FooBarrington

joined 2 years ago
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I love the movement etc. in Prototype 2! 100%ed it more than once, it's just too fun. Surely we'll get the sequel any day now 🥲

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep.

So please don't be mean, sheep, or the lion will start crying.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

Weird question to ask through radio, over.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

But that would drastically change the message, no? People should choose to leave the Matrix because the reward is living in reality, even if it's harder and there's no other reward.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Hm, I think it does make the message stronger. If a single event (development of sentient machines) leads to our downfall, it's easy to shrug it off as "bad luck", because who could have foreseen it back then?

But if we had multiple chances to correct course and we kept fucking up, it removes any doubt that it's a human flaw, which means "humanity must reflect and change, or this is the inevitable conclusion".

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

AI could be useful if it could orchestrate more complex tasks that the relevant apps don't natively support. But of course that's not what we're getting.

I use lots and lots of timers every day to structure my chores and work. For example, I'd sometimes love to be able to start one timer, and have another one set to automatically start as soon as I stop the ringing from the first (which might take a few minutes).

Very simple requirements, but specialized enough that I'd have to write it myself. But I can't see phone AIs supporting something like this in this decade.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That's good! But I'd still prefer if I and the other 44% could at least say "please stop producing and sending us trash".

They should really make mailed advertisements opt-in, but of course the industry won't do that. And this what makes it cancerous IMO: they never give up trying to inject ads into people's lives.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

OTOH, it seems like ~44% of junk mail gets thrown away without ever being opened: https://zerojunkmail.org/environmental-impact

That's a bunch of environmental destruction and personal annoyances caused, so the label "cancer" seems fair to me.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Yes, it's pretty common knowledge that this is how many fashion trends were set. Unless you're educated in the field and know that pop sci is wrong on this, there are less condescending ways to ask this.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I wish I could forget, lol

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nope, Season 3 opening.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No, it was the season 3 opening

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