Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?

[Colonel Midnight]

Not sure what’s worse… a Jeep Wrangler with an ‘Angry Grill’ (DUMB) or this new trend of putting LED lights on your rear windshield that are eye-shaped, so now the vehicle looks like it’s angry while you’re following… *sheeesh*

Either way, it looks STUPID.

Then again, there’s no accounting for taste like Phlox said…

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Not sure what’s worse… a Jeep Wrangler with an ‘Angry Grill’ (DUMB) or this new trend of putting LED lights on your rear windshield that are eye-shaped, so now the vehicle looks like it’s angry while you’re following… *sheeesh*

Either way, it looks STUPID.

Then again, there’s no accounting for taste like Phlox said…

Cheers,
-CM-

I find the whole idea of huge vehicles that are supposed to be driven off road only in the suburbs stupid. Same for LED lights that are like mini suns

 

[Birb-of-Prey]

The best argument against "designer babies" isn't hang-wringing over "eugenics" or "playing God", but the genetic horrors known as "designer dogs".

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

The best argument against "designer babies" isn't hang-wringing over "eugenics" or "playing God", but the genetic horrors known as "designer dogs".

Just wait ectogenic chambers will be available in a few years, so normal pregnancy could be different too

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

A bowl of porridge is a great way to start the day off. Well for me it was.

 

[bdub76]

No idea why the latest version of Claude now costs 5x as much as the previous version. This is going to bite those companies that decided to replace their workers with AI.

 

[Avro Arrow]

No idea why the latest version of Claude now costs 5x as much as the previous version. This is going to bite those companies that decided to replace their workers with AI.

That was probably always the plan. Build up a dependency, then jack up the price.

Welcome to capitalism. Gotta try to keep that bubble from popping somehow.

Also...

This is going to bite those companies that decided to replace their workers with AI.

Good! If you're going to do that, then you deserve every bad thing that happens to you.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Ditto if you are scummy enough to ditch all your human workers for AI you deserve karma baby...... Humanity first

 

[bdub76]

Ditto if you are scummy enough to ditch all your human workers for AI you deserve karma baby...... Humanity first

Humanity is doomed. Plenty of science fiction that predicts its demise. I'm almost done with Parable of the Sower, which now makes me want to read later this year The Road, which I haven't read since the movie came out.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Humanity is doomed. Plenty of science fiction that predicts its demise. I'm almost done with Parable of the Sower, which now makes me want to read later this year The Road, which I haven't read since the movie came out.

That's depressing. How is humanity doomed?

 

[Extrocomp]

The best argument against "designer babies" isn't hang-wringing over "eugenics" or "playing God", but the genetic horrors known as "designer dogs".

Human genetic engineering could work if there are laws dictating what you can and can't do. Giving a child a non-human appearance should be illegal. Changing the way the human brain works should be even more illegal.

 

[bdub76]

That's depressing. How is humanity doomed?

We're going to get brain rot from AI. Then, we going to have water shortages from data centers. And income equality will continue to get worse. We're so doomed.

It's why I have been reading a lot of Jeeves stories lately. I need to plan to be more like Bertie.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

We're going to get brain rot from AI. Then, we going to have water shortages from data centers. And income equality will continue to get worse. We're so doomed.

It's why I have been reading a lot of Jeeves stories lately. I need to plan to be more like Bertie.

Bring on the Butlerian jihad

Or if AI will be our doom give them biomass conversion at least it will be quick and painless

 

[bdub76]

Bring on the Butlerian jihad

Or if AI will be our doom give them biomass conversion at least it will be quick and painless

I imagine a future, where I'm Bertie like, and my AI is like Jeeves. It's as optimistic as I can get.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I imagine a future, where I'm Bertie like, and my AI is like Jeeves. It's as optimistic as I can get.

Oh I'm pretty sure AI will be part of our doom but not the sole threat

 

[Set Harth]

Giving a child a non-human appearance should be illegal.

There's my bat boy project down the drain.

 

[bdub76]

Oh I'm pretty sure AI will be part of our doom but not the sole threat

Yes.

We have the outfits at the Met Gala, which for some reason remind me of the Hunger Games and not in a good way. And drawing districts should be even easier now.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Ooh I remember The Road but only parts of the book, and not much of the film. Ending of the book makes me think as a species we are toast

 

[auntiehill]

^ I think that just from watching the news.

 

[Set Harth]

Ooh I remember The Road but only parts of the book, and not much of the film. Ending of the book makes me think as a species we are toast

For some reason I haven't finished the book.