Defending yourself against what, exactly?

This:

If I believed you capable of long term romantic relationships, I’d pity your spouse.

I told you that you and everyone here is physically attractive and you told me this. Damn.

now you’re gonna tell me that all hetero women need to be constantly dicked down or they leave? Where is that coming from?

It comes from reality. This reminds me of the Helen Kane song “He’s so unusual”. Some day it’ll click and you’ll turn around and look at your life and go “Oh shit! There were all these women who were in love with me and I had no idea. In hindsight, I realize I was kind of cruel to them, their feelings, and their desires.”

You kids are overthinking it here. Does she make your dick hard? Does she want to suck it? If so, congratulations, you’ve found love! Go for it. Don’t kill it with your intellect.

Sure, but which movement are you drawing a parallel to?

Two of the three, one of which you didn’t describe and is raking this indie studio over the coals and trying to destroy them. I’m concerned about the tech bro cult who think they can fire their human employees and have AI make brakes for airplanes without human supervision. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be used at all.

I’m a solo dev working on a boomershooter and there are brutal screams I want from the monsters when they burn that I’m just not going to get from human voice actors off of Fivver, with my no-string budget. I stumbled upon some AI videos with the screams I want and see it as a possible path to fulfilling my vision. But with this raging Butlerian Jihad, looks like I’m going to have to give up on that vision and settle for something much much much less.

There needs to be a level headed middle way of thinking about AI but the world today is constantly being divided into a false dichotomy, a black and white Manichean battle between good and evil. Judicious use of anything, including AI, is possible.

In this instance, the game gets hate because it’s a product of a technology we consider harmful. We don’t want to encourage use of that technology. Is that what you mean by Jihad?

Yes. Because the tech isn’t harmful. Just because there’s a bunch of psychos who kill people with hammers doesn’t mean people who use them to build houses should have their construction company financially destroyed. That’s mindless and cruel and it’s the wrong hill to fight for.

Tell me you don’t know Dune without telling me:

Tell me you know Watsonian Dune but don’t know Doylist Dune without telling me. To catch you up:

I was being satirical. And so was Frank Herbert. The Butlerian Jihad and resulting mentats and navigators, groomed from childhood by what are essentially cults and turned into things either barely resembling humans or not resembling humans at all, using endless amounts of drugs like spice and sapho juice along with other ghastly techniques because it was now morally wrong to use computers is a critique of overzealous revolutionary movements that turn into religions.

The Dune universe is a grotesque dystopian future. And the Butlerian Jihad forced humanity to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. I see the same thing happening today with the current jihad against the machines bubbling up.

It’s eligible because it’s food. It prevents starvation. Plus it’s hard to micromanage what poor people eat. On top of that, poor grandmas with diabetes can use it to prevent a coma if their sugar is dangerously low.

In Texas, candy bars aren’t eligible. Neither are soft drinks, including uncaffeinated diet drinks, but ice cream, cake, pies, and chocolate milk are still eligible for now. But they’re planning to take that away from poor people too. Also “luxury” meats like steak.

After that I imagine they plan to make poor people eat out of dirty buckets filled with offal and rotting vegetables.

The hate on this game is where anti-AI becomes Butlerian Jihadism. I hate that AI is being shoehorned into where it shouldn’t be and shoved down our throats like bloatware to hurry up and justify the trillions of dollars mindlessly invested in it. But to deny indie and solo devs this tool is cruel.

Also, I find this mindless anti-AI hate ironic when there’s a big heading in the side panel here listing Approved Bots. Forums prior to Reddit didn’t allow bots. For a reason. Maybe look into that first?

Kagi looks like it’s part of the problem. It exactly looks like that 2000s meme that showed a dystopian future where Comcast sells websites like cable channels.

https://kagi.com/pricing

I wish there was a search engine that only searched text based websites or at least sites that don’t have ads. 90s internet was amazing. Tons of websites ran by average people passionate about their interests, giving oral histories about things. Our computers were screaming, trying to tell us not to lose sight of what it was meant for.

Seemed to work. You’re here. You reached out, joined this community and are talking to like minded people. Gooba gobba gooba gooba gabba! We accept you! Once of us! One of us!

Normal people never avoided tech. TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Nintendos, Atari 2600s, Colecovisions, Selectavisions, DirectTV, WebTV, Tivo, Cell phones, beepers, the list goes on and on. If you’re using a smartphone to read this, you’re using a glorified Blackberry. This stuff was what Dr. Stephen Falken from War Games and the real life people the character was based on were fleeing to the woods from in the 20th Century.

If you call websites “apps” and download them from a store, you’re not using tech. I don’t view my Smartphone as “tech” anymore than a VCR was “tech”. Smartphones are just a crappier version of landlines and computers. They try to be both and they’re not good at either.

honestly AI has become a search engine and a quick answer machine

This might be the best use for it. The Amazon AI review summary and Google search summary have been very helpful. The google search summary is often useful in that it let’s me know that there probably isn’t an answer on the Internet for a question that won’t take days of scouring to find.

Then I find out that it also would take over steering

Um. This is kind of terrifying.

everyone except me is hiding the truth about what they really feel, but I know the truth!

This is a strawman.

in the face of everyone correcting you

The Fediverse isn’t everyone. Everyone on the Internet is not even remotely normal and the Fediverse is pure distilled weird from the weirdest people on Earth. Yeah, I’m sticking to my guns.

You think you’ve found a gotcha, but you’re still just outing yourself.

You’re the one going for the gotchas and the dunks. I’m just defending myself. You know I don’t need therapy. You’re just insulting me.

If I believed you capable of long term romantic relationships, I’d pity your spouse.

I pity the hetero cis male who truly believes that his wife always loved him for his intelligence when she dumps him because his doctor can’t prescribe him Viagra and Cialis. Nobody’s hiding shit. We all know the truth. There’s a good reason why these meds are important and covered by insurance. Impotence destroys relationships and whole families.

Man, this thread perfectly illustrates why women despise “intelligence”. You try to tell an intelligent cis hetero man it’s 10pm and he tells you you’re a fucking moron who needs therapy because ackchyually it’s 10am in Banda Aceh and 6pm in London and 2100 hours in Milan. Nobody wants to be around that much less have it jizz in them.

What about blind people?

If you’re a cis hetero male looking for a cis hetero woman like the person in the OP meme, and you’re looking to attract blind demisexuals, then you’re not going to be asking why women aren’t attracted to intelligence in the first place.

I’m being pragmatic and you’re all throwing spherical cows at me.

No, they will.

No they won’t.

You unilaterally claimed that nobody is attracted to intelligence, that everyone is just pretending and they’re really only attracted to physical appearance. Even as hyperbole, that is a wildly unhealthy thing to believe, and you absolutely called yourself out.

What’s wildly unhealthy is loving the person you’re fucking in the same way you love your mother and sister and grandma. I’m not the one calling myself out.

I’m pretty sure the OP meme is about a heterosexual dude, so these replies are nitpicking and forcing the conversation to be about something tangentially related.

What I’m talking about are hyperintelligent heterosexual nerds who suffer from body dysmorphia and who try to impress women with how insanely smart they are. Women don’t care about your brain. No matter how physically ugly you think you are, you’re not. There are literally a million women on this planet who find you attractive and you will make their pussies sopping wet when they see you.

I have literally never wanted to fuck someone that I couldn’t have an intelligent conversation with, because, like, what would we even talk about.

Sweet is more important than smart, and you just talk about dumb things. Instead of talking about Schroedinger’s Cat and how the thought experiment illustrated problems with the Copenhagen Interpretation, you talk about real cats and how cute they are.

Would I marry someone who I found really invigorating and intellectually fulfilling even if I’m not necessarily physically attracted to initially or in the traditional sense and then learn to love their bodies and get really into it? Yes, absolutely.

You’re over thinking it. You’re not “learning to love their bodies”, you’re just growing warm for their form.

You guys are talking yourselves out of some great relationships and breaking hearts and not even know it.

You’re not even trying to understand why everyone disagrees with you.

That’s fine. They’re not even trying to understand what I was saying.

In fact, you’re refusing to even acknowledge that you could be mistaken in your premise that people aren’t attracted to intelligence, and instead lash out. That is why you need therapy.

Are you being serious? Or just attacking me like the other person? Because I’m pretty sure if I go to a therapist and I show them these exchanges, they’re not going to say that I’m the one who needs therapy.

It all goes to prove the OP meme’s point. You’re all too god damn smart.

Oh man, I am so sorry I told everyone here that they’re physically attractive. Okay. You win. I’m insane. You’re right. You’re all ugly monsters who will never find love.

We’re on the Internet so you’re probably in the majority. But the vast majority of people marry someone they want to fuck. Sure, the mind and spirit is part of it, but I love the mind and spirit of my cat but I don’t want to marry her.