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FourPacketsOfPeanuts

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  • What news sources do you follow with which you generally disagree?

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  • It is a tabloid. And although I don't agree with some of their stances, I find the criticism it'll get from UK sections of Lemmy or Reddit are quite knee jerk and over the top. I don't think any of the main UK tabloids do page 3 topless anymore. The sports ones maybe?

    Typically they report stories with a simplified language style, and tend to sensationalise some language. Though this seems to be far from as bad as how it's sometimes made out. Not to set the bar too low or anything, but here are a few articles grabbed at random from their frontpage:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14141587/Catherine-paralysed-teenager-driver-whod-just-filmed-phone-steering-knees-smashed-car-heartbreaking-interview-says-just-want-able-hug-son-again.html

    Personal story of women paralysed by hit by a teen driver who was texting / videoing / driving dangerously. The article focuses on her family and her suffering. The conviction of the perpetrator is handled quite matter of factly. Nothing is generalised, young drivers arent made out to be villains in any way.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14141941/gregg-wallace-accused-groping-women-masterchef-winner-reported.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

    Piece on continued allegations against Gregg Wallace. All allegations are attributed to specific unnamed sources. All are taken credibly. Defence of Wallace / brushing things away appears entirely absent. There's one quote of a friend saying it's not like him, everything else in the article explains how he made lots of people uncomfortable / assaulted / or was a creep. It quotes specifically what was said / done with respect to racism allegations without taking any particular delight in including that information.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14110103/colorado-springs-teen-ashley-scott-dies-bullied-school.html?ico=article_preview_xp_mobile

    American 14 year old girl shoots self because of cyber bullying, culprits not caught. Despite the girl being a cheerleader, gymnast and surfer amongst other things the article is tasteful, celebrates her accomplishments and there are no what you might call 'creepy' shots of her doing these activities.

    That's just a few. It's all just..I don't know.. pretty uninteresting to me. But I read it to see what slice of the world that their readers are getting. I think when certain groups trounce the DM as worthless trash (which it may well be in some cases) that doesn't ring at all true with people reading the likes of the above and it only serves to deepen the divides present in this country.

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  • It is unlikely your father would have boiled his relationship with your mother down to him having "secured" her. It is an unusual term to use. It's not that it's not technically true. It's that it breezes past all the ways most people refer to relationships and instead characterizes it as one way possession of property. That's what people are reacting to. In what community have you immersed yourself or what mindset have you gotten yourself into where that's the first word of choice.

  • What's the most immersive video game that you've played?

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  • Civ II

  • What news sources do you follow with which you generally disagree?

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  • (UK) I read the Daily Mail and the Guardian and have issues with both of them. Daily Mail because of language used around immigrants and benefit recipients. The Guardian I find panders to its audience presenting news from Palestinian a certain way. But I want to read both these points of view as there's always elements of truth in what's being said that opposite news sources leave out for their own reasons.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • When a mental health issue affects men and women equally you end up with more women at the doctor and more men dead.

    But that's besides the point. Schmidt is calling out his concern for young men in particular because I think he knows a thing or too about what people google and what obsessive behaviours they can fall into especially regarding sexual fantasy.

    He already has a front row seat to stats on porn addiction and how this fuels male isolation in particular. If you read the article you'll see it cites an example of a young boy committing suicide through his romantic interactions with a chatbot.

    Women are exposed to impossible beauty standards and have higher anxiety, OCD and other disorders than men. But Schmidt isn't referring to that.

    Men are lonely, have lower life satisfaction, and are far more likely to get sexually addicted to increasingly sophisticated immersive porn.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • At some point they're going to have to depart from the "single name" branding. Because the selling point is going to be how unique the AI is for you, how different from all the others. I wonder how they'll handle branding at that point? Maybe if you create "Marla", Apple are still going to say it's a type of "Siri" if that's the base technology. But I think we may start seeing weirder more organic things like "your AI Marla - a daughter of Siri - is ready"

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • True. But I'm not talking about fooling people. Just lowering the amount of "willing suspension of disbelief".

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • I think the part that feels 'sad' to you is what's going to change socially over the next 50 years. I think it's going to become extremely normal to at least have a "mental health AI friend" who knows you really well and keeps you going through the day, is someone to talk to, someone who's always there, someone who's the first to detect that you may be in danger. Overall I think society's going to receive that as a good thing. And it will, I think, be normal because it will be so believable, and so useful, and for a large number of people, keep them well and feeling good about themselves. In that context some of those attachments turning romantic, or people just being sexually into whatever that assistant can say or do will be increasingly normal. It will also feel really good, let's not forget that. We're really only at the very start of what immersive VR is going to be. Once AI becomes not a little better but 50-100 years of innovation better I don't think we can really underestimate how much it's going to feel like you're actually interacting with [insert fantasy here]. Once tactile feedback sees similar improvements we're about 75% of the way to what people would use an actual holodeck for anyway. I can't see how that doesn't have a dramatic effect on how people view human-human romantic relationships. Over time the proportion of people who can have a believable experience of their absolute sexual fantasy is only going to grow over time. With how ubiquitous that will be I can't see how in most relationships people know they're "second best". I think that has a profound effect on how people make attachments to one another. I think once "having a real girlfriend" is seen as the secondary way to get your sexual needs met, that that will have a terminal effect on how many young men even want to be in relationships let alone stay around to be a father.

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  • I understand where you're coming from now. Yes I agree. Though I'll add that I'm pretty confident that the sex industry is going to be at the bleeding edge of AI / VR as things progress. At least, I think the bar for making people interested in what an attractive AI has to say rather than another disappointing night on tinder is far lower than automating all human labour. Even if we're talking physical "sexbots" I think, practically speaking, that's more likely to be rudimentary 'equipment' greatly enhanced by augmented VR. Again, far closer to reality than Boston dynamics + son of chatGPT replacing the workforce. My point being that the bar at which young people become disinterested in physical reproduction is far, far lower than a post scarcity society in which all labour is automated. And that's the risk. That we start to have a shortfall in workforce replacement long before we can manage without it.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • You're looking at the AI equivalent of where stop frame animation was in 1930. It's a few years old and rudimentary. Give it 80 years. That's the time frame I was talking about.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • Spending all time dating AI partners means that we have achieved labor post scarcity

    Bit of a weird non sequitur

    What I'm saying has nothing to do "labour post scarcity"

    I'm referring to immersive VR and AI overall contributing to a falling birthrate. If immersive realities become truly immersive, it's reasonable to believe they will occupy leisure time. This has nothing to do with people's relationship to work. They'll still need to be economically active, whether or not this takes place in the VR is neither here nor there.

    It's a point about what people will do with their time when they are lonely, want connection, or pleasure. And if VR / AI (whatever other technologies) becomes believable and more satisfying then there's little reason to believe people will continue the "unreliable" tradition of dating. And even less to engage in the mucky and very biological habit of reproducing.

    Witness Japanese culture. And then just add 100 years of immersive believable AI personality and sexual fantasy. Do you think that will make people get married and have babies or do you think it will help them being content being single and childless?

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  • I have been saying for a while, I think hyperealistic vr and believable AI personalities are going to be the 'great filter' that limits advanced civilization.

    Given the chance to have your sexual and emotional fantasies fulfilled in a satisfying way, many many people will take it. Especially when 'real life' is getting harder with everything from the cost of living making the dream of 'married with home and children' less obtainable to hyper competitive online dating disenfranchising increasing proportions of both men and women.

    Having a believable relationship with AI is far closer than we think. It doesn't have to perfectly replicate real life, it just has to be satisfying enough in a few key ways that people begin to prefer it.

  • Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young men

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  • casually looks at male suicide rate

  • Windows is not free as in freedom

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  • Lol

  • What movies do you recommend that actually benefit from 4K rendering?

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  • Optimal viewing experience of Lawrence in Arabia was in real life

  • Windows is not free as in freedom

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  • Never even heard of it, I'll have a look thanks

  • Windows is not free as in freedom

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  • I've been playing Half Life 1 on windows (geforce RTX 3080, latest drivers etc) and it's buggy as hell. I guess my expectations are low..

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • My theory (maybe it's not a theory maybe it's obvious) is that students and people in their twenties are more given to "big government" idealism because they were only recently living at home - maybe still are - where, even if they had terrible parents (maybe especially if they had terrible parents) it's easy to believe "if only the people in charge were good everything would had been so much better". Of course, there's very little in even a healthy childhood that properly models the importance of "balance of power". Parents are good parents or bad parents, but they are always "in charge" just by virtue of the dynamic between adults and children. I can see how young people end up believing it would just take a "good parent" to fix so much that's wrong about the way things run. Unfortunately no group of adults has ever had "total" control over a country without it in some way going to total shit. Realising the reality of this is I think one of those moments when you actually grow up.

  • What are the pros and cons of a sterilizing (~95%) plague?

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  • Half of America losing their minds and voting for a trump administration is in fact further proof you'd have civil war before you had a "100% planned economy". People are provably irrationally selfish. Even in times of national emergency (cf covid etc)