Sounds like the same as this:
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Now that I’ve read the whole thing, I have to say I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t nearly as surreal as the previous piece on the watch that seems to precipitate out of the internet.
Still, both (and another piece that I found through BB on the weird world of seemingly machine-generated youtube videos) start to give the sense that real artificial intelligence - not advanced statistics, but a real, thinking thing - has already been born in the internet, and it’s as alien as anyone could have ever predicted.
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I got this from David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years (and I’ve not had the leisure to look up the primary literature myself, so caveat lector) but it was frequently the case that the local potentate was the de facto lender with a local Jew being an intermediary to satisfy the local norms and to provide a convenient scapegoat when the people crushed by debt rose up. All it took was a pogrom which diverted all attention from the noble. And then, a few years later, the cycle could be repeated.
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Is this what you mean, or were you thinking of some other algorithmic underworld?
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Cory, read the second paragraph again; it doesn’t make sense.
I’d suggest there’s a missing ‘why’.
That’s not the post I was thinking of, but the first link in that post (Something is wrong on the internet) was the topic of the post I was thinking of, so yeah, that’s basically what I mean.
Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.
It’s that “or something” part that I was alluding to. You almost wonder if we aren’t living in a version of Cube.
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Combination of money laundering and shifting money?
If you have a pile of legit cash, but can’t transfer it legally to another country, what do you do?
…or some of the subroutines in the simulacrum’s software amusing themselves.
BTW, the term “laundering money” was probably coined not by, but because of Llewelyn Morris “Curly” Humphreys.
Humphreys was a founding member of the Chicago Outfit and their éminence grise for decades until he died of a heart attack in 1965, aged 65.
He also was the guy who came up with the “take the 5th” defense.
One of Humphreys’ early schemes to both move into legitimate businesses and have a way to clean dirty money was to take over a chain of laundries.
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As it’s not a valid part of the address I wonder what would happen if you ‘accidentally’ dropped it from the shipping labels?
If we quickly establish an index to calculate its IQ, we could at least immortalise ourselves by this - before being obliterated by strange shipments of useless junk…
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South Korea does spawn a lot of Christian heretic cults where the leader is the second coming.
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I think the same end result, it would deliver to the address and they would forward it on probably to China. It’s just a code for their internal org to reconcile all shipments I imagine since they are all individual parcel posts instead of buying in bulk on pallets.
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