Lots of people around me are excited for a racist march organised by flag-shagging, far-right knuckle-dragger Tommy Robinson.
So let’s call it a guideline rather than a rule.
Let’s make it “if someone is excited about something that doesn’t hurt other people…”
How about pro sportball? Those dudes get wrecked, but it’s largely considered acceptable to be excited about…
Dude tell me about it. I had a girl tell me she was exited about the tswift engagement and I just went full asshole mode for some reason and was like “oh you gonna go to their wedding? Big friends with Taylor?” … Idk why I decided to be a jerk but … Yeah I still feel low-key guilty about that but she’s said/done plenty worse so I probably should let that shit go.
Anyways, yeah I guess I’m saying sometimes I think people may not be totally aware in the moment of their dickishness so learn from me and just STFU if someone is happy for some dumb shit.
Did you apologize to her? Sounds like you were taking some of your frustration out on her and that’s probably not fair.
Yes, I’m not that big of a dick. My apology led to her sharing some silly shit she’s said to her buddies that were akin to my slip up.
It’s not like I punched her in the face and spit on her lol, if I had couched it better it would have probably just been funny but I just went hella sarcastic and dick mode.
In context she had said she got really good news then showed me the announcement on her phone so I was like expecting some actually good news for her not some stupid celebrity tabloid shit that’s ultimately meaningless.
Idk I know we all need our bread and circuses, I’m wrapped up in plenty of equally inane and pointless crap same as everyone else - sometimes I just am bad at being a human. I’m not very good at socializing in general, it’s something I’ve had to learn and try to study and be good at still - definitely does not come naturally to me. I’ve gotten pretty good at pretending, I’m a decent “professional people person” when I turn my human mask part of my brain on since reading people is something I’ve had to focus on because I can’t just socialize like a human being normally does.
But yeah that’s a very long way of saying, yes I’m not that mean of a guy.
What if I am excited about making people feel stupid?
Then I’m excited for you.
Nice volley 😉
Damn. Now I feel stupid for being excited about making people feel stupid.
People were excited about Trump being elected and I make them feel shitty about it. How am I a bad person?
I think the post is more along the lines of people who like MCU releases and pumpkin spice lattes.
That stuff is all harmless, and I agree with the post in that spirit.
/gets excited about generative A.I.
It is pretty impressive. It’s one step closer to making something like a holodeck where you can generate a virtual world on demand.
That being said the companies that are pushing it and using it aren’t being very ethical about it
It’s interesting how in Star Trek they had a holodeck full of completely believable visuals, amazing generated sound, “hard light” making believable surfaces, characters who were extremely realistic, etc. But, the only holodeck character to ever be considered possibly sentient was Moriarty, and it required that they ask for a character capable of outwitting Data. Meanwhile, the sentient “computer” in the series was Data, who had a lot of quirky mannerisms that made it obvious he wasn’t at all human, despite really wanting to be.
In the real world, Silicon Valley is convinced that because GenAI can make something that can mimic a human they think they’re weeks or days away from AGI which will lead immediately to ASI. Meanwhile, nobody in Star Trek thought that holodeck tech was a profitable area of research for true AI. I think I trust the Star Trek writers more than Silicon Valley on this one.
Eh, I wouldn’t read too much into that angle. The computer and holodeck were pretty much deus ex machinas for Star Trek, written to do as much or as little as the plot required. They could just handwave the computer creating a super intelligent AI because Data requested it, or say the holodeck is capable of simulating bleeding edge warp core innovation (though the crew still had to tweak parameters and often were able to suceed “live” after failing many times guided by the computer because human intuition trumps all).
Star Trek is more useful for considering philosophical questions than technical ones, even though they did put a lot of effort into making it a hard tech world rather than a soft tech one. But when delving into unknown technology, eventually you need to use some soft tech that just works without any real world explanation. And any AI- or computer-related stuff fell into that “soft tech surrounded by hard tech” category.
Star Trek is more useful for considering philosophical questions than technical ones,
This is basically a philosophical question though. Can you achieve artificial intelligence by imitating it closely enough. GenAI imitates intelligence, and a lot of the Silicon Valley techbros think that it’s going to lead to actual intelligence.
The philosophy of Star Trek seems to be no. For them there was a fundamental difference in how an artificial brain would work so that you couldn’t get there with just a powerful computer. That’s why Data had a “positronic net” and not just a powerful version of the isolinear circuits they had in the normal computers.
The LLM, I kinda get, you can almost picture training a word predictor.
Working code with comments is pretty mindblowing even if it’s not better than a professional.
But diffusion… that’s BLACK MOTHERFUCKING MAGIC.
Here’s a picture of me, Here’s a picrture of me with a hat. the vector between the two is hat. Now put a hat on that squirrel… works…
I’m sure it doesn’t work as well as depicted, but speaking of black magic (and holodecks)… Genie 3.
If they could deliver on one-hundredth of that, it will be truly amazing.
They can’t be generating a straight up video and that would be way too slow.
They said that they’re not using pre-built worlds, so they’re not pre-generating an entire world that you can run around in, which would still be fucking great.
I wonder if they’re dynamically creating procedural world generation. then dynamically creating occasional assets as you demand.
Seems like it would be too slow and power hungry to do it any other way.
At some point we’re going to get some crazy amazing games out of this.
OHHH let’s get downvoted together!!!
It’s REALLY good at some things, like better than it should be by any stretch of the imagination.
If you are excited about hyperconsumerist slop, I will shame you
What if you’re excited about military adventurism or the latest pogrom of an ethnic or religious minority?
Believe it or not, straight to jail
What if you make an appointment at the dentist and don’t show up?
“Teeth were a problem, I ignored them, it went away”
~Asmongold
Believe it or not, absolutely nothing!
Oh boy! I can’t wait to see more billionaires persecuted!
Oh man, i’m so excited about punching the next person i see in the face!
Fuck yeah. Civil normaltism is as like cancer and slavery combined.
punching the next person i see in the face!
This is an opportunity. you need to look for official vans in the home depot parking lot.
I feel like that’s the wrong suggestion. If you’re going to be dragged off to a black site, maybe make it worth it, ya know?
that kid that killed animals for fun when I was in high school and he killed a bunch of other students pets and they all got in trouble for beating him up,
coal rollers and close shave swervers in the lunch room at work,
guys bragging about sexual harassment and assault,
maga,
etc…
Also, sometimes magical thinking can be trouble. Like, someone’s excited about how their health issues are going to be cured with the right essential oils. Sometimes you need to burst that bubble so that they will actually get real medical help.
Magical thinking is always trouble. At its most benign it still normalizes other, more insidious falsehoods just by accepting things baselessly.
This should be up voted more. These kinds of posts invoke circle jerking. I was struggling to think of examples of weird topics but you gave a more comprehensive list.
I totally understand the desire to cut someone down who’s doing something destructive or counter to the norm in an extreme way but equally I don’t think it’s necessarily constructive. I can disagree with someone and express that without necessarily making them feel dumb.
So true. Being judgemental is stupid and old fashioned in the worst way. If it’s not hurting people, why judge it? Let people live, ffs.
If they leave me alone about it after I politely express my disinterest I will, if not I’ll take it as asking for my full opinion on the subject and that will be brutally honest.
You need to learn about autism and also children
Knowing I have no patience with them I avoid children as much as possible and enteract with them even less.
Surely making assumptions builds solid relationships.
Like making the assumption that I to talk about whatever it is they’re prattling on about.
Is someone shoving beliefs at you? Which beliefs and where? That might be very rude, depending on the context.
It’s not as dramatic as that. Don’t talk to me about sports, religion, or whatever pop culture you’re into. Enjoy them for yourself by yourself. Online I can choose to engage or not, in public I’m way more limited.
The obvious exception to this is cases of addiction or poor life decisions.
Like if you collect/play Pokemon or whatever as a hobby and are excited to get a rare card, that’s great and I’m happy for you.
If you’re underwater on your mortgage and your basement is full of beanie-babies - that you’re sure will make you rich in the future - but you just won a bid of $1000 for one rare beanie on eBay… yeah I’m not gonna be happy for you I’m gonna recommend talking to a professional
You just don’t understand, once I can get my hands on that Jonbenet Ramsey Beanie Baby it’s going to be my retirement plan, six months of back rent will seem paltry at that point, you’ll see. I’ve got big things going on, BIG THINGS!
LaBuenie Buaby
I mean, I dunno if I’d support someone being like “Yay, meth!”
But have you tried meth?
A valid question, for I have not.
If I’m excited about something, I am very selective of who I share my excitement with. The comments here verifies that choice.
Aye, I think that was one of the hardest things to accept as I moved from kid to teenager to adult. There are going to be people who wouldn’t care if you were just elected the king/queen of prom, or accepted to med school at 18, or discovered a new form of life on the moon. Find the ones who enjoy your happiness and be happy for theirs.
This statement captures a huge part of the shitty, negativity first, punching down, and adversarial nature of the conservative white american culture that I was born into.
It is so incredibly pervasive that I think most don’t even realize they’re doing it. Even thinking of relatives who I have totally good personal relationships with – I can hang out with them any time, but I am not going to sit around in the living room with everybody because within minutes it turns into non-stop complaining about entire other person on the planet.
It’s almost like that “Darmok” episode of star trek, except on this conservative planet the locals only speak in the form of complaints.
Karen and Darmok ask to see the manager in your house
Glancing at your user name and starting to read ICE made me think “Miguel, his papers not perfect”
It’s the sad version of your joke though. :(
My coworker and i usually nerd out over some space shit but he keeps being excited for space x stuff. I always tear that down because fuck Elon. Other people are still doing cool space shit to get excited about.
Can someone send this to my parents and everyone I’ve ever dated?
if you find someone who is excited to send that up your partners and exes, DO NOT MAKE THEM FEEL BAD FOR IT!!!
