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[+] 77 points 1 month ago (8 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Hell, why even choose to live? Humans are so inefficient. Just stop existing.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    Is that even true? That might only be in relation to other animals, not to robots. Humans do a lot of useless things like fart and laugh. Robots don't. Even from an energy perspective, if a human takes 2,000 kilocalories to go about their day, that's 8,400,000 joules or 2.3 kWh. A laptop battery is around 75 Wh, so that's around 30 laptop batteries for 16 hours of activity, many of which might just be sitting down at a desk to think.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    This is a post about AI. While a computer will probably not in the near future be able to simulate a human brain fully, artificial intelligence models are getting scarily close to being able to pretend to do everything that a human can do. That's what I was getting at. But of course, one should still not lose track of the overall point here that replacing the human experience with AI is completely missing the plot, even if it is "more efficient".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Except they run on Megawatts and we on like a handful of watts...

    That's efficiency!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Megawatts to serve hundreds of thousands of users. The reason AI data centres are so wasteful with electricity is because a lot of the usage is not out towards anything useful but just wasted on things like generating Google Search summaries.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago*

    It was considered unethical when Harlow did it to monkeys, but I guess it must be fine when parents do it to their own children, regardless of the ensuing panic disorders... 🤷

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    hey grok, please fuck my wife

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  • [–] 59 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    If you want to optimize a parent-child time with AI, maybe optimize it with not having children instead.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Exactly what I was thinking. It makes me think of the book Four Thousand Weeks, and Chasing Daylight.

    The former is about the trap of productivity and thinking you can fit more into your day than you can. Hint: no matter how much you get done in your day, you will want to try to fit in more

    And the latter I don't want to spoil but there was a quote along the lines of "Gene looked at all his colleagues who wanted more and thought, do they know when they will have enough?", again the idea that we will always want more.

    Reading to your child and spending time with them is enough. Forget all the other distractions the world offers you.

    /rant

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I struggled to be a proper mom when my kid was a toddler.

    One of the few things I did absolutely right, was read to him every night. It was usually the best part of my day.

    "when will they have enough"... "prodictivity" is almost appearing to be the death of human connection these days, and to that, I just say, Komorebi mother fuckers.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Politicians and governments around the world are already thinking we don’t have enough babies being born. Soon they will want to incentivize people to have children because of AI too. Just more “reasons” to justify it with the thought up ones already.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Unrelated thought, what's more resources-consuming, a child or AI?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    AI. All the resources of the world go into it to tell you to make a sandwich.

    Child. 18 years hard labor and you might make the kid to take down Skynet.

    Children at last have a chance of paying off and doing something good.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Please switch me to a different multiverse without Trump or AI

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    It is my hope that one night I'll take a rip of DMT, and when I come down, I'll have leapt to a better timeline.

    Or in other words, hoping that the next leap would be the leap home.

    Al says that Ziggy says I've got a 0.23% chance each time. So 🤞

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Fuck that, hop in and help out. Many of us are reversing this shit already and the more people doing that the better it gets. That goes for everyone else reading this that has not joined up yet too.

    Want a better multiverse and life? Then work together and do. We will win against all this shit. Together. Work together locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    I empathise with that, I really do. Our govt (Oz) have introduced an office of AI and relatively strict restrictions on data centres.

    The cynic in me says SkyNet is already here and we're just sitting ducks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Unable to comply: Switching to a universe where the subject is deceased results in an out of scope error in execution handling.

    You have been assigned the only timeline where you are still conscious and alive to make this request.

    Due to privacy reasons, support cannot specify the precise conditions of termination in other timelines.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Funny story. My cousin's parent were super christian religious. The sect where they "speak in tongues". Anyway, they would play bible readings on tape to him at bedtime. One night, they started the tape and left the room. Some time later they heard him screaming from Hus room. Of course they came running in and found him in tears, utterly panicked. The stereo had eaten the tape or died (I don't remember), and he thought that god had died.

    So yeah. Should be good.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Poor child. Having to go though all that shit

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    My grandparents only hid in the basement while I was napping so when I woke up and saw piles of their clothing on the floor, static on the radio, water boiling on the stove, I’d think Jesus came back, took them To heaven and left my 7 year old ass here.

    As an adult, now I think they wished they could go to heaven and leave me here

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    "Don't want to chew and digest your food? Buy a blender and a garbage can!"

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago

    Fucking sociopaths.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Currently a joke, potentially the future.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You couldn’t make this shit up

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    His spouse reasonably complained that an audiobook wouldn’t be in his voice. But Sng wasn’t to be outdone in the zero-effort-parenting department.

    “I can train a voice model,” he countered, before addressing his readers: “Parenting hits different when you work in AI.”

    Sometimes I feel bad about myself, but at least I don't say stuff like this.

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  • I don't want to spend time with my kids. That's why I didn't have any.

    Follow for more top gear top tips.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    But this is what they do to thier kids "baby sitter. Read my child a story! It's being annoying!"

    This is how the ultra rich deal with their kids. They dont understand that this isnt how normal people deal with kds genraly.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I love when a news article just summarizes tweets. Couldn't they at least reach out the dude to get some more background?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I agree, though sometimes in retrospect after they see how they're post lands they will retroactively claim they didn't actually mean it. So have to take rationalizations with a grain of salt.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Hey, AI bros, when are you going to make a robot that can clean up the baby poop?

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Big Tech spent years designing platforms that steal our attention, then sold us AI tools to compensate for the time we lost. Now apparently even spending time with your kids is inefficient. The endgame is becoming obvious: humans do the work, AI gets the attention, and Silicon Valley collects the subscription fees. Apparently being a parent is just another productivity bottleneck.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Apparently being a parent is just another productivity bottleneck.

    Always has been. Women have been paid less or just fired because they want to take care of the children. Usually by the same people complaining there aren't enough kids now.

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  • Sad read. Sociopaths should really not consider raising kids.

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  • Dystopian hell

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  • Fucking monster.

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    One would think so, however knowing personally a few people deep in the AI rabbit hole.. some folks just get oddly broken.

    Even if they haven't shown or spoken of their AI usage, I'm starting to be able to tell when a person has been a heavy conversational user as the way they interact with people just becomes... Unpleasantly off.

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Irobot or some shit idk i never read Asimov

    I technically own the book though

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Asimov's novels do explore risks and potential of AI, but they're about actual intelligence and awareness of self. While renting out the parenting is problematic either way, Asimov's AI would at least be equipped for the challenge.

    I really don't want to think what being raised by a llm would do to a child.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Isn't this literally the origin of the big bad in the five nights series?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    He had to make his baby announcement photo about AI agents? Dad of the year, guys.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    How much? surely it won't cost arm and legs to take care your children at home right? right?

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    [+] -20 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    I love how you nerds one day are like, parents never get a break cause kids can’t play. Then this comes out, literally an incremental change of something that’s basically been going on for 60 years, and you all screech WANT TO IGNORE YOUR KIDS, bad parents!!!!!!

    Holy shit, AI has rotted your brain’s just by existing.

    Recorded bed time stories have been a thing for 60 years. Parents getting 20 minutes off doesn’t mean they aren’t being read to.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I just want to go on record here and say that parent poster’s is an absolutely psychotic take from an person who should never have children and is likely already brain broken by AI.

    Hey? Makeshift? You fucking made the child, now take care of it. You can fucking have a break IN LIKE 20 MINUTES WHEN YOUR KID FALLS ASLEEP TO THE BEDTIME STORY YOU JUST READ TO THEM, YOU BUFFOON. YOU HALFWIT. YOU ABSOLUTE WITLESS DISHCLOTH.

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  • [+] -14 points 1 month ago

    God I love you permanent alone nerds who have never seen a functional family and create these absolutely nonsense lines in the sand with standards that have never existed and are not realistic.

    The parent took a few minutes to themselves, the child is ruined!!!!!

    You’ve all essentially lost your fucking minds over an audio book 🤣.

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