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    Amazon helps you make bombs

    OK, this is a weird part of our modern world. I actually found this out when I wanted to buy Potassium Nitrate (common food preservative, but also a components in many explosive recipes) to make corned beef, and Amazon suggested I might want to buy some bomb making ingredients.

    Amazon's artificial intelligence makes lists of stuff "frequently bought together" and that can remind the wannabe bomb maker to get ball bearings, rat poison, and timing devices for their explosives.
    Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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    Re: Amazon helps you make bombs

    That's actually sort of hillarious. A little scary but still highly entertaining.
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      Re: Amazon helps you make bombs

      Originally posted by MaskedOne View Post
      That's actually sort of hillarious. A little scary but still highly entertaining.
      Yeah - when you leave the thinking to amoral electronics, you get amoral thoughts.
      Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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        That would be such a new idea for a SF movie plot. Attack of the killer AI's
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          Re: Amazon helps you make bombs

          Originally posted by anunitu View Post
          That would be such a new idea for a SF movie plot. Attack of the killer AI's
          Wow- I bet you're the first person to have come up with that idea...

          Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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            No,Amazon beat me to it
            MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

            all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
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