I dunno if Insane Clown Posse started throwing out packets of Flavoraid instead of spraying Faygo at their concerts it just wouldn't have the same effect...
Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.
So.... there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world... I never really got the point of that one.
But if you've ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you're not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes "sentient" because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you'd have to do some background reading.
Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends... but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that "something happens".... I dunno this one requires a bit more thought...
Is there like a specific instance of her doing something?
I've read the following arguments:
her humor is bland, Cathy-level stuff. I like !garfield@lemmy.world so I'm not exactly an expert on humor, but fwiw I like her art style and I find her strips funny more often than not. That sort of thing's subjective anyway.
she had reddit comics-strip mods delete any critical comments about her. Yeah, reddit sucks, that's why we left, I dunno if it's fair to blame her for that.
she supported reddit during the API protests. I kinda disliked her for a while because of this, HOWEVER since then she's done a lot of anti-MAGA comics (most recently like this, this, and this) so I think she's cool bc that's a far more important issue, and I'm not gonna be hung up on reddit forever.
in her strip she sometimes makes fun of people who criticize her. I see this kinda like a stand-up comedienne dealing with hecklers, i.e. it's part of the show, and good on her for not taking shit from people. But some people apparently think this is inappropriate. Others assume that her "hecklers" are sexist, insecure, etc and that creates even more defensiveness. Not sure if there's an easy solution to this.
That's not a true statement. It's barely coherent. But it's kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it... like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.
That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I'd argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like "everything turns out well like in a romance movie."
STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
CONCLUSION: life is not ideal
I mean, it's not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you're in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.
how are you going to ethically test whether you can manipulate people without… manipulating people.
That's a great question. In the US, researchers are generally obliged (by their universities or their funders) to use an Institutional Review Board to review any proposed experiment involving human subjects. The IRB look for things like: causing physical or emotional harm to the subjects, taking advantage of vulnerable populations, using deception without consent, etc. The IRB might let you do something like manipulate a subject, if the subjects were informed that they might be manipulated or deceived. Yes, this might introduce an observer effect, but this type of review is generally accepted as being necessary for doing ethical research. However, I'm not familiar with the research in question or with the requirements of the Univ of Zurich where the researchers are from.
"Sure, you could meet people the old-fashioned way by going outside, but that feels like a lot of work. So instead you navigate this bleak dystopian hellscape sifting through the dregs of humanity through your smartphone while each day brings you closer to the cold hard hands of death."
TIL. I got a chill just reading this term.