his own charity (this is wealth preservation tactic used by ultra rich).

I’ve never understood how this is supposed to work. If his money goes into the charity, it’s not his anymore. Seriously, someone please explain?

Isn’t that convenient.

XnView should meet those requirements, as far as I can see.

Sure. How does that add to the topic at hand?

That’s nonsense, because they’re obviously looking for Erde.

Okay, and? Are you saying that’s reason for any and all aid deliveries to stop?

You brought up specifically HD. I’m willing to watch ads so that YT can continue delivering even lower quality videos as long as those ads don’t interrupt the video.

So hide the HD stuff behind a paywall. I’m perfectly happy at 720p for the VAST majority of videos. Might even agree to go lower if it means I can watch it without ad breaks.

Frozen peas. That’s what you feed ducks.

True. I somehow expected it to be a different thing altogether, new mechanics and all, I don’t know why. Was thinking more along the lines of No Man’s Sky, FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

Frank Sinatra singing Cruel Angel’s Thesis is now part of my playlist, I’m ashamed to say. I didn’t dare look further because I am weak. The appeal of the concept is undeniable, the implications are horrifying.

Other people’s brains are just meat with electricity inside too but they can be logical, why can’t my stupid skull stuffing?

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

movies can get your credit card stolen

joke’s on you i’ve never had a credit card

My husband has one flaw and it’s that he doesn’t get Stardew Valley. These people do exist, in the midst of our society, unseen.

Yeh, I get that it’s just an example. But wouldn’t it be like that for anything you could ask it? It can only work with what you’re giving it and that data could be heavily influenced by you not wanting to see something. Or exaggerating. Or forgetting. A human looking at your diaries might be able to put themselves in your situation and understand, based on their own experience with the human condition, how you were probably feeling in a situation the diary entry is describing and interpret the entry accordingly, maybe even especially when considering other, seemingly conflicting entries. But they’re using “outside” information which an AI doesn’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying what you’re imagining is completely impossible - I’m trying to imagine how it might work and why it might not. Maybe one way to develop such an AI would be to feed it diaries of historical people whose entries we can interpret with decent confidence in hindsight (surely those must exist?). Ask the AI to create a characterisation of the person and see how well it matches the views of human historians.

I am so very much not an expert on AI and I hate most of what has come of the recent surge. And remember that we’re not talking about actual intelligence, these are just very advanced text parsing and phrase correlating machines. But it does of course seem tempting to ask a machine with no secondary motives to just fucking tell me the harsh truth so now I’m thinking about it too.

At that point you could search your diary entries yourself to analyse the way you talk about her. Assuming of course you’re honest with your diary and yourself and not glossing over things you don’t want to realise - in which case do you really need an AI to tell you?

The AI would still need to understand feelings, at least in principle, in order to interpret your actions which are based on feelings. Even “I like having sex with her” is a feeling. A purely rational mind would probably reprimand you for using contraception because what is the point of sex if not making offspring?

I mean, as long as you’re hyperaware of the risk and that if something seems weird to you, it very likely IS weird and shouldn’t go into your Anki deck, and even if it seems to make sense, it might still be VERY wrong language, you might use ich_iel as a kind of indicator to see how far you’ve come?

There is the “SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN” thing so anything even remotely English (or other non-German language, except Dutch if we’re having a good day) will be rewarded with loads of snark. But if you already feel comfortable (shit)posting in German, you’re not a total beginner anymore anyway. We’re generally welcoming of people trying to learn the language, even on ich_iel. So if every once in a while you ask very nicely about a detail or two (preferably not just “hey where am i what is this”), you might have someone try their best to help you as well :) there just might not BE any accessible explanation for a LOT of things that doesn’t require several paragraphs of background information so ymmv.