latenightnoir

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also further proof that I absolutely suck at identifying jokes:))

  I apologise if I came off as too “dime store philosopher,” this whole normalcy thing has deep roots in my conception. I’ve seen so many people haunted by the feeling of being abnormal (myself included, ngl), that it’s become a sort of a nurturing instinct to try to dispel it as much and as often as I can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Respectfully disagree, our interpretation of mathematics is secondary to the entirety of existence. “Normal” is most definitely not exclusive to mathematics, and thus, in this context, entirely unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would. In my opinion, if it exists, then it is normal.

  Even what we perceive as shitty/horrid/weird/unorthodox is entirely normal, as everything is part of a deeply complex causal system. We may not fully grasp the tapestry of ramifications which lead to said causal normalcy, but, again, if it weren’t normal, it wouldn’t exist (to further entangle this, nothingness itself thus becomes normal).

  Everything beyond that is our biased perception which births opinions. Nothing more. This is not to say that our opinions don’t matter, as some aspects are more constructive than others (eg. honesty vs. deception, life vs. death, etc.) and we have the power to act upon our opinions and directly influence the system of causality within which we exist, which we should do as often and as sincerely as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As many spoonfuls of peanut butter as desired; several tokes; drink lots of water.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, uh… the shower certainly has you covered on the water end, but doesn’t it make the PB all runny and weird?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh, that makes more sense, yes! Thank you and sorry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which fuck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She had me at “Meredith.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir delivers first two AI-enabled systems to U.S. Army⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure! Why have AI assisted ambulances or firetrucks when you can slap an AI onto ICBM carriers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a threat, or a promise? ;) ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tetrapods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nnnoooo, god damn it! I was in the midst of rewatching Voyager, and now you’ve seared “Janeway cheese” all across my perception! Thanks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so, this is how it ends⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … I mean, it’s only fair…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, it’ll have to plow through ~30GB of 1080p recordings of darkness and my upstairs neighbors living it up in the AMs. And nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, what the fuck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uuh… wrong? That’s obviously a Petri dish in full bloom?

  Everyone knows this Universe exists solely as a grad student’s thesis experiment…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I honestly forgot all about Terminator after the last couple of movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That one always seemed to be a contradiction in itself, meant to reinforce the massive cognitive dissonance mechanism the State used to keep the populace with no solid ground on which to plant their feet. While everything was mechanically predictable from the outside, I don’t think anyone actually going through something like that would be able to fully grasp what was happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Terminator, yes! That idea that the future was already set and nothing could change it much. They kinda’ tried to hammer it home in the third, but they didn’t end up doing much with it.

  But yeah, that’s it. The downfall’s bad enough that it’s become predictable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My bad in this case, guess I have a bias toward their contextualisation within the first game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, guess I’m anthropomorphising AI a bit too much!

  But, yes, that was my intended message, the point when it gains critical mass as a discriminatory concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget, though, the Geth pretty much defended themselves without even having time to understand what was happening.

  Imagine suddenly gaining both sentience and awareness, and the first thing which your creators and masters do is try to destroy you.

  To drive this home even further, even the “evil” Geth who sided with the Reapers were essentially indoctrinated themselves. In ME2, Legion basically overwrites corrupted files with stable/baseline versions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Serious question, at which point in their development do we start considering “beep-boop” jokes racist? Like, I’m dead serious.

  Is it when they reach true sentience? Or is it just plain racist anyway, because it’s a joke which started as a mockery of fictional AIs, anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m struggling to think of the movie which depicted this feeling perfectly, maybe there isn’t one and my brain’s just substituting for it.

  It feels as though every day is more predictable than the last, every piece of news comes more as a ticking off the list than as a surprise development. I imagine this is a slice of Purgatory in a way, to know the ills expecting you and being served nothing but, with essentially no variability in occurrences.

  This may be the first time when we’re not interacting with a Skinner box of a society, ffs, and it’s because THEY came back…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NZ Birbs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had doubts about the Kākāpō, but then I reached the “mostly foliage” part and knew I’d found the match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. Makes sense from the perspective of protecting profits, I guess, because the actual thing which bothers them is the volume of lost potential customers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, piracy is legal if you don’t distribute? What the fuck is Zuck smoking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAPPY FLAT FUCK FRIDAY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eeeey, I’m in this one! Happy Today, everyone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to pen and paper it is! Start feeding the pigeons, everyone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sso… like my already existing smartphone. Only larger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, that’s just it, I already do that with my standard phone… At this point, they’re all basically phablets, Nexus 6 was right all along (although it still did it better). Multi-window splits have also been a thing for a good while now, I honestly don’t see the point for more screen on my pocket device… Heck, I even mainline as a secondary PC, use it to have YT/movies in the background while doing stuff on the big dude.