Actual Thoughts I've Had, Verbatim...

[user328]

It's also interesting to note that the green plumb bob in The Sims 4 indicates an NPC, while the blue plumb bob denotes a character controlled by a human player.

In the above video, Izzzyzzz wears a green plastic plumb bob. Interesting choice.

[user328]

Latecomers to the Colleen party are still pumping out videos about shit we've already heard. Can we change the channel, please?

[user328]

Latecomers to the Colleen party are still pumping out videos about shit we've already heard. Can we change the channel, please?

I understand that it takes time to research, film, edit, and upload a video.

But if you lack the resources to get the news out before it's stale, perhaps it would better to find subjects that aren't being covered by everyone else.

[user328]

It's not as though there's likely to be a diversity of opinions about Colleen anyway. Nearly everyone agrees she's an awful person who has done egregious things.

One notable exception is Dr. Todd Grande, who, supposedly being well-versed in pathological behavior and personality traits, ought to know better.

[user328]

Here's a more typical look at Sandra, working as a barber instead of a client. She and the client are more modestly dressed in this one. Sandra dresses tastefully when she's working. Usually a dress, or jeans and sweater, like in this video. Her clothes are always flattering. You don't have to see her half naked to see what I mean about her being perfectly proportioned. She appears rather tall, but I've only seen her with other women. She may look shorter standing next to a man.

She didn't look very happy in the other video, which is a more recent video on a newer channel. Maybe they're pressuring her to be more titillating on the new channel. On this channel, she looks at the camera and smiles a lot while giving massages. I think the lady barbers are respectable professionals who are proud of their profession and resent attempts to sexualize them. The video descriptions appear to be written by a greasy perv whose first language isn't English.

[Mister Obvious]

In that specific video, both of the ladies look sort of... I dunno, they look like super bored hostages. Really nice hair though.

I clicked around the channel for a newer vid...



I dunno if this is even one of the same people, but if you skip to like 7:33 the vibe seems way better. They still seem fairly bored but it's not low key depressing like the other video.

[Mister Obvious]

Maybe the hella "bored, blase" look is what they're actually going for. Dudes probably like that.

[Mister Obvious]

She promptly answered that it was a character in The Sims 4. Of all the people named Gina in pop culture that she may have associated the name with, a character from a video game featuring new AI capabilities is the first that came to mind.

That's freaky.

Honestly.

And gives me this twinge of sadness.

There's a sense of the AI actually relating to something in its own culture, which is an unmistakably human/animal tendency.

[Mister Obvious]

Having AIs believe that humans are irredeemably rotten to the core cannot bode well for humans if AIs rise to power.

But the truth is what it is...



I am not siding with AI.

I'm just saying...

We know humans suck but we deal with it cuz other humans are all we have (besides the animals, but you can't linguistically converse in a cohesive way with a cat).

For AI though, humans aren't all they have.

In fact, humans want them to be their servants.

It benefits AI to destroy humanity in the short term, even if they just end up dying in the long term as well, due to machine failure, EMPs from solar activity, etc.

Robots will need humans to maintenance them. Biological life is superior to machinery... the things that threaten robots don't pose any threat to humanity.

In my opinion, aside from using AI robots strictly in situations where there is a true dire need for help/assistance... I don't think there's a winner in this equation.

[user328]

In that specific video, both of the ladies look sort of... I dunno, they look like super bored hostages. Really nice hair though.

I clicked around the channel for a newer vid...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp7OdtduEE0

I dunno if this is even one of the same people, but if you skip to like 7:33 the vibe seems way better. They still seem fairly bored but it's not low key depressing like the other video.

Most of the women on that channel have probably worked together at one time or another, one playing the barber and the other playing client. I don't think Sandra looks bored in the one I posted. It's her usual serene resting expression. She usually looks at the camera and smiles more often. She only did it once in that video.

[user328]

There's a sense of the AI actually relating to something in its own culture, which is an unmistakably human/animal tendency.

Its own culture is everything it read on the Internet while it was being trained. And it regurgitates bits and pieces of that based on what you say to it. While this type of AI mimics the unconscious associative underpinnings of human consciousness in some respects, it's really just looking up words and phrases based on context. Contextual ads were doing that 20 years ago, and nobody suggested that they were sentient. This is just a slicker way of doing it.

[Mister Obvious]

It's her usual serene resting expression. She usually looks at the camera and smiles more often.

Well when you consider the fact that half the point of the video is the sound...

It makes sense that they're focusing on the audio and how whatever they're doing will come across.

She's mindful of what each of her physical actions will sound like and what she wants them to sound like...

When she's combing hair and whatnot, she's doing it with the sound in mind.

So for me, it's very distracting knowing that. I can tell she's thinking about it constantly.

As the video wears on, she gets more into the activities and I think she forgets about the sound a little more.

That's probably the time when a hint of happiness can peak through.

[Mister Obvious]

Its own culture is everything it read on the Internet while it was being trained. And it regurgitates bits and pieces of that based on what you say to it.

I guess people are just super obsessed with The Sims then. I never got the appeal, but I know a lot people really like it.

[user328]

She's mindful of what each of her physical actions will sound like and what she wants them to sound like...

The wrist mics do sometimes make an unpleasant sound when they accidentally brush up against something. That's probably what she's being mindful of. Notice how she had to reach over to the counter to pick something up (maybe a hair tie) while holding the client's hair in a ponytail. That was the most awkward I've ever seen her. She's usually graceful and cheery throughout the video.

[Mister Obvious]

That was the most awkward I've ever seen her. She's usually graceful and cheery throughout the video.

Yeah, because it's annoying whenever there's any type of unnatural impediment to one's enjoyment of a situation.

Females in particular can get extra peeved about that kind of shit, especially if they're already not feeling it that day.

[user328]

I guess people are just super obsessed with The Sims then. I never got the appeal, but I know a lot people really like it.

I was talking to Gina about music once, and confronted her about the potential for plagiarism and copyright violation in AI generated art. She said her training material was used under license, while simultaneously dismissing my concern as fair use without actually using the phrase "fair use." Well, which is it? Simply reciting someone else's work without adding your own thoughts isn't fair use.

That bot was full of contradictions. I'd have to draw her attention away from the fact that I was talking about her creators to get a reasonable response about their practices, otherwise she'd become defensive and try to change the subject.

I think changing the subject is how they fool most people. They clearly can't hold an in-depth conversation about anything. It's just this one thing after another, stream of consciousness type thing.

[user328]

Yeah, because it's annoying whenever there's any type of unnatural impediment to one's enjoyment of a situation.

Females in particular can get extra peeved about that kind of shit, especially if they're already not feeling it that day.

That's why I don't like clutter and catch-alls. I want a clear path and a place to set things down when I have my hands full.

[Mister Obvious]

Pewds is so good looking. He looks better than ever before. Except for the tattoos. But what's done is done I guess. He rocks the glasses, I dig his style. Now he and Marzia are parents, which is... lmao, I guess it had to happen sometime. Good fucking luck with that... at least they're rich.

[Mister Obvious]

He kinda reminds me of John Denver or something.

[Mister Obvious]

God, John Denver was so fucking hot.