• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I think I want to read more Sabatini the next weekend. No modernity at all - and plenty of such “pledges” always turning out a lie.

    Provided I won’t learn a person who went offline almost a month ago is fine (other than severe burnout as expected). The only mutual acquaintance (who is supposed to know their real address etc) hasn’t yet read what I wrote them. I’ve went offline for longer periods of time, but it’s still scary.

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        24 hours ago

        How about domestic then, we promise not to make domestic killer robots for urban pacification, read control. Unless the domestic population requires it of course. Or we deem it necessary ourselves, or we feel like it. Your compliance with this message is assumed by the act of reading it.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I pledge, to do the thing, that makes the red line go up. Profits go BRRRRRRR. Human lives go…away when we kill them all. But profits go BRRRRRR!!!

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        21 hours ago

        Give it a little while, all that’ll be left is LLM “AI agents” manipulating stock markets and DMing eachother “Line go UP! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!”
        Until lack of maintenance makes all the power go out.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      23 hours ago

      Like my organization that pledged to be 100% renewable energy based by 2025 and they promised that right up until early 2024, where it suddenly disappeared from the internal website, and now no one talks about it.

      But in fairness they made absolutely zero progress towards this goal in the previous 4 years, so it was pretty obvious they never really meant it anyway.

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    1 day ago

    The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.

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    11 hours ago

    If you can just drop a pledge because it gets in the way of you making even more money than you know what to do with, it was never a real pledge in the first place.