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You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.

  • there is a special place in hell for these scientists

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  • Yah, anyone can buy the materials to do the same thing, this isn't arcane mad science, it's just using organic chemistry to make simple processors. We're as far from "growing a conscious brain in a jar" as we are from traveling to Alpha Centauri.

  • there is a special place in hell for these scientists

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  • They just made a basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry, relax and learn even basic science before you get murderously bent out of shape by the next sensationalist clickbait headline.

  • there is a special place in hell for these scientists

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  • Yah but the visuals of "growing a human brain and trapping it in hell" gets a lot more clicks than "We made a very basic microcontroller out of organic chemistry to interact with an old video game poorly."

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • Which part

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • It's not like we see faces in everything :)

  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • Welcome to the late 2020's. It's only going to get weirder.

    To be clear, the LLM in this story did not actually "want" a robot body, it doesn't "want" anything, it's not a thinking entity like you or I (assuming you're real.)

    The guy fed it a ton of crazy shit and he got a lot of crazy shit amplified back to him by the world's best associating machine, crafting detailed and fleshed-out narratives based on every inadvertent prompt he sent into it. People are very bad at understanding how these things work in the best circumstances, so if you're already unbalanced or have deep emotional/mental health problems, an LLM can be incredibly dangerous for you.

  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • Yah, shit, I was making salary for the first time in my life and my entire job consisted of acting engaged at pointless meetings.

    I make half as much now, but I also hate this work too so there's that. I keep thinking about picking up some better coding skillsets but then I see yet another workplace gutted by AI and wonder how much time I have as a white-collar worker at all. Might have to go back to painting figures for money.

  • you deserve this rule ♥️

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  • So, 2026 will leave me alone after I snap at it for making like, two straight hours of hyper-sexual jokes despite me having stopped engaging or laughing after the first several seconds of it, leading to a total friendship drama between her friends and me, and I get called a bigot but I literally just got tired of dildo jokes and said "I can't take this anymore, I'll be back later."

  • Young Americans Aren’t Buying Old Narratives on China

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  • Every country with economic power is a propaganda machine powered by institutional financial corruption.

    All the rest are poor pawns that are shuffled around by the economic powers and sometimes turned to rubble.

    Take care of and support the best outcomes in your closest community wherever you are, everything else starts there. We'll never solve this issue but we can make better lives for ourselves and those around us. No, do not run out to the wilderness and live alone, community is strength against all of these forces.

  • Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

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  • One of my last jobs I started entry-level clerical work but I noticed everyone in the office was talking like this, so I started in on it, I would take advantage of meetings and group projects to just spout utter bullshit like "We really have to circle our wagons and take some of this conversation offline so we can maximize the returns from our diversity" and holy shit did it have an impact. I was promoted before my first year was up, I was invited to more and more meetings, I was treated like a manager before I was even given the role. I was eventually laid off when the company was bought out by private equity but not before climbing to higher management.

  • What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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  • I was raised conservative, back-country compound with apocalypse preppers, homeschooling, israel prophecy, the whole nine yards. I was raised with The 700 Club and Rush Limbaugh playing every day and night.

    I read science books that distant family members managed to smuggle to me in gift boxes alongside other "safe" books like Kid's bibles, I learned more and more about the world around me, I started collecting my own book collection and just read and read and read, and the doubts started to grow, uneasy, shameful, scary-as-fuck doubts.

    But the big turn happened when I got out of there, and America started one it's many wars and I was watching FOX news cover it. A humvee passes a civilian box truck and shredded it to pieces with an automatic grenade launcher. Probably a family trying to escape the city... cut to the host, smiling and praising America's might, and that's when it hit me: We're the bad guys.

    A few more things really sealed it, when I had friends start to come back from these conflicts in boxes, or a couple guys I knew who blew their own brains out after coming home. I still despair at these horrific wastes of life and I can't figure out why more people don't see life as precious. How fucking stupid do you have to be to justify war, murder and causing destruction to society.

  • it is art

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  • We've had a long line of animated characters absolutely fucking with all our developing wires when we were exposed at a vulnerable age.

    I go way back, Disney's Robin Hood/Maid Marian was my problematic pubescent mind-worm. Didn't help that when growing up without school or friends or even a phone, it was one of only a handful of VHS cassettes I owned so I watched it a thousand times.

    Later generations had so many others, from the mainstream favorites like Lola Bunny to more obscure ones like Minerva Mink in Animaniacs, to where we are today where I don't think I can even watch Zootopia around others without feeling uncomfortable because of how much "content" is floating around out there.

    I do think it's healthy though, I think if we allowed more people to realize that their attractions are highly subjective and do not need to follow some homogeneous cultural norm, we would probably have a lot fewer people with crazy hangups and crippling insecurity about their weird kinks and desires.

  • WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

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  • A lot of this would make a lot more sense to you guys if you saw these plants in their original, non-cultivated states. They don't look anything like the shit in grocery stores.

  • US Admits It Was ‘Likely Responsible’ for Mass Killing of Iran Schoolgirls

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  • an extremely painful and demoralizing but important part of the healing process that will eventually lead us to a better place.

    Most people can't take the discomfort of socializing with friendly people or having to wait more than 30 minutes for food to be delivered. We are so far beyond an age of people willfully accepting discomfort into their lives. It plagues all sides of the political spectrum too, the lazy avoidance of facing uncomfortable realities and one's own shortcomings.

    I was raised conservative by back-country, cultish apocalypse preppers and drug addicts, so the change and realizing came easier for me as soon as I got out of that environment and started seeing the world for what it really is. There were a few pivotal moments that made me suddenly say "Wait a minute, we're the BAD GUYS here" and it made me want to make the country better.

    For most people it's very black-and-white though, there is no "better" or "worse" in many people's vocabulary, seriously this is a huge problem in discourse, nobody gets that something can be "worse but not bad" or "better but not good" and this is shredding our ability to bring people over to the side supporting better outcomes.

  • I just want juice, is that so much to ask?

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  • I've heard great things about flavored sparkling water as a beer-alternative, unsweetened or lightly sweetened. I can't recommend quitting drinking enough. It gets harder and harder to break the habit and makes you have a great big ol' belly that won't go away easily. (Fruit juice and other carbs will do the same thing. Sugar belly sucks.)

    Wine was my poison for many years, does the same thing. I now just drink a lot of water at night.

  • Xbox as a platform is officially dead

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  • Well, to be more correct, if they see a venture or tactic of theirs isn't paying off as their delusional AI's told them it would, we can at least get them to scrap that direction and try something else. We'll never actually "stop" them, but we can use the thing we have, that they want, to at least direct them away from the places that they are causing harm to things we want to preserve.

    I am under no expectation of this happening at all, we have hundreds of millions of families who will throw whatever new, shiny, mainstream tech-toys and "blockbuster" releases at their kids as a babysitter, those are the breadbasket of the tech and entertainment companies.

  • Fake it for the votes

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  • No.

  • it is art

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  • it is art

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  • People complain that a woman comic artist isn't somehow living up to expectations that are 10,000X higher than the average "gaming comic slop" chud comic artist so every time she makes a comic that's just "meh" it's like a dinner-bell and the post gets 1000 comments arguing and debating why she's "overrated" and then the goalposts move and people start bringing up nebulous nonsense like "She's actually a terrible person because she got in a reddit argument this one time, here's a link with 50 pages of conversations, I know you want to read it all."