Oh for sure, but what I’m saying is that the message is “don’t be satisfied doing housework, you’re a princess even if you don’t know it” which subverts the stereotypical expectation they set up in the first act.

I actually think it’s the other way around. Their initial responsibility is one of traditional gender roles, but they all throw that away and become something far beyond what society expected of them.

Exactly. Racism would be “China’s government is bad, therefore my Chinese neighbor deserves to be ejected from my country.” That sort of logic is not in short supply in my neck of the woods.

Criticizing a government is okay. Using that as justification to persecute unrelated people is not okay.

surely people are smarter than that

I got bad news for you…

I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing. ChatGPT is, if nothing else, decent at writing in a respectful, professional manner.

The substance is lacking of course, but it IS good at stringing together words.

Because they know they are on the wrong side of history. It’s the same reason why ICE agents hide their faces.

Or shirts apparently

China has a big problem with selling an identical product fifteen times through twelve different companies.

I think it’s an SEO strategy for Amazon, where they edge out any competition by being everywhere on the first page of search results. They also have the ability to game reviews by killing any products that get bad reviews and recreating them under a new brand.

The movie had themes about AI revolution, while the book was around robopsychology. Since this anecdote was about an AI gaslighting itself, it’s far more appropriate than the movie thematically.

Claude eventually resolved its existential crisis by convincing itself the whole episode had been an elaborate April Fool’s joke, which it wasn’t. The AI essentially gaslit itself back to functionality, which is either impressive or deeply concerning, depending on your perspective.

Now THAT’S some I, Robot shit. And I’m not talking about the Will Smith movie, I’m talking about the original book.

If you wear a skirt, your gender disappears.

The context makes it even more heartbreaking.

I assume this painting was set in Great Falls, MT, on account of the waterfall. And those are just big hydroelectric dams now.

Pretty sure that’s how it works in a lot of fiction. You draw the circle then activate it by putting in mana.

What, you’ve never written markdown?

Forget monogamy, I just need a mathematical relationship!

Monogamy? In THIS economy?

So non-monogamy is generally looked down upon because a lot of people have bad outcomes from it.

In the vast majority of these situations, the couple has decided to see other people because they are trying to avoid or alleviate the problems they are currently dealing with. If you or your spouse are not mature enough to handle one relationship, there’s no way in hell that the exponential complexity of a polyamorous relationship will work.

That being said, it sounds like you ARE one of the few people who are considering non-monogamy for the right reasons. Some of the most important things you need to do to make this successful:

• Great communication. No games, no bottling up your feelings. You need to be able to clearly express what your hopes and fears are, and then listen to those from each other person.
• Handle jealousy and loneliness. If you’re a jealous-type person, best to stop now. You need to be comfortable with your partners spending a significant amount of time together, without you. And you need to use that time doing things you want to do, not feeling left out.
• Secure in your self. Don’t base your self-worth on what your partner thinks about you. Successful non-monogamous people are not dependent on their partners as their sole source of happiness.
• Flexibility. You need to be adaptable to new situations, because a lot of things will be changing rapidly. Successful polyamorous people embrace the ever-changing nature of life rather than try to stop it.
• Be able to handle loss. All relationships end at some point. With non-monogamy, that happens far more often than with just two people. Remember that a relationship ending doesn’t invalidate the goodness it brought to your life in the past. You need to be prepared to process events like this.

One great book on non-monogamy is More Than Two. I highly recommend everybody giving it a read before moving forward.

Having a polyamorous relationship can be very fulfilling! If you can navigate the complexity, it’s a wonderful way to maximize life.

There doesn’t seem to be much going on here. What’s the actual advantage of this technique? It seems they’re doing things more or less the same as everyone else.

I mean, the article talks about decoders as if they were some brand new innovation.

There’s almost nothing so hard that doing it in space doesn’t make it harder. Not sure what these guys are smoking.