IDEA: Sir, is it possible we have things completely backwards? Perhaps it is the candles that go in the bath and the woman who goes on the tray.

IDEA: Demographic analysis suggests that women are invigorated by the presence of many thousands of stuffed animals while sleeping. Perhaps the tray is for holding her Squishmallows while she luxuriates in the lavendar-scented bathwater.

Okay, so the word “never” is being used here in its hyperbolic form to, tactfully, strengthen the rhetoric. It impassions the speech to deliver a point with more verve than another choice would.

The message is easy to receive. What is it you gain by being this needlessly contrarian?

The threat of AI is not that it will be more human than human. It is that it will become so ubiquitous that real people are hard to find.

I couldn’t find many real people.

Are you sure that I’m real?

That’s not what imaginative means.

If you’d like an example of AI being exceptionally boring to look at, though, peruse through any rule 34 site that has had its catalogue overrun with AI spam: an endless see of images that all have the same artstyle, the same color choices, the same perspective, the same poses, the same personality; a flipbook of allegedly different characters that all. look. fucking. identical.

I’m not joking: I was once so bored by the AI garbage presented to me, I actually just stopped jerking off.

If you people would do something interesting with your novelty toy, I would be like 10% less mad about it.

I’m not the one confused, I understood Sahara just fine. I’m more confused why we’re 10 comments deep into, essentially, Sahara’s choice to use the word “never.”

I’m asking this seriously: how do you handle sarcasm? Or hyperbole?

(so your suggestion of writing on cards is totally irrelevant)

No, not literally… Okay.

MotoAsh, you have to engage people in better faith.

“Make sure to not let them fool you” is a goal, “never tell them yours first” is just a strategy being offered to meet that goal. I understand the implications of this “poorly stated” version just fine: this isn’t programming, you can break the strategy’s rules sometimes. I trust people taking this advice to apply good judgement.

The only reason to argue with Sahara here in the way that you are is if you think they’re actually trying to trick people into being lonelier via some kind of yugioh trap card logic. Do you get the impression that they’re trying to trick people into being lonelier via yugioh trap card logic?

I am entirely lost.

Sahara is saying not to date republicans, and not to let them trick you. I’m saying the same thing.

If you meet someone who, presumably like you, absolutely will not say anything until you do, then the both of you should write it down on a card and reveal them at the same time.

Or, you should say something about building a border wall. See if they bite.

Or, you should take them to see the Barbie movie. See if they shift in their chair too much.

Like, there are solutions to this problem, and I feel like you’re just not willing to see them.

As a corollary, imagine you’re gay in the 1960s. You can’t tell anyone you’re gay because you’ll get beaten in an alley. But, you would still like to find other gay people. How would you do this?

I mean, I don’t think it is.

You can sus people out other ways. The point is just to not let chameleons say whatever you said because they’re horny.

What if that pedestrian was Donald Trump?

Drunk driving, like, as a rule, is really, really bad. It’s incredibly very awful. … But I’m still gonna pop the shampaign.

The CIA will not allow me to answer this question.
However, I do have complementary Skittles.

Get an electric car if you want, but you should still support society moving away from needing them in the first place, no?

Imagine a school cafeteria is serving kids the option of 5 hershey’s chocolate bars, or a slice of pizza. You can acknowledge the pizza is better, but you should still be asking where the god damn vegetables are.

What part of “I put no time into it” do you not understand?

Considering AI is really unlikeable, I don’t think that’ll be too hard.

I generated it, actually, and I put no time into it whatsoever.

I think it makes sense to compare image genAI to photography.

As a photographer, nope.

Legit, I’m not even reading the rest of what you said. This photography point is so mind numbingly boring at this point.

Only in the sense that crypto is an alternative payment method in the same way that pulling out is an alternative to condoms.

I like to dream that I’m eating so I don’t have to eat breakfast.