I hate when they just repeat/reexplain the instructions and treat me like an idiot.

I didn’t ask “how” I asked “why”.

I understand how in the day to day people rely on shortcuts to understand people. But even when I explicitly ask to interpret the literal words I am saying they still jump around the question.

It gives me the urge to write the question down and give it to them like an essay question, maybe then they’ll see how much of a no sequitur their response is.

I’m surprised Harkon didn’t try to take Blackreach for himself. They’re immune to Falmer poison, they can use their full power without sunlight, they’re smarter and have access to invisibility, illusions, and charms.

In return he could have a country sized cavern, with at least two points of contact to Skyrim one either end, all the dwemer tech to hoard and use with their ancient knowledge. He could subjugate the falmer to be blood livestock, they’re already crafted to be good slaves by the dwemer.

He could slowly build up a vampire/thrall/dwemer machine army right under Skyrim then wage war overnight. Could even use dwemer machines by day to maintain territory until you complete this master prophecy you have.

Scrolling past this I thought it was a post about a bizarre captcha.

Who’s to say gay men don’t do more white collar crime?

And thus a new masochistic furry was born!

I think it’s funnier without context, it implies she was disturbing the peace and the first person to walk up to her she fell in love with.

I think I’m going through the millennial thing, where everyone treats your generation as children even though I’m 25.

I mean, the first wave of Gen Alphas are 15 now, pretty soon no Gen Z’s gonna be in high school anymore.

I stayed up to date on ai and machine learning, including language models. I remember hearing that one learned math from language and wondering where things will go. I watched ai safety videos before they felt relevant. Then I heard Openai, which had a good rep at the time, is releasing their new model online, called ChatGPT. Having played with DungeonAI and NovelAI before I was gonna fiddle with this as well.

Then headlines broke, it became a phenomenon. Even then I figured this would be this week’s Thing before getting bored, as was common with these ai.

Down the line I remembered hearing ChatGPT on a gas station ad for some travel app. That was when I realized this is permanent. People who aren’t even online are likely hearing about this. Suddenly my niche hobby and hopeful dreams of the future became an actual enshittified crisis.

I don’t think I need to explain how everyone using language models now is just god awful for everyone. And the attention hasn’t gotten us closer to answering long standing questions of ethics, economic change, what is intelligence or consciousness. We’ve just got a bunch of the lowest common denominator shouting their answers now.

Constrain the design by strict fake rules and you get Monster Hunter.

Ultimately I believe you can’t claim to be an activist if you are promoting inaction.

If voting doesn’t matter then vote and do more. Doing less to change things is functionally conservative no matter how you spin it.

I feel like the people getting upset over this are taking these hypotheticals of “young looking adults just wanting to be able to make porn equally and that technically the community did nothing wrong”.

The problem is that just ignores the fact that pedophiles would definitely use communities like that as a “foot in the door” to a comminity that would naturally have a lot of closetted pedophiles. The issue isn’t young looking adults making porn, the issue is a community based around youngest possible looking adults is naturally gonna attract and encourage pedophiles.

It’s like they say, “all it takes is allowing one nazi in your bar for it to rapidly turn into a nazi bar”.