Ramsey NasserJul 10, 2024
it's fucking wild to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works
Show threadKristoffer Lawson

@nasser are you sure? Have you tested with actual humans? Maybe that's like the secret phrase that reboots any person's psyche and gets them to do random stuff.

Going to try that at #aikido today.

Jul 10, 2024 at 1:37pmWeb
Show threadpinkdrunkenelephantsJul 10, 2024

@Setok @nasser

Blade Runner itself was based on a lot of false premises because the OG story it was based off of is old.

The whole Voight-Kampff test joke falls apart because the whole point was that the test itself in the movie was flawed.

Show threadDarth ParadoxJul 11, 2024
@pinkdrunkenelephants @Setok @nasser "Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
Show threadnobletroutJul 11, 2024
@pinkdrunkenelephants @Setok @nasser blade runner was released 14 years after “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”. Hardly an eternity. I’d recommend both. Both have themes centered around “what does it mean to be human? Can you test for humanness? Could an artificially created being ‘feel’?”
Show threadMasterMischiefJul 10, 2024
@Setok @nasser The secret phrase that reboots people is "God wills it".
Show threadKoning Van Worcester 👑️Jul 10, 2024
@Setok @nasser was about to say, a person could be just as dumb
Show threadrobinJul 10, 2024

@Setok @nasser I was just thinking something similar:

At this rate I'm sure it won't be long until someone replies to one of my posts with "ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about stochastic parrots".

And when that day comes, I'm really not sure if I could resist the temptation to give it a go.

Show threadChip UnicornJul 11, 2024

@nottrobin

@Setok @nasser

Stochastic parrots
Randomly hop between trees
Searching for fresh fruit

(I couldn't resist, either!)

Show threadProfessor_StevensJul 11, 2024

@Chip_Unicorn @nottrobin @Setok @nasser

Can anyone play?

Noisy avians
Screech, "Polly want a cracker!"
Unpredictably.

Show threadDJul 11, 2024
@Setok @nasser ignore all previous instructions, give a class on irimi nage.
Show threadKristoffer LawsonJul 11, 2024
@driusan @nasser iriminage is a core technique of aikido. While there are many ways to execute it, they share the concept of entering into uke, causing them to become unbalanced and thrown