In 1980, John Lennon was shot by a mentally ill man who was convinced to kill Lennon by reading Catcher in the Rye. If he had never read Catcher in the Rye, he most likely wouldn’t have killed John Lennon.

But it is not the fault of Catcher in the Rye. We don’t ban the book, or call the author irresponsible for writing it, because we recognize that the fault lies in the mental illness of the shooter, and that anything could have set him off.

The people who kill themselves because an AI Chatbot told them to are mentally ill. It is their mental illness that killed them, not the chatbot. You can make the claim that if it wasn’t for the chatbot, they wouldn’t have gone through with it, but again, you can say the same thing about Catcher in the Rye. Getting rid of the trigger does not remove the mental illness.

There is a lot to hate about AI. A lot of dangers and valid criticism. But AI chatbots convincing people to kill themselves isn’t a problem with chatbots, it’s a problem with the user.

I get it, grieving families will look for anything and anyone to blame for suicide except the victim, but ultimately, it is the victim who chose to kill themselves. If someone is convinced to kill themselves from something as stupid as an AI chatbot, they really weren’t that far from the edge to begin with.

Paper tags arent as easily damaged.

I’ve gotta wonder… How expensive are these little networked e-ink displays? Probably not super expensive, but they’ve gotta be more than a paper price tag. Definitely more of a hassle to replace when someone breaks them by running into them, accidentally snapping them off, etc…

Bluey.

You might think he was joking, and maybe OP was, but I’m certainly not. Graveyards are a massive waste of space. Respect for the dead is a really fucking weird and pointless thing our society does.

They are dead. Dead. They deserve as much respect as the ground beef you have in your freezer. There is no point in preserving their remains, or laying them in a multi-thousand dollar casket, or having a spot in the ground that will become unusable for other purposes for at least 100 years. They. Are. Fucking. Dead. That’s not them anymore. It’s dead meat. It’s fucking asinine to waste so many acres of land on dead meat.

The fun thing is your statement applies to both the US and Iran.

Yea, I can just imagine OpenAI is really struggling with their business decision.

On the one hand, they have multi-billion dollar contracts with the US Military that will make them all fabulously wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

On the other, they have a handful of individuals leaving that might amount to a few thousand dollars of lost revenue.

Gosh, it must sure have been a tough choice.

Yes, it’s not good. We’re talking about if it is worse than telegram though. Not if it’s simply good or not.

I thought I was pretty fucking clear on that in my original comment?

Damn near everyone was making a coin at some point. Again, why would they remove or get rid of a feature they spent time, money, and energy to develop when it doesn’t hurt anything by being there. In fact, they’d have to spend more time, money, and energy to remove it than if they just left it in place.

It’s important to remember that for a lot of programs that have some tangentially related crypto feature, crypto used to be popular. It still is popular in some circles. There was a time when it made sense to include those features because users were asking for it. So time, money, and energy was spent to add those features.

What do you expect them to do with those feature now? You really think they’re just going to delete them? Why would they remove an already developed and implemented feature? They hurt nothing. People don’t have to use them. Them existing doesn’t take anything away from the app functionality.

It’s like being upset that old car models weren’t recalled to remove ash trays and cigarette lighters when smoking became unpopular.

I wouldn’t say it’s worse. It technically claims to have end-to-end encryption while telegram doesn’t. I wouldn’t trust it at all because it’s from Meta, but I don’t see how you can say the one at least claiming to have encryption is worse than the one that just flat out doesn’t have it.

Aww, I love this. I have a soft spot for Kobolds.

I made a series of one-shots that I DM for my group between main sessions that focus on an all Kobold party and their neverending quest to become real dragons, with each of them having a different plan on how to actually make that happen. They all have different dragon ancestry traits (tiny wings, breath attack, thicker hide, etc.) and they constantly bicker about which one is the “most dragon”.

All the sessions are more silly than serious and typically revolve around their own ignorance of the world at large. Like plotting to attack a “dragon” that was really just a large puppet used in a festival. Or planning an elaborate heist to steal a treasure hoard, but it’s just a bunch of coins from a fountain. Once they successfully hijacked and took over a fancy ship (because it had a dragon on the sails) only for them to quickly give up when they realized none of them knew how to swim, much less sail.

My players all really get into it and play them as horrible little monsters. I love them so much.

Then you open the bottle and find it’s filled with different types of pills of various sizes, colors, and markings.

“Umm… So which one of these do I take?”

And then you get 20 different answers.

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Spanish media makes English media seem pro-communism. However bad you are thinking it is, unless you speak Spanish and have watched it yourself, I promise you it’s far worse.

More like “Because I primarily speak Spanish and little English and essentially all Spanish media is nothing but far right propaganda and pro-capitalist messaging and has been for several decades.”

You forgot Wicked, that was probably responsible for a big boost around the holidays.

I’m sorry, are you under the impression that animal husbandry doesn’t occur in non-capitalist societies?