southernplaces7

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Comment · 1 year ago
What on earth have you been smoking friend? Only Thai people? Really? Do you even know if there was anything approximating a Thai culture, that traveled several thousand kilometers (maybe it was a boring sunday and they started sailing, or walking) to Turkey, 12,000 years ago?
Comment · 1 year ago
>If you work for a place that does that, I just hope you stub your toe every morning.

You're too kind. These kinds of nagging parasites should be force fed excrement until they choke on it.

Comment · 1 year ago
Curiously, for me Ublock light works just as well after I was essentially forced to switch. I could still get the original to function, but with every random chrome update, the thing would be deactivated, obviously as "insecure".
Comment · 1 year ago
Firearms for home and personal defense. Also, not to even dig deeply into the many lunacies that the progressive left became insane about during the pandemic (both sides were guilty here, but it was BOTH sides).

Don't get too smug. You really think your entire half of a political spectrum is free of stupidity and irrational thinking?

Comment · 1 year ago
It's lovely to see actual data swat away ideological mosquito bite sniping points.

The curious thing is that so many of these kinds of claims can be disproven in literally seconds to minutes in any debate, yet they persist.

Certain tendencies aside, republican and conservatives types aren't utter idiots and do know how sidestep some rally talk to serve their own benefit if they think it's practical, profitable and useful.

Not to mention that many conservatives love the field of off-grid prepping to this day and would certainly know about the value of solar, wind, hydro and any other robust renewable power technology. You're not going to build a coal plant or an oil refinery next to your deep-woods Utah cabin.

Comment · 1 year ago
I agree that it can be, and that this can be terribly depressing when you start to believe it's the case in your life (it's happened to me before), but even then at least there's another human being on the other side of the equation with whom the chance of opening a crack is possible against some forming emotional blockade.

Now imagine trying to connect with a person, investing an emotional trickle in ideas of chemistry and possibility, to discover you weren't even speaking to them at all. Their mindless, stone-unconscious AI was snowing you along. So much worse. Brrrr.

The empty people who use these tactics deserve the desolate romantic life they seek to avoid.

Comment · 1 year ago
To see this, I would be happy in so many contexts and situations. I'm not by nature a luddite and appreciate the value of AI in many things, even as it now is, but the sheer overload of shoehorning it into every possible thing for better KPIs while maximizing customer service "fuck-them value" by idiot executives and moron managers (choke on your own feces, all of you) still hoping to latch their suckers on the STILL BIG thing of the FUTURE!!! without a clue about its details and limits is revolting. Enshittification has been thus exponentiated!

Then, there's seeing government use it in its own disgustingly parasitical ways for accelerated mass surveillance, and to not even mention the absolute flood of utterly brain-dead spam sludge content that has flooded all social networks, online searches and just about every corner of the internet (including my inbox, thanks mom and friends who have no clue how to distinguish Ai slop from anything in the least bit valuable)

And I just want a large part of it to burn and die back. I'm with the artists and real photographers on this one.

Rant over.

Comment · 1 year ago
"I find something similar in my own life. I long ago stopped questioning a calculator, then stopped questioning Google, and now find that most answers from current AIs are pretty reliable. The AIs are becoming the arbiters of truth."

It's a shame so many people have trusted his other advice to such a degree if he's openly claiming himself to be this blithely stupid.

This entire article is a monstrosity of terrible notions painted as something that's just fine.

Comment · 1 year ago
The idea of this being what motivates how I write, what I write or that I write is repulsive as all hell at an existential level. Fuck this kind of thinking and all it represents to creativity.
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Comment · 1 year ago
So to translate: You want concrete examples of capabilities for something billions are being spent on? What a Silly question! (hand waving about completely speculative future abilities "when they grow up")

The woo is laughable. A cryptobro could have pulled the same nonsense out of their ass about web 3.0

Comment · 1 year ago
I'd absolutely love to see something like this live, in the flesh, obviously from far enough to survive it. It would be one of those spectacles for completely flabbergasting one's sense of importance in a self-remaking world.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, but usually it was another human plying you with sweet nonsense from the other side of that dance, not some bland sludge factory pointed in the right direction. What you say is sort of a non-sequitor that just bypasses how this GPT nonsense has nothing to do with love or people somehow managing to meet and create sparks in the real world.

It's like comparing "friendly" spam from a nigerian prince with emails from overseas friends wanting to come visit.

Edit: Worse, the nigerian prince emails were usually written by human Nigerians at least.

Comment · 1 year ago
Not every comment need be about a fanatical robotic optimization for "relevance". Half the interesting on this site would disappear otherwise, you realize? Besides, what's wrong with mentioning how crappy these movies are (they really do suck) in a post that specifically names them?

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