@goatsarah Yeah, I can hear that one in my head now.
And what that? I'm getting echoes of something... Probably came after it in the TV schedules of 1988, playing from my subconscious mind, it's "Defenders of the Earth".
@carnage4life If you manage to get a really good test for sentience, the problem isn't going to be the AIs that pass. The problem will be the humans that fail.
I keep seeing "the end of low interest rates proves that tech companies never did anything of value" which seems to me to miss the point that technological advances are what /caused/ a decade of low inflation and low interest rates.
My partner reluctantly shelled out for a limited trial of NOW TV in order to watch The Lazarus Project and it has just decided to show us some fucking adverts!
I believe we are contractually unable to cancel it at this point, or I would be straight to the Pirate Bay as a matter of principle, but for everyone else: these cunts screen you adverts even when you are actually paying for a subscription and should not be rewarded with a single penny of your cash.
@richlv@tellyworth@sukiletxe@simon If I had a pound for every some someone reported that when they clicked on something "nothing happened", when in reality when they clicked on the thing a concise and informative error message appeared...
@richlv@tellyworth@sukiletxe@simon People are liars. You said it was a blank page: they fundamentally don't trust you even to recognize what a blank page looks like, because they have been lied to SO MANY times before and wasted SO MUCH time by trusting what people said and starting to diagnose a problem based on incorrect data and assumptions.
If you are doing customer-facing technical support you quickly learn: trust no one.
@goatsarah You have reminded me, and so for the benefit of those who few who don't already know it, here is a link to the "bag of chips at the train station" story: