This and similar stories are 100% PR bullshit to make it feel more like an actual intelligence.

It didn’t “escape its sandbox” any more than your mug of coffee did when your asshole cat swatted it off the table.

Actual intelligence that’s artificial remains confined to science fiction, and no amount of marketing will change that.

If and when the day comes that we make a true AI, there’ll be some serious boy-who-cried-wolf shit going on to convince the public that it’s actually real this time.

Naw, they were just as stupid/malicious/anti-American pre-covid.

Any effect it had on their brains has been obfuscated by their chimpanzee-esque baseline.

I’ve never gotten a soapy taste from it either, but I definitely have the gene that makes it taste horrid.

For me, the taste of cilantro is the exact same profile as the smell of stink bugs. So… Anything with even a tiny bit of cilantro in it tastes like it’s filled with ground up beetles.

But not soap. Tbh I think soap would be an improvement.

…I’m super jealous of folks who don’t have the gene - what they describe it tasting like sounds fucking amazing.

isn’t just mildly infuriating.

…idk, there comes a point of exhaustion where major grievances are so frequent and routine that you kinda just go numb to them.

A new one pops up, we’ll bitch about it for a bit, and just fizzle back into numbness.

It shouldn’t be mildly infuriating, but here we are.

Yeah I know, but like… our planet is on fire, the Nazis are back, we (US) have a president who’s at war with our citizens and economy, we have the Horseman Pestilence acting as Health Secretary… the list goes on and on.

Cereal took a step in the right direction. Woo. 🎉

It’s still really bad for you. Woo. 🎉

I know not all things need to be relative, just where my brain is at right now.

…add one to the pile of “why tf wasn’t this done like 20 years ago”.

Baby steps I guess, but that baby is currently staggering its way through a forest fire in the context of the rest of current events, so it’s kinda hard to give a shit about cereal right now.

Not just gold, but a warm and fuzzy feeling!

Yeah, but if you went to flip-the-switch school for a quarter of your life, passed the flip-the-switch boards, adhere to (or in this case, only ‘be aware of’) a flip-the-switch ethics committee, and practice alongside dozens of flip-the-switch support staff, it’s a bit of a different scenario.

Doing all that and still flipping the switch inappropriately is NOT some split second decision making dilemma, it’s legit malice.

I’m not an expert on organ procurements, but I’ve supported a few of them, and the criteria for actually doing it is strict as fuck. Patient needs to be completely and verifiably brain dead before they can proceed. Like, so much as an eye flicker in response to the name bring called out is enough to get one of these cancelled.

The investigation included the case of a Kentucky man who was brought to the operating table for organ recovery despite thrashing, crying and shaking his head.

Yeah if that’s actually legit, that’s fucking terrifying. That’s like prison time for the entire team level of not okay.

APGAR STYLE!

OB! OB! OB! OB! OB!

AI slop kettle calls AI slop pot black.

How can someone with such high qualifications be this stupid?

When I first started in healthcare, I thought this all the damn time. You go in expecting doctors to be all around better/smarter people than the rest of us. Like, they made it through medical school, right? Surely they can think critically about things like politics, or apply their medical knowledge to basic practices like hygiene… or at least figure out how to drive around that one corner of the parking garage without risking a 3-car pile up.

Nope, nope, and fuckin NOPE!

Most of them are genuinely brilliant in the scope of their own specialty, but outside of that very specific bubble, they’re the same dumbass monkeys as the rest of us.

Yeah that’s where my head went too. I’ve dealt with a pretty middle-of-the-road amount of hardship… wasn’t born with a silver spoon up my ass or anything, but no Hollywood-esque trauma arch either. Still, looking back over even just the past decade, there’s a lot more bad than good popping into my brain.

And the cool part? I already can’t recall details from a lot of that shit. Just fuzzy concepts that my brain has filed into the fuck-it box and now I don’t have to worry about them cuz I’m literally incapable! Woohoo!

Being fully conscious of all that, all the time… that would absolutely destroy my mental health. Fuck that!

How can there be earning back respect?

Major political reform, modelled after the more functional parts of the world. Emphasis on a rewrite of the Constitution with protections built in against domestic enemies like Trump. And functional checks and balances. And cultural denazification.

I don’t really see it happening either.

free

Fee*

You can have things like free speech and actual political representation here, you just need to be rich first.

Dark Souls.

Got Dark Souls II to see what the hype was about, and 100%-ed it cuz I was post-surgery with nothing better to do.

Fast forward, and a friend gifted me Elden Ring, so, here we go again.

It’s famous difficulty was just a combo of clunky controls and obnoxious health pools, which made mastering that type of difficulty really unsatisfying.

I gitted gud, but Dark Souls never gitted fun.

Same applies to Souls-likes.

I really wanted to believe. Fucking love the aesthetic, but that’s about the only positive I can recall.

Murican here. If we’re going to learn from our fuck around phase, the find out phase needs to hurt.

Like an alcoholic waking up to a hangover from hell and vowing to never let that happen again, that hangover could be the best thing that’s ever happened to the addict.

The more our president throws his tantrums, the more we should be shunned, isolated, and ignored by the rest of the planet. Politically and financially.

To the non-muricans here, sorry for being such a shitty neighbor. I look forward to earning back your respect - hopefully that day comes soon, but I’m not holding my breath.

The cardinals are the pope’s fledglings, right? I think he’s the one puking in their mouths.

*eye twitch

I’ve only served on jury duty once, and it was kinda fucked up. Child abuse case, and we were all kinda on the fence leaning toward defendant was guilty, but the evidence presented was just absolute dogshit. Lots of reasonable doubts.

Found the dude not guilty on the premise that we’d rather let a guilty piece of shit off the hook than risk convicting someone who’s innocent, but it felt real fuckin icky to give that verdict over what was most likely just a lazy investigation by the cops.

Hope the kid turned out okay… must have absolutely zero faith in the legal system because of that.