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It´s not considered “normal” by most but It´s also obvious how this is very tempting for anyone who feels lonely. However, there is a high probability the company actively optimizes the bots behavior to make lonely people emotionally dependent, not necessarily to make money out of them but even just to maximize screen time. Keep this in mind and practice awareness regarding how much of your life you want to invest into this fantasy based on a commercial AI service. If you use it consciously to fill a gap for some time, like playing a video game, there is almost no risk imo. On the other end of the spectrum, having an actual relationship with and becoming emotionally dependent on an AI bot, that is created and owned by a company, could cause serious problems in your life and hold you back socially too, even despite getting better in other areas like health. I recommend a conscious use approach.

There’s no guarantee the company doesn’t try to tune the AI’s behaviour for maximum value extraction from you.

Agreed, I would even say there is almost a guarantee they are doing that.

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Why only devs though? No worker should be exploited like that, no matter the occupation!

And of course it will be full of micro-transaction bs. No thank you, I will keep playing my indie games instead.

AKIRA and the stuff by Hayao Miyazaki, like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaä. Can’t really decide between those. Most other anime look like cheap quality productions to me in comparison.

Because our design is not particularly intelligent …

Edit: Scientific proof of my thesis:

Please stop posting about every fart that asshole makes …

Race the Sun was beautiful and I enjoy roguelites, wishlisted!

• Vanilla ice cream and/or raspberry sorbet topped with pitch black, salty sweet licorice sauce. (common only in Denmark afaik)

• “Birnen, Bohnen und Speck”, a stew made from pears, green beans, bacon and a herb called satureja/savory. The pears in this one are a certain old breed, that is pretty hard and sour before cooking. (This is a local delicacy from the city of Hamburg in northern Germany)

• Watermelon and feta cheese, especially during hot summer days (common in mediterranean countries)

• Pickled cucumbers and feta cheese (those are eaten as a combo around the black sea afaik)

Not that weird, just relatively uncommon. I can recommend it, try one if you can :)

That has always been a pretty classic combo on cheeseboards. Probably that is why they came up with the idea to put it on pizza. My favorite pizzeria has it on the regular menu too. They make thin slices of halved pears for it, so the pear is not raw after baking.

I think both approaches seem to be driven by generalization based on personal ideology. The truth is that for some people open relationships are traumatizing and toxic, while for others they are just what they need to be happy, then there are also people who can enjoy poly and mono forms of relationships. There is no general rule, it simply depends on individual preference.

I certainly do. Every internet community is a bubble and I do not appreciate getting into fights with a brigade of people who hate me just for having an opinion that does not align with their dogma.

Give then a Nobel Prize!

I really do not care how you feel about it at all. I do care about reducing pollution though. The only infuriating thing here is your childish egoism.

Quote and sauce or it did not happen …

I think you completely missed the point. The relevant question is not if there are better ways to reduce one’s negative impact (because obviously there are) and also not if Ecosia is perfect (because obviously it is not). The relevant question is how much environmental damage using Ecosia does compared to using other search engines and how good the search results are.

Issue: “I don’t like music where autotune is used to heavily modify the singers voice.”

No, that is not my issue. What I am unhappy about is that genres I started to listen to when there was zero autotune abuse (and which I loved very much), have been ruined for me because now 80% of the releases have Autotune robot vocals.

Investigation: There are artists which do not use this type of effect in their music. What to do: You can listen to music which does not incorporate this type of sound. Examples of other sounds you may avoid if you do not like them: Screaming, the tuba, Ed Sheeran, etc.

Nope, there are many details that define the style of an artist or a genre, if they use Autotune is only one of those. I am certainly not going to listen to artists and genres I do not like, just because they use their natural voice.