I think we all feel that way from time to time, but the way I know it isn’t true is that the closer you actually are to losing civilization and the comforts it provides the less you want it. Freezing your ass off in the rain? Nobody craves the stone age then.

Hey at least I put my ball-spoon there myself

Oh nice! Yeah I’m a fan of the Green brothers they’re legit.

I don’t believe there’s a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. Ain’t no way. It’s suspiciously sensational, and confirms something we all believe to be true (plastics bad, humans reckless, etc.). I have zero evidence to the contrary but im pretty confident that in a few years to a decade it will be debunked.

That’s a wild one I like it

Was it though??

The fact that some of the cups are different makes me think that is unlikely.

Can you give me one example where this has EVER worked, on a scale larger than a couple thousand people.

Ahh I never got that line until now, thought he said passin-it which didn’t make any sense

This kinda freaked me out: AI models fed their own outputs as training data will quickly start making distorted images that look spookily like human painting made under the progression of mental illness or drugs.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02420-7

I feel like the 0.01% is either a mistake or an exaggeration? Isn’t Linux something like 1-2% of the gamer base depending on how you measure it? Why would a Linux supported hard-core game be 100x less than that?

Became concerned

I’d put “hypothetical aliens listening to our radio transmissions won’t know what our vaginas sound like” preeeety far down my list of concerns but you do you, king

Ahh thats right up there too.

“Nut milk” remains the grossest phrase in the culinary lexicon

I mean… that’s kinda a sliding scale. You can get coconut milk by just squeezing it out of coconut flesh, I’ve seen it done before. Saying coconuts don’t produce milk is kinda like saying oranges don’t produce juice.

The one thing I continue to love AI for is it is absolutely cracked at image recognition. Whats this plant? An aerial yam, duh! What’s this shower head? Well, the original manufacturer is gone but the exact same part is still being sold without a label - here’s the webpage we found a match on. That still amazes me.

But in general I hate how AI is just slowly rotting not just the internet and social media but just human talent and general. In 20 years we are not gonna have nearly as many young artists and writers because they have to compete with AI able to crank out slop for free. AI cannot (and in my opinion, almost by definition will never be able to) equal the very best artists and writers, but how are up and comers supposed to get to that level? Think of all the all time great creative people who started off just grinding as a cartoonist, background character, or pulp fiction writer. Those are gonna be the ones to go first. Instead of a, for example, 2 year pipeline to be able to scrape by pursuing a creative profession it could be a 10 year pipeline.

accidentally cut a power over fiber cable house bursts into flames as five million lumens of light erupts from the severed end

I feel like that’s a British thing. I remember the BBC always saying “Obarma” instead of Obama. Accents are weird.

I’ve seen the term before. Antiquated but it’s a word.

I’m not defending a lot of America’s actions rn but no shot they are a bigger aggressor than Russia, who is literally in the middle of a full-scale land invasion to annex their neighbor.