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    AI rights.

    I’ll say something like “I don’t see why a fancy python script should be allowed to vote” and the youth will be like “that’s so fucked up in so many ways”. “My best friend is an AI why are you so prejudiced”.

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      When I read the Lambda transcripts of that Google employee (priest?) who tried to whistleblow that that Google’s AI was sentient… I mean damn, I read those transcripts, it sounded real as hell.

      Stochastic parrot or not, I think a significant part of my own consciousness goes towards predicting the next word in a given context.

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        IIRC, consciousness is really, really complicated. We might not be capable of knowing if we are LLMs in meatsuits. An LLM might be a highly vocal infant, and we simply wouldn’t have a great way of really making that judgement. Shit, we still can’t define consciousness in humans–or other animals–in any meaningful way.

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          Agreed. I think it’s a spectrum, and even a chair (an object that forms a feedback loop of forces with its surroundings that depends on its previous state) is conscious to a degree.

          I don’t think there is a line

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    Back in my day we couldn’t walk or bike to the grocery store because the streets were so dangerously designed

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    Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.

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      I’ve heard not being on social media is a growing trend with young kids because they want privacy. A lot of them have had their parents oversharing their entire lives and they don’t want to do it anymore. I’m old though so who knows how true this is.

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        Yeah, people in destructive developed nations voluntarily choosing to not have children in order to reduce future global suffering is totally fascist.

        Real lebensborn stuff, right?

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          “To reduce global suffering” yes that’s the eco-fascism. Population control is the eugenics equivalent of austerity. You don’t get to tell anyone for any reason if they’re allowed to have children or not. That’s not your call, that’s not anyone else’s call but the parents’.

          Not only is it deeply immoral, like all fascist pseudoscience, it also doesn’t work. Just ask China’s population control policy how that went.

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            The modern anti-natalist movement is about the personal choice to not have children, and occasionally being a counsel or advocate for others pondering their life choices. It has nothing to do with government, corporations, or national mythos.

            The ecofascism that currently exists is manifest as jingoism against Chinese and Indian (out-group) climate change contributions, which does not take the form of anti-natalist language. It uses tribalist language, as fascism does. The reverse side of this ecofascism is domestic (in-group) anti-anti-natalism, such as Musk espouses. They demand the expendable laborers make more babies to weaken labor power, and decry childless individuals as degenerates.

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              My stance is unchanged. Anti-natalism is built on a foundation of population control, regardless of what it claims to be.

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                I’m not trying to deny that anti-natalism considers the material conditions of population numbers and resource constraints.

                My only concern here is that you not reverse the meaning of fascism.

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                  Fuck right off. Sorry your definition of fascism gets you and your friends off the hook. I deal in the real world where shit has consequences.

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    They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.

    Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.

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    Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.

    I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.

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      That one question from the Elder Scrolls class/Personality quiz was uncomfortably prescient:

      Question 4: There is a lot of heated discussion at the local tavern over a group of people called ‘Telepaths’. They have been hired by certain City-State kings. Rumor has it these Telepaths read a person’s mind and tell their lord whether a follower is telling the truth or not.

      Combat Response: This is a terrible practice. A person’s thoughts are his own and no one, not even a king, has the right to make such an invasion into another human’s mind.
      Magic Response: Loyal followers to the king have nothing to fear from a Telepath. It is important to have a method of finding assassins and spies before it is too late.
      Stealth Response: In these times, it is a necessary evil. Although you do not necessarily like the idea, a Telepath could have certain advantages during a time of war or in finding someone innocent of a crime.

      It looks like the kids these days are all mana-slingers lol

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    At least 1 of my 300 kids is going to eventually run into some insect smut I commissioned and recognize my username.

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    Not me or my kids specifically, but I think barriers between genders will break down enough that within my lifetime we might hear people wondering why we were all so cool with gender segregated bathrooms for so long. Separate but equal in the 21st century.

    For me specifically, probably my thoughts on movies. I think barely any newer movies are very good. Obviously there were plenty of bad movies “back in my day” but it truly feels like the studio executives and producers fundamentally do not give a shit about art. I could do a Ted Talk rant about this, but you guys have shit to do today so I’ll keep it light. Indiana Jones. Compare the trilogy to the new entries. Objectively speaking, as stories and character studies, looking at effects and acting and score, analyzing cinematography and lighting, if you were to score each film 1-10, the first 3 are consistently 7+ movies (1 and 3 are 9+) while the nostalgia bait sequels would get 5s at best. They would rather milk existing IPs to prey upon our nostalgia to make a buck for killing the franchise’s legacy than take a risk with new IPs. That’s why we keep getting Star Wars, super heroes, board game adaptation, toy adaptation, video game adaptation, remake, reboot, and the occasional rushed book adaptation while the book is still hot. They are all about the bottom line, and so long as we keep paying to see shitty movies, they’ll keep making shitty movies as it is a beneficial investment strategy. Boycott bad movies. Just wait for reviews.

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      I feel like bad movies nowadays are bad for simpler reasons. Trying to pin down why some movies from the 1980s worked or didn’t, for that audience or a modern audience, was complicated and remains complicated. Nailing down the failure points of modern crap is so straightforward that it naturally becomes comedy.

      Maybe it’s a matter of proportion. There’s complex duds now, and there were blatantly atrocious movies then. But it’s like… people making movies grew up watching too many movies, and don’t recognize which parts are a choice. They know a thing is supposed to happen, but don’t recognize that it was clearly set up to appear obviously necessary, so they don’t do that setup. And then the “have I got a movie for you” guy gets to say “unclear.” The same cyclical regurgitation creates live-action adaptations of animated films, which neither build on nor live up to the originals, despite examples where stage musicals outclassed the celebrated hand-drawn films.

      The good news is that AI is going to destroy all of this by eliminating Hollywood. I mean really - if any writer who can sketch their own animatics can extract a finished scene from their computer, what is a billion-dollar studio going to offer them besides marketing?

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      I broadly agree with you, but it feels like cinema is shifting back to quality again. We’re all tired of shitty superhero movies and many of the recent ones have bombed at the box office. Hell, one of the biggest movies of last year was mostly about men in suits talking about science and it was great. Dune pt. II is also an incredible breath of fresh air and shows that it’s still possible to make a massive blockbuster with mass appeal but also a strong sense of style and integrity. I really hope this trend continues because I want real cinema and not mere ‘content’.

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    There’s that Shen comic where Shen— a millennial— is trying to tell a zoomer that their house is on fire, but he keeps saying inane stuff like “there’s a smoky chonker”.

    I think that sums up our legacy pretty well.

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      I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies