/r/SubSimGPT2Interactive/ does this.
FaceDeer
joined 2 years ago
I actually wandered away from the SubredditSimulator successor subreddits because even with GPT2 they were "too good", they lost their charm. Back when SubredditSimulator was still active it was using simple Markov chain based text generators and they produced the most wonderfully bonkers nonsense, that was hilarious. Modern AIs just sound like regular people, and I get that everywhere already.
What I am failing to understand is: why?
People do things for fun sometimes. You could ask this about almost anything that people do that isn't directly and immediately related to survival. Why do people play basketball? It's just pointlessly bouncing a ball around in a room, following arbitrary rules that only serve to make the apparent goal of getting it through the hoop harder.
Put it on the pile.
And if not, the Ukrainians are doing quite well in the long-range department. Just yesterday they blew up an oil refinery 1300 km from the front lines.
The US is a representative democracy, and those were its chosen representatives. Sorry, but you can't collectively vote Trump into office and then immediately go "woah, we have nothing to do with any of this!" When he turns out to be exactly what everyone expected him to be.
Something similar happened to Babylon 5, it was designed as a 5-season series and then they were told season 4 would be the end. So they hurriedly wrapped everything up for the season 4 finale.
And then they were told they were getting a fifth season after all once that was all locked in, so they had to create a whole season of filler for season 5.
As I recall, the main point of contention was that this was one of the first big "there's a big mystery and the whole series is one big story to unravel it and we totally have it all planned out, honest" series. And then it turned out that no, they didn't totally have it planned out, and they were just making crap up as they went and most of the profound "clues" people were trying to cobble together were basically meaningless.
Maybe the show runners managed to cobble something together out of them that was satisfying regardless, but still, it felt like quite the betrayal. History repeated itself with Battlestar Galactica, where the show kept insisting "they have a plan!" When no, they really did not.
If the people this monument honors are Nazis,
One name of a Nazi collaborator was found there. It's absolutely ridiculous to leap from that to "this is a monument honoring Nazis."
Millions of people were killed by Stalin. It's little wonder that a few objectionable names might be scattered among them.
I mean, it's a pretty safe bet for something like this.
Yeah, back when I first got started on kbin I thought the ability to see who upvoted and downvoted would be a boon to civil discussion on the Fediverse - it meant you couldn't sling mud anonymously. One of the most annoying things on Reddit is debating with someone that's insta-downvoting everything you say. I was saddened when all the major Fediverse clients all got rid of that.
No, it's not the same. I was using basketball as an analogy. Someone who doesn't enjoy basketball wouldn't "get it", just as you're not "getting" the fun that can come from building and playing around with AI bots. Different people find different things to be fun.