edge with each generation. Without hands on working and creating and the seeming nonsense such people who do creative work point out with regards to BOTs we will continue to wander off the path.

There is a book written in the late 1980s if I remember called the Embodied Mind, by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Roach. When the folks trying to make AI work took heed of the points raised in that book, AI began to get legs.

Sadly Elon and others want us to be chipped merely to feed the AI system so it can have a surrogate embodied experience, because it takes that to develop real intelligence. Sad because humanity is sold short by these folks. Yes we have lots of warts and yes we are as independent as a hog on ice. Still all that yields amazing results. But since we off shored the ways and means to real intelligence, the US has stagnated. Blame everything else except the fact we shot ourselves in the foot.

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"Shot in the face" means "nasally vaccinated" against the Dangerous Koronavirus. 😇

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Your violence has to be the right flavor, silly.

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OK, just to be clear, is saying ‘fuckem’ synonymous with wishing someone harm? If so, out of the utmost respect for you, I will stop.

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"fuckem" is only allowed in certain contexts such as when murdering Amalek Babies as G-d instructs the Chosen Army to do.

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Back in the old days, we used to say ‘fuck you AND the horse you rode in on’.. Yet no one took it literally. 😂

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My horse never forgave me for that one.

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😂😂😂

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Freedom of speech does not mean obligation to hear, see, consider or ponder.

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Substack is a free speech platform on which one cannot advocate for war? Hmm. Can you argue the fact that we are already in a war? The whole world is breaking out in war. I'm just waiting for the news that the USA attacked Russia with a nuclear sub (internet rumor). Having been attacked with chemical and biological weapons means we're in some kind of war. We aren't allowed to advocate for taking part in an existing war? We must play nice and use non-violent rhetoric while our enemies use chemical, biological, and HARP weapons against us to take us out by the millions? We are enduring continual acts of war against our infrastructure and our food supply. We are being attacked by the corporate entity that runs the USA on a for-profit basis. It's a war.

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They are allowed to call for and make war on us. We are allowed to make war on the virus!

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'allowed to make war on the virus'.... haven't really noticed. AFAIK they won't allow proper testing or research , let alone finding out the proper medication.

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I was just trying to be sarcastic here, riffing on Pierre Kory’s: “We’re at war with this virus! And these agencies aren’t wartime agencies!”

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ah.... OK :-))

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Thanks for the links to the films !!! 👍👍👍

These days, the only politically correct way to wish harm is to say:

"I whole-heartedly wish you what you deserve !!!"

which keeps everybody scratching his head and browse again the film of his previous actions ...

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It's an ancient formula: avoids the boomerang effect of intense curses.

They can come back to hit the curser as well, however merited the target. The more effective the curse, the more likely it is to happen.

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That exchange with the bot is pure genius.

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Great Sage, Equal to Heaven,

Handsome Monkey King and

Keeper of the Heavenly Horses

says: “It’s all about access to zee bodies.”

That should put be on a large monolith aka Guidestone, somewhere for the ages

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Such a polite AI

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Honestly, there are people so augmented that as long as their Executioner says "please" and "thank you" they will gladly offer up themselves and their kids.

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"We have to fight against climate change. We are so excited to accept this challenge and we shall overcome all the hate with resilience and positive thoughts"

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All the while bombarding the earth with myriad ways of changing the climate.

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"Save the Olds!", meanwhile doing Everything they can to kill them.

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"save the [....anything...]" in the real world always means the opposite.

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Well played.

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oh fuck a duck. Can I say that?

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AnimalRightsBot is listening to you. Under the UN's new One Health policy ducks and humans are equal. ARBot says go and sit on the naughty step. DEI is important. Duck Equality and Inclusion.

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Yes just don’t feed them alka-selzers

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Watching with interest; this all happened within the last 4,5 hours since the latest shot in face hex?! I personally don't feel it adds much, but I understand it as trope as any reasonable person should (how does the chat bot feel about tropes?). And my personal "feels" as to add / doesn't add are of very little importance (which is how any reasonable reader should feel).

That red REPORT action (...) seems very new - part of substack's authoritarian personality compliant make-over?

P.S. You can't REPORT yourself; they'll have to work on that - opportunities for voluntary confession are an integral part of any well ordered authoritarian regime.

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It was a good run everyone! All good things come to an end...... too bad for us.... I guess there is always Bluesky.... 🤡

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👏

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What is Bluesky?

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It's where all the people leaving X are going after the election results of Nov 5th.... "Bluesky[b] is a decentralized[7][8] microblogging social networking service modeled after and inspired by Twitter. Users can share text messages, images, and videos in short posts.[9] The service is primarily operated by Bluesky Social, an American benefit corporation.[10][11]"

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

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/16/what-is-bluesky-and-why-are-so-many-people-suddenly-leaving-x-for-the-platform-elon-musk

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nuance. it's all in the nuance! too funny how rigid rules are... how to put it? flexible.

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Welcome to your new Robot Minders programmed with Right Bias.

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where the minders are, blinders are there too to bind us blindly to the truth of singular rules and so all becomes simple-minded. lovely.

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A fun run with subbystk botz. A good chuckle during very valid questions.

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