• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      That’s the sweet spot of satire, I think. Just a little bit further than the truth, just slightly over the edge - to remind us how absurd reality has become. Good satire helps us not to get numb.

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        But that’s sort of my point. There isn’t an edge to go over.

        A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn’t succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there’s life after death and they’ll be together.

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            Gemini straight up Tyler Durdened him

            Right? See my point now, about how it must be kinda challenging, to put it mildly, for the Onion in these times?

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            Right? In my experience I’m always finding lots of good stuff missing the spotlight deeper in articles.

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          There isn’t an edge to go over.

          Sure there is. We can always stoop lower.

          A person burning Sam Altmans house seems less crazy than someone robbing a truck with a supposed robot body for their AI waifu, and when it doesn’t succeed, they literally and actually kill themselves with the chat bot assuring the person there’s life after death and they’ll be together.

          Oh.

          I stand by my above statement but it is now more frightening.