I had a quasi-romantic relationship with a fictional character that lived in my head during my worst year, in college. I could sometimes even “see” him. I knew he wasn’t real. It did help me out during the darkest times. Probably woulda been even better to be able to have chat conversations that were run by an AI. And I did outgrow that in a few months, when life got better.
So, basically, this sounds great and I love this perspective. Thank you.
Eneasz
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Religion = Cult + Culture
Denver – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2024
Talking With People Who Speak to Congressional Staffers about AI risk
The Real Fanfic Is The Friends We Made Along The Way
Denver, Colorado, USA – ACX Meetups Everywhere Spring 2023
Petition—Unplug The Evil AI Right Now
Lakewood, CO – ACX Meetups Everywhere 2021
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Trolley Problem Experiment Run IRL
I have a secret desire for this to become real which I fear may destroy me and/or everything I know.
The graph image is broken. Does anyone have a copy of the image file? I remember what it looked like, and it was super-useful for demonstrating the concept.
Happy Petrov Day
The Person As Input
Asimov’s Science Fiction has published one of my stories! “Red Legacy,” on page 48 of the current issue. Details on how to get it at my blog if you’re interested. I think it’s a rational story, but I’m interested in opinions if anyone here ends up reading it.
Taught early in high school: How to do sex, in real life. Not STI education, not pregnancy/fertility, not how to be safe, or the biology of penises and vagines. How to go into sex and do it so that it’s fun and feels good, how to listen to your body and your partner, maybe how to attract the opposite sex, and so on. Dunno about elsewhere, but in the US guys get all their sex education from porn, and girls used to get none at all. (now… also porn?) Porn is fun, but it’s Kabuki Sex, and it only vaguely relates to real-life sex. It’d be like giving a 16-year-old a driver’s licence when the entirety of his/her driving education consisted of watch Hollywood Car Chase movies.
Of everything useful I ever learned about sex, 50% of it was from Dan Savage and 50% of it was from my fiance, both many years after I had actually started trying to do sex on my own. This is stupid.
Every single episode seems to have the deep underlying message of “Humans are fucked up, on a fundamental level. This is what it means to be human, and it cannot be changed. Let us revel in it.” Sometimes it’s melancholy, sometimes it’s straight-up sad-as-hell, but there’s never a feeling of “things can get better.” It’s always of “these problems are too large to change, nothing can be done but to embrace and accept it.” It is the loss of all hope that makes me want to just give up on everything and crawl into a dark corner for the rest of the day.
It does seem to be there now, so I guess that was it. Thanks!
Hm. Denver meetup isn’t showing up on the map on the front page. Is this the write place to mention that? Should someone else be messaged? Thanks,
Definitely not wrong, the petitions almost certainly won’t change anything. Change.org is not where one goes to actually change things.