I really like the idea of a native OSX app that takes your emotions into account and either plays music you like or shows your favorite photos that fade in and out. Something to snap you out of the crap zone.
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
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Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that this could absolutely be an awful service. However, if someone is just now hacking this for fun, then odds are someone else is already hacking it for profit. I'm always glad to see people experimenting with technology at a human level and writing about it. That feels like the best that we can do, as opposed to not writing about it or pretending that it doesn't exist.
An awful service, but an amazing concept for a novel.
Maybe a Black Mirror episode.
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#53Does anyone else find this mildly dystopian? I mean, it's a cool and really fun project, but it doesn't take much imagination to envision a service like this actually taking off. "We monitor your mood 24/7 and automatically send you 'happy thoughts' on demand! Contemplating your feelings? Why bother! Here's a cute cat video! Never feel uncomfortable, pensive, or existential again!"
I don't know... on one hand... it will probably just be used to sell ads... but what if it actually worked? like, maybe some small dent in the rate of suicide?
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#54Sometimes I wonder if I might buy into The Matrix / Colossus: The Forbin Project / our AI overlords if I felt it actually cared about me / was whimsical enough ...
Colossus/Guardian did exactly the thing it was built to do, and that humans claim to want: prevent war. I think that's a pretty good track record and Forbin overreacted a bit.
That was an amusing ending in that way. It is presented as a terrible outcome but ... really Forbin seems upset he isn't in control.
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#55I solved this problem in a lower-tech way by simply configuring the area behind my workstation as a cat bed. Now, I can turn around and enjoy looking at my cat at any time, as she loves her bed and rarely leaves it. Stress eliminated! Yes, she is taking Series A funding in the form of wet food, if anyone is interested.
Did the same with a dog (shiba inu) this past year.
I think we're all the way at Series C funding at this point with the biweekly trips to the store for goodies.
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#56Does anyone else find this mildly dystopian? I mean, it's a cool and really fun project, but it doesn't take much imagination to envision a service like this actually taking off. "We monitor your mood 24/7 and automatically send you 'happy thoughts' on demand! Contemplating your feelings? Why bother! Here's a cute cat video! Never feel uncomfortable, pensive, or existential again!"
You just described the dopamine microdosing that is social media and their algorithm backbones lol
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was a scene in the movie Don't Look Up. A cellphone company CEO (a Zukerburg type character) introduces the 9.5 update, which includes emotion sensors. When you are sad, it automatically shows you pictures of cats. So yes, I do. Edit: Here is the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jTHBBkillM&t=96s (My bad it was the 14.3 update and dogs riding chickens)
> Zukerburg type character I was trying to put my finger on who he was emulating (besides the same actor’s character in Ready Player One), I was very pleased to hear Duncan Trussel’s take in his last podcast (493), he thinks the character is lifted from the head of the suicide cult “Heavens Gate”, note the pauses in speech and the ever-lifted eyebrows [0]. Basically framing the geo-engineering/tech-will-save-us crowd…
Ohhhhh yeah! I couldn't quite put my finger on that but it's definitely there.
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#58Does anyone else find this mildly dystopian? I mean, it's a cool and really fun project, but it doesn't take much imagination to envision a service like this actually taking off. "We monitor your mood 24/7 and automatically send you 'happy thoughts' on demand! Contemplating your feelings? Why bother! Here's a cute cat video! Never feel uncomfortable, pensive, or existential again!"
yes lol, the title made me think "I'm bored, lets make my life more black-mirror-esque"
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#59It‘s important to make the distinction between facial expressions and emotions …
A while back we made some glasses with photoreflective sensors to detect facial expressions, got so many requests about using it for emotion detection.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PMzpsDg518
Yet, that’s not what it does … maybe I was just naive and it didn’t help we called it affectiveWear.
Re: I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
#60I solved this problem in a lower-tech way by simply configuring the area behind my workstation as a cat bed. Now, I can turn around and enjoy looking at my cat at any time, as she loves her bed and rarely leaves it. Stress eliminated! Yes, she is taking Series A funding in the form of wet food, if anyone is interested.
Isn't any warm spot essentially pre-configured as a cat bed?
That's what makes it so easy!