@AlSweigart It's democratization. Powerful people always had access to people who told them "you are absolutely right".

@the_turtle @AlSweigart that was much more enjoyable though.

@AlSweigart if that's not scary I don't know what could be.

@SnoopJ
I'm gonna have to be very very healthy.
(Judging from my family, we can hang on into good age with minimal intervention, so hopefully that's gonna happen.)
@AlSweigart

dying super fast is also an option!

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@pmjv
i am no longer corpo, so it's less likely now
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@AlSweigart fake news. Trump is too dumb to use an AI

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@pmjv
i'm gonna stay on earth just to yell at the robots passing me by every day
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@pmjv
(many memes say the secret to long life is spite, alcohol or avoiding people. i'm healthily dosing at least one of those at any given time.)
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so that's the catholic trinity i've been hearing so much about

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@pmjv
cat-holic... yep, liking cats may help, or it may not, but it's nice to meowmeow.
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@pmjv @SnoopJ @AlSweigart orangely tilting their head about it

@AlSweigart
- "How do you know it's the dumbest person?"
- "It's using an AI."

@CressSalad @AlSweigart Is this the new version of „blockchain elections”?

@slotos @AlSweigart

Did not know about this until I read an article - thats interesting:

Personally I think we just as a species/planet need to get human emotions out of the picture in making big decisions - like digging up all the last oil, starting wars etc. We have to have some level headed advice and decisions, OK, we can put human gate-post on it. But it should never be 1 individual or party. I would even say for local issues it can be left alone!

@AlSweigart And if you can't spot that person... well, you know.

@AlSweigart In the spirit of "know your enemy" I asked (an LLM coding assistant) to write a C99/x11 function I could call when an alarm or countdown triggers in my music player. I explained that the app is in dark mode and I'd like it modal, with a few pastel colours to be eye-catching. I forget the exact words.

Never once did it say "That's a terrible idea!"

It ran first time. But let's be frank it *was* a terrible idea

It perpetrated this:
(the coloured bands move slowly, BTW)

@AlSweigart In the US half of the adults do it too