Between all of the AI hype and the AI panic, my biggest concern is that the laws will be so poorly written that simple algorithms like A* will end up illegal and AI in general will be outlawed. We’ll have a Butlerian Jihad because a bunch of daffy CEOs simply said their machines will replace humans when they can’t. Our children will be forced to drink sapho juice and eat spice so they can work in a server farm made of humans.

Holy shit! I’m sorry, but you guys sound like the worst employees in the world. Drug deals in the parking lot? Coming to work whacked out on LSD? Wow.

First, how does a 70 year old man in a wheelchair who has been unable to move for half a century participate in an orgy? Second, having ALS, wouldn’t he have lost interest in sex during the Nixon administration? I’m thinking the demand for pedophiles might be outstripping supply.

One of the authors, Prof Ashley Gearhardt of the University of Michigan, a clinical psychologist specialising in addiction, said her patients made the same links: “They would say, ‘I feel addicted to this stuff, I crave it – I used to smoke cigarettes [and] now I have the same habit but it’s with soda and doughnuts. I know it’s killing me; I want to quit, but I can’t.’”

Sometimes I wish there was a devastating famine, and 100 of millions of us would starve to death so we’d have to start using the old definition of “kill” again, and appreciate the futuristic utopian we once had. We need to stop scrutinizing the actuary tables for hidden horrors, look up, look around, eat a cheeseburger, have an after meal cigarette and relish the wonderous paradise in which we all live.

Is PeerTube separate from the rest of the fediverse? I’m on Lemmy and get everything from what’s in the OP image except the video things.

Glad about that. I can’t imagine living in that kind of environment for long

It wasn’t bad. One of the skills lost since then was how not to be a fussy Felix Unger bloodhound. You didn’t notice it. People are much more sensitive to smells today. Between the body spray and the air fresheners, the modern world still stinks, it just stinks pretty. The other nice thing was that there was a clear distinction between places that were uptight and relaxed. Today the smell of a church and the smell of a bar are almost the same.

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Also, one of the skills lost today is handling fire. Back then everybody lit a match or flicked their Bic 20+ times a day. Casually, effortlessly and elegantly handling flame was a skill almost every sophisticated adult had. Today seeing a 26 year old strike a match is like watching a 6 year old strike a match in the 80s. It’s very apparent in films that are period pieces when the actor is kind of terrified of the match they just clumsily struck.

“Thanks comrade. But are you sure we’re supposed to use our tongues?”

Wow. ELI5 on Lemmy is way different from ELI5 on Reddit.

That has never worked for me. People actually upvoted my wrong code and said it was correct when I tried this.

An autistic teenage hacker banned from having a computer used a fire stick in a hotel room to hack Rockstar games. I think any given 14 year old war driver can hack these devices and listen to your conversations. If the government will work their butts off to install a tap on a landline, how can they not use an Alexa.

At the very least, there’s a teenager in your neighborhood listening to every damn thing you say. If you have cameras in your home, they’re watching you.

Violence is what the baddies do. Follow Albert’s Path:

https://youtu.be/kf0ZvY2usbY

Linux will never become popular till it’s as easy to use as something like VLC. Download, install, and it runs everything. Until this happens, Linux will never take over no matter how unbearably shitty Windows becomes.

For singles bars, it’s so people can get close and talk in each other’s ears and have a private conversation.