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hydrok9 commented on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots... · Posted by u/geox

squigz · 2 years ago

Wow. This is by far the creepiest comment I've read on HN.

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

You're very naive if you don't think his scenario is playing out all over the internet as we speak. It will blow up into a nightmare scenario for a lot of people very quickly once the tech gets better.

hydrok9 commented on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots... · Posted by u/geox

MrEd · 2 years ago

Why don't you go out and simply hook up with a nice and willing woman, instead of spending effort to automate your Fleshlight?

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

"Simply?" Most men don't find that they can simply go and do that. Porn is the "simple" answer. And it's addictive.

hydrok9 commented on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots... · Posted by u/geox

thdespou · 2 years ago

How does this affect real women on OF? Will they lose business?

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

They will lose a lot, because real women on OF are predatory, and extract money from desperate men. Why pay for that when you can have basically the same thing for cheap/free?

hydrok9 commented on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots... · Posted by u/geox

I_Am_Nous · 2 years ago

The idea of basing a business around trying to get people to love a model which could be changed at any time seems both futile and immoral. At least when a person dumps you it's generally understood to be a decision made by a person, not "we adjusted the model for performance reasons and now your virtual partner is essentially dumber and will never be the person you fell in love with." Illness and injury can change a person, but that's a possibility rather than an inevitability for a partner built on top of someone else's model.

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

There's no love here. This is pornography we're talking about.

hydrok9 commented on AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store qz.com/ai-girlfriend-bots... · Posted by u/geox

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

Can't wait for the next generation of porn addicts. Bring on the class-action lawsuits!

hydrok9 commented on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023) afterbabel.com/p/internat... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

granshaw · 2 years ago

It seemed free roaming was still widely accepted in the 90s though? What changed since the 2000s?

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

The change happened gradually throughout the 90's. People born in the late 80's typically had free-roam experience, while those born in the miid-late 90's did not,

hydrok9 commented on I found the music I love on the internet coryd.dev/posts/2024/i-fo... · Posted by u/cdme

epiccoleman · 2 years ago

I love prog rock! It's probably my favorite genre of music, although calling "prog" a genre is sort of like calling "metal" a genre, as it's incredibly diverse. I'm a sucker for virtuosity, but the best of the genre is the stuff that blends that musicianship with a real sense of groove (Yes is probably my favorite, which is much more "fun" to listen than something like ELP, which I find pretty sterile).

No need to just stick with the classics, though - modern prog has branched out into so many different areas, there really is something for anyone who loves music out there. And it's also not necessarily limited to rock-oriented guitar driven music, there's "progressive" music being made in pretty much every genre these days, and a huge back catalog spanning decades to explore.

A couple places online that I've found great recommendations are:

* the /r/progressiverock subreddit (a little bit repetitive among the "classics," but still lots of good discussion and recs)

* MOROW - Prog rock radio, I've found a lot of cool stuff listening to this station

* The Best Radio You Have Never Heard - a somewhat eclectic but mostly rock oriented podcast, every two weeks he releases a 1-2 hour show which has lots of great music. This has been going for almost 20 years, and has been consistently excellent. One of my favorite things about TBRYHNH is that the host often finds cool "deep cuts" - live performances, B-sides, etc that you might not have heard before. This show is where I first heard Close to the Edge, it pointed me towards the excellent set of Yes shows that was released as "Progeny" a few years ago, the amazing live version of Time Passages from the Rhymes in Rooms album, Grey Cell Green by Ned's Atomic Dustbin, and dozens of other great tracks. Can't recommend it enough.

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

Check out Starroad Junction every saturday from 4-6 central time CKUW 95.9 FM for a great prog/art-rock/jazz-fusion show!

hydrok9 commented on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

pi-e-sigma · 2 years ago

And you were with them when they casually danced in clubs and you saw they actually can't dance? Or you are around that that kind of musicians that actually never ever dance for fun at their leisure?

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

Went to many music festivals, clubs, dances with them. They couldn't dance. They weren't incapable of learning how to dance. They just weren't automatically good at dancing because they were good at playing music.

hydrok9 commented on Studies suggest that relying on will power to break habits is hopeless (2019) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

pi-e-sigma · 2 years ago

Your examples of singers that don't dance on the stage don't prove that they can't, but just that they don't want to. I was asking about someone who is a well known singer but actually tries to dance but really can't and it shows. And again, we are talking about correlation, and not exact match of skills. So it wouldn't mean that a great singer is automatically a _great_ dancer, too. Just that if someone is really good at singing he is likely to be pretty good at dancing but not necessarily exactly as good. Maybe that's part I didn't articulate clearly earlier.

hydrok9 · 2 years ago

I guess being around musicians my whole life i've never considered that there would be a correlation, cause the skills aren't transferrable.