#Taylor Swift #hey look it’s that post I used as an example a while back #of how prosopagnosics can use TagViewer to identify famous people in Tumblr pictures #I have tagged this reblog with her name to help other faceblind people with this process in the future #prosopagnosia #the more you know
“Maybe you’re just a socially conscious person who doesn’t know what the fuck they like and just shrugs helplessly at their inconsistent train wreck of a blog.”
truuuuuu
I looked at that quiz and
“don’t know if you’re as pure as the driven snow or as problematic as our cultural association of whiteness with purity?“
oh my god
(I got True Neutral, which is about what I expected. I am nothing if not cowardly. I was never here for the cats, though: the first blogs I followed were a mixture of fandom blogs and members of the local multiplicity community.)
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#(I’m a singlet but the people there were mostly friendly and had interesting conversations) #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #the humour of my people #still not 100% sure what a shitpost is to be honest #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost
Kids entering high school this fall weren’t alive during the 9/11 attacks.
Good. I’m looking forward to when they start voting.
I don’t remember the 9/11 attacks…
I do remember the endless flow of news about “what on earth is our government up to now” afterwards (on the one hand, hyperlexia means I can read my parents’ copies of the Funny Times, on the other hand, I should really have read some more apolitical material when I was younger, and maybe if you think I’m not mature enough to read about my own autism).
On the other hand, I cannot remember not having the “War on Terror”, and I hear enough complaining about it that it doesn’t seem like a good standard to me but it basically feels normal. This, uh, may not be a positive feature that will lead to my cohort making good voting decisions.
But you’re right that I’m not panicking about “terrorists”, I’m more concerned that one of my friends will end up being accused of being one, or that sometime I will have a meltdown at an airport and I won’t catch myself and hitting my head against a wall will look suspicious, or that information derived from mass surveillance will be used for more malicious purposes than it’s currently being used for (ah, yes, this “have an autism-specific tracking device program” will never go wrong when we keep getting accused of every mass shooting committed by a white person ever and people running mass surveillance tend to have worse data security than I would like and people have committed anti-autistic hate crimes in the past, nothing is likely to lead to harm here).
Coincidentally enough, I was just wondering yesterday how much you knew about 9/11. (As an extension of wondering how much my brother knows, since he’s roughly the same age as you.)
I, for one, spent a significant portion of my childhood and adolescence wishing someone would teach me about late-20th-century history. I mostly had to gather vague impressions from media and conversations designed, not to teach, but to evoke memories that I didn’t share.
Despite the clear evocation focus of the title, I found Where Were You When? to be helpful. Unfortunately, it stops at the new millennium. This was fine for me, because my first-hand experience with historical events starts at the new millennium, but not so good for anyone even slightly younger than me.
(I keep meaning to find a webpage that gives the lyrics of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and links each lyric to its Wikipedia article. I’m sure there must be some, and it would be a reasonable place to look for further details. Of course, that ends even earlier.)
My understanding of recent historical events is, while still probably not ideal, usually good enough. I still run into some trouble hanging out with groups of people 5 – 10 years older than me who implicitly expect everyone involved to be familiar with 90′s pop culture. (I spent the 90′s variously non-existent, pre-sapient, and not paying much attention to the world outside my family.)
#Avengers #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(I spent a short while with the handwrite-accent-marks and Cyrillic-keyboard modes of Google Translate) #((so glad they added those)) #(and to help you with your own curiosity here is what I found:) #(Steve: ‘You could just let me talk for one second?!’) #(Tony: ‘Fuck you bitch this is not my fault!’) #((this made me laugh again when I started typing it in and realised that the entire first half consists of swearing)) #(Natasha: ‘Can someone give me [couldn’t find the right letters for this word]? Everyone needs to calm down’) #(I think Thor is beyond Google for the moment?) #(Vision is covering up too much of his own speech) #(but the post that inspired this art has him yelling the binary encoding of ‘HELP ME!’) #(I notice that if you click on the OP it shows a different version of this where they’re saying different things) #(but I spent way too long trying to figure out Natasha’s fifth word so I leave that as an exercise for the reader) #language
YOU DISCOVERED AN ANCIENT ALIEN AI IN A MYSTERIOUS ARTIFACT AND JUST DOWNLOADED IT INTO A INTERNET CONNECTED COMPUTER!!! WHICH CONTROLS AN ARMY OF ROBOTS!?
IT GOT OUT BECAUSE YOU WEREN’T PAYING ATTENTION! I NEVER THOUGHT THE SOLUTION TO THE AI BOX WOULD BE “WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE A BIG PARTY”
YOU TOLD THE AI TO MAKE PEACE, WITH NO FURTHER DETAILS, WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN
then later….
Its okay, we trust this new mysterious AI, because another alien artifact that we don’t understand said it was worthy? Okay cool…
My main reactions:
This is why red tape exists! It is not just “useless bureaucracy” to have more than two pairs of eyes on an AGI project! You wouldn’t approve an update people you trust wrote to a commercial product that won’t kill people no matter how buggy it is with two people examining the proposed update for a couple hours, and you have two people examine the AGI?
Ah, yes, running a computer with parts from the evil mind-control thing which has been shown to be remotely operable. That’s definitely not a major security problem in that someone could remotely tell it to do stuff that your program didn’t tell it to do.
The simplest and most obvious route to “stop something that humans do” is to get rid of humans. Give it a more interestingly bad utility function, please. Why couldn’t it tile the world with agents that really like tautologies being true?
I really like the OP, especially the line “I NEVER THOUGHT THE SOLUTION TO THE AI BOX WOULD BE “WAIT UNTIL THEY HAVE A BIG PARTY””.
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#Avengers #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
I feel like when you’re writing, organizing chapters and dialogue is easy
but jfc, the amount of time it takes to constantly keep people moving and make sure they’re in the right spaces and trying to come up with wording for it is always such a shock.
Like, fuck, I made you pick up a coffee cup, you need to put it down at some point. also I can’t remember what I dressed you in, can you push up your sleeves? I don’t remember if you even have your shirt on.
and YOU. YOU OVER THERE, you got out of your chair earlier, but did you come back yet? Are you coming back? Where did you even go and why’d you get up? Fuck, I can’t make you sit down again already, you just stood up, go…over there. go get more coffee. Did you bring your mug with you? fine. bring the pot to the table and—wait, wasn’t the coffee pot already over here? shit, hold on, I need to go back and re-read and re-write
The worst decision I made in my current novel was to give my protagonist a back pack.
I’m laughing so hard, but this shit is so legit it hurts.
okay so you guys all need to get out of there, and go over here.
BUT HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET THERE. You just said something, is that like you? shit he already answered that question. *IRRITATED WRITER SCREECH*
…the where-things-are problem always confuses me, because I see my stories like a movie in my head. Figuring out what emotions go with the actions, why somebody is leaving the room or whatever, that’s hard; remembering what they’re wearing and holding and drinking, that’s the easy part.
Does… nobody else write this way? O_O
Even amongst people who have mind’s eyes (not everyone), there’s a lot of variation in how detailed mental images are. Personally, my visual imagination is towards the low-detail end of the spectrum. Just because I’m watching a daydream unfold, it doesn’t mean I have any idea what the characters are wearing.
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#is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #someday I should use that tag for something other than mind’s eyes #I’m sure there’s plenty of other things that it would apply to #reply via reblog
only people with children have a stake in the future
no one without children has younger friends, a desire for their works to be remembered in the future, or empathy for future humans
this seems very plausible
I am a child and I have a major stake in the future, and when I am 18 I will also expect to be personally affected by the state of my country 60 years from now.
Ban all elderly (65+?) people from voting, as they won’t be around to face the long-term consequences of their decisions? This is equally (read: not very) reasonable. People have actually proposed doing stuff like “make smoking illegal for all people born in [current year] – 17 or later” or “let adults vote on whether all people graduating high school should be ‘drafted’ to do menial tasks like elder care and washing military laundry and whatnot for low pay”, because they would never be negatively impacted by those proposals.
People with children, when voting on policy that only affects young people, can be incredibly patronizing and self-interested. (“I want the government to spy on my kids for me!” “I want my kids to go to jail if they ditch class too much!” “I don’t want my kids to ever be allowed to do things I disapprove of, even when they’re adults!”)
I don’t want to live in the future people approve of for their children to live in, I want to live in the future that its residents want. Read proposals for utopias and you’ll soon see that approval uncoupled from actual desires leads to a society you wouldn’t want to live in.
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#yes this #I mostly see this with global warming #’we must Do Something to make 2050 a good place for our children to live!’ #dude I don’t give a fuck about my nonexistent children #I want to make 2050 a good place for my *future selves* to live #you don’t *need* and in fact shouldn’t *try* to rely on selflessness to get me to care about the future #self-interest will get the job done nicely #I’m going to tag this #death tw #under my policy of ‘tag death warnings on things that would have triggered my seven-year-old self’
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