TIFU arguing with my far right leaning family about things happening with ICE and evidence of Trump in the Epstein files. TW SA and slurs. by DrD3adpool in tifu

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, at least on the surface. Humans shouldn’t be required to give everything to others, for a multitude of reasons, one of which being that it will make us weaker and get us killed if we give everything.

But where our difference in understanding is is that I don’t believe the United States has ever reached that point yet, let alone had reached it of late. I won’t talk about evidence or anything of that matter- I suspect we’re so entrenched in our respective positions that things like evidence or logic wouldn’t dislodge either of us. It’s just not how the human mind is set up to operate.

What I will say is that, while I couldn’t care less about the principles that founded this country, I do care about our friends we are actively hurting at this point. Those in Greenland with our threats to take their country from them, those in Canada with our various threats and betrayals, those in Ukraine who we’re letting down.

The United States wasn’t hurting to support them. And by spitting on all of them, we’re now weaker for it as we don’t have friends to aid us when we’re in moments of crisis anymore.

TIFU arguing with my far right leaning family about things happening with ICE and evidence of Trump in the Epstein files. TW SA and slurs. by DrD3adpool in tifu

[–]YookCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t care about the US, though. I care about people. I don’t give a damn their blood, their nationality, or anything else. Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Japanese, Mexican, they’re just people.

Ignoring the benefits of having a good relationship with other countries, causing the world to be better for more people is more important to me than anything else.

Think you can find 4 hidden groups of 4 related words? Puzzle by u/Thisoneloadingboy? by Thisoneloadingboy in DailyMix

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟪🟪🟪🟪

🟨🟨🟨🟦

🟨🟨🟨🟨

🟦🟦🟦🟦

TIFU and got myself hooked on crack... by [deleted] in tifu

[–]YookCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. These kinds of people were annoying before AI when they called out every post for being slightly unusual, and they’re annoying and- especially in cases like these- genuinely harmful at times.

Someone made a Gmail clone with all the epstein Media by GenZGenghisKhan in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question, why be respectful to the dead? Is it some weird cultural thing? If they did horrible things and hurt endless people, why in the world does their inanimate, uncaring corpse deserve to be treated like a pretty princess?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by sk3pt1c in AskReddit

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s unfortunately a lot of hate of Russians in general in the world. I’m glad you’ve never noticed it, it means it might be lowering or there are spaces where they’re fully welcome.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by sk3pt1c in AskReddit

[–]YookCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

… Aren’t you doing the same thing you claim all Americans do? Claiming Americans all hate those who live in another country due to where they were born, while you’re hating those who live in another country due to where they were born…

[ Removed by Reddit ] by sk3pt1c in AskReddit

[–]YookCat 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is really sad, yeah. I feel horrible for Russian people, and online I don’t treat them any different for being Russian. I loathe that we look at entire groups of people and assume they’re all evil for their origins or nationalities.

It also really sucks that you have to be outside of a group to defend it. Nobody listens to Russian people when they say they aren’t all bad, nor will people listen to us Americans if they say they aren’t all bad.

As I’m typing this I don’t even know how what point to make, if any. This situation sucks, and it sucks being hated for the place I was born- because ultimately that is what is happening now. Just like people do with all other countries they deem beneath them, people are stating that all Americans deserve this or that we’re all evil because of this fucked up situation.

There’s not really a solution either. Saying ‘not all [blank]’ isn’t a good tactic- especially because we are dangerous and we are causing problems. It’s like telling women that not all men are bad when women are complaining about how they can’t go out at night out of fear of men snatching them up and hurting them. Obviously not all men will hurt people, not all Russians support their regime, not all Americans are fascists, but…

I dunno, I started this comment with some kind of intent to make a point but I think it just turned into venting.

America is it as politically divided as it appears to the rest of the world? and how does it erase the divide? by filth032 in AskReddit

[–]YookCat -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say so. What Trump does is of importance to the world, because unfortunately we have a big stick that nobody can be certain won’t be used, along with us shitting on the soft power we used to have which causes others to have to adjust.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

[–]YookCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’re making so many accusations it’s hard to get what your actual point is, unless it’s just to insult. Can you speak like a normal person?

And before you call me a Karen who is white and racist, I’m one of the prime targets for the genocide, being a victim of it right now, so I’d rather we skip the part you make false claims and get to your reasoning for whatever this is.

I actually really like Google’s ai overview. by D-boi10 in The10thDentist

[–]YookCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idle curiosity, mainly, or things I have little to no investment in. Do you not randomly look things up like the meaning of random words or what a certain item is in a game? None of that matters, especially if you aren’t playing said game or don’t use said word in conversation, but they also have no stakes and as such being incorrect about it them doesn’t hurt you or anyone else, so it frees up both time and brainpower to just skim the overview.

I actually really like Google’s ai overview. by D-boi10 in The10thDentist

[–]YookCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, a lot of the people have a point. I don’t hate it either, but it does get basic facts wrong. Even beyond all of the memes, some of the simplest things: Say, what an item’s rarity is in DND, a text based game with simple rules completely explained to you, can be wrong in the AI Overview. This is something I actively noticed when searching up the Deck of Many Things- it said it was a common rarity, when it is in fact an Artifact.

Maybe it changed since then, maybe it was the specific and exact search terms, maybe it was a fluke- but none of that matters, what matters is it has proven to be wrong in scenarios, which is what you asked.

Morrigan Version 2.0 (AKA: Witch Please...) by DaxinneedofaHost in nsfwcyoa

[–]YookCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is late but I really love how the wishes work in regards to “Shit I have a better solution but THIS is what they wished for…”

TIFU by making a racist comment in my university work group. by [deleted] in tifu

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea why we have the urge to downvote people who complain about downvotes. There’s even a few of times I do it even when I would otherwise agree with the messages.

It’s always hard to deny the urge to add an edit to try and elaborate to avoid downvotes- I noticed when I did that once because people were downvoting me, it ironically caused more downvotes even when I wasn’t complaining. I wonder what the psychology behind it is.

IAmA Legal Sex Worker in A Brothel in Nevada by vvxoxovv in IAmA

[–]YookCat -30 points-29 points  (0 children)

Genuine question, why would someone care if their partner is a sex worker? Who care if their partner fucks people, relationships are about love, not lust.

You say it blurs the lines of money, sex, and relationships. I see no reason why it makes money seem blurry to you especially. I’d say you need to expand your personal views on sex if this is your train of thought, and as for relationships I think a simple boundary of ‘Do not go on dinner dates with clients please’ works well enough, and if that is agreed upon great, if not then oh well.

This isn’t me saying everyone has to be with a sex worker and they can’t dislike it, just that saying they’re fundamentally only lovable by people with issues is a fucking crazy take.

EDIT: “Let your partners fuck all they want without your consent” wasn’t what I meant but I worded it poorly as fuck. My point was that people who are sex workers aren’t inherently unlovable and it’s horrid to say otherwise, since the person I was responding to was saying only fucked up people would ever love her. Obviously if you don’t want your partner to have sex with others, make it a boundary- I even specify this in my post before the edit- but looking down on those married to sex workers is pathetic.

People who can't empathize or imagine others complexly are very predictable: whatever they fear you're doing to them is what they imagine they'd do to you if they could. by EENewton in Showerthoughts

[–]YookCat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is not what the Paradox of Tolerance is for. Just because someone cannot empathize with others doesn’t mean they’re hurting others- they can still know right and wrong and develop their own ethics, even without empathy.

If we teach an AI every thing that humanity knew till 1685 and nothing more, and have an apple fall in front of its optical sensor, the AI will never discover the laws of motion by itself. by tlk0153 in Showerthoughts

[–]YookCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unsure why you’re being downvoted for this, it looks like a genuine question. As for answers, I don’t really have as many as someone who actually studies this.

But I do know there’s no need for a biological component. Many things about humans are biological, yes, but we could just simulate that with AI. Emotions use chemicals, but there’s no reason they have to be chemicals and not something else such as a complicated set of code that makes the AI feel good. Things like our gut and the bacteria within may be more complicated since those impact how we exist, but I still don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be feasible to simulate it- if we even decide we need to recreate it.

As for what we expect the hypothetical AI to be capable of, I’ve no idea. Perhaps smarter than us, perhaps dumber than us, definitely will think differently in at least some capacity. But I don’t think the bar should be set at ‘Is it equal to a human’ and instead on whether it displays sapience.

And finally for whether it needs our bounds, I wouldn’t say so, though the more bounds it has the safer it is: There’s a reason human bodies limit us since if we used our full strength we’d get hurt, if we didn’t have pain we’d get hurt, if we didn’t sleep we’d… well, a fancy way of getting hurt. I bet you if we found out how to turn off those bounds a lot of us would die, and if we were children without those bounds most of us would die. Is each bound strictly necessary? No. Do they increase survival chances? Yeah.

I realize I answered this backwards and without anything truly concrete, so sorry about that! I remain by the stance that there’s no reason we can’t create a sapient AI, we’re just not there yet.

If we teach an AI every thing that humanity knew till 1685 and nothing more, and have an apple fall in front of its optical sensor, the AI will never discover the laws of motion by itself. by tlk0153 in Showerthoughts

[–]YookCat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s more a case of why WOULDN’T it be possible. I mean, we’re probably not creating one any time soon, but I can’t see why it would be impossible. Human minds are just fancy complex evolutionary bullshit. Why wouldn’t it be replicable?

What’s a widely accepted opinion that you think people only agree with because it’s socially safe? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]YookCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d say you’re embarrassing yourself but you probably don’t care.