I feel lonely when I feel like I'm surrounded by people who don't match my own level of self perceived intellect, whatever that is.
It is strange, I so often feel lonely in a crowd of people. I wrote some stuff about this on @galenkp's post the other day.
The concept of this being the degeneracy of those surrounding me, or perhaps, my own degeneracy of not being able to operate on their level (which may be higher than my own) - the level of intellect, not degeneracy, that is - almost makes me want to see if an AI companion might be right for me :P
Having said that, I've been consuming so much science fiction lately, I know that the idea of AI companions isn't a great one!
On the broader topic of degeneracy, however - haven't we all been over the fact that everyone in every generation complains about the youth being less able, being more care free, being less useful since antiquity?
How have we continued to exist as a species with this alleged constant slide into degeneracy?
This AI companions thing and most of the rest of it (such as the AI doctor app they were talking about on the news tonight) is nuts. As if humans aren't stupid enough they hurtle towards even great stupidity by giving away independent thought. Fucktards.
I don't watch the news at all, anymore :D
I think the question is, are AI companions coming after the world's oldest profession? I also think it would be very, very interesting to be a social worker, psychologist, or someone who studies human behaviour in any way in the coming years, as we see how the unwashed masses are transformed by the one test that they, not the machine failed.
The Turing Test wasn't for the machines, it was for us.
Neither do I; I was at my doctors clinic in the waiting room and they have it on. I haven't watched the news for over fifteen years, when you were back in school.
Mate, I'm not that young! I was starting my Masters Degree fifteen years ago! It was conferred in April 2011!
Lol...well you look like a young Marlon Brando so I just assumed you were a spring chicken. Ok, not really...I let AI type that last message and AI fucked it up.
Ok, not really.
I would calculate my age as a percentage of the Australian male life expectancy, but I won't, because I am full of vibrancy and life, and the only thing that can stop me now are trucks and trains, and automobile users with alcohol running through their veins.
I'm just travelling through time as slow as I can, trying to enjoy all the splendours that are along the side of the road.
Yeah, slow that shit down because the older you get the faster it seems to go. I blame daylight savings and AI...and that twat Albanese.
It is a set of expectations, isn't it? Your expectation about yourself, others, and the ability to interact together.
In the past, younger generations were also physically more capable, mentally sharper, and emotionally more balanced than their elders. Is that still the case? Degeneration.
/insert an array of slurred speech, stumbled steps, and crazed glances as the unwashed masses wander along city streets.
Again, degenerates :)