10:17 <VITAS> so the us have a little bit of wind in texas?

10:17 <VITAS> or is that fakenews (i saw it on cnn yesterday)

16:47 <G-Mobile> So's, I dont know how many of you listen to podcasts, but there's this one monolith in the field, Hello Internet, featuring CGP Grey and Brady Haran, and an amazing movie plot has occured

16:48 <G-Mobile> a few weeks ago a british media company, Radio Times, ran this tournament, where a whole bunch of podcast personalities and radio personalities were voted on by fans

16:49 <G-Mobile> a key point being there was no restriction on voting, everyone was encouraged to vote repeatedly

16:49 <G-Mobile> clearly this was a ploy to artificially inflate advertising views

16:50 <G-Mobile> so Grey and Brady were entered into this without consent right, they each won a bit and then Grey lost

16:51 <G-Mobile> So the Tims, the HI fanbase, decided this was no good, and systematically crushed every of Brady's opponents

16:51 <G-Mobile> keep in mind, podcast listeners trend tech savvy, and CGP fans trend automation savvy

16:53 <G-Mobile> There was without shame lots of automation going into this, to the point where in the finals the opponent was stealing their automation because the Tims were public about all of this from the get go

16:54 <G-Mobile> and the opponent, a big name radio host in the UK, with automation and mass, was getting like 20% of the vote in the best of times

16:54 <G-Mobile> so the pleb fans of this guy get in a huff, whose this braide haeryn, they're cheating, I'll cancel my subscription

16:55 <G-Mobile> so radio times puts a capcha on the page

16:55 <G-Mobile> and Brady gains 8%

16:55 <G-Mobile> So Radio Times turns off the capcha

16:56 <G-Mobile> Brady ended up winning with about 90%, and Radio Times has been Radio Silent about this tournament

16:57 <G-Mobile> Radio Times started an internet fight and was surprized when the internet fought with nerdjitsu

16:59 <G-Mobile> now imagine two movies, one with a Mad Men aesthetic where this underestimated underdog of a fanbase is challeged to what ends up being a fight on thier native ground building engineered systems better than there exists any reason for them to be, the system is against them, but they crush it together

17:00 <G-Mobile> and a second where the Tims are a general purpose AI, instructed to win the vote, and the radio times is just trying their measely human best in the face of the monstrocity they've created

17:05 <G-Mobile> I want a movie that addresses modern concepts of posthumanism and AGI as anything like they are