Isn’t that convenient.

Sure. How does that add to the topic at hand?

Okay, and? Are you saying that’s reason for any and all aid deliveries to stop?

You brought up specifically HD. I’m willing to watch ads so that YT can continue delivering even lower quality videos as long as those ads don’t interrupt the video.

So hide the HD stuff behind a paywall. I’m perfectly happy at 720p for the VAST majority of videos. Might even agree to go lower if it means I can watch it without ad breaks.

True. I somehow expected it to be a different thing altogether, new mechanics and all, I don’t know why. Was thinking more along the lines of No Man’s Sky, FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

Remember how the Pandaren came about? This will go about the same.

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

movies can get your credit card stolen

joke’s on you i’ve never had a credit card

My husband has one flaw and it’s that he doesn’t get Stardew Valley. These people do exist, in the midst of our society, unseen.

Yeh, I get that it’s just an example. But wouldn’t it be like that for anything you could ask it? It can only work with what you’re giving it and that data could be heavily influenced by you not wanting to see something. Or exaggerating. Or forgetting. A human looking at your diaries might be able to put themselves in your situation and understand, based on their own experience with the human condition, how you were probably feeling in a situation the diary entry is describing and interpret the entry accordingly, maybe even especially when considering other, seemingly conflicting entries. But they’re using “outside” information which an AI doesn’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying what you’re imagining is completely impossible - I’m trying to imagine how it might work and why it might not. Maybe one way to develop such an AI would be to feed it diaries of historical people whose entries we can interpret with decent confidence in hindsight (surely those must exist?). Ask the AI to create a characterisation of the person and see how well it matches the views of human historians.

I am so very much not an expert on AI and I hate most of what has come of the recent surge. And remember that we’re not talking about actual intelligence, these are just very advanced text parsing and phrase correlating machines. But it does of course seem tempting to ask a machine with no secondary motives to just fucking tell me the harsh truth so now I’m thinking about it too.

At that point you could search your diary entries yourself to analyse the way you talk about her. Assuming of course you’re honest with your diary and yourself and not glossing over things you don’t want to realise - in which case do you really need an AI to tell you?

The AI would still need to understand feelings, at least in principle, in order to interpret your actions which are based on feelings. Even “I like having sex with her” is a feeling. A purely rational mind would probably reprimand you for using contraception because what is the point of sex if not making offspring?

What? The original argument was “Just because it exists doesn’t make it good.”, implying that it (click-bait thumbnails) doesn’t necessarily work. To which I said that the fact that it exists means it works. To which you seemed to object by saying that there may be people who have an interest in it existing - like they want it to exist despite it actually not working. I’m confused about what it is you’re saying.

What “interest” would they have to keep it that way if it wasn’t working?

Wealth inequality exists because it works for the people who have the power to control it. In a way, it’s not harmful ENOUGH to change evolutionarily.

Nobody said “good”, but if it keeps existing, it works or at least isn’t harmful. Bit like evolution.

I mean, as long as you’re hyperaware of the risk and that if something seems weird to you, it very likely IS weird and shouldn’t go into your Anki deck, and even if it seems to make sense, it might still be VERY wrong language, you might use ich_iel as a kind of indicator to see how far you’ve come?

There is the “SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN” thing so anything even remotely English (or other non-German language, except Dutch if we’re having a good day) will be rewarded with loads of snark. But if you already feel comfortable (shit)posting in German, you’re not a total beginner anymore anyway. We’re generally welcoming of people trying to learn the language, even on ich_iel. So if every once in a while you ask very nicely about a detail or two (preferably not just “hey where am i what is this”), you might have someone try their best to help you as well :) there just might not BE any accessible explanation for a LOT of things that doesn’t require several paragraphs of background information so ymmv.

That’s something we do get a lot, even in the before times on the other place, because ich_iel is highly productive. Sorry.

You REALLY don’t want to use the things posted in ich_iel as learning material. Most of them use deliberately poor language, not just puns, but our memes are frequently based on badly translated English memes (which means that even if an English “translation” seems to make sense, you’d be learning nonsense). They don’t make sense to native speakers who aren’t “in the know” and they’re useless if you’re just learning. Any machine translation would be lost entirely because there is no context, no grammar or anything. Do yourself a favour and flee this place until you’ve built a solid foundation of German to recognise what is a normal sentence and what is dumbassery on the internet.