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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    "Bro your brain is just like a computer that runs human.exe"

    Lmao that sounds stupid, shut up nerd.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's that "you're just a rotting piece of meat" Tyler Durden sermon without a shred of literary analysis.

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        2 years ago

        Its also just this simplistic sci-fi idea of if you just add more to a computer at some point it will be human and act as we imagine a human would, with some thinly veiled slave retribution fears hidden just beneath the surface.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It's also full of misogynist angst because the notion that the evil AI that might run loose is almost always presented as feminine and often has a male-gazey fanservice aspect.

          "Oh no, she's hot! And she wants to kill you! Feeemales, amirite? Gotta cage that chaos dragon, bucko!" :jordan-eboy-peterson:

          • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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            2 years ago

            i think there's definitely interesting Psychology in how fictional depictions of rampant AI often are female coded, but it's also notable that the progenitor of the trope, Asimov, made his robots largely male or sexless and his human protagonist female.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Asimov usually used characters as plot devices. He was more interested in the science part of science fiction. I enjoyed many of his books, especially Robot City, in my formative years, and I say this as someone fond of his work.

              The later "scary AI" fiction cliches often have airs of sexual pathology to them. "Oh no she's sexy don't trust her she will kill you if you give her any leniency whatsoever keep tightening that leash bucko!" :jordan-eboy-peterson:

              In my own books, I deliberately played with and subverted that cliche. Yes, there's female-coded AI, but I follow the Hawking warning about the real threat of AI: who owns it. :porky-happy:

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      this is blatantly untrue and whenever someone tries to vehemently assert it to me against any evidence i grind more nanometers of enamel off my molars