It isn’t human intelligence. It isn’t any kind of intelligence… it’s an input-output machine that drags your query through the fecal sediment of reddit/youtube/4chan/etc comments and presents you with what sticks.

It’s like a toaster: untoasted bread goes in, lever gets pushed, machine does its thing, toasted bread comes out. Toasters aren’t intelligent… or stupid, or any other measure of thought processing, because they don’t think. They just do.

Except instead of bread, it’s a question or image or w/e, and instead of toastiness it’s shit.

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

Are those the black bean patties? Cuz those things are fucking delicious. I’m not vegan or vegetarian or anything, I just like tasty food, and you guys have come up with some good stuff! The impossible burgers are pretty decent too - I’d go for one of those over a ‘beef’ fastfood patty any day (calling those horrid things ‘beef’ is a stretch right out the gate, but you get gist).

Dark Souls is just clunky controls + sequence memorization, presented as ‘difficulty’. And yeah, operating the clunk effectively is difficult, but it’s a low hanging and very unsatisfying flavor of difficulty.

I could make Pokemon Yellow difficult by requiring you to operate the controls through a dish sponge, but that wouldn’t make it fun.

Unpopular opinion apparently, but I wholeheartedly agree with you on Dark Souls.

Is there anything stopping me from uploading an ID for Shrek or something? I foresee an explosion of popularity of fake IDs.

Quietly

The developer made this change from a personal laptop at their local public library.

Shhhhhh.

Previous poster is probably talking about a company-owned computer. I’d be fired in a hurry if I installed anything on one of the computers at the hospital I work at… MS office is the only option for me at work.

AI doesn’t even meet the bar for stupid, in the same sense that a toaster isn’t stupid… it isn’t any measure of thought processing, because it doesn’t think.

It generates slop based on slop that it finds/pirates.

…asking Valve to make a third game in a franchise is a tall fucking order!

Current phone is near FUBAR. Had an incident involving the sidewalk, and, uh… the sidewalk won the fight.

Repair is an option, but shelling out more money for a brand I’ve come to detest is not super appealing.

Fairphone! I forgot about them. In light of recent events, the modular nature of their design is pretty appealing.

Hadn’t heard of Ulephone, but I like what I’m seeing so far!

What model do you have? A lot of their phones look like they have a thermal camera, which could be really useful (temps get pretty extreme where I live, so being able to see heat-leaks in my home could help to insulate them).

Also thermal aside, how’s the camera? I used to think more megapixels = better, but have since found there’s a lot more to image quality than just pixels (focus accuracy, good color saturation, etc).

Maybe hit a few more ‘AI’ data centers, just to be sure. And perhaps a different type of good deed all together just for variety sake!

Can’t find it for the life of me… Describing a web comic vs actually posting it always feels like a flop, but…

Aliens abduct a physicist, who doesn’t seem to give much of a damn about the abduction but is instead enthused to learn about the alien tech on board, so they give him a tour of the ship. They get to the power reactor and start dropping a bunch of sci-fi jumbo about “We harness dark matter to… (sci-fi Ruth Goldberg machine) …and finally, we use the heat it generates to boil water and crank a turbine!!”

*Physicist drops to his knees in despair and let’s out a dramatic ‘noooooo!’

Paraphrasing heavily due to having shit memory. I thought it was a SMBC comic, but… /shrug.

It’s long pants 100% of the time for me. The difference in temperature between shorts and long pants has always seemed negligible to me; but the sensation of wind hitting my leg hairs feels like I’m standing on an ant colony.

Other than swim trunks, I don’t even own a pair of shorts.

I don’t think I’ve ever stopped using a pen because of a fault or end-of-life condition of the pen itself. I stop using them because “Where the actual fuck did I put my pen…?”

Well yeah, but that was before he knew he had to distract the world from the fact that he raped children on Epstein’s island.

puts hand in fire

Ow! The fire that we were warned incessantly to be excruciatingly hot, burned our other hand once already, then incessantly warned would burn us again if we did the same thing, just burned is again when we did the same thing! 😢

There doesn’t seem to be much consistency - even the same patient could find it really painful one operation and not at all the next.

Propofol is weird stuff.

That kind of illustrates the struggle though: a bunch of hyper-specific results not suitable for general questions, or communities that have only seen a handful of posts, ever.

Per other posters though, that last bit doesn’t sounds like it’ll pose the issue I feared.