I remember the art of crafting the perfect google search query and knowing you’d eventually find that obscure bit of info. Now I have to quote nearly everything in my query and if a single result in the first 100 results is tangentially related, I’m grateful.

Not the same thing, but an older site/service where they would just randomize various automated responses during gaps in the conversation to keep the person on the phone. They have a bunch of recordings.

https://jollyrogertelephone.com/our-robots/

I think this would be considered Self-serving bias.

He specifically stated he didn’t want to hire older and experienced employees.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/why-stockton-rush-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-for-titanic-sub-tours/

Yeah, I’m totally with you there!

Around the 1 minute mark, he does mention that they keep spares onboard.

The article states that they’ve been lost before, but that they still had contact with the surface. Sounds like this is the first time comms has been lost.

They’ve come about and mainly just ended up as right wing hellscapes. Critical mass / the network effect are not to be underestimated.

Now if we can just serve ads to the AI, we can get rid of those pesky users.

Or alternatively, the small minority of mean Reddit users ballooned.