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Is this poll pointless?


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Also: I have never understood people who think Tom Cruise is a bad actor. 'Vanilla Sky' proves he is certainly not.
Tom Cruise isn't a "bad" actor. He's just a competent actor. He doesn't seem to do anything to train or improve. His ego and the sycophants around him tell him he's already the greatest. He'll never get better.
 
Another good Cruise movie, even if it is a weeb wet dream, is Last Samurai.


Only mistake they made here was putting music over the machinegun. Should have just been the gunfire making sound like in Heat.
 
My unpopular opinion is I belive AnnaBanana is only stimulating alecs package to get to his stimulus package.
@alec bruuu I don't care how many times you two has reenacted that mailbox scene from Piss I love you.. She might be in kahootz with them balkan boys that rolled you.

Edit: So I might've mixed up p.s I luv u and the lake house.. no big deal.
 
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the Internet and social networks will not make you smarter, will not teach you anything new, but will take away and kill a lot of time
I disagree with every other thing you said here - But this, I can agree with you on, and honestly think is reaching catastrophic levels.

Like, I genuinely think we're at the point where we need to start restricting people's social media access - especially that of children. Like it's been demonstrated again and again that social media and constant connectivity is killing people's attention span, sense of self-worth, making people feel more isolated, etc.

If Generative AI doesn't implode upon itself at some point, and it keeps advancing at it's current rate, it's just going to make shit a hell of a lot worse -I feel like any person or company or institution being able to generate images or text that's passable to most people at a rapid pace with minimal effort is going to make the hellscape a hell of a lot worse.

Having people's attention span and self-image, and entertainment and social life and professional life and got knows what else be driven by these satanic algorithms designed to maximise engagement is doing enough damage for society - Having these algorithms constantly push endless slop with no human involvement, is going to make all of these things so, so much more harmful.

At some point I think we're going to need a giant step backwards societally - Just roll back the clock.
 
I disagree with every other thing you said here - But this, I can agree with you on, and honestly think is reaching catastrophic levels.

Like, I genuinely think we're at the point where we need to start restricting people's social media access - especially that of children. Like it's been demonstrated again and again that social media and constant connectivity is killing people's attention span, sense of self-worth, making people feel more isolated, etc.

If Generative AI doesn't implode upon itself at some point, and it keeps advancing at it's current rate, it's just going to make shit a hell of a lot worse -I feel like any person or company or institution being able to generate images or text that's passable to most people at a rapid pace with minimal effort is going to make the hellscape a hell of a lot worse.

Having people's attention span and self-image, and entertainment and social life and professional life and got knows what else be driven by these satanic algorithms designed to maximise engagement is doing enough damage for society - Having these algorithms constantly push endless slop with no human involvement, is going to make all of these things so, so much more harmful.

At some point I think we're going to need a giant step backwards societally - Just roll back the clock.

if you want my opinion - then this is a one-way and absolutely irreversible process.
Man has always strived to exist in a world of dreams and illusions. Big feasts and big gladiator battles. Bread and circuses. too big a brain requires constant entertainment, dopamine, etc. Therefore, after the exhaustion of the earth's resources, the luckiest and richest will end up in a matrix like the creation of the Wachowskis, and the poorest will end up in Cyberpunk 2077. AI-generated worlds will become the only "real" reality for a person to live in. Someone still hopes to colonize other planets and other worlds, but there will also be an excellent simulation game about this, you can be either Elon Musk, or Darth Vader, or their common child.
 
if you want my opinion - then this is a one-way and absolutely irreversible process.
Man has always strived to exist in a world of dreams and illusions. Big feasts and big gladiator battles. Bread and circuses. too big a brain requires constant entertainment, dopamine, etc. Therefore, after the exhaustion of the earth's resources, the luckiest and richest will end up in a matrix like the creation of the Wachowskis, and the poorest will end up in Cyberpunk 2077. AI-generated worlds will become the only "real" reality for a person to live in. Someone still hopes to colonize other planets and other worlds, but there will also be an excellent simulation game about this, you can be either Elon Musk, or Darth Vader, or their common child.
Even if 100% humans would live in simulations, they would still likely prefer to SURVIVE therefore Musk's ET colonization argument still stands - you want to spread humanity out simply to increase the odds of survival. It can be automated, done by AI, of course. Each human could even live on a separate von Neumann's probe-like vessel, if we want to have a lot of those "baskets" for each "egg", since for simulation it does not matter whether you live on a planet or a spacecraft.
 
Now imagine that a potentially colonizable planet is found, where a dominant species already lives, which will be a competitor for humans. Invasion means a war of extermination with the "Indians". Now let's put aside all the attendant risks and think about what exactly humans bring with them? They bring viruses and bacteria. On the other hand, they themselves risk encountering new viruses and bacteria. So who ultimately settles down and survives? Humans are not fighting for survival at all, but for fast and cheap dopamine. A high-quality simulation with good dopamine makes "survival" a useless fuss.
 
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