cptn-janeway

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

he’s fucking him up against the fourth wall

they need to give out research grants for rpf

Thinking about how everyone in Black Sails is allowed to be angry except Miranda. She is the rocky promontory. She is Flint's safe harbour. And the first time we see her truly angry, see her rage unleashed as we have seen every other character rage, she is denied it.

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

And Game AI can be used to defraud people in gambling “games”

i wish you could laugh react eBay listings. that's not worth $250. you fucking asshole. lmao

you should also be able to do this to job listings

all babies are baby gender. you dress them stupid, in pumpkins and teddy bear suits

freeze frame. yeah, thats me. you might be wondering if thats me. yeah its me. ok thanks. unfreezes frame

"the early 2010s were better" no they weren't. "hey soul sister" was on the radio.

stereo. The way you move ain’t fair you know.

still pretty emotional about ds9 doing the whole “what if all the fantastical adventures are just in the characters head” bit and then going “it would still matter anyway, because it still means something to the character imagining it, and it still means something to you, the audience watching it, or reading it. the story still matters, no matter whose imagination it was. if the character made it up or if the writers in the real world did. it still matters.”