April 20, 2022

We Have Automated Keir Starmer feat. Wendy Liu

We welcome back friend of the show Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) to discuss what you might call a sociology of bizarre startup-centric ads all over San Francisco, but we also found a way to automate Keir Starmer via a text-generating AI, and... it's perhaps *too* accurate.

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Joe Hoole · April 24, 2022

made a 3d model of kier starmer a while ago. i don't disagree with your project, but i would advise TF to go further on this and create a fully rendered modelled android starmer

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Cate Kneale · April 24, 2022

Negative interest rates for all billionaires. Or we only allow them to keep it as biodegradable banknotes.

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Francesca · April 24, 2022

Decision-makers getting their ideas from whatever they see on their commute is absolutely true. I worked at one video production company where the president/COO came in one day, showed us a video he'd taken on his cell phone of an RT America ad on Taxi TV, and basically said "let's do this but for us"

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energizer bunny · April 24, 2022

what’s the name openAI’s solution?? is this GPT3? id love to train it to do the writing portion of my job—no way my boss ever finds out

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Jason Rounds · April 23, 2022

If you feed Milo's Starmer voice into a fancy text to speech AI and combine it with the predictive text you can well and truly automate the Starmer bits. Innovation!

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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep · April 22, 2022

So, if l'm hearing this correctly, we should expropriate Elon Musk's fortune and give it to Dave Courtney, so that Courtney can ascend from regular Hedonism-Baz into full, gold-plated Hedonism-Baz and throw, just, the biggest house party. ... which may be our best chance to get the generations-long, armed, flying, cocktail party from Life, the Universe, and Everything...

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HJC · April 22, 2022

My facemask the *only* thing keeping me from looking like a total dipshit, cackling on the tube in response to the Kier bits... thanks guys

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Oliver Cant · April 22, 2022

I think I would actually vote for AI Keef over the real Keef. At least it'd be more fun.

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Man, I Got Nothing · April 22, 2022

Honestly, if we could convince all the crypto libertarians into living exclusively in fire corridors that might actually be a net positive in terms of the reduction of carbon emissions.

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Allen · April 21, 2022

Ten minutes in and we are doing austerity to the Labour Party organization itself, starting at the top by automating the leader.

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Allen · April 21, 2022

See, they say that Boris Johnson is a clone, but if that’s the case, how can we be sure that Kier Starmer is not also a clone?

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Ash Rose · April 21, 2022

Boxing match politician is just Trudeau though... did the AI model clock riley? Also this was a popular recurring Podcasting Is Praxis bit using a storytelling engine, which ended when they had an interview with AI starmer, the end of which they told him he wasn't real and he shot himself.

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liz future · April 21, 2022

I was sticking around for Starmer on Joe Rogan :(

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oranjest1 · April 21, 2022

there is no useful case for Crypto/Defi/DAOs. the technology is dogshit and bullshit. there is nothing to gain and even laying a single thing into the blockchain means you lose its privacy and the ability to do anything more than trade it

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Dave Clarke · April 21, 2022

"There are a lot of ads in san fransico which say 'ask your developer' " I had a visceral moment of dread imagining someone high-up in my company approaching me talking about a cool billboard they saw and if we could use their product in some way.

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etienne · April 21, 2022

theres a cool underground comic exploring this concept you probably havent heard of it, it's called Dilbert

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oranjest1 · April 21, 2022

fuck i'd buy a 15 yr old subaru impreza wrx with traction control and drivetrain lights on the dash

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Raymond Price · April 21, 2022

Morton's fork- If you're buying dozens of Faberge eggs per year, then you're clearly rich and can afford to pay a shitload of tax. If you're not buying dozens of Faberge eggs per year, then you're clearly saving a lot of money and can afford to pay a shitload of tax.