If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

And then generative ai was created.

And now I get it. I get why nobody on Star Trek spends all their free time in the holodeck. I get why all the crew are putting on stage plays, and holding music recitals, and building models, and playing poker. I get why everyone was so skeptical and mean to the Doctor on Voyager. I get why the ONE TIME we see someone obsessed with the holodeck it infringes on people’s likeness rights and permissions.

Because fundamentally at the end of the day we are human beings and we ENJOY working with our hands and making REAL human connections. A person who learns to play an instrument is always going to be viewed as an artist over someone who asks the computer to generate music for them.

Even as recent as Lower Decks they were making fun of the fact that the crew were putting on amateurish plays and holding music recitals. But after living with Ai for so long and seeing how detrimental it’s been to the world… I’d much rather watch my friends put on a stage play than “participate” in a holodeck movie.

What’s most amazing about this is that it was completely unintentional. I do not for one second think that the writers of the time in the 90’s were really thinking about the larger issues that generative ai and chatGTP would cause. How could they? Text to speech back then was still robotic as heck. More likely they wrote that stuff in because it was cheaper to film on sets the owned than try to build, film, or rent out different locations each week.

That’s the down to earth logistical real reason Data is reciting poems about his cat or Riker is in a play put on in ten forward. It’s just cheaper to do that than to build a whole new set or move production to a new location.

Yet at the end of the day, I think that unintentionally speaks to a very human need that ai is making more and more prevalent to us day in and day out.

so, all athletes should immediately stop playing sports. construction workers, anyone with jobs that put them at risk, they need to find different employment. people with uteruses shouldn’t ever get pregnant, either. actually you know what? don’t enter a car or vehicle at all! and don’t even get me started on old people. what age do we think they should just give it up & throw in the towel? 50? 60? after that they become way too burdensome. it’s a problem.

i did the press junket for House of the Dragon Season 3 yesterday, and it was a WILD time. kinda like getting married: there's lots of running around and putting on clothes and hair and makeup and people asking fun questions, and then big emotions and crowds

favourite question was the reporter who asked me what kind of dragon I would want and I got to gush about the Eragon series for like 5 minutes. She said my answer was very detailed and I was like "i'm a lesbian and a tumblr girlie, if you ask me what kind of dragon I want I'm like "Do you want to see drawings?""

I got Brian and Nicki, the glam team from Philosophy Tube, to style me for the day, which was an awesome time. If I'm coming up my whole team is coming up

yummmmmmm

met these two on my way out of a photoshoot; can confirm tumblr, both lovely and nice in real life

tylarako 5eva

anyway, what a crazy weird day

monday is the world premiere. I have a devastated 10/10 cunt scale motherquake outfit planned

a unique being, with its own mind, which must be raised, fed, has the right to play, to be given eye contact, to be given empathy, to participate in groups (sports, theater, classrooms), to meet strangers, and eventually explore the full range of what the world offers

lots of people talking about "AI alignment" and asking "how do we prevent AI from turning against us" when the real fucking questions are effectively:

how should we raise our children?

how should society treat its most vulnurable members?