Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
2yr ago
My love of Sci-Fi has actually made me deeply HATE this incarnation of AI, and all automated voice systems.
My preferred AI tropes are the sort you see in Wall-E, Short Circuit, and Chappie, where the only robots you can trust are the ones not doing what they're supposed to.
I'm convinced that if we want useful real-world AIs that don't derange us, they should be designed to give the impression of a very well-trained animal. None of this please, thank you, come again crap. Call it a soft butlerian jihad; computers don't pretend to be human outside of games/VR/sims, and anyone who "socializes" IRL with an AI should be viewed as a loser.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Question for those familiar with the Chicago area:
Where are the geeks? Back in Milwaukee, there were several gaming pubs and a hole-in-the-wall LGS that was packed to the gills Saturday nights, with Warhammer players, at least one 4-player EDH game going, and maybe a D&D session in the corner. There were one or two women there, typically someone's SO, but they held their own in Magic, and knew the references.
I go to a much larger store in a "real" city, and it's a godsdamned ghost town. Empty tables on a Saturday evening. It's got a handful of lumpy, poorly-dressed beardless dudes who use "diversity" in every other sentence, but there's no women, and fewer actual black people than the podunk hole-in-the-wall. I feel like the coolest person there (which is not a good sign).
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Welcome to the Elysium future
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JzF5VawGgiA
I think we need a different model of what to expect from AIs. Maybe they should be designed to pretend to be very well-trained animals rather than pretend to be Pod Person humans.
Enough of this chummy "let me think about that" stuff, I want it to say "Processing".
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
This is, ostensibly, the whole point of edgy jokes and ironic bigotry. It exposes you to the meme in it's crippled, cringey form, innoculating you against later infection.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Now, bear with me here, my public school experience was overall good. But if you're talking about preventing the abuse of children, I think you're going to run into the problem of Child Abduction Is Not Funny. As much ideological weirdness happens in schools, and as infuriating as these incidents are, they're infuriating because it's public officials that are supposed to be accountable being unaccountable. Like being killed by a seatbelt or airbag or police officer.
But, most child abuse happens at home. It's mostly the parents and close family doing it, and at school there's people who will notice bruises, and so long as the parent isn't too Intersectional, they will investigate. I'm just not a fan of widespread homeschooling; the more of it there is, the harder it becomes to audit, and I don't trust un-audited homeschooling
The natural state of children is to be with other children doing children stuff. It's unfortunate that school is the main place where other children are.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
I just miss the episodes where Rick's solution to problems was to hit the problem with a blunt object and shout "Run, Morty!"
Now he just flips out augs. Rick's Inspector Gadget augs enable lazy writing.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Oh, that's a great call.
Why does Ross, the largest Friend, not simply eat the other five?
I've been trying to watch a few of the "Northern European" shows that have been streaming lately, 1899 and Elves are both at the top of my mind.
I don't understand what people get out of these shows. Characters don't react to things in recognizably human ways, they don't communicate with each other. No one expresses curiosity, no one remembers what other characters say, they seem to follow an internal script that doesn't match up with that's actually presented on screen. I'm reminded of Westworld Hosts shuffling through a hackey, rushed scenario with no actual human there to riff on it. My attitude really is becoming the meme:
Why does Ross, the largest Friend, not simply eat the other five?
I'm just not sure if what I'm seeing is due to Cheapness/badness. It's not bad ACTING, the production is all solid and competently staged. The IDEAS are there in the premise, they're just executed so shallowly I'm not sure the writers themselves understood them.
The American equivalent is excessive #CurrentYear dialogue and a gibberish handwave-y moral myopia.
Are regular Nordics/Germans actually this stiltedly dull in real life? Is there some sort of cultural context I'm not getting? I "understand" Anime, in that it has a lot of genre conventions, and I might be doing the equivalent of asking why the loser has a hot girl living in his closet, or why every fight is just characters standing still in a field while they internally narrate/charge up their ki blast.
This is in my head in particular because of "Troll." I've seen Shin Godzilla, and I've seen Trollhunter, and I just don't know how to relate to human beings who can't tell that two of those films are good and one is shit.
Also, feel free to complain here about bad TV that confuses and infuriates you. Maybe I'll feel less alone.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Re-watching 30 Rock might be instructive, as it plays with a lot of these affluent status-signalling tropes, but written by someone that isn't native to any of it and hates it, and it pre-dates the omnipresent obnoxiousness of wokeness.
I think that Rick and Morty's goofy Shmoopy-Doop soul owes way more to Roiland than Harmon. Also, based on the changing DVD Commentaries, I think Harmon went low-effort and now the writer's room exists to launder people's neices and nephews. (A bunch of writers who go on to get shitty streaming shows have mediocre later-season rick-and-morty episodes as their only significant credit).
[Harmons] get lazy, and they [bring in guest writers].
And then the guest writers bring in guest writers and eventually...there be Season 4.
Also, your repeated emphasis on Nihilism says to me you've been watching too many YouTube video essays on how great Rick and Morty season 1 is because of it's Themes. Get away from this sort of content.
I actually see a lot of the 4chan style of geek humor in Solar Opposites; the contempt for the modern/normie world, the utter refusal to believe that everyone else hasn't seen the films/TV you've seen, the intentionally arch, tropey Wall story feels like a rushed shitpost. The aliens themselves look like laundered Pepes.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
I feel trapped in In Bruges, around the part with the cocaine and the Midget.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
This is my issue as well. I want them to respond with an R2-D2 beep, not a "sure! One sec, let me find that for you! :) "
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
In the offline places I frequent, I mostly run into women who say "I hate men" or "I'm afraid of men" with big grins on their faces. Often.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
And Whitewolf let themselves die and completely fail to capitalize on the D&D craze and the Vampire trend because one guy had a few 1488 jokes hidden in the text of the new edition.
I thought accusing people of dogwhistling and being crypto-____-ists was retarded hysterical crap that smart people should ignore.
Skulldrinker
2yr ago
Where exactly is the reservoir population of this style of Christianity? It often reads like the fanfiction of someone who pieced together Christianity from some Children's Bible Stories, three Chick Tracts, and daytime TV.
Can anyone direct me to some useful writings about the experience of psilocybin? Effects of persistent use, personality changes, therapeutic stuff. I find myself frustrated that clinical discussions are too clinical to convey much actual insight, while most other writings about shrooms are Wellness gibberish about auras. The most useful text I've found on Shrooms has so far been Dune, which says more about me than it does about hippies.
Examples: I've found myself accidentally rattling people by inferring personal details in conversations with them. I've started to experience what I can only call "visceral intellectual distaste" towards lots of specific things, but a common theme is people having their social instincts exploited. Slot machines, chatbots, any automated voice that "pretends" to be human, (which has now spread to include actual human people who speak in slogans, talking-points, or cliches.)
I'm not sure how much of this is specific to me, and how much is just what happens to Melange users.
If the game is so hard that Pun-Pun nonsense-jank is necessary to beat it, then it isn't encouraging people to explore a wider space of options. Everything converges on the one broken nonsense build, and "cookie-cutter" archetypical builds become, perversely, rarer. everyone is a GensaiWarlockPaladin
My typical self-imposed challenge in RPGs is to find a sub-system or strategy or archetype that I LIKE or isnt used by Power builds and make it work anyways.
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