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I’m aware of his career and related, history.

However it was Doctorow himself that mentioned his Burning Man attendance on a live tech podcast I was listening / watching 5 or so years ago.

Here’s an excerpt from audience questions after a he gave on the AI Bubble (or Apocalypse as he puts it often), published on his blog Pluralist. Written by Doctorow

“OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

“But what can we do?”

We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.

Transylvania

It was the tooth fairy

Study shows it’s actually the massive corporate conglomerates that do exponentially more damage to the Earth than the entire animal kingdom combined, humans included.

Reduce your carbon footprint is a Big Oil created PR campaign. It places the “climate crisis” blame on the individual consumer.

Here’s an exerpt from one of his public talks about the AI bubble. From his Pluralist blog.

“OK,” the young man said, “but what can we do about the crash?” He was clearly very worried.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that. I think it’s already locked in. I mean, maybe if we had a different government, they’d fund a jobs guarantee to pull us out of it, but I don’t think Trump’ll do that, so –”

“But what can we do?”

We went through a few rounds of this, with this poor kid just repeating the same question in different tones of voice, like an acting coach demonstrating the five stages of grieving using nothing but inflection. It was an uncomfortable moment, and there was some decidedly nervous chuckling around the room as we pondered the coming AI (economic) apocalypse, and the fate of this kid graduating with mid-six-figure debts into an economy of ashes and rubble.

The Author’s Note section of State of Fear, Michael Crichton made numerous predictions that some of which have come true thus far.

It was published in 2004

One of which is that any climate change related legislation implemented by one party, will eventually overturned / reversed when the other party takes power.

Nothing is more inherently political than our shared physical environment, and nothing is more ill served by allegiance to a single political party. Precisely because the environment is shared it cannot be managed by one faction according to its own economic or aesthetic preferences. Sooner or later, the opposing faction will take power, and previous policies will be reversed. Stable management of the environment requires recognition that all preferences have their place: snowmobilers and fly fishermen, dirt bikers and hikers, devel-opers and preservationists. These preferences are at odds, and their incompatibility cannot be avoided. But resolving incompatible goals is a true function of politics

He also predicted that in around 2100, people will be far richer, use lots of energy than ever before, and the global population will be much smaller.

Corey Doctorow is an industry plant, anyone who goes to Burning Man and writes books like he does, has some major skin in the Techno Feudalism game.

Edit:I can only offer what is revealed to me. It’s too much for me to handle. Our reality is planned out. AI is here to enslave us. It’s not just some financial scheme. Doctorow is part of what they call a “hoodwink”. I personally never use AI product, never have, but I see what’s coming. I believe the solution is to stop using smart phones completely.

This is a bit unrelated but this is the cover or DJ Shadow’s Action Adventure. It has a track called “Reflecting Pool”. It was released in 2003. If this isn’t sufficient proof I don’t know what to tell ya.

Lameo

Are we sure these reports aren’t just PR stunts / bullshit?

Thanks for the response.

This reminds me of another issue I ran into. I grabbed the F.E.A.R. pack when it was on sale, but only two games are playable. The OG, and the late latest release.

I tried every fix the community provided, but nothing worked for the me.

This is the only time I’ve had this problem, however I’ve played a minute amount of games compared to the avid steam user. I’d imagine plenty of people run into similar issues in other older games.

Nothing, he doesn’t deserve the attention.

Headlines these days are annoying as hell! Constantly using words like SLAMMED, DESTROYED, HUMILIATED, SHOCKED etc. Always passive aggressive AF.

It reminds me of the I opening scene in Space Oddesey 2001. Humans create tools that make life easier, tools then become weapons to go to war against humanity itself.

If any doubt the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children, all one has to do is view the satellite photos of Gaza before and after the “war” started.

In addition, I’ve seen multiple videos of Palestinian Emergency vehicles arriving at the site of an Israeli strike being hit by another strike. Double tap cruelty strike.

There’s defiantly something inhuman going on with these particular… humans?

Mematic Warfare at it’s finest.

Why would I assume they don’t have access? Based on how every other large internet company operates, they are capable of using and storing your data for any purpose they want, for however long they want, and not declare it to their users. If questioned, they lie.

Perhaps I’m an anamoly in that I don’t hold Valve in such high esteem as most do.

Yeah I’m aware of the 3 week rule. My issue with that is I have to turn off my PC when I’m not on it, for fear of nefarious actors accessing my physical PC when I’m away, remotely of course. Which has happened numerous times.

I’m only ever on my PC a few days to a week per month.

It’s a monopoly of attention and convenience in the same way that smart phones and social media overall.

Rest assured I enjoyed Steam in the decade plus after the launch. In throughout the years that followed, I found myself amassing games that I’ve yet to play. 2 bucks for a $50 game? It’s too easy and convenient to resist! I feel I’m not respecting or more so showing less appreciation for games and those that make them. Most all of the physical disc games I’ve acquired in the past. I’ve played heavily. I can only think of one game I never installed / played. Most were full priced games, 40-60.

I’ve found that the convenience offered by Steam and other systems like it, have hidden costs, security and privacy amongst other things.

Chat logs are stored on the clients system? First I’ve heard of that. If that’s true why the need to delete them off the client?

The reason this bugs me is that I’ve had people accessing my account when I’m not online. Which in the past 8 years, I’ve only been on 99% of the time.

I know this for many reasons, one of which is the 142 hours logged on No Man’s Sky. I only played that game for 5 minutes.

Another reason, one day someone on my friends list messaged me. They said they were an old co worker of mine, a particularly nasty individual, someone who would never be playing any video games whatsoever. This person had detailed information about about me and used it to harass / scare me. When I was offline, someone logged in and added / accepted this person as a friend.

I blocked them and reported it to support. But never received any response. Not sure what they could do anyhow but I at least hoped for some kind of response. Perhaps the response came in when someone else was logged into my account?

No matter what I do to protect my account, they’ve always been able to get in.

My account is as old as Steam itself.

the US Department of Homeland Security is rapidly increasing its use of AI-based surveillance, including facial recognition and the monitoring of social media accounts, to keep tabs on immigrants, dissidents, journalists, legal observers and protesters

This is such total bullshit. You don’t have to be ANY of these types of people to be in the tracked and monitored. These systems are built for cruelty. Being cruel to the most innocent among generates is the most powerful source of emotional pain.

AI is an automated narcissism machine built and managed by narcissists of the highest order. Anti social disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and sometimes borderline personality disorder types depending on the severity. Cluster B personality disorders. All of these share traits with narcissistic personality disorder, while the narcissist may not be violent whereas anti socials (psychopaths) tend to be violent. They’re all proficent in weaponzing language (word trickery).

IMHO The mythical vampire is a metaphor for the narcissist. Instead of blood, narcissists thrive on the emotions of their victims, mainly negative emotions. This is their lifeblood, it is their supply.

Social media is the playground of the narcissist. – Moira, Schitts Creek

Based on what I’ve read from self proclaimed narcissists online, they don’t have to be near the victim to feed on the victim’s emotions. Using words to inflict emotional pain is how they operate. Gas lighting, double speak, double think, selective memory, mixing truth with lies, compulsive lying, deflecting, and overall mirroring their truselves onto their victim. Apparently, whenever the narcissist inflicts suffering with their words, they experience pleasure. I’ve read it’s sometimes a physical pleasure but generally mental pleasure.

To end this, you’d be hard pressed to find an online source for narcissistic abuse assistance. I’ve only ever discovered that someone who is a narcissistic abuse recovery “therapist” or “advocate” is a narcissist themselves. This is how they operate, in the shadows, in plain sight, always presenting themselves as a savior. Wolves in sheep’s clothing.