=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 yes, they really would be satisfied with a single lifetime's worth of
 technological progress, from the birth of the microchip to now, as long as
 they can rule over the ruins of what once were our utopian aspirations.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 what if all the AI advancements they're doing are just them building more
 hardware infrastructure in datacenters and not actually improving the software
 that much
wouldn't that be neat I think it would because it means once they collapse under the weight of their own ambitions that hardware's gotta go somewhere and knowing them they're probably going to ship it to south-east asia to be "recycled" (read: burnt with the metals salvaged) instead of selling them second hand because you know they can't really justify the business expense of selling stuff like that and besides what if some driver or something on the firmware was proprietary do you really want to pay techs to wipe every single thing off of them and plus who's gonna categorize and sort them according to their form and function that's just extra payroll and listen the company's not doing so hot anyway I mean we're literally shutting down but yeah sure we'll find a way to justify spending all that non-existent dosh so some hippies can feel better with their servers they didn't build or justify with their profit-producing capitalist enterprise that we've built with our own two hands well really the hands of everyone else but like, they're not actually doing the building the REAL work of course happens in board rooms like this one where we spend MINUTES and HOURS sometimes discussing how to get things in order and aligned to both of our goals because that's the REAL work that has to happen in order for stuff to get done, you know it's true yeah I thought so anyway what are you doing after this meeting wanna get lunch it's almost quitting time at 2pm
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--- #2 fediverse/1842 ---
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 I could never live happily ever after if a single one of you could not
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--- #3 messages/1310 ---
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 if you live far enough away, they can build a telescope of arbitrary
 magnification. the sky is vast, there's birds and bugs about. huh what's that
 over there, a thing that was placed there just for me
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--- #4 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #5 fediverse/2045 ---
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 what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
 
 (maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
 diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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--- #6 fediverse/3097 ---
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 naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
 anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
 environmental conditions.
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--- #7 fediverse/1825 ---
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 if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for
 anything they want to keep hidden.
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--- #8 fediverse/3092 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 oh yeah UBI would be nice. Can we do that instead?
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked
 through their advertisement
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
 problems and they just can't have that.
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--- #11 fediverse/1777 ---
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 what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
 some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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 Freedom to do anything, and the liberty to choose as you please.
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 they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
 want it to replace it.
 
 like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
 the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
 click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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--- #14 messages/97 ---
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 Would you prefer the world went on turning, with or without you?
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--- #15 fediverse/198 ---
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 @user-171 they were part of our narrative growing up. or they fill some need
 that was forever unfulfilled.
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--- #16 fediverse/1416 ---
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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 @user-1074 
 
 they also lived a couple hundred years later... lots of time for political
 philosophy to advance.
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--- #18 fediverse/1874 ---
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 @user-1083 
 
 now imagine that those enslaved to a life of solitude and contemplation were
 suddenly freed and given purpose and community and a heartfelt goal of
 creating a better society
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--- #19 fediverse/1459 ---
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 still waiting for a brand of kitty litter that absorbs moisture at about the
 same rate that you need to replace it...
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--- #20 fediverse/3261 ---
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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