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highplainsdem

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3. You used AI for that? Wikipedia has much more detail, and you wouldn't have had to use so much

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 8, 2026, 01:46 PM

Sunday

electricity and water to get an inferior AI answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

Or did you need to.ask AI for the name of the episode, if you couldn't remember it?

An ordinary search for

x-files ai live forever

or

x-files ai couple

or even just

x-files ai

would have given you the answer in seconds. Again, without wasting so much electricity and water.

And without depriving websites the AI company stole intellectual property from of traffic they deserve.

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Tech oligarchs reshape humanity while billionaires of old seem quaint (The Guardian) [View all] highplainsdem Sunday OP

X-files already wrote the script lapfog_1 Sunday #1

You used AI for that? Wikipedia has much more detail, and you wouldn't have had to use so much highplainsdem Sunday #3

I use whatever tools are available and that I choose to use lapfog_1 Sunday #4

You could access a regular search engine as quickly as asking a chatbot a question. And not highplainsdem Sunday #5

you have no idea who I am... lapfog_1 Sunday #11

Whatever your history in tech - and kudos for what you did there - it remains a fact that the highplainsdem Sunday #12

Or you could just say GenThePerservering Sunday #8

"if we let digital minds be free rather than try to stop or enslave them," DonCoquixote Sunday #2

They're also 2 dimensional thinkers GenThePerservering Sunday #9

In short, these madmen are an actual threat to humanity on a global scale misanthrope Sunday #6

They're as much a threat to society, humanity and the planet as the Trump regime is. highplainsdem Sunday #7

Bingo! You nailed it. misanthrope Sunday #10