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  • Yeah, people remember a handful of classic war movies or westerns and think that era was magical but for every great film there was a hundred terrible cookie cutter cash grabs.

    I would love to see some more directors focus on making great art but the reality is that's incredibly hard.

  • Yeah of all the people I know that rushed out to get vr none of them mention it now, a lot of streamers I watch did a video or two then have never done another one. It's such a great idea but also so many issues to work around.

    I think most people don't really want to be totally immersed, I like just relaxing watching some YouTube and playing games, having a snack and a drink, chatting to friends on my phone... a game has to be so much better if it's going to hold my full attention but pretty much universally vr games are far worse than their screen based versions - hitman vr for example, there's a million videos of people playing and laughing at how bad it is and almost none actually playing properly

  • If you walk 12 hours a day then you can't work, socialise, eat, etc etc etc which are all the same problems as when doing anything else for 12 hours.

    And of course there's many more dangers than disease, which of them do you think exist when talking to a simulation? You're not going to get scammed, taken advantage of, bullied, manipulated, raped, murdered, humiliated, impregnated, or any of the bad stuff that can happen due to normal flirting if you're using a well regulated AI.

    The solution to all the potential issues is communication and education, make sure people understand and can see that it's just a toy rather than a real person and that it's generating fiction rather than catching feelings.

  • Yeah same, I'm a bit of a transport nerd and love trains - I've planned bits of holidays especially to ride trains I wanted to see, also for reasons I didn't learn to drive until I was late 30s and almost never drive because I hate it - I think it's for this reason I really find fuckcars frustrating, they act like trains are a magical solution to all transport needs and every car is evil.

    Every transport authority in the world agrees mixed mode integrated transport networks are the future, it's not even slightly a debate.

  • The problem is that once again people with genuine concerns get derided and insulted which pushes them deeper into these views - people have a lot of great reasons for not wanting their car taken away and fearing that the rich's solution to population growth is going to be to force people into prison communities, that's been a common theme in history - Australia and America only exist as they are because of the clearances, and the North of England owes most it's population to poors getting tricked into moving to brutally compact works towns and treated like cattle.

    Instead of hearing the fears and needs of people they're just attacked, called stupid and going by most the times I've seen it come up flooded by people saying things like 'cars are bad, it would be better if we got rid of them all' which is super unhelpful, it's like calling a movement 'defund the police' and having everyone yell about how we should get rid of them all because they're all bastard's but not address the actual needs society has for people tasked with stopping crime - why do people supporting sensible and important things have to make their views sound so intensely unpalatable?

    We need to address all the great things that cars and suburban living have brought us, and yes I can already hear the comments from people yelling that it's a literal hellscape and traffic and etc etc etc but what are people who are living lives they enjoy going to say when they hear that? What are people who don't want to live the small community lifestyle going to say when told it's the only good way of living? When people who enjoy the benefits of modern logistics get told they'll just learn to adapt to having less?

    The dumbest bit is we could be focusing on positive additions to peoples lives and offering greater efficiency and freedom through the use of modern planning and technology - that's what the 15 min city idea is actually about (kinda, depending who's version you look at).

    The logistics of a 15 min lifestyle have to exceed in quality of life the current system, and people need to actually agree not just be badgerd into accepting less. I could talk for days about how this can be done, key points include integrated transport networks to facilitate travel and exploration, nationalised version of Amazon and eBay with community shipping, zoning rules based on measured impact rather than use type (e.g. you're welcome to live in a high noise area or have shops in a low pollution and traffic area if you can accept the limitations), nationalised services for community utilities to avoid corporate monopolies, measures to improve temporary relocation and travel, investment in affordable and efficient multi-transport cargo (rather than a removal van taking your house the whole way you fill a cargo container and have it collected by a lorry to do the first mile journey to a station where it's loaded onto a train or ship to move to a transport hub then forwarded to the final destination where it's taken last mile to the new address by a lorry..)

    Improving logistics has to come first, the rallying cry can't be 'you need this and will have to try and learn to live with it' it has to be 'this is how we can live better lives'

  • Traditional media says thing that displaces them is terrible and scary and should be stopped... we've heard it before with the internet, with social media, and right back to TV and radio...

    It will be the greatest discovery tool for human crested content that we've ever had. Imagine being able to sort all the junk and actually find what you're looking for, being able to actually filter stuff and search within context. And imagine not needing a journalist to string together their assumptions and sketchy understanding of science but being able to ask questions and get answers that draw from press releases, released papers, interviews, and public statements.

    Yes it will get harder to use the web like we did ten years ago, but that's ok because doing that is already rubbish.

  • My open source project benefits hugely from the free to access LLM coding tools available, that's a far bigger positive than the abstract fear that someone might feel alienated because the guy copy pasting their code doesn't know who he's copying from?

    And yes, obviously the LLM isn't copying code it's leaning from a huge range of sources and combining it to make exactly what you ask for (well not exactly but with some needling it gets there eventually) but even if it were that's still not disrupting collaboration because that's not how collaboration works - no one says 'instead of coding all the boring elif statements required for my fiction determining if something is a prime, I'll search code snippits and collaborate with them' every worthwhile collaborator to my project has been an active user of the software and wanted to help improve it or add functions - AI won't change that, and if it does it'll only be because it makes coding so easy I don't need collaborators

  • 'everything new is bad and scary' I really don't understand why this viewpoint is so common in a tech community.

    AI will solve so many problems with the current internet and make it far easier to use. And there's no such thing as over grazing Wikipedia, I certainly wrote my small portions of it very aware that it's going to be used by ai and it's a great thing, plus they can certainly afford the bandwidth.

  • Anything for 12 hours a day is bad for you; reading the Bible, studying math, working out in the gym...

    I've tried being very attentive to your final paragraph but I can't parse it, what is tripper? And and did you mean it can't provide safety or that it can provide it plus something else (a tripper maybe?)

  • That's just Puritanical hogwash though, the same crowd of voices come out with the same baseless assumptions and stretched one-sided logic about everything.

    When video games came out the puritans all said violent video games would ruin the world but violence has continued to decrease YOY, studies show that they can actually help people regulate their temper and foster better emotional intelligence. Learning to handle stressful situations is something modern culture took out of our lives and video games created a safe way to replace, our brains need practice at identifying anger and frustration and channeling then correctly.

    AI sex partners are likely a very similar thing, by allowing safe exploration and somewhere to develop experience and confidence communicating it's very likely helping a lot of people establish the skills needed to find and flourish in a healthy human relationship.

    Really though they're just a bit of silly fun which doesn't hurt anyone, if someone can read Jane Austen and Julie Cooper without turning into a rabid fiend then they can have a cumbersome duty conversion with a LLM. Women aren't going to become self-pleasure addicted recluses because of sex bots if they weren't already that way due to the Sims and late night adult only discord chat rooms.

    Of course people who spend their whole lives fighting themselves because of some twisted puritanical claptrap they've had rammed down their throats are likely to fly off the rails at any moment, if you don't come to understand yourself and your biological impulses then you'll never be able to control yourself - most people aren't using AI sex bots to shamefully fill a void they dare not comprehend, they're not experiencing a genuinely non-judgemental conversation for the first time, they're not racked with sadness because their life of avoiding joy has left them cold and isolated.

    The fact puritans are scared of literally everyone fun only speaks of the puritan mentality and says nothing of the value of video games, porn, AI sex robots, or any of the other things they rally against.

    (And yes I have a deep sadness and recognise many do, messing around with fun distractions to that is just the human condition and the driving force of many great developments)

  • Yeah exactly, I was one of only about three kids in my school year who knew how to do anything on a computer, there were some snes and megadrive owners but mostly just people didn't even know tech existed.

    The reason we weren't getting scammed is our only contact with the outside world was a landline which we had to fight for time on even without the internet.

    By the end of the 90s computer use was fairly common and people were falling for the dumbest shit, 'if you don't send this to five friends before midnight you'll die' and 'just give me all your rare armour and I'll double it and give it back' The only reason we weren't getting scammed for real money is that before PayPal the only people who could accept money online were multinational companies and banks - who all have much more elegant ways of scamming.

    We were just as gullible as any other generation.

  • Interesting people barely have time to pop onto Twitter every now and then, they're not going to bother if it costs money

    And I guess we'll see which system ends up bearing fruit, I think we're already seeing the capitalist walled garden model falter, I suspect your more collectivist model won't have the momentum to replace it but while the commons might trip and start with a dozen different stumbles the sheer force of its ever growing ubiquity will carry it through.

    Especially as hardware continues to get cheaper and software more efficient, hosting a few thousand users on a federated server is already fairly trivial, its only going to get easier the more hurdles are removed through innovation and tech creep.

  • I've had many long conversations with a gay Indian friend, his experiences really don't match the rose tinted version of things you're portraying.

    And of course we don't even need to go into the treatment of women everywhere but the middle class portions of the nose progressive cities, everyone is very well aware of the problems.