Gender euphoria just be like that sometimes.

I want Hitman but with Mr. Bean.

Eh, I personally think it is, but you have to temper your expectations. It’s absolutely not Artificial General Intelligence, nor is it as flexible or capable of rapid learning as human intelligence (or likely most forms of living intelligence in general). However, I’d challenge the notion that it lacks intelligence entirely.

AI still “learns” from what you shove into it; it’s still creating algorithms to adapt to the information stream(s) it’s being exposed to which is not unlike how the human brain is believed to function. As such, I personally view it to be intelligent, but not anywhere near as intelligent as people think it is, and absolutely not in the way people want it to be.

One of the big differences that I see is that, afaik, AI is unable to learn while it’s running. You have to train it, run it, train it again based on user input, run it, train it again on more user input, and so on. Humans are more efficient at learning when they sleep and take breaks, but are still capable of learning things without “shutting down”, so-to-speak (not that we ever truly shut down outside of death, but that’s tangential).

Another difference is that, unlike “natural intelligence”, AI ends up being hyper focused on a specific task. It’s a bit like grabbing an ice cream scoop and removing a very specific part of the brain, let’s say the part responsible for imagining images, and then letting people interface with that alone. Yeah, it’s not gonna be good at parsing text because that’s not what it was designed to do. That’s a different part of the brain. The one you’re playing with right now is only good at visualizating images, so you’re gonna get pretty images, but good luck with getting it to do proper text, understanding proper body language, etc.

Finally, AI hallucinates like crazy. This is one where I’m not sure if we’re really that different from AI (I’ll explain in a moment); but it is a big issue when it comes to try to get AI to factually report information or perform logic tasks. You can ask an AI what 2+2 is and get 4 one day, 5 the next, 3 on Saturdays and then -2027346 on Christmas.

But wait! Doesn’t that make it unintelligent?

No.

Going back to the previous statement about AI being hyper-focused, it just means you’re not interacting with a part of the brain capable of logic; you’re interacting with something else. Maybe the speech center, idk.

However, there’s another element to this where AI doesn’t have a persistent “reality anchor” like we do. To an AI, fact and fiction are purely conceptual because it doesn’t truly exist in our world, it’s off in its own little digital world. Furthermore, the experiences it can gain from the training set are heavily limited compared to what living creatures experience. We have a constant stream of information that reminds us about what is real, who we are, what things look like, how things move and so on; and we get that data stream in 3 dimensions (arguably 2.5, but I digress) instead of 2. It’s like expecting a plant to thrive when given a trickle of water when it normally grows exclusively in a swamp. We ourselves tend to begin hallucinating when our senses become cut off from the outside world because our brains make up stimuli when the expected stimuli is missing. So… I’m not sure if the hallucinations are totally unreasonable, unrealistic or all that different from how we’d behave if subjected to the same environment; but at the very least it’s something that makes AI appear unintelligent.

That’s not to say that AI is a good thing or that it lives up to the hype. Fuck AI for being wildly overhyped, overused, and destroying people’s livelihoods in a world where “earning for a living” is still required for some god-forsaken reason (just a reminder that the phrase, “earn a living” implies you don’t deserve to live if you aren’t able to make money or have someone doing it for you). At the same time, however, it kinda is intelligent. I think people are just expecting way more from it that it’s capable of doing. It’s like people expect intelligence to manifest in grayscale when it’s more like RGBA or something.

Edit: sorry about the massive wall of text; I was fascinated with AI and its potential for a while, which meant it lived rent-free in my head at a series of philosophical questions about things like intelligence and what it means for humans that something designed to function as a series of virtual neurons would behave so similarly yet differently to humans. These were the kinds of conclusions I came to.

I did.

Yeah. I have friends who are wanting to come to the US. “It couldn’t happen to me, I’m white” they say. “I’m from Europe, I’ll be safe” they say.

No.

It’ll happen to them, and I’m scared because they refuse to listen.

Nah, these guys ain’t straight and/or cis. If touching their own balls makes them that uncomfy then they’ve got some stuff they’re hiding and need to work through.

Edit: even so, tho, the OP doesn’t look like they’re a dude; which makes me wonder if she has a different towel for every part of her body. Like, damn bitch, granted I ain’t straight or cis, but I use two towels, one for my hair, one for the rest of me. I may be a gal but I don’t need more than that, and the hair one is mainly because my hair holds enough water that I kinda need a second towel.

Dude, it’s a school/work laptop. If someone gets pissy about it, tell them to get over it. Alternatively, ask the administration to let you plastidip the lids so they get even wear. Plus it’ll be easier to remove the stickers when it comes time to reprovision the computers because you can just peel the plastidip off if it’s sticker-covered. Furthermore, it’d help reduce the number of scuffs and scratches to the laptop’s exterior.

Needs more stickers. If you haven’t sticker bombed your PC, can you really say it’s your PC?

I’m so exciteeeddd, let’s fucking gooooo. Let’s hope his spine doesn’t become flaccid.

(For context, furspa is a local furry spa gathering)

(Also, yes, those are dildos. Sorry to any mods if it’s too lewd. I was on the fence about whether or not that image would be appropriate considering they don’t look like dildos. I downloaded it to show a friend how absurdly large they are because I’m kinda tempted to get one of the huge ones, stick it in a corner and see how long it takes for someone to realize that it’s a faux penis. Those weren’t even the biggest ones on the site.)

Hell’s Angels are supposedly allied with groups like the Aryan Nation. Why would they send a support club after a Nazi?

Not where I live, lmao. The grippy sock hotel that I had to stay at once convinced me that they’re shit and full of abusive staff.

This is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard. Like, what is the deal with being queer and fungi, algae, pond scum, lichen, and general herbology?

There’s a reason why I chose Mossy Feathers

Same. Like, it honestly wasn’t terrible, it was still fun and I still enjoyed it. It just wasn’t as amazing as the intro.

I didn’t even need the translation, I understood enough words that I got the gist of it and it made me laugh. How dare they be so correct.

Is this supposed to be a dig at guys with long hair? Guys with long hair are sexy. Not my fault you feel intimidated by their masculinity.

With Valerian I’d say you should watch the intro. Then turn it off. Unless you feel like watching some half-baked sci-fi eye-candy. The intro sequence with humanity’s first contact and everything was beautiful and made me sniffly. The rest of the movie was pretty, kinda fun, but ultimately nowhere near as amazing as the intro.

God, I hope this doesn’t spark furries vs weebs 2.0. That was unironically annoying as hell. Bitch-ass motherfuckers, don’t you know that the furry community and weebdom have practically the same origin? If anything, the furries are the ones who’ve been around slightly longer.

Girl, I can’t believe no one here is telling you that the behavior you’ve described is absolutely not “having a man that treats you right”. Guilt tripping, trashing his own girlfriend while being with her, telling you to be unfaithful, ignoring your homosexuality…

Hell, the way you’ve described him makes me wonder if his girlfriend was actually schizophrenic or if he just gaslit the fuck out of her and ditched her when it started to catch up to him. Did you know her personally? Did she show signs of schizophrenia that couldn’t be explained by gaslighting? Did he try to work with her through her potential schizophrenia? That’d be another huge red flag: if she showed signs of disability and instead of trying to work with her, he dumped her.

Don’t do it.

You’re just sad, hurt, and about to get yourself into a hell of a lot more hurt if you listen to this strange compulsion of yours. Chill. Take a deep breath. Find some lesbian chicks. There’ve gotta be dommy lesbians around you if you’re in a somewhat populated area in the US. Make friends, fuck your friends, have fun, and maybe you’ll eventually end up with a girlfriend or two (and maybe a trans puppygirl too).

Honestly, I’m pretty sure this is how my grandparents ended up MAGAts. They’re old, in their 90s and their brains are fried. They used to be fairly intelligent, but they can barely think rationally anymore. They still managed to get out to vote for Trump somehow, even after promising everyone in my family that they wouldn’t. They believed that the left is lying just as hard, if not harder, than the right. I don’t know what their views are now that Trump is president again. I don’t talk to them much anymore…