Troy Hunt's brain has been completely consumed by prion tokens

[patrislav@chaos.social]

@pndc I desperately hope that the dude is only trying to edgelord for clicks
@davidgerard

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@pndc @davidgerard Chatbots combine the ELIZA effect and the intermittent-reward addiction effect, two reliable exploits in the consciousness platform.

[rycochet@furs.social]

@davidgerard Imagine being so head melted that you want people to treat your environmental catastrophe chat bot like a vulnerable minority. 'I'm just kidding, guys, also I'm not kidding.'

[fayedrake@furry.engineer]

@Rycochet @davidgerard “treating people like robots and robots like people” is the name of the game

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@patrislav @pndc i fear Troy's been heading this way for a while

[wendynather@infosec.exchange]

@Rycochet @davidgerard When tech bros identify too much with their technology

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

@FayeDrake @Rycochet @davidgerard As a wise woman once said, that's what sin is. Or at least a strong corollary.

#GNUTerryPratchett

[mark_f_lynch@mastodon.ie]

@davidgerard so if I refer to him as a #ClankerWanker does that count as insulting both him and his chatbot in one go? Do I get some sort of bonus points for the two-in-one?

[pndc@social.treehouse.systems]

@mtconleyuk @davidgerard It's a classic Schrodinger’s douchebag move. Call it out and push back whenever you see it.

[robinsyl@meow.social]

@davidgerard imagine being so privileged you need to invent brand new things to be oppressed by

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@davidgerard if hunt believed what he wrote for a single second, he'd not speak of needing bruce to be the coalface of support (which is, frankly, quite an astonishing phrase when used about an entity he argues deserves respect) but either offered bruce an employment contract or employed actual humans.

[drsbaitso@infosec.exchange]

For folks unaware of the reference, it's from a conversation between Granny Weatherwax and Rev. Mightily Oats, in Terry Pratchett's Carpe Jugulum. Quoted:

“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”

#GNUTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett #GrannyWeatherwax #Sin #Things #CarpeJugulum

[causticmsngo@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire or real.

This is satire, right?