You are given limited access to the Gearworks of Reality. You may delete one of these from human civilization.
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@mttaggart I really was the guy with 2 buttons meme on this one. I ended up picking gambling because *damage over the entire history* but it's also the easier one to regulate.
@mttaggart redundancy collapse and the very lever to delete gambling is also a gamble, so the choice nukes reality.
Good fucking job, bro. This poll is the end of us all in 13 hours.
@NosirrahSec If my writing had the power to alter the cosmos, you'd have noticed.
@mttaggart Tou, fucking, che; sir, we can agree there.
If you see funky shit with a slight righteous rage tinge to it, and I've been laying low, hahahah
Someone was dumb enough to give me powers.
Voted banning gambling because AI is a HUGE gamble, so 2 birds with 1 stone.
@mttaggart assertion: all the folks not tapping "gambling" have gambling addiction and cldn't survive a day w/o a game of chance.
@hrbrmstr @mttaggart
Humble opinion: As opposed to being addicted, those not choosing "gambling" do not consider themselves affected by gambling in any way whatsoever. So its disappearance would make absolutely no difference in their lives.
@mttaggart @wdormann @hrbrmstr I have been in sports my whole life but don't consider myself a fan. I hate gambling in general ( especially the stock market and Polymarket type stuff ) but voted for Gen-AI before reading the follow up clarification toot. I don't see a problem with small wagers now and then though which is why I didn't vote for that. I would change my vote now if I could.
@mttaggart
I don't get it... You said "one of these" but where is the second choice?
@mttaggart Isn't genAI just a subset of Gambling?
@mttaggart considering intermittent reinforcement, they're the same picture...
@neurovagrant I'm not so sure. See some replies for rationales.
@mttaggart the funnier part is that gambling contributes to the geo-engineering of the nevada desert, which i suspect has a lot of water impact.
this is a fun question.
Delete MBAs and TechBros is the solution. There something rotten at the core of humanity that always results in these (or their analogues) and that's why we can't have nice things
@mttaggart neither is in the top ten of things I worry about, so probably "neither". I might feel inclined to "investigate" what else I might change. :)
I guess you practically asked for it.
@mttaggart I obviously understand there is a distinction. But I also don't think I'd live in the country with the highest data centre per capita ratio in Europe if venture capitalists weren't betting on betting smart enough to get out before the bubble bursts. It's how much they keep pushing it beyond the scope of utility that makes it such a scourge. Its the griftiness of it all.
@mttaggart LLMs are gambling, the stock market is gambling, the same way prediction markets are gambling. Therefore I will erase gambling and GenAI will subside overnight because everyone will lose interest since the only shiny thing about it is gone
@mttaggart As reprehensible in every way gen AI has become, I didn't hesitate to choose gambling. That's the problem that would require Gearworks of Reality-level powers to eradicate. With regulation and enforcement, gen AI can be rendered safe enough. It's doing great damage in the meantime, but that's on us humans, who could have prevented it. No human could prevent gambling.
@mttaggart Shame it's only one!
