Really glad I had a complete schizo episode about this very thing years ago in retrospect. I don't think there is anything at all I am worried about anymore being forcibly extracted from my mind or elsewhere.
Sorry to those of you who do, it isn't fun but it's for the best.
Multiple credible and not easily spoked friends of mine working in AI have said that everyone should assume their account balance and porn the patching habits and everything else will be public within a year or two, if not sooner. Strange times.
Just ran into a dude who claims he has made $78M+ net with a $410M+ gross with a team of 60 people since 2010 from selling items in games like Maple Story, Path of Exile, and Diablo.
I knew there were e-cartels involved in this but had no clue there was that much money involved
@OS_infinite Somewhat, but not a subject I like to discuss as it invites them back in it seems. All I know is they left me alone when I called out to Christ for protection.
@lydiaastro Agreed 100% but even certain plant medicines can do likewise. I think we have the ability to turn this part of ourselves off for a reason. Survival mechanism failsafe. The drugs just take a backdoor way to get there.
increasingly concerned that ai is revealing the mathematical world as negatively curved. instead of everyone wandering about in idea-space and clustering around the same famous conjectures (local positive curvature), ai is pushing out the boundaries rapidly and revealing that the space of mathematical ideas is ~hyperbolic (negative curvature). though this means there's lots left to discover, it also means that small separations between people/agents will lead to wandering alone.
we may be emerging into an idea-space where there's so much to see and do but everyone is alone in a private heaven, unable to share their subtle joys with others...
@GPrime85 Same reason why people hide their political beliefs or vaccination status from the crowd. Because the mob is restless, acting on emotion and rage more than anything else.
You can appreciate both clanker slop and artisanal games both. Concealment is not the way forward though.
@fleshsimulator Not so strange when you realize they are basically Skrim characters who rummage through the dead for rare loot. What is more surprising is that no one has tried to buy that gg item from him at a lowball price, or simply taken it by force.