Yeah. I talked to him (virtually) back in the day.

I’m mostly wondering where he went.

e: I don’t know where to click:

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There are so many public panels, none of which I’ve subscribed to.

That UI is still a mess, and I can’t figure anything out, even after all these years. I can’t figure out how to search for a username. He was in my friends list, and I can’t remember how to look for that.

I’m okay asking this publicly, because I’ve heard he’s basically vanished. I mostly want to find the conversations we had years ago in my conversation history.

Right before the foreground light turned off, and for a second after. The tiny thing with glowing eyes. Frog sized, in the undergrowth. Very cute.

Okay wait – did you see the weird figure? You all saw that.

I don’t think OP added it. I slowed it down, and it was still there.

It isn’t fair. They have a lot to answer for.

Those rings in our wheat aren’t enough, the bastards. Most of us do t even speak wheat rings anymore.

Were you watching my Sims play throughs?

Ooh.

I live in a 120 year old house and had several rooms violated by the worst fake pictures-of-wood that was glued down with industrial adhesive, and with many patches with terrible wood in conspicuous places.

There’s no way to make my wood look goood naked.

Yours is gorgeous. Thanks.

Pic of your floorboards? Sorry if that’s too forward.

Now I’m picturing a sort of reverse cargo cult situation in which the aliens, after a generation or so, think this is expected as a sort of human greeting.

It seems weird, but it always starts good relations, so…

(e: in some federation of planets, word has got round that this is the customary greeting when visiting earth.)

Most people who report such an experience seem to have been relatively uninjured. e: sometimes they claim to be tagged with a chip or something. We tend to do that to animals, too.

He has the best hair.

Thank you. I’ve only heard ‘generative’ but I’ve not really kept up with the tech until the past few years since it wasn’t much of a thing before that in real life.

You’re very good at explaining things, thanks.

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Gotcha.

‘AGI’ means ‘Artificial Generative Intelligence’, which is a fancy name used for LLMs by marketers and techbros.

Or did you mean something else?

I mean to friends and family – people who have accepted it as smart.

I don’t know about you, but when I try to explain the concept of LLMs to people not in the tech field, their eyes glaze over. I’ve gotten several family members into VR, though. It’s an easier concept to understand.

It would be cathartic for many of us, though.

That’s what happens when you put people in leadership positions who earnestly believe that empathy is a ‘fundamental weakness’. Ya know, ignoring that empathy is precisely what’s made us successful as a species in the first place.

liquefaction necrosis

bones collapsing

So, these are things that have actually happened, since we know that’s a thing. Good lord.

I’m not afraid of many things, but that sounds horrific. Have people lived through that? I kinda hope not.

These sorts of things are why regulations are written in blood, right?

I’m actively working to keep their bones undissolved (not exaggerating)

😳

Uh… story time? Or not.