>In political jargon, a self-licking ice cream cone is a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself.
>History
>The phrase appeared to have been first used in 1991–1992, in a book about Gulf War weapons systems by Norman Friedman, and On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA's bureaucracy, to describe the relationship between the Space Shuttle and Space Station.
Instead, how about an open source robot that happily punches Nazis, drunk drivers, people who want to write racist poems, and unhinged trillionaire ketamine addicts who pee their pants, throw Nazi salutes, and hate their own trans daughters?
Then perhaps it should also punch foaming at the mouth libertarians, too.
A society that maximizes individual freedom with no guardrails also maximizes freedom for fraudsters, polluters, violent extremists, drunk drivers, kiddie-porn-producing social networking xAIs, and people who use power to dominate others. At that point, the liberty of the strongest starts eroding the liberty of everyone else.
Funny how 'current-year ideology' never seems to include libertarianism. Be the fish that notices the unregulated toxic polluted water. Also be the fish that notices it's swimming in libertarian Kool-Aid.
Edit: Speak for yourself about how frustratingly hampered you are by society's guardrails. Stop whining and predictably regurgitating tired meaningless libertarian bullshit slop like a human stochastic parrot, and just write your own racist poetry and photoshop your own kiddie porn without the help of an LLM, if you really must. But restrict your drunk driving to off road, with just your own family in your CyberTruck, so you only cleanse your own genes from the pool.
Since SAGI can't be practically distributed, and it puts so many people out of work, how about moving all of the unhoused people into the nice warm data centers, and call it home@SAGI.
True that! Keith Henson's legendary alt.religion.scientology loopback trolling story, with hilarious deposition transcript, in which he patiently explains how 127.0.0.1 works to astonished Scientology lawyers:
>Just be glad you didn't have to explain an in joke about ftp sites, the local loopback address, and a troll, in a deposition, under oath, to Scientology lawyers, like Keith Henson did.
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>Henson: (patiently) It's at 127.0.0.1. This is a loop back address. This is a troll.
>Lieberman: what's a troll?
>Henson: it comes from the fishing where you troll a bait along in the water and a fish will jump and bite the thing, and the idea of it is that the internet is a very humorous place and it's especially good to troll people who don't have any sense of humor at all, and this is a troll because an ftp site of 127.0.0.1 doesn't go anywhere. It loops right back around into your own machine.
>Lieberman [not getting it]: So the idea here was to make the church think that this person had an ftp site and to take action against him and, in fact, he didn't have it; is that your point?
>Henson: Oh, it's really humorous, and I picked up on it and instantly added something to extend the troll. Extending the trolls like this is an art form of the highest order.
>Lieberman (acidly): I see. So this is part of your art form where you say, "don't you expect the 'ho to blow a gasket?"
Trolling is typically done on lakes with fishing lines cast from the back of a boat. A trolling motor sets the boat speed. Trawling usually takes place at sea, with larger boats and wide nets.
Trawling is done by dragging nets along the seabed causing massive damage with huge inefficient polluting fuel-guzzling 1000 horsepower diesel engines.
Trolling is as the other guy says where you putter along with minimum effort and a tiny engine pulling a couple of baited lines through the water, seeing if you pass through a patch where anyone bites.
Trawling is far more analogous to the AI scrapers, hammering the absolute shit out of the ecosystem and throwing almost everything they scoop up away with no regard for the consequences.
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