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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 02:53:34 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

   https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

   There you go, there it is. Yup.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 02:53:50 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Water is life. So is intelligence.

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 02:55:32 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I'm not claiming that they're right, that you are actually buying "intelligence" for them by the meter, I think that's misleading.

     But also, the fact that that's the *framing* goes to show to you that they absolutely, completely want it to be, and want to sell intellectual slavery, as far as they can get it.

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     william ⁂ maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 02:58:55 JST william ⁂ maggos

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     @cwebber

     they'd have no moral problem hoarding all the oxygen.

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     Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 02:59:36 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

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     @cwebber non-X-hosted copy of the video

     #dystopian #AI #SamAltman #evil #intelligence

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:11:11 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Michael Wyman

     @mwyman @jalefkowit grok is this true?

     it isn't?

     I'm sorry i didn't mean it Grok i was just asking

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     Michael Wyman (mwyman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:11:12 JST Michael Wyman

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     @cwebber @jalefkowit The next DMCA will criminalize independent thought that doesn’t rely on the intelligence utility

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     Lucas C. Wheeler (lcwheeler@ecoevo.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 05:52:38 JST Lucas C. Wheeler

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     @cwebber "Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it."

     –Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 13-Mar-2026 23:28:08 JST Janneke

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     • Pjotr Prins

     @cwebber
     Cc: @pjotrprins