FOH Shower Thoughts
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Aldarion
Egg Nazi
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The whole reason for Twitter is a giant Turing test for AI development. The character limit exists to break this broad challenge into a series of smaller, more manageable tasks. The huge number of bots on the platform arent a bug, they're the core reason it exists.
Bandwagon
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The movie "The Girl Next Door" opens with the main character (Emile Hersch) watching his classmates skip class on senior skip day, and daydreaming about participating. There's a ~5 second clip where two kids tape a piece of paper on the license plate. I met the long-haired kid on the left when I was hitch hiking around New Zealand. Name was Ben something. I think we hung out in Queenstown or something for a week. Maybe it was Auckland. There was an "Ice Bar"there, wherever it was.
There was a few more Americans in that group too. I remember an "old money" kind of girl that ended up being nice, A PhD in something electrical related, and a grad that just got hired at Google and was celebrating.
Anyways, we were in a huge multistory hostel one night. There was a TV room with about 20 people in it, none of them white. Varied as the rainbow otherwise. They were watching Conan, quiet as mice. 3 of us, Ben included, sat there and watched quietly for a few too. Until this scene came up -
And Ben fucking lost it.
Absolutely hysterical laughter and pointing at the TV for 2 minutes straight, before switching over to crazy laughing + Boomhauer string of compliments and insults to Conan, the horse, the Director of Conan, etc. He cleared most of the room. The rest were split between laughing and clapping for him without understanding what he was saying, and wanting to call an ambulance.
Every single time I've seen anything to do with Conan since then, I think about what it felt like to be one of 3 Americans in a room of 20+ non Americans. Watching Arnold punch a horse. Watching Ben watch Arnold punching a horse, rather.
There was a few more Americans in that group too. I remember an "old money" kind of girl that ended up being nice, A PhD in something electrical related, and a grad that just got hired at Google and was celebrating.
Anyways, we were in a huge multistory hostel one night. There was a TV room with about 20 people in it, none of them white. Varied as the rainbow otherwise. They were watching Conan, quiet as mice. 3 of us, Ben included, sat there and watched quietly for a few too. Until this scene came up -
And Ben fucking lost it.
Absolutely hysterical laughter and pointing at the TV for 2 minutes straight, before switching over to crazy laughing + Boomhauer string of compliments and insults to Conan, the horse, the Director of Conan, etc. He cleared most of the room. The rest were split between laughing and clapping for him without understanding what he was saying, and wanting to call an ambulance.
Every single time I've seen anything to do with Conan since then, I think about what it felt like to be one of 3 Americans in a room of 20+ non Americans. Watching Arnold punch a horse. Watching Ben watch Arnold punching a horse, rather.
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Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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broh
You know you're getting old when.....
You turn down sex with a hot 22 year old spinner because she lives an hour away. You know your getting old when....
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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An addition to Nick Bostrom's Simulation Theory (restated for redundancy, you all know it -- the idea that 1. if the creatures in a hyperrealistic stimulation have consciousness and 2. The multiverse, in it's vastness, contains at least a few such simulations created by advanced civilizations then 3. Most conscious creatures in the totality of all realities would likely find themselves to be in a simulation)
If human trends hold true for whoever created us, then we are likely living in a hyperrealistic porno simulator.
Observations / crcumstantial evidence based on the everyday existence of most humans supports the hypothesis.
If human trends hold true for whoever created us, then we are likely living in a hyperrealistic porno simulator.
Observations / crcumstantial evidence based on the everyday existence of most humans supports the hypothesis.
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Brad2770
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pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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Fapping has been 147% more enjoyable since having that realization.
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Aldarion
Egg Nazi
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The rise of NPC humans over the last few years has really fucked with my ability to tell the difference between human communication and AI imitations.
Its like, the whole Turing Test idea is old fashioned now.
I just read a comment from VisualMod on Reddit's WSB that was such convincing imitation of a real life NPC, on the subject of climate change, that I suddenly realized I havent been able to tell the difference between AI speech and human speech for quite a while now.
At least for NPC humans.
Its like, the whole Turing Test idea is old fashioned now.
I just read a comment from VisualMod on Reddit's WSB that was such convincing imitation of a real life NPC, on the subject of climate change, that I suddenly realized I havent been able to tell the difference between AI speech and human speech for quite a while now.
At least for NPC humans.
Control
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Only before saying it though since then it just becomes the last bit of ado, regardless of how much ado came before.
pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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The little moment of silence between the end of the word "ado" and the beginning of the following word would still be ado tho.
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