Not sure who wrote this, but I love it.

[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

[mmcknett@hachyderm.io]

@benroyce @alexshendi “gemini” is? I’m not sure! I thought it was plausible that Geminus is a transliteration of Didymos, only I couldn’t find evidence. Also, the fact that Δίδυμος is transliterated elsewhere as Didymos (such as for the apostle Thomas) makes that connection seem less likely. But I’m just playing at being a linguist here.