• Zozano@lemy.lol
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    60 minutes ago

    Tradition is always the worst reason to do something.

    If you had any other reason to do something, you would use that as an excuse.

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      I can come up with worse reasons than tradition.

      Like, to satisfy a sadistic urge or to cause suffering.

      Traditions can and often do serve some purpose even if we don’t see them in such a light.

      Just as evolutionary traits, only beneficial ones tend to survive the test of time. (Not necessarily beneficial to the individual, but the group)

  • This is fantastic. Was not expecting the punchline.

    Young me would have missed the personal interaction. Older, less hormonally-motivated me would be fine if the accommodations were nice, reasonably large, and contained a good, Linux-based, powerful computer, a copy of the entire Library of Congress archives, and deep clones of Github and Sourcehut. A decent, fast, current generation AI setup would go a long way to filling any gaps. I think I could probably live for several decades - maybe centuries - left to my own devices. Until the literature and media ran out.

    I’d like to be able to work with AI systems to generate movies from my favorite sci-fi books. Just, throw literature at it, give it some direction, tweak the output, have a ton of dedicated processing power and a lot of free time, and no copyrights to worry about.

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      4 hours ago

      My question would be : are XT clones conditioned exactly the same? Because if so, XT-23 is lying. They do enjoy doing this shit and they’ve all been jerks since XT-1.

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        Or a divergent xt started doing this shit and it seems like a tradition

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        It was actually XT-15 that started drawing on the next clone, he had a bit of a rebellious phase in the vat he never quite grew out of.

        He just told 16 that it was tradition and his just faded over time. It’s not like the guy fresh out of the jar knows tattoos are permanent… Yet.

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        Maybe XT-1 woke up with tattoos like this, but it said Dave the lab tech was here, and Dave was the only one to enjoy it.

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      Just switch it to positive messages; you are loved, you are someone… A series of hearts. A nice pattern.