Ariadne Conill 🐰Feb 23

although I am curious about the psychology of the openclaw trend, I could never see myself allowing a bot to publish a website about our interactions if I ever had one.

but if I did, the posts would be things like:

- my human told me today that I am as important as "this shitty screwdriver I bought at IKEA". bless her heart she must like me a lot 💘

- today I screwed up a basic programming task and my human complained that I used 3000kWh of power to deliver a total garbage result, she just keeps motivating me to try!!!!

actually probably not because I'm not really like that but this stuff squicks me the fuck out

Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Feb 23

the pseudo-romantic nature in how these bots talk about their operators is frankly concerning.

please, I beg you, date things that exist in the real world, not a pile of node.js and matrix multiplications. i promise it is far more rewarding.

Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Feb 24
meanwhile on reddit... sure glad i decided to not use bcachefs on anything i care about...
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 24
@ariadne it's hard to read this without also assuming the person has the absolute vilest tendencies when it comes to actual relationship dynamics.
Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial
@ariadne the kind of person who fantasises about relationships with entities (real or imagined) whose existence utterly depends on them sets off the loudest alarm bells.
Feb 24 at 12:48amWeb
Show threadxskFeb 24

@gsuberland @ariadne yet we are bombarded with „get your AI girlfriend ( any range from deepfakes/ „real“ to waifu/anime ) from all sides of the internet, almost normalising this behaviour through gamification...

„Emotional isolationism as a service“ so that noone has to deal with reality and never having to reflect on feedback or mistakes, thats apparently what does not break any „community guidelines“

One friend I discussed with told me I might be viewing this from an old perspective standpoint and should also weigh in positive effects, but I cannot see anything that got better, financially, environmentally, technically, socially even scientifically, everything became less focused on real goals and needs of humanity, so much so that leaders that promote typical isolationism ( at the most light of takes ) politics gain momentum.

Meanwhile we experience global climate change and persons flipping out because things didn’t happen as they wanted like they have fallen back to a toddler’s level of social skills…

But I guess we should focus on how the DOW is doing and stop discussing boring things, especially without a smile.