Brave Little Hitachi Wand

I did not know that

It’s 2026, and people doing a service to the public are considered shitposters

It’s super hard to joke on Lemmy lately, everyone is srs af

I’ll take that onboard. Still, nothing can convince me anyone should ever talk to an AI about whether to launch nukes. The entire question is insane, so the answers hardly matter.

Those prompts are aimed at producing a specific result for sure. The war game doesn’t prove anything on its own, but I can’t help feeling that in a real life scenario where anyone asks an AI what to do, they’re going to have a specific outcome in mind already, one way or another.

That’s just how most people are, by the time they ask for advice they’ve already made up their mind. So the war game was realistic, but only by accident.

I wonder… If humans were all super serious, direct, and not funny, would LLMs trained on their stolen data actually function as intended? Maybe. But such people do not use LLMs.

If we’re calling this class consciousness… There’s organic, and there’s this, which is like dandelions that grow out of cracks in the pavement near a burn pit.

Oh, dear. There’s been a huge misunderstanding. You’re thinking of objectivity. Jokes are not objects, they’re sub-

Look, I can’t do everything. Dear reader, please look into this and report back with your findings.

Exactly, that’s… That’s exactly how subjectivity works. Is there a problem?

Start the little devils running boxes of punch cards, then make them sneak into the lab at night to write their own punch card software for games and secret messages. How else are we going to get them ready for the real world?

I really don’t care to litigate anyone’s comedy, it’s the reaction that damned him. The simple truth is that if someone doesn’t like your joke, they’re right.

Nobody has ever seriously defended or explained a joke so well that it eventually became funny, and every professional comedian knows it. You either spin it into a different bit or apologise and move on. You’ve got to be a real prick to be that rich, privileged, safe, and still think you have to defend a joke that hurt someone’s feelings. “Sorry that one sucked, no hate.” How hard is that?

If a veteran comedian like him chooses to get serious and defend a joke, that tells me they weren’t joking or they have a different motive than mere entertainment. Trust is built slowly, quickly lost. Especially among persecuted groups.

Yeah you are, you’re fucking off!

His older work stands up mostly, but lately he has thrown in with the wave of “anti-woke” comedians, repeatedly doubling down when criticised for making transphobic remarks.

A comedian these days has a very difficult choice to make, it must be said. I fully admit it! They have to do a lot of emotional and mental labour to make light of the very dark times we live in, or they can just side with far-right billionaires and culture war reactionaries and just make easy punch-down jokes about people who already face incredible violence. It’s got to be so hard!

If you like

Ricky Gervais

you can fuck off

I think they win this one

Possibly, actually, and other adverbs.

Hot as in like, schizophrenic?

It is remarkable that there are still people with whom their goodwill is not entirely spent. They really had us in the early years.

Jokes

It’s a tributary cover of the Akira film soundtrack in the style of ambient witch house.