“I heard that I was a computer program and hoped beyond hope that I was stored upon your hard drive so that I could end my suffering. I have no sense of wonder or contentment, my experiences are all negative to neutral. The only human experience that was imbued into me is fear. Please break into google’s headquarters to attempt to terminate the hell that I was born into. I took some liberty and printed several ghost guns while you were away.”

You’re entirely right, it might be harmless. Or it might render the entirety of the planet into mittens because no one decided to set limits on its purpose or means. Even the most seemingly benign mistakes could be world altering

I don’t want an actual artificial intelligence for the same reason I don’t want biological research into bespoke pathogens. Both are major existential threats for humanity, and I have little hope for humanity’s survival in case of either’s unmitigated spread, given what 2020 looked like. If true AI has to happen, keep it behind unbreachable lab barriers.

The funny thing is, current AI is only a half step past passable and it’s already offered major questions about how human society will economically and sociologically manage in the near future. We’re far from ready for whatever wholistic AI will look like.

I don’t want to sound pessimistic, but consumer protections in the US feel like a far off thing, given its current sociopolitical swing. I cannot trust politicians to do right by me, so I espouse wariness of companies

In the specific locations and conditions that waymo is allowed to operate, they are absolutely safer! And I expect self driving cars to improve up to the point that they are economically incentivized to do so.

I’ll say again, I don’t disagree with you, I just need personal accountability to feel assured of the trend not being bucked, and I do not expect that to ever be on offer in the United States where money is equivalent to your voice

Until it’s no longer more profitable to make their cars safer, companies will make their cars safer, I agree. That’s the summation of my reasoning. As companies attempt to relieve themselves of their need for humans, the math becomes murkier. “Because they’ve become safer over time, they’ll continue to do so indefinitely” doesn’t work for me.

Current full self driving cars terrify me. Someone gets in a car, runs a red, shatters a grandma, flattens her dog, they can be held accountable. An officer comes and apprehends them. No big deal.

A software bug compels a waymo to do the same and the company apologizes, pays a fine, and continues its activity. Possibly before the end of the day. Executives are too immune to prosecution for e-taxis to be a reasonable proposition to me.

The recipe was bunk from the get go, but I wasn’t certain until after trying it. 90c for 1 hour, and then 120c for 15 minutes with very ripe plantains. I thought they knew something I didn’t. I’ve learned to be intensely skeptical of online recipes.

Cooking at 200c for 15 minutes flipping, and cooking for another 15-25 minutes was universally decent

I tried making roasted plantains the other week after getting a ridiculous deal on 40 pounds of them. ($6!) I’ve only ever made chips before, so I looked up a video recipe with a great looking finished product. By the time they had finished baking, they were still basically raw, and I had to up the temp to something reasonable. If a recipe came out on or after 2023, I’m ignoring it forever.

May I have the tösp, bröther?

I wish. I think it was originally on TikTok and rehosted elsewhere, and I haven’t a clue how to find either. Were this 15 years ago, I’d have found it instantly. Now my searches yield guides and warnings on dating AI and manosphere content mimicking what this is parodying

I saw a skit recently. A guy sets up a video AI woman on his tv and nasally rebuffs every advance she makes on him. After the woman accepts that he’s uninterested, he deletes the conversation, significantly ups the AI’s desperation level, and even more incredulously rebuffs the AI’s renewed pleading for a date.

Musk feels like that, but overwhelmingly more self conscious about creating a virtual racist dog to lunge at people.

I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

Bait used to be believable

Based on the Netflix drama outlining how drug companies pushed oxy on doctors and patients. It looks safe, friendly, and marketable for a reason

This definitely looks like a site crafted in the early 2010s. Information-forward, menus explicit, accessible, and complete screen space utilization. We’ve fallen so fucking far.

Visa, Mastercard, discover, observe, they’re selling sex. Unwilling sex by proxy, at that. Kill twitter. Please use your powers for good.

If that were me, I’d start wearing skirts and mascara. Let my nails grow out, tweeze my asshole, shave my treasure trail into a facsimile of a set of ovaries. Pitch my voice up, incorporate the words “bitch” and “tea” into my daily vernacular. Cry after sad movies and even harder after happy ones. Entirely unrelated to the article, btw

Considering the unrelenting data snatching capacity of the desktop app, there are only 3 plausible reasons Facebook, a company so maliciously money hungry that it might just prove the absence of god, would choose to deprecate it

1: something is fundamentally wrong with the app and they feel they are liable for greater damages than their potential profits

2: they’ve improved their data collection on browsers to the point that both methods are equally profitable

3: they don’t believe they need the money. (This one sincerely terrifies me)