petrol_sniff_king

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Oh! It's so rare that someone is just like "I agree, thank you!" I'm sure you're doing all right.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It can. You've gotta read between people's words.

Mostly, it just bothers me that the r/thathappened crowd spend so much time trying to get the upper hand on instagram influencers, and so little time actually engaging with the content.

You can make a point about how such and such behavior is just fine, actually, and it glances off their head like it were steel armor because the meme isn't real.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

To clarify: By believable, I don't mean real. I mean not worthy of suspicion.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (7 children)

Okay, this does bother me because embellished? Sure. Made up? This is entirely believable.

Not to mention, this specific meme is ooold as fuuuck.

We don't have time for an interview through the McDonald's drive-thru, my friend; you're clogging up the line.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

Ma'am, we have hotwheels or barbie, we can move this along as soon as you tell us which one you'd like.

The threat of AI is not that it will be more human than human. It is that it will become so ubiquitous that real people are hard to find.

I couldn't find many real people.

Are you sure that I'm real?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's not what imaginative means.

If you'd like an example of AI being exceptionally boring to look at, though, peruse through any rule 34 site that has had its catalogue overrun with AI spam: an endless see of images that all have the same artstyle, the same color choices, the same perspective, the same poses, the same personality; a flipbook of allegedly different characters that all. look. fucking. identical.

I'm not joking: I was once so bored by the AI garbage presented to me, I actually just stopped jerking off.

If you people would do something interesting with your novelty toy, I would be like 10% less mad about it.

When I was in highschool, a student I was sat next to found out I was an athiest. He rotated a full 90 degrees in his chair at me, and with an excitement shared only by inventors and engineers finally getting to see their ideas actually working in the real world, he asked me: "Where did dirt come from?"

I told him, "I don't know what dirt is."

Quizzically, "Dirt. Like, in the ground."

I tapped my shoes on the floor. "Home Depot."

This was, apparently, as far as his anime-villain machinations could take him. He quietly rotated back to the table and drew a school bus or something—I don't remember what we were doing in art class.

Far from the worst encounter a person could have, but I think about it all the time.

I'm not the one confused, I understood Sahara just fine. I'm more confused why we're 10 comments deep into, essentially, Sahara's choice to use the word "never."

I'm asking this seriously: how do you handle sarcasm? Or hyperbole?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

(so your suggestion of writing on cards is totally irrelevant)

No, not literally... Okay.

MotoAsh, you have to engage people in better faith.

"Make sure to not let them fool you" is a goal, "never tell them yours first" is just a strategy being offered to meet that goal. I understand the implications of this "poorly stated" version just fine: this isn't programming, you can break the strategy's rules sometimes. I trust people taking this advice to apply good judgement.

The only reason to argue with Sahara here in the way that you are is if you think they're actually trying to trick people into being lonelier via some kind of yugioh trap card logic. Do you get the impression that they're trying to trick people into being lonelier via yugioh trap card logic?

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I am entirely lost.

Sahara is saying not to date republicans, and not to let them trick you. I'm saying the same thing.

If you meet someone who, presumably like you, absolutely will not say anything until you do, then the both of you should write it down on a card and reveal them at the same time.

Or, you should say something about building a border wall. See if they bite.

Or, you should take them to see the Barbie movie. See if they shift in their chair too much.

Like, there are solutions to this problem, and I feel like you're just not willing to see them.

As a corollary, imagine you're gay in the 1960s. You can't tell anyone you're gay because you'll get beaten in an alley. But, you would still like to find other gay people. How would you do this?

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