They should call the police

Typical example of a car manufacturer losing touch with what the public wants. Four dimensional cars were a hard sell, most people didn’t really get it. And nobody gives a rat’s ass about the fifth dimension except using it as a place to dump their trash.

These people have an overwhelming predisposition to take a shit on everything. They encountered a thing. They took a shit on it.

It’s pretty straight forward to select away almost all cases of Alzheimer’s by simply not procreating if you are positive for APOEε4, for example

No suffering required

I disagree with your assertion that you can deny procreation to swathes of the population without causing suffering.

Sure. There’s various ways to influence the gene pool and most are not great ideas on a large scale. Enforced non-procreation for people with “undesirable” genes is a dark road to go down. Especially if we have other ways to treat these problems.

In the very long term the lack of natural selection could have a noticeable degrading effect on the human genome, but it’s a slow process of drift. Since gene editing will probably be more common eventually I don’t see it as a major concern. We left the brutal mechanisms of nature behind, and we already have the means to replace them. It’s right that we approach the topic of genetic manipulation with caution, focusing on clear cases of extreme need. We’re fine for the foreseeable future.

Bridging the gap with eugenics or the like just isn’t necessary, and is likely to cause societal problems far outweighing any advantage.

That’s not natural selection.

Natural selection was always the cruelest way to manage disease. It requires us to be struggling to survive. When a significant proportion of humankind have died from a disease, we may evolve a resistence to it, but that’s a brutal price to pay. We’re past that, and good riddance to it.

But you chose a strange place to bring that up. A drug to prevent Alzheimers won’t have much effect on natural selection, since a susceptibility to Alzheimers would very rarely prevent successful reproduction. Alzheimers is strongly tied to the ageing process, which is probably an evolved characteristic in itself. Natural selection was never a friend to the elderly.

Someone on Lemmy: says something

Someone else on Lemmy: says something different

OP: “OMG Lemmy can’t make up its mind”

I feel sorry for the US team, Trump’s interference put them in such a shameful situation. Everything he touches turns to shit.

Good point, I’m guessing it probably falls short of physical media in that way. As I understand it, they let you download an install file for the games you purchase, which you can save and use offline. I doubt that publishers would put effort into enabling a second hand games market

What nonsense. What matters isn’t whether we use physical disks or not. And it’s all digital anyway, you don’t get many games on vinyl these days. The real issue is whether you own the games you buy. As GOG is proving, game ownership is something that publishers can easily offer, regardless of the delivery mechanism. If Sony would step up and do the same, killing physical discs wouldn’t be a problem. It’s a trust issue.

There may be many cases where AI has been a benefit to vulnerable people. LLMs aren’t going away any time soon so it’s good if they tell you not to kill yourself. But that should be the end of it. The more we lean on AI to fix societal problems, the deeper the problems will get. Relying on an LLM to be a substitute for human interaction is a really bad idea. It’s easy, it’s compelling, and it will help you to put yourself in a much deeper hole than you were in before.

If you are banning things people see as needs, that’s not governance. That’s cruelty.

How about fentanyl, or meth? Many people see them as a need, once they get started. Much like an AI companion, they offer a quick fix to make you feel better and get away from the difficulties you’re facing in the real world. And like an AI companion, they don’t actually address those difficulties and will only make things worse.

The law really needs to catch up with these developments. AI companies are selling the illusion of talking to an intelligence, then when it goes wrong hiding behind the fact that it’s just a machine designed to spew out bullshit. They know damn well how compelling that illusion is.

They should be held to the same standard as any person who behaves as their LLM behaves. It’s fair to attribute the intent to kill since outcomes like this are built into the product. If you set off a bomb in a crowded market place you would not be able to legally defend that by claiming you just wanted to put on a firework display and didn’t know it would kill anyone. LLMs are lethal by design, not in all cases but definitely in some. If you make a product which fools people into thinking it is impartial, responsible and aware of what it is saying, which actively cultivates delusions and encourages vulnerable people to kill themselves and others, that’s 100% your responsibility. There should be huge legal consequences for this kind of thing.

Daddy Pig is a pompous fool who fails at everything and exists only to be a subject of ridicule.

Bandit is the best dad ever.

This is from the movie about the making of Battlefield Earth with John Travolta played by Val Kilmer

See what you did Belgium? Proud of yourselves now?

Well at least I guess this means Greenland’s not getting invaded this week.

I’m looking forward to a series of posts where he has this same pose and signs of decomposition gradually set in

Free parmesan? Why waste it on people you don’t like?

“That’s not even a…” < gets headshot by sniper >

If the unredacted Epstein files are released there will no longer be a reason to invade Greenland