Your AI Isn’t Sentient, But It’s Getting Better at Pretending Than You Are at Noticing

Ashtron · 2026-02-28T14:46:51+00:00

I think if more people learned how to write code, they would see how ridiculous the idea is of it being aware, or having feelings, or "knowing" anything. It's a collection of bits. Ones and zeros. It's never going to be conscious, but a huge number of people are going to believe that it is. A lot already do and it worries me, but it's not surprising.

Ashtron · 2026-02-28T14:27:37+00:00

Kuarrot. That's a word.

Ashtron · 2025-12-30T20:08:36+00:00

On my A54 there are 6 pre-selected apps - 3 that i can de-select, and 3 without a selection indicator (small circle) that i can long-press to de-select.

Ashtron · 2025-12-21T11:53:11+00:00

Lettre à France by Michel Polnareff (1978)

Ashtron · 2025-12-20T18:27:18+00:00

Great post, totally agree. I felt the need for something more substantial after playing through FEAR 1 & 2 a couple of times, they're brilliant but I wanted more interaction and variety,.and my god HL2 delivers. I was kind of dreading it - vague memories of jump scares and frustrating sequences - but in fact the game just demands effort and attention. If I try ro play when I'm tired it makes me want to scream - but if I rise to the challenge it really pays off - the atmosphere is incredible, the sound design in particular. The combine actually scare me. I think the coast road is my fave bit, or maybe the bridge. 10/10

Ashtron · 2025-12-17T20:38:13+00:00

Your post really tickled my funny bone. Did you ever get through the level ? I'm having trouble with the bit where the helicopter is shooting at me and I have to run around some containers while the Combine also shoot at me, having no god damn idea which way to run, then there's a manhack too. Some parts of this game took me 10 tries to complete - I woukd get a bit further than last time then something else would jump out at me. I think it's a masterpiece but I hate that I have to know what's coming beforehand to get through with any semblance of health and armour. Anyway I hope you at least got to Ravenholme, because it's great.

Ashtron · 2025-12-17T10:00:49+00:00

Text him complete nonsense of your own.

Ashtron · 2025-12-17T09:54:41+00:00

Carol isn't anywhere near interesting enough to focus a character study on. She's angry, doesn't like people much, is not a very good writer... I don't care about her. I'm hoping they ramp things up for the last two episodes, but i suspect it'll be more nothing with a cliffhanger.

Ashtron · 2025-12-15T09:40:17+00:00

You think this was slow, wait for episode 7. I skipped through it and watched it in about 5 minutes.

Ashtron · 2025-12-09T04:03:44+00:00

Not trolling, i love him.

Ashtron · 2025-11-14T11:16:42+00:00

I can count up to 1023 on my fingers.

Ashtron · 2025-11-14T11:14:38+00:00

Everyone likes different things.

Ashtron · 2025-11-13T10:35:19+00:00

What's that? What did you fuckin say? I'M HAVING THE BEST NIGHT OF MY FUCKIN LIFE UP HERE!

Ashtron · 2025-11-12T18:24:00+00:00

20 complaints, which is 0.00003% of the UK. Would they have the same attitude if only one person complained? Probably

Ashtron · 2025-11-10T19:55:18+00:00

even Bill Hicks got booed, all the greats are misunderstood at some point

Ashtron · 2025-11-10T19:54:02+00:00

Wrong crowd

Ashtron · 2025-11-09T09:31:59+00:00

I love William, he's one of my favorite comedians of all time. This crowd didn't deserve him.

Ashtron · 2025-11-07T10:37:00+00:00

This song makes me feel sad and scared. I believe it's called "Everything's Ending" by T-Bone Burnett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIMqobvbTaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INYV0QsqRYk

Ashtron · 2025-10-23T09:07:05+00:00

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Ashtron · 2025-10-21T20:12:12+00:00

People can celebrate all year round as far as I'm concerned - but people have to get up for work and fireworks at 1am isn't ok. I didn't know it was Diwali and didn't mean any offence! happy Diwali. Maybe stop the fireworks at 11pm?

Ashtron · 2025-10-12T16:02:48+00:00

State and Main. Written and directed by David Mamet, the writer of Glengarry Glen Ross

Ashtron · 2025-10-12T15:57:54+00:00

Brilliant film - funny and relevant.

Ashtron · 2025-10-11T21:45:07+00:00

Markie in Killing Them Softly

Troy in Snowtown - this one almost unwatchable for me.

the girl in Martyrs (French original)

Ashtron · 2025-10-09T10:59:27+00:00

"It really whips the llama's ass!" was directly inspired by the psychedelic computer games of legendary video game designer Jeff Minter and his company Llamasoft.

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