You brought up specifically HD. I’m willing to watch ads so that YT can continue delivering even lower quality videos as long as those ads don’t interrupt the video.

So hide the HD stuff behind a paywall. I’m perfectly happy at 720p for the VAST majority of videos. Might even agree to go lower if it means I can watch it without ad breaks.

True. I somehow expected it to be a different thing altogether, new mechanics and all, I don’t know why. Was thinking more along the lines of No Man’s Sky, FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

movies can get your credit card stolen

joke’s on you i’ve never had a credit card

My husband has one flaw and it’s that he doesn’t get Stardew Valley. These people do exist, in the midst of our society, unseen.

If I’ve ever seen the same post 5 times, it was in a day or two and it was a new and exciting thing for some people so everybody would post it and the same time.

Enter the same thing 5 times and you’re good for the day :)

Well, that’ll teach you to actually take care of your pets and not just dump their food in front of them and be done with it.

(fuck paul tho fr)

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Yeh, I get that it’s just an example. But wouldn’t it be like that for anything you could ask it? It can only work with what you’re giving it and that data could be heavily influenced by you not wanting to see something. Or exaggerating. Or forgetting. A human looking at your diaries might be able to put themselves in your situation and understand, based on their own experience with the human condition, how you were probably feeling in a situation the diary entry is describing and interpret the entry accordingly, maybe even especially when considering other, seemingly conflicting entries. But they’re using “outside” information which an AI doesn’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying what you’re imagining is completely impossible - I’m trying to imagine how it might work and why it might not. Maybe one way to develop such an AI would be to feed it diaries of historical people whose entries we can interpret with decent confidence in hindsight (surely those must exist?). Ask the AI to create a characterisation of the person and see how well it matches the views of human historians.

I am so very much not an expert on AI and I hate most of what has come of the recent surge. And remember that we’re not talking about actual intelligence, these are just very advanced text parsing and phrase correlating machines. But it does of course seem tempting to ask a machine with no secondary motives to just fucking tell me the harsh truth so now I’m thinking about it too.

At that point you could search your diary entries yourself to analyse the way you talk about her. Assuming of course you’re honest with your diary and yourself and not glossing over things you don’t want to realise - in which case do you really need an AI to tell you?

The AI would still need to understand feelings, at least in principle, in order to interpret your actions which are based on feelings. Even “I like having sex with her” is a feeling. A purely rational mind would probably reprimand you for using contraception because what is the point of sex if not making offspring?

And when not compared, it’s slower?

I don’t give two fucks about Halo but yeah, that’s a weird-ass reason.

Not gonna lie, this made me want to play the game. Luckily, I have koroks to carry around and occupy my entire day.