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That was already posted in Insider News.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: That was already posted in Insider News.
or was it? maybe there is a tear in the space time continuum, causing you to think this, but in reality it never really happened.
maybe it happened, but because the internet really doesn't exist, it didn't actually happen after-all.
all of this is very interesting and mysterious indeed. 
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This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill, the story ends; you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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No, Twatter and Farcebox would require advanced Artificial Stupidity, and that's much harder to create. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have a textbook titled "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity"
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The Matrix?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I don't think the writer of the article actually read the theory. It's not that we are all AI's, but that bots are being used to manipulate popular opinion on the internet i.e. social media.
Here is a quote from the actual theory:
Quote: The Problem: Outline the basics of what appears to be happening.
There is a large-scale, deliberate effort to manipulate culture and discourse online and in wider culture by utilising a system of bots and paid employees whose job it is to produce content and respond to content online in order to further the agenda of those they are employed by.
Already we've seen this in foreign nations influencing elections by manipulating advertising algorithms on social media in order to push specific candidates.
As I see it is due to a "positive feedback loop"
Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake[^]
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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There's a lot of evidence to support this supposition.
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I haven't researched the rabbit-hole, but I've seen things, such as deep fakes and read posts that seem to lend support to it. My initial observance is that by just reading the article, many people take it as fact even when the article links back to the source. By reading the source material, you can tell the article itself is "BS" as the author claims the theory is "BS".
I'm surprised as to how many people just believe what they see and read on the internet without questioning any of it. It's just taken as fact. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That's exactly what an AI would want you to believe...
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Did every Scotsman start off as a Scotch Egg?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The apple of his father's aye?
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The mother had to say “aye” as well.
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... or the final scotching of his dreams. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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When a Scotsman goes crazy do they treat him with Scotch Tape?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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No, just lots of Scotch!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That remark kilt me - well plaid !
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Is that a sample of the "no true Scotsman"" argument?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yes, I encountered it numerous times on numerous different machines, despite them all having a UPS to ensure a clean shutdown on power failure.
I created a ConfigurationUncorrupter class. It detects when an app startup is complete and configuration has been successfully loaded then it creates a safe copy of the config file. If, on the other hand, loading configuration fails, it replaces the config file with the backup from the last successful start and tries again.
Every app gets that class incuded. That has pretty much eliminated the problem for me.
Phil
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I like that idea a lot, as part of a belt-and-suspenders system.
But this begs the question, I'd be very curious to know what happens so frequently and in such a repeatable fashion that such a thing had to be written in response to this recurring situation.
I mean, a config file is typically something that should be read (in read-only mode) at startup and then closed and left alone. Then even if the system isn't shut down cleanly, that config file should be safe. The only time it should be at risk is when it's opened to write new data into it or edit existing data. What gets it corrupted so easily?
And I hope that when your Uncorrupter class knows it has to intervene and restore the config file from a backup, it logs everything it possibly can to try to narrow down any potential source. Because that's not a "normal" state of operation. I'd be very uncomfortable knowing this auto-restore code gets triggered on a regular basis without understanding why.
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Yes, it does all the appropriate logging.
The problem only occurs on startup and I'm sure it's not caused by any of my code. My code never explicitly writes to the config file. I have a much more complex, multi-application, shared configuration system that doesn't suffer from the same problem. It's only the very simple, standard, AppName.exe.config file that is ever affected.
Phil
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Gotcha.
I wasn't trying to blame your code, and the fact that others have reported the same problem doesn't surprise me. That pretty much rules yours out.
So given those circumstances, I think you're doing exactly the right thing - it's out of your control, but you anticipate it and do the best to recover gracefully given the circumstances. And you log it so you know when it happens. So you should have all the ammunition you need when someone tries to place some blame.
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Thanks. I didn't think you were blaming me; I just wanted to be clear for the sake of others encountering the same problem.
Phil
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