infohazards?

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oligetcetera-deactivated2023072:

toddler youtube reviewed

sesame street: “yes,” I see you nodding along, “sesame street, good stuff, 12/10, or maybe less, did HBO make it bad?” I got bad news for you bub – no, not about HBO, about your whole televisual ontology. the reason you can remember sesame street fondly – the characters with distinct personalities, the engagement with the whole range of human experience, all the little jokes about James Joyce or whatever – is that’s good tv, but it isn’t toddler yt. that’s a compliment from any perspective other than “I need to hypnotize my kid while I clip his nails,” which is why this genre exists in the first place. it might get his attention because it’s on a screen but so would whatever 3 hour video game essay that you want to watch anyway. I look forward to watching sesamestraße and bluey and so on but you gotta crawl before you walk, in this case literally

miss rachel: my standby. first, the hypnotism works, and second, there’s nothing really subtly disturbing from an adult perspective. you’d think that would be less rare but here we are. it’s BORING for an adult but bearable because 1) not gonna lie, I know this is the sort of thing that gets old men turned into fascists by fox, but miss rachel is very good looking, or at least she’s “my type” leaving aside the professional high-pitched voice and 2) okay to objectify slightly less it is impressive how good she is at it. I’ve copied her at some things and am better at holding the kid’s attention while I explain things. the most human things can get while still being toddler yt

cocomelon: sesame street is an adult show labelled for kids, miss rachel is how a human adult would go about entertaining a child. cocomelon is a sort of formalist experiment, a sort exploration of just how high-dosage you can get while remaining *comprehensible* to adults. aside from of course the talking animals and songs that appear in all of these, cocomelon is rigorously “realistic” but appears to take place in an emotionally flatter reality than our own, which is why it’s right along the thalweg line of the uncanny valley. if AGI is subtly misaligned and produces a world of “human flourishing” without any human subjective experience, I believe that cocomelon is video footage from such a world.

hey bear: don’t worry, keep hiking, you’ll get out of the valley eventually. as you ascend the slope out there is a bear, and the bear is the result of an optimization process of toddler hypnotism that has a wider search space than you, and has abandoned the pretense of representational art entirely. when atoms die in fission plants and god sends them to purgatory, this is what they see

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#see also #I salute people who are doing their best to parent ethically while on the hockey-stick part of the technological-development slope #the situation‚ as they say‚ is evolving rapidly #may God have mercy on us all #reactionblogging #the more you know #infohazards? #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what

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qqueenofhades:

Just took psychic damage from reading the words “a quarter of a century ago in 1996,” and if I have to suffer, so do you.

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#no that can’t be right #1996 was at *least* two hundred years ago #time #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what

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What if i just posted all 26 of the Lancer mech memes I’ve made so far all at once

What if I did that

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #Lancer #violence cw #death tw #body horror? #infohazards? #I don’t go here–in fact‚ I have never heard of Lancer before in my life–but this has some great lines #I especially love that Blackbeard description #and ”a shotgun as designed by the personified physical avatar of OSHA violations” #ooh‚ and the bit with the simple purpose of the Iskander #and more! #(the ransom-note formatting works weirdly well‚ too) #(the kind of…uneven‚ English-as-spoken-by-a-being-that-does-not-naturally-have-the-concept-of-language mental voice it evokes…) #(…like‚ I don’t think it’s *inherently* funny in itself‚ but it often augments the comedic timing)

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the-dao-of-the-zerg:

garmbreak1:

look man, life is hard and the rules of society are complex

but let people off the fuckin train before you try to get on

and don’t play your goddamn music on your phone speakers in public

Genuinely curious: Why is music treated so much worse than conversation? If the norm was to actually be quiet on the bus, that would be one thing, but I see people primarily single out “music” without even mentioning loud conversations and such.

(I’m guilty of this too – I would never dream of playing music out loud, but get me excited and I will lose all awareness of how loud I’m talking)

Because music *is* worse than conversation. More distracting (consumes more mental processing power), and with potentially much deeper valleys of unpleasantness.

I can only assume that mileage must vary on this, though, given that store background radios are not just legal but *encouraged*.

(Even my *dentist* has a background radio. I was afraid to point out the risk of [them getting distracted by the music at a crucial moment and fucking up a procedure] for fear of self-fulfilling-prophecies/centipede’s-dilemmas. Possibly I should have at least pointed out that playing lowest-common-denominator pop music while performing potentially invasive medical procedures on people risks giving them PTSD *with extremely common triggers*: that issue seems incredibly obvious to *me*, but then I have relevant experience and perhaps it’s not obvious otherwise.)

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#we should fine the shit out of stores with background radios #you can be allowed to turn a profit once you’ve proven you can be trusted with public soundscapes #reply via reblog #music #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #medical cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #infohazards?