Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

all my friends post on social media instead of having blogs

@Satsuma traditionally life was a lot cheaper and savings were less important

it sure would be nice if we had a culture of having people live a few years with somebody who had paid off their mortgage and didn’t need to charge rent while they worked so they could build up their savings before moving out and buying a house wait that is just apprenticeship huh

the new horsegirl album is very good

@alyssa our microwave is such that if you press 1, 2, or 3 and wait two seconds it does that many minutes, so i only use +30sec for 30 seconds

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one white liberal line of argument is that if people get used to treating robots that interface using human language as tools, then they might extend that and also start treating humans themselves as tools. but bitch they already do. bitch they already do

they argue that language processing robots are like dolls, and obviously it is good to treat dolls like humans even though they are in fact inanimate objects

i would counter that the whole FUNCTION of dolls is to be human standins. in this sense they are endowed with a certain human spirit so treating them like humans is appropriate

however, the function of language processing robots is not to be human standins but (only) to complete tasks using human language as an interface. endowing them with a human spirit does not make them more effective at this aim and in fact only makes it more difficult to critically analyse their outputs. so i disagree that there is a comparison to be had between robots and dolls

should you say thank you to inanimate tools after you use them to complete tasks

new york times currently out here telling us we should be saying thank you to robots even though it wastes huge amounts of money and energy