bizarroland

I have friends who have dreams about going to work.

I have friends who have dreams about showing up to a hangout and hanging out with people.

I dream about leading a choir of nuns on a singing rampage through New York and fighting epic space battles where it turns out that the Darth Vader equivalent of my dream is actually my cousin, which I only learn after I kill him, where priceless and irreplaceable books on witchcraft are destroyed to make wrapping paper due to a shopkeeper’s error, where I am told mysteries of the universe and song and hear songs that have never been sung before.

Dreams are like your brain’s way of processing information and defragging your personality.

Everyone’s got different kinds of dreams.

Cave Story, the original 2004 version.

I played it a long time ago and I still think about that game from time to time.

I know no one is going to take my idea and run with it so there’s not really anything to be gained by shooting it down, lol.

That being said, your issue could be solved with a combination of regulation and divestment.

Regulate that certain subjects have to be taught even if they are loss leaders for the university otherwise the university loses accreditation, and then for the people who want to learn artistic things like pottery and music that might cost the university more to run than they can make on it, create new schools that focus on that rather than keeping them in the university system, but attach valid degrees to them by requiring the mandatory core classes to be taken at the local community college or university of the students choosing.

Maybe you can subsidize them somewhat by making them non-for-profit systems and doing fundraisers for the arts and requiring that universities in their communities include them in their annual donor drives as a separate option.

It’s not a perfect solution, but its the first of many possible ones that I can think of, I’m sure that if we were appointed as the committee to fix the American College system we would make many more and better all-encompassing solutions and solve the problem in a matter of years.

Far right. She’s awkward af in a cute way

I put a $50 pre-order down on the new slate electric vehicle.

Hopefully it pans out, and in like two years I’ll be able to buy one, but if not, I mean it was only 50 bucks and it’s investing towards a more electric theoretical future, so it’s like I won’t cry too much about it if I lose it, but I hope I don’t.

shit my copium supply is running low

That is true, but I feel like we could do better.

Community colleges should be as close to free as is reasonable, and normal universities should be federally limited to charging no more than, say one year of the maximum average income for a particular degree.

If the college wants to teach something like everyone’s perennial mocking favorite underwater basket weaving, then that should be done as an elective and paid out of pocket by the student.

Even if you were to pick something like being a doctor, the fact that you might make a quarter of a million dollars a year and end up having to pay a quarter of a million dollars to do it is infinitely better than working minimum wage for the rest of your life.

absolutely gutted and covered in sweat, scratches, and gorilla fur: ok, your turn

To follow up with this, I personally do not think that AI should be telling people who do not already have an opinion on something, how to think.

That is the responsibility of the instructors and society.

That being said, it should also not present known falsities as valid topics of debate.

I don’t know what the prompts were. I do not know what the answers were. These are just general statements.

I’m personally of the opinion that it is societally appropriate to punch Nazis when you encounter them, and that the world would be better if any person that is a Nazi or adheres to Nazi or Nazi-adjacent ideology were to die, and I would prefer that every other human being thinks the way that I do.

My responses are a mere quibble.

This is just a guess, But I’m thinking that it’s the filters that are placed on the AI that’s trying to make it be this milquetoast, ultra nice, uncondemning, servile and spineless thing rather than that there’s an explicit “Be nice to the Nazis” thing.

You would probably get similar answers out of almost any evil hate group that you queried it about.

Once again, this is my assumption. I’m not attempting to apologize for the AI or the AI creators. I’m just saying that this seems like it might be what is happening.

It works out really well for Amazon because they can look like they tried to be the good guys while actually not doing anything.