I love just driving around doing nothing in Cyberpunk 2077.

I would suggest against self driving cars for this very reason. The kind of thing in the article is not a hazard while driving.

The kind of quality assurance you’re talking about is astronomically expensive. Software has gotten a lot more complex over the past couple decades. And just because it came on physical media and could not easily be patched doesn’t mean that it didn’t have bugs. Far from it.

I have a used 2017 Chevy Bolt that I absolutely adore. I bet I could pretty easily disable the OnStar if I was so inclined and paranoid about it somehow getting updates. But I doubt I need to do that.

And take years to learn how to use well

Heaven fucking forbid that a person dedicates themself to learning a perfecting a craft. Meanwhile, you sloppers are out here thinking you’re gonna take over the entertainment industry with your, “Yo Sora, make me a movie that’s like Pulp Fiction crossed with Fight Club with supernatural elements.”

Who cares if people make AI “slop” when there will also be visionaries making mind blowing stuff with AI?

Because that’s all that it’s good for. Every year it’s, “Oh this is going to be so much better in 6 months, bro. It’ll be able to generate full movies by then, for sure, bro.” And every year it does get better, but it’s still complete and utter garbage. It’s still slop.

And even if it’s not slop, LLM tech is basically just a repackaged soulless slurry of existing media. Unless there is a fundamental breakthrough in AI tech, it will always be that. LLMs just work that way. It is a limitation of the technology.

If you can’t see that, then you truly don’t understand what this tech is.

Smart phones record exceptionally high quality video. Free and open source CGI software can be run on older computers.

People who want to make stuff will find a way to do it.

Lazy people who want to feel special will generate AI slop.

People don’t need AI slop at all. At least meat provides sustenance.

Not trying to put myself or my own worries above the obvious travesty and senseless murder.

I’m just sharing my perspective and not making any political points.

You can make movies with e-waste tech these days. There is no barrier to entry.

People who don’t have the drive to make things without AI well never produce anything of value with AI.

And the environmental cost is still lower than meat.

Meat, whether you think it’s moral or ethical or not, serves a need. People need to eat. People don’t need AI slop.

It’s kind of like saying, “Well yeah I leave this 50kw diesel generator running 24/7. It’s way less environmentally damaging than meat. No, I’m not using the power it generates for any real purpose, but who cares, it’s environmentally friendly!”

Why does your foot look like a Monty Python illustration?

I fly a paraglider. I was paranoid about getting shot before the Hamas attack on October 7. This just worries me more.

It’s all so sad.

Also stock Pixel 7.

I just don’t care enough to try to put something custom on it.

Get out of my room, Peter Pan.

https://youtube.com/@squidtips

He is on the front lines protecting trans folks in Seattle.

I slept on that show for a long time. I thought it was going to be a dumb, raunchy, adult cartoon and I was so wrong about it. Some of those episodes are real gut punches.

This one in particular didn’t hit me in the way it did you, but it still felt like a truth of some kind.

I’ve recently been playing through God of War (2018), and one of my biggest complaints is how bad the camera and movement is.

I just finished playing this for the first time. I started with a controller, and moved to more and keyboard. It’s a lot better with a mouse.

Death is not specific to individuals.

I didn’t realize how much I would miss my cat and how big of a hole he’d leave in my life until he was gone. You just get so used to them always being there. You don’t realize all of the little ways you interact every day.

I never wanted that cat, too. He was old and had health issues. But he was a friend’s cat who couldn’t keep him. My now wife pestered me for days to adopt him, but I resisted. Then a month later when he still hadn’t been adopted, she pressured even harder and I finally gave in.

Over the years he bonded with me more and became my cat. And now it’s been a year since he passed and I still get choked up sometimes, like right now.

My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.