@dont_jinxit The fact I can’t open a package locker without having an account in their dumbass app is borderline criminal. I wish 100000 GDPR violations upon them
The unpreparedness and vagueness is the whole point. I want to feel lost, uncomfortable speaking to people and possibly not even making it to my destination before I have to come back home.
Hikes are fun, but a real sense of adventure comes from not knowing what's gonna happen
In 2 months I'll set out on an awesome adventure with a friend. Helsinki to Tampere on a bicycle. Without maps, phones, or any ENGLISH (only my crappy Finnish allowed).
Just a compass, small roads and asking for directions. Truly excited
When I enjoy a piece of art, or a film, or a book, or a song, or a game, it’s extremely important to me that it is a carefully crafted, coherent design, made by a human with whom I can emotionally relate, and with whom I share the common elements of the human condition.
If any of these things are purely AI generated—yes, even if superficially you cannot immediately tell—it immediately sours the experience, because I feel manipulated, not communicated with. There is no relatable higher purpose behind a scene in a painting, there is no truth in any lyrics in a song, there is no carefully designed experience intended for me by playing a game—it becomes equivalent to a slot machine, and I become the drunk zombie boomer in Vegas repeatedly pulling the lever.
I don’t think this is an uncommon feeling at all, and because the economy is the cumulative effects downstream of human desire, I think there is far less demand for such things than—for instance—psychopaths in Silicon Valley would like investors to believe.