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<div dir="ltr">OH AND: What was Owen's question. </div>
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size="4">Owen> Moltbook is fascinating, but what is it's
purpose? Fear we'll be swarmed? Silly to the max? ...?</font></div>
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<p><font size="4">The fact that Owen responded to my prompt
on-list is a sign-of-life I've not had from him in many
years on-list. I had thought he had unsubscribed when
WedTech formed? </font></p>
<p><font size="4">This implies he has been a "listener" here all
along? I think we usually call such "lurkers", though if
"listeners" are at a premium, we should de-stigmatize
"Lurkers"? </font></p>
<p><font size="4">Brunner's Shockwave Rider, "Hearing Aid" or
"ten-nines" 999-999-9999 ?</font></p>
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<p><font size="4"><i><span
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turns out to be a Utopian community of a few thousand
people. The nearest comparison would be an agrarian,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_industry"
class="mw-redirect" title="Cottage industry"
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industry</a><span
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designed by<span> </span></span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris"
title="William Morris"
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Morris</a><span
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Precipice is also the home of <b><u>Hearing Aid, an
anonymous telephone confession service accessible
to anyone in the country. Hearing Aid is also
known as the "Ten Nines", after the phone number
used to call it: 999-999-9999</u>.</b> People call
the service, a human operator answers, and they simply
talk while the operator listens. Some rant, others
seek sympathy, still others commit suicide while on
the phone. Hearing Aid's promise is that nobody else,
not even the government, will hear the call. The only
response Hearing Aid gives to a caller is "Only I
heard that, I hope it helped."</span></i></font></p>
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from Wikipedia article</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span
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to DaveW</span></font></p>
<p><font size="4"><span
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our love-hate with LLMs (and other
AI/deep-learning/diffusion) if they are acutely
a-semantic, then they are NOT listeners though they
appear/pretend (stochastic parrot-like) to be? If a long
string of signifiers falls onto the LLM, but no-one is
there to listen, did it make any meani</span></font><span
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