Not sure who wrote this, but I love it.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mmcknett @selzero

there's janus, the two faced god. and apparently google is doing something with gemini codenamed janus

gemini is greek and janus is roman but they are not cognates of each other

however gemini in astrology does have to do with a "two faced" personality

i don't believe any of that shit, i'm just explaining that what selzero is saying is not inaccurate

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@selzero the most cynical is Palantir, they eye of Sauron who sees it all. I mean, the creators should be named George Orwell or smth

[ewhac@mastodon.social]

@thevhswizard @farah @selzero
> If nothing else, it's proof that the world
> we live in is NOT a simulation created by
> Hideo Kojima, because if he made it the
> names would be waaaaay more on-point.

https://www.sauron.systems/
https://www.palantir.com/

...You were saying?

[xenophora@mastodon.art]

@selzero

As a Gemini ourselves, we do not clAIm them.

[mmcknett@hachyderm.io]

@benroyce @selzero I thought Janus might have been the interpretation, though my only source for connecting “two-faced” as in duplicitous with the two-faced Roman god (one looking into the past and the other looking into the future) is the movie Goldeneye, so I have treated it with skepticism. Janus is the god of doorways, physically, and thus metaphorically of transitions/beginnings/endings.

“Gemini” is Latin and, If you believe wiktionary, descends from proto-italic, no mention of Greek. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geminus — the words geminus and ianus aren’t really related.

I didn’t know there was a canonical astrological association with gemini ️ as being duplicitous, since I don’t follow astrology. Seems kind of rude though.

The only inaccurate thing selzero said is what “gemini” means, so I’m not trying to start an argument about the *point* being made.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mmcknett @selzero

well said, and no argument intended, just good conversation

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@selzero also there's copilot which most definitely could not be trusted to land a plane safely in the event of the pilot's sudden incapacitation

illuminati confirmed

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@farah @selzero Most of them do not possess that capacity.

Then again, if they see anything having to do with ethics or philosophy on your transcripts when they run a background check on you, they'll drop you like a hot potato.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@selzero These assholes make us cyborgs look bad.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@epistomai @selzero The Palantíri are seeing stones that were originally a gift from the elves and installed all over the kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor as communication devices. Sauron got his hands on one of them after taking Minas Ithil/Minas Morgul. He then used it to spy on others, and drive Denethor insane. But the Palantír is not the Eye of Sauron.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@selzero In German, "Altmann" means "old man".

[jackeric@beige.party]

@renardboy @selzero automation in aviation has caused several hundred deaths - misuse of automation and automation dependency, that is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs

[soimd@toot.garden]

@selzero Wait! Is there no media centered around an emo, “I’m 13 and this is deep” Sam Alt-man account sharing deep truths with the sheepish masses? Where are the image galleries and parody blog posts? Did we all just get too busy to internet?

[attoparsec@clacks.link]

@StarkRG @selzero And don't forget Anduril, the arms manufacturer who named themselves after a sword that means "flame of the west", Tolkien at his most openly racist.

[epistomai@mastodon.social]

@VerenaRupp @selzero I didn't say otherwise. George Orwell's 1984 has 'an eye who watches all the time and everything', and that's what I meant. Two fictional novels who seem like the same intended guideline for the AI creator.

By the way, yesterday I watched Colossus (1970s) and the AI also have an Orwellian/Sauron surveillance at all times approach. Same as The Prisoner series. Use of tech or any magical device to spy and control

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@selzero

#technazi bros are all in the sci-fi. So many wonders there, so many strong rulers. All they need to implement those worlds but without that pesky unhappy endings authors meant.

[soursaltyfatso@techhub.social]

@selzero a good read in the similar vein https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-antichrist-lecture

[alexshendi@rollenspiel.social]

@mmcknett @benroyce @selzero

"Gemini" is a romanisation of "Δίδυμοι", (Didymoi) meaning "twins".
For the astrological sign, specifically Castor and Pollux.

[mmcknett@hachyderm.io]

@alexshendi @benroyce @selzero I’m having trouble finding sources indicating that Δίδυμοι became Gemini. How’d you find that?

Interestingly, I did find a random page that gives Castor’s & Pollux’s Greek names (Καστωρ and Πολυδεύκης), though the Greeks seem to have referred to them as Διόσκουροι (Zeus’s boys). https://greekerthanthegreeks.com/the-ancient-greek-myth-around-the-zodiac-sign-of-gemini/

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mmcknett @alexshendi @selzero

perhaps it's a latin original term, for the greek twins

i'm just guessing