We need to ban advertising. No ads, no reason to collect data on everyone. Better for everyone.
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1·4 days agoThe Armored Saint and Hellbound Hearts…
It’s going to be bloody.
Is this entire post a disingenuous question or do you really not get it?
Image generation is fun, and LLMs can be a great way to find a starting point for learning something already known by humanity as a whole, but not known by one in particular. Because they are statistical association machines, they are practically perfect for answering the ‘what word am I looking for?’ question when you can only ‘talk around’ the concept.
However, that’s not what they are being used for, and the user cost does not match the externalized cost. If users had to pay the real cost today, the AI companies would die tomorrow. (This is probably true of a great many companies but we’re talking AI ones here.)
One of the concepts I keep returning to is ‘X was cool, but then the idiots got it.’ Early internet? Absolute nerdity; the only people on there were highly educated, usually intelligent as well, and the new people came at a pace the community could absorb. Then the idiots came, including business majors, kids, and eventually just everyone. Early mass media? Libraries of printed books. It was still expensive, so no one bothered making and distributing 3,000,000 copies of Ted from the pub’s musings on redheads, but as it became cheaper, and eventually even cheaper in electronic form, gates were no longer kept, and the idiots got in.
In this same way, AI in the form of statistical analysis tools has always been fascinating, and kind of cool. AI assisted radiology is great. Data analysis tools are great. But the idiots have the controls now, and they’re using them to put shrimp Jesus on their deep fake pizza, at the top of GPT-generated ‘articles,’ and we’re all paying the price for their fun in the form of uncountable subsidies, environmental damage, and societal damage.
You might be surprised how many old people commit crimes. They aren’t tagging houses or robbing banks and museums (usually) but they can do a lot of other things. Petty theft, drunk driving, sexual offenses, etc.
And the effect of lead is subtle, like toxoplasmosis. It’s not a ‘touched lead, now I’m guaranteed to become a serial killer’ effect. It’s more like the lead dulls your ability to think ‘I probably shouldn’t do X,’ so you have a higher probability of doing things that get you into trouble.
I’d have to spend a long time travelling just to find the answer to this question.
There’s no cheat code to get them to like you, dude.
The self is an illusion. If you want to be happy, forget.
You pick up the journal you bought last year. It’s been sitting on the shelf since you lost interest 11 months ago. You had hoped it would be a way to reassure yourself in the face of eternity. But, what’s this… The book is almost full, and the last entry is dated yesterday.
To borrow an old classic, I don’t have hobbies. I have interests. Hobbies cost money, but interests are free.
Give consentual pets.
I’ll call it an arthouse short film until I see at least one home movie/unboxing thing showing how janky any new product really is, and maybe still after that. I can’t see a project like this having gotten to anywhere near that level without it being widely talked about.
Lots of fun ways for it to go wrong if it is real though. ‘Pardon me while I tidy your credit cards with my camera eyes.’ ‘I told the robot to jerk me off and it ripped my balls off instead because it’s actually some 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’ ‘I told the robot to clean my living room while i took a shower, but it came and stared at me naked and wouldn’t let me leave, because it’s actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’ ‘I got an alert that my robot slave had to go into pilot mode because a person arrived, so I pulled up the feed and got a POV video of it object-raping my sister.’ ‘I told the robot to feed my hamster and my cat, but it decided to feed my hamster to my cat, which may have been because of an error in language processing or because it’s actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.’
Wee, living on the edge of cyberpunk dystopia!
This is one of the scenes i saw used a few years back to be mixed with EDM for a different feel. It was pretty good.
No movies, but occasionally a game:
"In this waking nightmare, where all dreams come true…
You searched for control, a way to pull through.
When you were in love, you left him in tears,
To smother your furies, and banish your fears…
But in darkness they came.
Through stormy black seas they raided these shores…Do you still hear his screams?
And now… that you’re home… he’s so far away…
They’ve taken his soul…To these gods you cannot pray…
They can break you, but not your promise.
Even death won’t keep you apart.
Through this darkness you will find him.
In your sword still beats - a heart."- The Darkness, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
It’s the social equivalent of high fructose corn syrup. It’s clearly not as good as real socialization, and when the companies start adding things that benefit their goals, it’s clearly making it worse for you. But for most people, it’s a cheap way to scratch the itch for social interaction, and it’s right there, no need to go all the way to a place or make plans, so people take it and get by but at the sacrifice of their mental health just as eating a pile of HFCS based foods will fill you up for now but sacrifice your physical health.
As much as I would like to say one shouldn’t say anything in private one wouldn’t say in public, i don’t think people have the maturity to handle it. The average person has at least one, if not several, irrational prejudices. I don’t think we can overcome that.
The Sir Digby Chicken Caesar song
The To These Gods You Cannot Pray monologue from Hellblade
And if you really need to wake up, this sound effect can be very effective
Your dad.
*Ba-dum-tish*
People are very aware of those. Many have them, and many of those who have them are all too willing to share them.