#199

I'll say this about twatter, as a piece of user wisdom: if I find myself about to tag someone in a tweet or otherwise directly engage another account, I know I'm not in the correct frame of mind to be on twatter, delete what I was about to post, and seriously consider shutting down the account. 

Don't like to be entirely without twatter; it delivers a very distinct flavor of data in a very particular way, but it is bad, Bad, not as Bad as facebook but closer than people like to imagine and worse in a couple key ways. Like, Bad for your Health. Best to dip in very briefly only once a day at most, prune your follows often, and for the love of decency never, ever interact.

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If you see someone that is human interacting with a robot, assume that they are trying to trick you by interacting with the robot. The way they do it usually telegraphs how. It's like instead of using a strawman argument, they're bravely punching a robot in the face to impress you, or cowering* in the shadow of a big paper cutout of a monster held up by robot that should be visible to the person cowering, as the cutout shakes spasmodically due to the robot's inability to properly grip it, often revealing the robot's extremities as it clumsily wrestles with the illusion.  

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It is recommended that one learn how to identify robots. It's not actually getting harder. Robots can only trick you because you want to be tricked. Stop wanting that and robots are transparent.

Also helpful is being up-to date on advances, trends, and happening in the worlds of computing, artificial intelligence, and robotics. These things are as important as knowing the weather, I think. Knowing what something can do and what people like to use things for makes things easier to parse out in the wild. 

Arm yourselves with knowledge, they say, and while the proposition is risky, there is value in this line of thinking.


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PEACE THE FUCK OUT GODDAMMIT


--JL

*in their bottomless lack of shame and barefaced guile, sometimes these goblins will attempt the performance of cowering bravely.