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[–] 128 points 11 months ago (13 children)

I would torrent any of them. Then I'd mod them into palworld so they can work to death while my pals chill in the japanese terms.

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  • [–] 77 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    I would mod 'em in minecraft villagers. This is all i can say, my lawyer said to not continue.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Hahaaa, I’d mod them into fun Rimworld characters.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Oh no, Jeff was hit by a space junk while building his simple rocket and lost his leg! And Elon is there, on ketamine aaaand he overdosed by smoking a blunt and is lying unconscious. And all the robo cat droids broke down so no one can save them. Damn you Randy.

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  • [+] 22 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Normally I don't kink shame, but ew. Twink femboys are one thing, but getting it on with tech bro consciousnesses is where I have to draw the line!

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I think putting peter thiel into the body of a cum powered maid bot would be ethical and good

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Too much risk he might like it, and more importantly, unethical to find somebody to supply the cum. The fundamental issue here is not whether he deserves the humiliation, it's the collateral damage in inflicting it.

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    [–] 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (17 children)

    Whenever I see this post, I think of this short story. I don’t see it linked here yet, so here ya go.

    https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

    (Wrong copy linked, updated)

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That was a great story, thanks for sharing. I love how the voice of the article sounds exactly like I'd expect from the kind of article we might read today. It reminded me a little of the 1972 "Lenna image" of Lena Forsén in Playboy that was frequently used for illustrating image processing algorithms (a practice that is now banned in most relevant journals.

    I also liked how the story mentioned fiction about brain uploading. That was very meta, and I enjoyed it to an unreasonable degree.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Great story, I thought of this too. What I like about this story is that so much of the horror is implied.

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    MMAcevedo's demeanour and attitude contrast starkly with those of nearly all other uploads taken of modern adult humans, most of which boot into a state of disorientation which is quickly replaced by terror and extreme panic. Standard procedures for securing the upload's cooperation such as red-washing, blue-washing, and use of the Objective Statement Protocols are unnecessary. This reduces the necessary computational load required in fast-forwarding the upload through a cooperation protocol

    ...

    MMAcevedo develops early-onset dementia at the age of 59 with ideal care, but is prone to a slew of more serious mental illnesses within a matter of 1–2 subjective years under heavier workloads. In experiments, the longest-lived MMAcevedo underwent brain death due to entropy increase at a subjective age of 145.

    ...

    Towards the end of his life, as it became possible to run simulated humans in banks of millions at hundred-fold time compression, Acevedo indicated that being uploaded had been the greatest mistake of his life, and expressed a wish to permanently delete all copies of MMAcevedo.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    !I agree. I think the technical tone of the story was great for keeping that eerie distance that makes the reader do the work of understanding the horror.

    I found the time bit most creepy. When it first mentions about telling him what date it was, I felt unnerved because at that point, I had no way to know how long after the initial upload this piece was written from, in narrative. The sense of disorientation from this made me empathise even harder with MMAcevedo.

    I think probably the part I found most horrifying was the bit discussing the kinds of work that MMAcevedo is useful for. I know a lot of people who work in research — enough that I know that academic nerds like Acevedo tend to find menial, repetitive work that doesn't engage their brains to be especially soul destroying. But I suppose that's the benefit of MMAcevedo right? No need to worry about destroying a person's soul if they're not a person, and they (are legally considered to) lack a soul. !<

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    You should put that in a spoiler tag :)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Really? OK.... btw any idea why it's called "Lena"?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    No idea on the naming, I haven’t really looked into the author or their writing beyond this tbh. However if you click on the links at the top, it takes you through more of their work and author info, it might be buried there somewhere.

    And the spoiler request is just because it’s really not that long and those are the juicy bits ;) I think it’s way more impactful inside the greater context, but I mean maybe I’m wrong on that, and have weird preferences.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    This is brilliant. It reminds of those asklemmy questions, "If you could Google one thing from the future", or in this case read one Wikipedia page from the future. Obviously I wouldn't know to find this page, but it reads about a world I, living now, don't understand.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 80 points 11 months ago

    "Welcome back, Elon. I think you're going to like what we've cooked up for you: Your reconstructed brain has been placed in a medically advanced life-support enclosure to ensure you'll live - or at least exist - forever. We thought about using Neuralink (tm) for this next bit, but the tech sucked. Instead we've implanted your brain with bespoke electrodes hooked up to your grey matter to simultaneously induce inescapable pain and allow your Broca’s area to drive this vocal synthesizer via your motor cortex. We were thinking the dulcet tones of your endless suffering could be made pay-per-view. You won't be alone of course. Look, your old buddy Zukerberg's jar is right over there, between Besos and Altman. Maybe we can make a choir..."

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    What was that Sim Sisyphean home design that was floating around the internet a while back? The guy ha designed a home for the Sim that basically took forever to exit via a circuitous hedgerow or something that the occupant could never quite make it out of to get to work, and would have to turn around and trudge all the way back through the circle to home, only to have almost next to no time to sleep and eat before it was time to get up and begin the hopeless trudge to work again.

    Yeah.

    Good place for those personalities.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like something Let's Game It Out would do. They very often make silly things like that.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Me trapping Sam Altman in a pool with no ladder

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    This is extremely farfetched. Surely in 2050 we're finally using zstd or something else better than gzip.

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    You’ll get a .7z wrapped inside of a .rar and you’ll like it.

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  • [–] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Guys. You know what I would do in this scenario? It involves swimming pools and no ladders.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The funniest thing here is thinking that The Sims 4 is still the most current iteration of the game in 2050.

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Put them in Soma.

    If you know, you know.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Having the ability to completely clone a person's brain to the point where you can simulate them into environments, consciousness intact, while still not being able to extrude information from them without multiple tries of emotional manipulation is such a cool and horrifying concept

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago

    "And there, you are all in the pool. Now if I remove..."

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    The teenage girl is probably named AM.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If that girl is anything like me, she would be letting the techbro sims go for a swim, and then removing the ladder.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Well worth a read, especially if you like Andy Weir.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This is what 99% of the "cameos" are on Sora. The 1% that aren't Sam Altman doing weird shit are posted by his staff.

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    [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Wow sims 4 really had a long life.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    It's still being supported, but who knows for how much longer after the Saudi/Trump buyout. It's most definitely going to be the last Sims game as EA gets hacked apart and gutted for profit in the coming months.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I read an article recently where EA said there wouldn't be a Sims 5 because expecting people to get rid of all the content they've collected over the years would be mean.

    Not sure how much I believe that, but it's weird to think that in a few years/months, people will be reminiscing about today's EA as the good EA

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I would.

    Of course, the pool won't have a ladder...

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    They think they're going to live on their island fortresses with an army of slave robots, and the occasional actual slave.

    They think the LLM hallucination problem will be ironed out in a couple of years.

    They think longevity drug therapy is just a few years away.

    I think they're very wrong. They can throw all the money and electricity they want at these two fantasies, and they will remain fantasies. Unfortunately, we're going to let them beat us all to hell over this... until we won't anymore.

    They know they're in a race against an uprising, they just think they're going to win this time.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    They think the LLM hallucination problem will be ironed out in a couple of years.

    That one is a tad more realistic than uploading human consciousness.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    not unless they pivot on the basic principles of the LLM’s, instead of attempting to force a square peg into a circle hole.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago*

    Hallucinations have already been reduced. You're expressing a pretty standard anti-LLM stance but it seems people in the field think the hallucination problem can be fixed. Even something as simple as having them say "I don't know". Better use of tools and sources.

    The fact that hallucination is less of a problem then it used to be should make it pretty clear that it's not immutable.

    In any event, it's still ridiculously more possible than artificially transferring human consciousness.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Ea-nāṣir has entered the chat...

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    What a load of bullshit. It will be the sims 5.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    In 2050?

    I think you might be a bit too optimistic.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    What kids like i want my character to be a seditious pedofile narcissist who is trying to dismantle democracy, dismantle the education system, take away women’s rights, destroy my future, build a mass surveillance AI to subjugate all of humanity and ultimately end up hiding in a bunker when humanity either turns on them or they unleash some kind of evil depopulation plan. Fun. I don’t get how they don’t understand that they are the villain

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    They watched 80s and 90s Saturday morning cartoons and thought the bad guys were actually the good guys with good plans of bringing law and order to a chaotic world and the good guys were the bad guys because they did woke shit like have token female/non-white characters and did things like help people without demanding a 50 year contract and ownership of their children.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    It is odd. Saturday morning cartoons aren't fiction, far as villainous characters go...

    Scooby Doo is basically a story of real estate criminals and grifters. The fake bit is that they are brought to justice.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Scooby Doo has a really, really bleak society. Many of the criminals possess incredible skills that would readily land them high paying jobs in our world. Some villains try to scare others by using what would be incredible practical/special effects, but are somehow doing this for insurance fraud instead of having every producer in Hollywood and every music artist knock on their door to get them to make special effects for their stuff.

    Another one that I remember is when a villain made a super advanced robot that is 100% autonomous and capable of things like operating a vehicle and navigating on their own (this is much better than a regular self-driving car) and... are able to be tricked and confused, since Shaggy confuses by them but pretending to be a gym teacher (or something) and making them do jumping Jacks and the robot is just baffled.

    A robot with that ability is just so far beyond what is possible now and that episode aired in the 70s. Can you imagine if someone could make a robot like that? On their own I a cave with a box of scraps? He could change the world and make an unholy amount of money.

    Instead his creator was just using him for what was basically petty theft.

    Scooby Doo is far darker than you think with that in mind.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Come to think of it, the Void doesnt seem so scary at all.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    Thanks for the reminder to never, ever do something like this. My consciousness dies with me.

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