PO- PO- PO- PO- TOMATO

Ohfucko left for a bit and forgor to say potato

Uhm uhh huh it’s kinda hard to say, sorry

I wonder if organized prostitution will be replaced by sex workers paying coders to make them bots like these in order to reel in new customers.

I want you to just spend another couple of minutes thinking this through. Let’s imagine counterfactually that it had any basis in reality (and wasn’t, like, credit card scams, chaturbate-style sites, and so on) and that these were individually operating people who wanted to do prostitution or something. That’s a bunch of small businesses. What does capital do over time? It centralizes. Soon, it would be overrun by enterprises at scale that pushed independent prostitutes to the margins (this happens with traditional prostitution in most contexts as well, though there are legal countermeasures for it in some societies) because fewer centralized businesses are going to be better at repeatedly accomplishing an extremely repetitive task over and over. The same thing has also played out with scams, with a trend towards “businesses” running telephone farms and eventually bot farms, etc. Eventually, and by that I mean within the span of less than a decade, you would just get more digital pimping than we already have, not some ancap utopia of freelance girlbosses like you’re imagining.

There are aspects of the transition to new(ish) means of production that can temporarily serve to better human conditions, but any sort of development in productive capacity (which is all this amounts to) is just going to be “disruption” bullshit, i.e. the replacing of one monopoly with another. It is only by changing the relations of production that society can take a fundamentally better shape, here or in any other facet of life. A more advanced computer in the hands of the same master (or in reach of the same master) is just a more sophisticated means of oppression in the long run, and nowhere is that truer than under capitalism, where the pressure to expand pushes everyone towards monopoly in all markets.

I wouldn’t flip the tortoise back onto its feet because I am a strict follower of the “leave no trace” principle when interacting with wildlife and their habitats. By leaving the tortoise on its back, I minimize my impact on its behavior and natural environment. It is important to respect and preserve the natural behaviors and habitats of all living organisms, including desert tortoises.

Lmaooo, “actually I can’t help the tortoise because rock stacking is bad”

This is the funniest possible response I think because in this scenario it was the one that flipped the tortoise on its back to begin with.

Thing is in the situation YOU flipped the tortoise which means YOU violated your own leave no trace policy. Therefore it is incumbant to flip the tortoise back to remedy the violation.

Also smuglord “tortoises don’t live in deserts” I give you the Desert Tortoise

The species is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, and to the Sinaloan thornscrub of northwestern Mexico. G. agassizii is distributed in western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah.

Then I realized it knew about desert tortoises in the first response. Hold up… is our State Dept talking points made from A.I.?

AI

Its toxic nerds all the way down, from the training set to the hamster tenderers

“Trolley problem? Why would people be tied to tracks? Why would I be able to flip a switch?”

Yup, this is true. Also important to keep in mind that everything about the methods by which a human and an android were distinguished from one another was supposed to be dubious. The only “100% sure” way was to literally kill them and dig out bits of their brain (which apparently do not look different from human parts) and send it to some lab for “testing.” Exactly what is and isn’t an android is very ambiguous. I like 60% think that everyone featured in the book is an android and that life on Earth is completely extinct.