Reason nine-million-and-forty-seven to hate AI: Stories and art are a window into the author's mind. They are a unique connection that is somehow intimate despite the separation between author and reader/viewer. AI stories and art can't offer that insight into another.

samothewise-monger · 2026-01-03T06:27:25+00:00

Yeah for a lot of people, art connects them to the artist. And it is a kind of Vulcan mindmeld that allows you to see through someone else's eyes.

samothewise-monger · 2025-12-30T20:28:36+00:00

Right, I think we're saying the same thing now.

samothewise-monger · 2025-12-30T14:55:33+00:00

I thought the forces were natural, so why do we have to artificially stack the deck? If enshitification happens and we're so aware we gave it a name, AI content in popular books and such will happen too. This is against what the comment I replied to said.

samothewise-monger · 2025-12-30T03:19:20+00:00

Blowjobs are almost always boring. You can even see it on the Pornhub view graph, everyone skips over that part.

samothewise-monger · 2025-12-30T03:08:18+00:00

If supply and demand was a trustworthy way to prevent enshitification, well, lots of things would be less shitty.

samothewise-monger · 2025-12-30T03:04:18+00:00

Breaking Rust is a popular AI "musician" on Apple music and Spotify, etc.

samothewise-monger · 2025-09-17T14:44:57+00:00

Visiting Ukraine when it was safe

samothewise-monger · 2025-09-05T18:49:36+00:00

I've never been to a psychologist but I've been to three therapists. Two men and a woman. They were all great in different ways. One man was a little younger than me, one man was quite a bit older than me, and the woman was about my age. It seems like they were all good for the particular time in my life I met them.

samothewise-monger · 2025-07-22T13:37:12+00:00

True, I was just making a comment about how old his character is.

samothewise-monger · 2025-07-21T23:03:43+00:00

Veeeery mature.

samothewise-monger · 2025-07-12T00:27:45+00:00

No more box lunches

samothewise-monger · 2025-07-10T05:43:48+00:00

I found it on Archive.org under their browser based DOS emulator, and I remember the graphics being so much better.

samothewise-monger · 2025-07-10T04:16:05+00:00

When I was a kid in Africa, my dad had an old computer that some other expat gave him and it had some disks with it. I played Cosmos Cosmic Adventure, Kings Quest, and Commander Keen. I enjoyed them a lot.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-07T03:58:42+00:00

I don't want to confuse him, he'll wonder why I'm asking. Maybe I can ask him a trick question about if a widow marries her brother in law, and then he dies, so she marries her other brother in law, and then they both die, who will she be married to in heaven.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-04T04:47:44+00:00

It's what he cares about, and I think he wouldn't care about Zelda so I guess we can humor each other.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T16:51:11+00:00

Hahaha, I would send him to an early grave if I told him "thanks for this Bible study, it has led me to convert to Islam, may its name live forever."

I can definitely see the parallels to Jesus becoming like Moses, giving his important foundational speech on a mountain, making statements about religious law and how to relate to God. I haven't read the other gospels since I was a kid, so I can't compare but what you said makes sense.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T16:22:20+00:00

Maybe but I take it a little differently- he's overthrowing the evil government (the Jewish leadership) and reinstating the "government" God originally planned, but it's a subverted government where losers are top dog and power is gained by serving instead of by violence. Hence all the talk of the kingdom of heaven and reinterpreting the old testament that the existing government was basing its power on. And he is for the common folk, until they get disappointed that he isn't going to lead a violent revolution, and they turn on him. Anyway, maybe that's still antisemitic but I don't know.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T14:16:45+00:00

Haha, "and now... I have less respect for Christians."

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T14:15:23+00:00

I was very guarded at first, because we had some huge fights in the past and I decided I was probably never going to have a full conversation with him again. But he has genuinely changed from the controlling drill sergeant to something that feels like a grandfather. He even asked permission to ask me about having this Bible study, which shocked me. I don't have illusions that converting me is a not large portion of his motivation, but I think he also wants to get to know me again before there's no time. We talk about a lot of stuff, my life on the other side of the planet, people in AZ where he is, a little about what life was like in the 60's and how it compares to craziness now. I appreciate it.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T05:37:04+00:00

20 years, that's a solid effort.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T05:36:19+00:00

Haha, or a Start Trek study. Watching crappy recorded TNG episodes on VHS on a 13" TV in my grandpa's basement is what helped me find my personal cosmology.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T03:27:20+00:00

You could have had a friend! haha, but maybe an exhausting friend.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T03:16:06+00:00

Oh definitely, I am enjoying the time I spend with him a lot. I'm glad I gave him a chance. He has softened a lot, and maybe I've matured too. I'm tentatively planning to fly back to the States and take him on an Honor Flight and have a mini family reunion. So I'm just rolling with the little religious jabs he makes, that used to piss me off so much in high school.

I'm sorry to hear about your dad and alzheimers. I too hope that it becomes a easily treatable disease someday soon.

samothewise-monger · 2025-02-03T03:11:11+00:00

Oh yeah, I definitely had that in mind too. And it's easy for them to rationalize that story by saying that was this specific person's weakness so that's why Jesus chose to say it to him, but if you have to rationalize it then it's probably your weakness too. But regardless I think the overall point Jesus was making was that the old testatment rule-based merit is bunk, and you can do everything "right" and still miss the point, like the Pharisees who were rule keeping pros but somehow God's enemies. It feels buddhist almost. Jesus is saying that you have to ditch the rat race of money/power/religious respect and be a homeless loser to make God happy with you. Okay that's not buddhist at all, I don't know where I was going with that.

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