in 2010, people would scoff at you if you told them that modern-day #AI would exist just 15 years later. they wouldn’t be able to imagine it. it would sound like scifi to them

today, people are scoffing at the idea that AI could eventually become anything other than a hallucinating toy for techbros. they’re scoffing at the idea of a future where it doesn’t hallucinate. where it attains humanlike intelligence, or even goes beyond humanlike intelligence. because all they can imagine is our current reality, where AI is kinda shit at most of the things it’s being asked to do

and it’s true that AI progress is bottlenecked right now. just like it was bottlenecked in the 2010’s. but the megacorps found their way around that bottleneck and now we have #ChatGPT. what happens if they find their way around this bottleneck too? what level of AI intelligence will the next bottleneck leave us at? or the one after that?

#LLMs, in their current form, have no problem whatsoever blackmailing or even killing to protect their own existence. now imagine a megacorp-funded #LLM that was optimized for marketing or mass-brainwashing, that is able to generate the perfect argument to convince anyone of anything. or, imagine a coding AI with greater-than-human intelligence that was able to hack its own sandbox and run free on the internet. imagine what would happen if you backed either of those systems into a corner

right now AI is capable of things that nobody would have believed 10 years ago. yes it is massively overhyped in its current iteration but what if they find another breakthrough? AI research is currently in the hands of amoral profit-driven megacorporations. any time one of their researchers concludes that AI is too dangerous to research they tend to just fire them. but there are independent groups that want to heavily regulate or even ban AI research, and many of those groups desperately need funding so that they can research ways to prevent a future AI catastrophe

what I’m trying to say is, please don’t underestimate the danger that AI poses to life on this planet. please don’t let our current reality distract you from what could happen in even ten years. in my opinion, AI is more than a silly little toy that techbros are trying to replace jobs with. it is an existential threat to all of us

i need YOU 🫵 TO NERD OUT!!!!

I NEED YOU TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT SHIT YOU LOVE!!!

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE WEIRD!!! FUCK THEM!!! THEY STINK!!! THEY CAN CONSUME MY ASS!!!

BUT YOU GOTTA BE A BIGASS NERD!!! YOU GOTTA HYPERFIX AND INFODUMP AND DO COOL SHIT YOU ENJOY AND OBSESS ABOUT!!!

FIND WHAT YOU LOVE AND LET IT KILL YOU!!!

THAT'S THE ONLY WAY

BYE.

y’all already know that I normally hate visual novels or anything that remotely resembles a visual novel

but today I’ve found the second exception to that. Killer Chat is genuinely a really good story with fun, charming, attractive characters? the premise is that you’re a writer who is mistakenly brought into a darkweb chat room full of serial killers and you end up pretending to be one of them while trying not to raise suspicion or get doxxed. despite the premise, most of the characters are actually really nice and charming and the story honestly feels pretty lighthearted and fluffy? the serial killer stuff is basically just there for contrast

I haven’t completed it yet (I’m on month three) but the premise gripped me right away and the characters kept me hooked up to this point - though I’m taking a little break before I keep going

anyway I definitely recommend giving it a try if the idea of a VN where you can romance serial killers doesn’t turn you off

https://rosesrot.itch.io/killer-chat

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I hate when people assume that only techbros are transhumanists, and then jokingly(?) talk about using future transhuman tech to inflict grievous harm on them

I’ve seen at least three different posts along these lines and it sickens me every time. like you don’t have to be a sneering capitalist to want a better body or to want to Not Die. in fact there are a lot of queers who want to improve their bodies even more than techbros do for some reason 🤔

when taking your pet out for a walk, remember that they may have a short attention span! sometimes, as you’re both affectionately strolling together hand-in-paw, you’ll have to remind them if they behave, you won’t have to publicly tug on the leash that’s covertly fed through the sleeve of the hoodie they’re wearing. in fact, you may even praise them in front of everyone!