This feels pretty obvious to me. Hearing kids talking about using AI often feels like mass delusions rippling out. We’re largely not wired for this, socially or genetically. It’s real shitty times ahead.

AI wish fulfillment dystopia has been a relatively common topic for authors for ages. Unless we course correct, the next few generations are headed straight for it.

Wait, is torrenting actually dying out?

I mean, if they didn’t piss in the pool, they’d have a lower chance of encountering piss. Godwin’s law is more benign and incidental. This is someone maliciously handing out extra Hitlers in a game of secret Hitler and then feeling shocked at the breakdown in the game

See, I don’t even understand this mindset. When I’m looking to quiet my mind, I go for walks, see nature, volunteer. If I have an additional labubu on my shelf, it’s just one more item to move while I dust.

As an aside, I like picture frames for that reason. They’re lower maintenance. Fuck yeah, picture frames.

That’s half of all stations in my neck of the US. It’s hard to escape

I-can dogs even be autistic?

I’ve said it before, but a whitelist search engine would be preferable for information. Immediately disregarding any website created after 2023 seems like a decent start.

“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.