While I must vehemently disagree with his methods (hi NSA) I cannot help but think the man was on to something as we progress further into whatever you want to call this reality.
This is my review of Paperback Brewing Weird Science West Coat Hoppy Pilsner:
Okay, so the idea of chatbots are nothing new for this group. Rule 34 is also nothing new. The combination of the two is now commercially available! This is not surprising at all, right? Science fiction has long dabbled in the idea AI and robots will eventually get to a point where it can replace your spouse with something much more reasonable.
The idea is now mainstream enough to be covered by Forbes. Which means wealthy boomers are going to invest their time and money into this for financial gain. Ethical considerations include putting 
Elizabeth Nolan Brown out of work (TW: The Conversation), but on a more serious note means the absolute worst examples of sexual impulse can be attended to without harming others. Once its made its made, and distinguishing between reality and machine created fantasy becomes impossible. Does it then become a de facto acceptance of things society has found absolutely abhorrent for thousands of years? Seriously, even Bonobos follow the taboo of not fornicating with their own mother.
In the end though, this might be what actually drives AI to commercial success. Consider other technologies like VHS, 3D visual displays, or even the internet itself and what it really was that got people to buy it. I recall being part of a group of Airmen when the Tech Sergeant that moonlighted at the local Best Buy had something cool to show us. We circled around him marveling at the first generation iPhone—we were in fact watching porn.
Am I suggesting we accept some sort of Matt Walsh style Christian Dystopia in order to stop this? Judas Priest, NO. I’m just saying, this shit is getting weird (NSFW).
While I did write somewhat fondly about the idea of Pilsners hopped with hop varieties typically used in IPA, my next foray into it was not quite as pleasant. This one arguably overdoes it. They also stray away from the more fruity varieties that are more popular in the summer. So once again, we are left with IPA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race, but they at least get points for the artwork. Paperback Brewing Weird Science West Coat Hoppy Pilsner: 2.5/5. 5.6% ABV 40% IBU
shoe did a pretty good video about it a while back.
Shoe…I looked, not gonna lie. Better body than you’d expect.
How about leaving pilsner alone?
I like hops but but please, just stop
Last Saturday I had my best beer of 2024 (so far).
It was a Fuller’s London Pride on tap.
Their ESB is one of my favorite beers, but I only get it on tap, as the bottled version just doesn’t live up. Same for London Pride.
At 4.1%, I could have sat in the pub all day drinking London Pride and thoroughly enjoying every single one of them. Some say Pride is Fuller’s best beer, and I won’t disagree, but I prefer the ESB. But damn, simple can be so good.
I have a London Pride bar towel I use the hell out of.
I’m trying to formulate a joke where using the hell out of a towel leaves it Holy (and hole-y)
So, robc had his own PRIDE day.
Good for you!
100%
How about leaving pilsner alone?
MS gets it.
I could see a Pilsner with just a touch of a fruity hop, dry hopped. Barely more than enough to make you wonder if they added a little extra.
Try the one Mother Road makes.
*jots note*
I suspect if I can find it, it will be at Total Wine.
They’re hit or miss in Phoenix.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2023/06/when-i-start-to-complain-when-theres-no-rain/
“Does it then become a de facto acceptance of things society has found absolutely abhorrent for thousands of years?”
The left has been pushing pedo shit more and more lately. It started with some academic papers over a decade ago, then soft-pedaling in Salon, Slate, etc. some years after that. There were child sex dolls on Etsy. Language such as “minor attracted person” and “child sex worker” are common now. So I won’t be surprised when there are AI child sexbots.
If I could be convinced AI Child Sexbots wouldn’t lead to real child abuse, I might see that as a positive development.
If real pedos could confine their depredations to only inanimate sexbots that would be a good thing. I super-duper-highly doubt that that would be the case though.
What is the Official Glibs Stance? Would you prosecute and jail anyone caught fucking a child sexbot? What should be done to such a person?
Would there be an age of consent for robots?
You recently upgraded your kid’s robot friend to a perky 16 year old simulacrum (from her old tweener-12 model). Fair game?
No punishment for robot sex. If they are screwing something that’s not sentient, it’s not my business. They can screw their car or coffee table too. I don’t care even if I think it’s weird.
From an ideological purity standpoint, the sexbot is fair game.
From a real world perspective, allowing those people to indulge will likely lead to real world abuses.
There’s a whole lot of psychological factors involved beyond sexual attraction that leads someone to abuse a child.
Ideological purity can justify horrific crimes. We are complicated creatures who require limits and balance.
Saw in the local news they were going after people for creating AI kiddie porn.
I don’t think some things will gain acceptance. We’ve always been able to create animated porn, and somethings remain taboo in our society. Why are AI deepfakes some revolutionary step here?
Moreover, outside the realm of children, there’s really almost no porn that they won’t make right now anyway.
What the hell is taboo? You can go to most websites and find incest porn from the step-sister/mom kind to straight out I want to fuck my mom kind. You can find rape porn. You look a little deeper than the mainstream sites, I’m sure you can find beastiality without too many problems.
The AI will make porn more tailored to the individual I suppose. But there’s already nothing besides the kiddie stuff that is really off limits and that adult “performers” won’t already do for money.
Along with CT’s comment above, I think the intent is to push the boundaries so that those taboo interests can be used as leverage until no longer useful. Especially if the laws don’t change. See Epstein and P Diddy.
Right. Create an unenforceable gray area.
“So once again, we are left with IPA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race”
True, but don’t mail bombs to breweries. That would be wrong.
*waves at NSA*
The mass production of AI porn has significant ethical and social implications. It can offer an unprecedented quantity of customizable sexual stimuli tailored to users’ preferences while drastically cutting down production costs.
The obvious solution is unionization.
When AI achieves/is recognized to have personhood this conundrum goes away. I think. Maybe.
There’s a great scene in Natalie Wood’s last movie Brainstorm where the company is pitching their new VR-like device, and one of the venture captial (I think) people has the idea to use it to record VR sex. It’s funny, because they were right about that being what would likely happen.
Ditto Lt. Barclay’s use of the Star Trek holodeck.
Also, Strange Days.
Like Brainstorm, under-appreciated. Except for Juliette Lewis, who I find like nails on a chalkboard in everything she’s in.
But Kalifornia!
This ain’t Lucky Lager!
“Early don’t eat breakfast. He thinks it’s a conspiracy put together by the cereal people.”
Brainstorm is a great overlooked flick.
Yeah, porn and video games drove PC development for decades.
And that’s the way we like it.
“Ethical considerations include putting Elizabeth Nolan Brown out of work”
I remember after Projekt Melody, the flesh and blood cam girls on Twixxer were saltier than mermaid pussy. There are already “realistic” AI influencers on IG, so “realistic” AI pornstars are inevitable.
I saw a video yesterday of some twitch streamer who looked like typical Asian gamer girl remove their face.
SPOILER ALERT – IT WAS A DUDE
Here it is.
My buddy ran up to me with tears streaming down his face.
“It’s a boy! It’s a boy!”, kept saying.
We never went back to Thailand again.
https://youtu.be/h1dxZ8srDM4
When Altar Boy #1 got old enough he started running 5K’s with me.
One race he turned to me and said “Dad did you know that sometimes guys wear those spandex tights too?” (It was a Turkey Trot race so it was cold).
Later when Altar Boy #2 just started running with us he got this advice from his big brother: “Make sure you look at their head first before you look at your butt because sometimes it is a dude”.
Good advice
+ Murray Head
The queens we use would not excite you.
Now I want a deepfake video of Greta Thunberg wheelie-ing a smoky two stroke dirt bike through a fragile ecosystem, running over endangered mice.
Hawt.
I’m having a hard time following that euphemism.
While evidence-based laws could be put in place to mitigate the risks associated with AI-generated sexually explicit content, it would be paramount to educate users and creators in their sexuality and practice of consent. More research is also needed to understand the influence of this technology and guide its development.
I never saw that coming.
Because Allah forbid we have morality based laws that don’t require shoveling money to academics
But they are experts!
It’s part of the appeal.
Porterhouses were $5.99/lb today at the grocery store!
*Snoopy happy dance*
Nice!
Had them custom cut. Got 4. 29-32 oz each.
Perfect
Biden 2024!
The history of the government knocking off and stealing new energy technologies.
Long story short for video too long, did not watch crowd (though you bums should all be watching The Why Files).
Crazy number of patents are marked as national security threats each year. About 5000 perhaps. Many related to energy.
Inventors who don’t take the hint tend to end up dead.
I can’t find the quote, but P.J. O’Rourke had some line that if it was just getting off that people wanted there would be way less of a stigma about masturbating. His point was that half of the reason you want to boink someone else was that you had worked hard enough to make someone else agree to bump uglies.
Robot gals/guys/xes can’t say no, so will they be more on the loser masturbator side of the scale no matter how realistic?
Maybe, but the crux of Incel culture is embracing what you are. A loser.
You’ve certainly embraced it.
Mee-yow.
Nice.
I quick search didn’t turn up that exact quote but it rings a bell.
I had not quite remembered this P.J. quote, but it’s apropos for this group.
Will anyone care if it includes their favorite porn star?
It will be the post career version of their fave.
More likely the early career version of their fave. It appears to be a very wearing career.
It’s complicated
When one prospective juror was called in to discuss her post calling Trump “a racist, sexist, narcissist,” she appeared embarrassed.
“Oops that sounds bad,” she told Trump attorney Susan Necheles when read the post.
Moments later, the woman apologized.
“I should apologize for the tone of some of my posts,” she told Trump as she withdrew her claim that the former president is a racist.
The judge ultimately granted the former president’s challenge and dismissed the woman.
It’s not like she said something really crazy or despicable, like Trump wasn’t all that bad as President.
I’ve been told a number of times that Trump is a racist. But, when asked to give evidence, they can’t. It gets so tiresome hearing people who should know better say such things.
Same with him being a homophobe. Explain how a guy who supported gay marriage in the ’90s hates gay people?
If you are gonna put on a circus at this scale you could at least hire decent clowns
I ordered:
25x Toshiba TC74HC14APF Inverters (14-pin DIP)
I got:
5x Toshiba TC74HC14APF Inverters (14-pin DIP)
20x Toshiba TC74HC245APF Non-Inverting Transceivers (20-pin DIP)
Dammit, DigiKey!
Looks like they partially inverted your order.
You should be able to pin down the problem as now you 120 more than you wanted.
Just cut off the excess, they’ll fit in the socket!
On one hand, the transceivers are more expensive $0.24/chip (so $4.80 discount!)
On the other hand, I don’t have a project that needs Transceivers.
On the third hand, properly stored ICs keep for a while.
That’s the spirit! Accidental projects are sometime the best projects.
“get to a point where it can replace your spouse with something much more reasonable.”
+ Harcourt Fenton Mudd
Great episode
I’m too old for this. For the 1st time in decades, I get allergies. They evolved to a sinus infection.
This morning I woke to my throat on fire and a 101º fever.
I am reliably informed that snorting Scotch will clear up a sinus infection.
But a nasal rinse of Scotch really stings.
A few times Ive been taking a shot of something high proof, coughed, and had it enter my nasal cavity.
Can confirm.
Drinking it works even better but only because you won’t care if you’re sick.
Makes being sick a lot more enjoyable.
All this AI stuff boggles what little is left of my mind. I just want to be able to copy/paste without having to write the instructions down a piece of paper before I start.
I no longer partake of the item celebrated today, but here are some songs. Lohn Lajoie High as Fuck and Kottonmouth Kings The Lottery, a surprisingly slightly libertarian song.
My submission.
mmmmmm….. beer.
I need beer. Why is the beer always gone?
Because you keep drinking it.
Touche.
I can only pass you a virtual beer today. I have some ales, Revolver Blood and Honey over here.
Wonderful. I hope you are resting your weary alien bones for Thursday night.
I am. I took the daughter and friends roller skating last night. I felt a little too old to get on skates.
Went to a brewery this afternoon. Why is it impossible to find a nice grapefruity amber these days? I tried about 5 or 6 beers, and didn’t really like any of them. I thought I might like the sours, but nope. If I wanted wine, I’d drink fricken wine.
That sour wasn’t wine, fix your expectations,
NPR reporters scoff at claims outlet is biased: ‘We have strong, heated editorial debates’ about coverage
For today’s Trump is worse than Hitler story should we do racism or anti-LGBT+? Please have a strong heated debate and get the appropriate support lined up from the usual left leaning sources and the 3 RINOs that still answer our phone calls.
OT: since you love Ford QA and legacy auto makers struggling with tech: apparently Ford broke the HUD turn by turn directions on early MY24 superdutys. They’re aware of it & it’s fixed for current production but apparently they so far not going to make it right for existing customers.
Par for the course. GM has been bricking entertainment systems with OTA updates and then letting dealers tell customers it’s not covered so they need to pay for replacement. Both won’t cover updating onboard software that takes ridiculously long times (multiple hours to the point of requiring battery maintainers to be used) to do.
Tesla regularly pushes on air updates too. They occasionally push one to out of warranty vehicles and break them. It raises an interesting conundrum.
The legacy manufacturers know how to make vehicles pretty damn well, but their tech is always legacy, added in from multiple vendors and marketing driven. It shows.
Ford who I liked has cost cut themselves into a reliability and quality corner. It’s the 80s all over again.
You know it. I really like the look of the new Broncos but I would not touch one. I don’t feel they will last, long term.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CyberTruck/posts/7309184219177059/?comment_id=7309442095817938&mibextid=S66gvF
Temp fix while Tesla waits for new parts. LOL.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CyberTruck/posts/7309184219177059/?comment_id=7309442095817938&mibextid=S66gvF
BTW the battery tender is best practice anytime you do a firmware update. Here is the 9 page way I have to update my wife’s MDX navigation. The download server is slow as can be and takes 2 to 3 hours. The car update takes at least 45 minutes and will crush the battery as it needs to be on the ON position.
https://acuranavi.navigation.com/static/WFS/Shop-AcuraNA-Site/-/Shop-AcuraNA/en_US/Documents/How-to-Download-the-Map-Update.pdf
https://acuranavi.navigation.com/static/WFS/Shop-AcuraNA-Site/-/Shop-AcuraNA/en_US/Documents/How-to-Install-Map-to-Navigation-System.pdf
Show me a list of positive Trump stories written by NPR.
Are women or minorities hardest hit? The age old question can get pretty heated.
“What the fuck is water?”, said the fish.
An odd turn of events
I went out to eat and met an Army veteran from WV. He lifted up his shirt to show me his tattoo of the WVU logo. He asked me about where and when I was born and tried unsuccessful to guess the first 3 digits of my SSN. We talked about WV and what we both did in the Army. He tried to guess where I was born. When I mentioned my work with NSA, he asked some questions about it, including whether it spies on Americans. Later, he said his stepson needed tutoring and gave me $20 in advance for it.
So yeah, it was a weird meeting, but I glad for the money and a new customer. Many weird things have happened to me in the past 3 years and nothing surprises me anymore.
Craig’s list once had a post by some guy who wanted help fixing his Real Doll from a burn mark from a cig.
No he wasn’t some sadist. He said he had set his smoke down while he was “finishing” and it burned down and disfigured his gal.
“We aim to fulfill men’s primal energies and desire for unconditional love… and getting off”
Is a box with a pocket pussy capable of love?
Another case of AI just blatantly lying, but in this case, it is lies that the customer wants to hear.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/ai-girlfriends-you-will-date-before-you-find-the-one-0056de58?st=hvw5bxf8ktss38i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Some sad local history I learned from my impromptu dinner companion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre
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The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. In addition, two white people were killed in self-defense by one of the victims. The town of Rosewood was destroyed in what contemporary news reports characterized as a race riot. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of black men in the years before the massacre,[2] including the lynching of Charles Strong and the Perry massacre in 1922.
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It doesn’t take a lot to get people to revert to their tribal instincts, which are band together and fight other tribes.