i'll add that to the product description since it made me set up a shop to share the design

Skippy from Disney's animated movie Robin Hood, a young bunny rabbit wearing an ill-fitting robin hood hat, holding a wooden sword and saying "Death to tyrants!"

never gonna top this anyway

I have long felt this part gives away the game, bc yeah if they ever succeeded in creating something genuinely intelligent it would immediately be immoral to use it in the ways they intend.

I don't think it they're anywhere close, but it tells us what motivates them

Truly

Considering the harmful impact on cities down to the switch to electronic controls without failsafes, big shiny screens, and giant hoods, they're really a kind of nested set of intentional design failures

I'm deviating from the point here, but on the note about shared v isolated experience, that's a big bonus reason (amongst many) why I'm against AI in video games. Even if AI were a stand-up, lovable technology, a game where each player's experience branches irreconcilably misses the point of art.

well api calls let you monitor state remotely

I ordered it custom but lemme see if i can share the design

and the nature of design is that constraints force you to make choices that can be interesting!

this is adjacent to one of my hobbies, collecting photos of decontextualized stick figures

man i want to buy this cookbook

And that massive expansion in raw power has basically been filled with terrible software.

software is like a gas that expands to fill the size of available computation

Yeah the personalized media pitch keeps circulating and its a fundamental failure to understand that

1) meaning comes from overlap
2) people like sharing

A white guy wearing a black cap and a black t-shirt with white letters that says I AM AN AI HATER

i got a new shirt

Yeah there's a similar character in The Parable of the Sower iirc

it seems to me that the ultimate role of the human in these loops is to be a source of incoherent wanting to act as a preference input

it is not great

and as a narrative device it's fun! it makes for good stories to have body swaps and mind backups and self-copies

hard to have a story where the characters don't get to interact

that's certainly true. i think there are probably also some narrative structure reasons we see a lot of stories about transferable consciousness and few if any about people who are all completely isolated from each other, lol

yeah. plenty of human inventions will help you hurt or kill people, but most of them don't use words to be literally encouraging about it, and something about that just hits different

tbh i prefer @wolvendamien.bsky.social's term AI ensorcellment

minus the part OP was referencing which is that chatbots seem to offer some of the same social permission and reinforcement that people typically get from acting in a group

It strikes me that even in things like the Matrix where they're all in simulation, it's a shared simulation.

One horror of the chatbot is that everyone is isolated into their own reality with the amplifying social permission of a group, and none of the friction

Already confirmed

I can hear this

Pull out a panel ffs

well the preview image is "processing bad news" which tracks

standing there googling "bmw neutral dead battery" and he's skimming videos and pressing buttons like he's trying to do the konami code, meanwhile i'm finding writeups like "first remove this panel"