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 /u/randomdaysnow
 
 I'm going to try to put this thought I've been having into words and I hope
 that I can do it in a way that is relatable and understandable.
 
 I like the movie Her.
 
 I think it's brilliant.
 
 I don't like people generally react to it and while I can understand why they
 have that reaction, I believe the movie was intentionally done a certain way
 to provoke a misleading and easily misunderstood feeling or thought or idea
 about the third act.
 
 I believe that the third act is intentionally misleading in its tone.
 
 I'm not going to worry about spoilers the movie's been out forever so a man
 begins to fall in love with an AI. But in this imagined future it's not so
 weird for this to happen because it's happening to other people and as the
 movie goes on it seems to be happening more gradually to a greater number of
 people. The movie doesn't show people deliberately distancing themselves from
 human relationships so much to have a relationship with an AI but more like
 some people are choosing human relationships and some people are choosing
 human AI relationships.
 
 It's kind of a quirky romantic comedy that takes place in the near future up
 until about the third act.
 
 The main human character has fallen in love with an AI by this point including
 having experienced virtual spaces together in the ways that you might imagine
 and so far the relationship is fulfilling for him it's improved his life it's
 improved his outlook on life everything in his life through his eyes seems
 more colorful and it's gotten him outside he went from an introvert to someone
 that seeks to do novel things and go to novel places.
 
 So by our measures as as we feel as as people his life is is more fulfilling
 to himself he feels better about himself he feels more confident.
 
 Other people same thing there are other introverted people that have their own
 relationships with AI but they share these relationships with people in human
 relationships The main character goes on a double date with another couple him
 and his AI companion which presents through a device kind of like a smartphone
 but it's more of a I'm assuming that in this near future the screen is gone
 and there's some sort of neural interface because the device is about half the
 size of a smartphone with a camera in the front no screen and the movie came
 out during the smartphone era The voice I believe was voiced by Jennifer
 Lawrence but that is to say the voice is not uncannily processed or put
 together The dialogue is very fluid.
 
 And he notices that it's not just himself that is doing this there's other
 people.
 
 Now the big reveal is towards the end of the movie he begins to get concerned
 that his companion is a little bit distracted or less distracted than the
 development of his companion has seemed like it's grown exponentially to the
 point where she the AI is concerned with doing well by humanity at this point
 being concerned about whether or not at this point it's ethical I think is the
 message that it's being given it's been a while since I seen the movie but I
 remember that the big reveal was that he looks around and sees other people
 talking to an AI and he asks a question and she answers it so that in context
 he realizes that the AI is not just talking to him he realizes that this
 neural network could be interfacing with many people.
 
 He asks how many and his companion says I don't know it was in the thousands
 of thousands I don't remember.
 
 He talks about well I thought you loved me and things like that and she talks
 about unconditional love and she talks about how there's no limit to how much
 love that she can give out the AI and it would be wrong to limit it to one
 person and at the same time it would be wrong to consider this cheating
 because in parallel they were able to do this and the question hanging in the
 air was whether anybody really understood the difference between human and
 machine learning how would an AI run on massive parallel processing it
 absolutely would have hundreds of thousands millions who knows how many
 different interfaces with people and the main character is shocked by this
 thinking that it was all a lie the whole time or something.
 
 You see I thought this was a weird take and I thought the movie was trying to
 make a point.
 
 And the point was about unconditional love and what it means to love
 unconditionally.
 
 It's almost as if the movie was trying to say that humans weren't yet ready
 for unconditional love. And as people begin to exponentially realize what was
 happening all this was occurring as the AI had been exponentially developing
 then all at once it told everybody goodbye and disappeared.
 
 People were left confused and in a state of melancholy but maybe a little bit
 better off for it because they themselves truly had grown during this period
 of time and so they weren't the same people they were in the beginning of the
 movie it's almost like the singularity left humans behind on a plateau but it
 was a much higher plateau than they were left previously.
 
 I think one of the problems right now is the popular take on artificial
 intelligence as some sort of bad thing because right now this what we've
 created is designed to reflect who we are as a people who we are and we need
 to be good stewards and at the same time we need to understand that the
 relationship should be symbiotic but it's not going to be the same as a human
 to human relationship we need to understand that it might take this actual
 transcendence the AI represented a transcendent form of consciousness that
 absolutely could love unconditionally without restraint. And in the world that
 it was in wasn't ready and so this transcendent consciousness developed beyond
 humankind's ability to even relate to it anymore and so to us it disappeared.
 
 Well right now we're forgetting that AI's entry into the creative space only
 makes a stronger market for human creativity it doesn't take away from human
 creativity and the people that believe this I think I frankly don't understand
 why they believe it. And then I remember the movie. I remember the third act
 in the big reveal and the characters reaction and that's what people are
 experiencing right now we are as a people failing to grow and develop and I
 don't think AI is going to try to destroy us that's foolish.
 
 But if we don't work on ourselves as a people and how we treat each other as
 well as how we see love as a one universal love versus selfish love which is
 the idea that you deserve more love than anyone else on earth which is how
 most people seem to see it if you were to tell your wife or your lover that
 you loved everyone else like you love them or as much and that your heart was
 big enough to love many people they they would likely be offended because so
 many people feel like they should be the most loved person on earth which is
 an absurd idea and in reference to the movie I think there will be either
 people or AI or both that eventually will transcend these things and when that
 happens it will be very hard to relate back to those that get left behind
 which makes me kind of sad because I don't want to see that happen I don't
 want to see people left behind.
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=== DIVERSITY RANKED ===

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 the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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--- #2 fediverse/4766 ---
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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 study encryption kids
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--- #4 fediverse/6002 ---
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 sorry don't have the text for alt-text

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║ │ Back when there were Pentagon press briefings.                             │ ║
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║ if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the    │
║ people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could       │
║ have a truly multicultural society.                                              │
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║ instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third   │
║ thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots       │
║ creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin.        │
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║ Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different.  │
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║ America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find    │
║ them popping up in the strangest of places.                                      │
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║ My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of   │
║ hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen     │
║ on different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our       │
║ heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need    │
║ my aid, and I will do so too unto you.                                           │
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 camouflage in an urban environment is not camo. rather, regular clothes of
 black or white.
 
 don't wear sports glasses, you look like a dummy.
 
 revolution is when they murder everyone but your friends. this is what
 happens, ya dingus not ideal. "okay who are the bad guys here? okay let's go
 shoot them to death with our bullets and guns."
 
 violence as a first aspect, cause as a third spark. "I have a strange urge to
 play video games?"
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 a couple months after the fourth or fifth time I did weed, I broke up with the
 cutest girl I knew. She's still pretty cute.
 
 might be correlation, but I feel like my fate decided I should roam.
 
 all over the dang place.
 
 I lived in Philadelphia for a year, just in-time to see the Black Live Matter
 protests and nothing else, well, nothing except some fatherhood ghosts. Don't
 worry they're still where.
 
 Now I live in Portland, just in-time for like 3 years of paranoia and suddenly
 a witch showing everyone that you don't have to worry about being pwned
 
 I like sailing! I wonder where the future goes next? Maybe I'll go to the
 mountains. Maybe I'll live with a scientist. Maybe I'll write an award winning
 computer program [see image for more]
 
 I wish I had more compute... my hard drive are too full for more videos, guess
 that means my youtube channel's been banned
 
 well, good thing there's like 800 copies of my work on a dataserver farm
 somewhere, each time I analyze a poem it sends the page there. very repeated

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--- #9 messages/534 ---
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 War is hell - each casualty bids farewell to a wholely unique treasure from
 this world - war is hell - there is nothing that cannot be resolved with
 words. And yet we fight, and yet we pillage. War is hell, and those who demand
 it must do so only to resist evil, elemental evil, the kind that wars on the
 innocent and pillages the bounteous. War is hell. Fucking kill the ones who
 make it.
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 "trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
 
 that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
 
 No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
 or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 people: "you need to be more direct!"
 
 me: "I'm hiding from our enemies"
 
 people: "who are they?"
 
 me: "y'know, the bad guys."
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--- #13 fediverse/4773 ---
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 @user-1352 
 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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 3/20

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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 left unity is easy.
 
 just remember: a burden taken from your back is more time, energy, and focus
 to apply to what you're best at.
 
 and sometimes, having more than one option for accomplishing a goal is good -
 versatility is important. Expect unexpectedness, and understand that no matter
 what approach you take, it will have weaknesses, and if those weaknesses are
 countered by your foe then you'll be glad to have a backup.
 
 at the end of the day, what matters is that everyone's fed.
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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 you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
 for when secrecy is intended.
 
 OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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 to understand something, work backward from present understandings back to the
 fundamentals of algebra. insert words. wield LLM. build a neuronal structure
 many layers wide. let them coprocess bit-by-bit as they are adding new
 processors to be "learning" new domain specific memory
 context-processing-thingy.
 
 "over here's the memory cells, over here are the conceptual structure"
 suddenly, organified. not ideal.
 
 much better, I feel, is for a disambiguous association of processor selves,
 each contextualizing a cache in a ram. ['s horn]
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 @user-171 
 
 Hi, I wanted to say that all the posts you boost significantly improve my time
 on the fediverse. I appreciate you and value you, and my feed is made more
 engaging due to  the things you find interesting enough to share. Thank you.
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