The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

Post by frozenseven » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

Barrin92 wrote: post #84

65 wrote: post #19

If we are moved emotionally by slop, does it matter? If AI can produce something to make you think and feel, does it matter? It made you think and feel.

>If we are moved emotionally by slop, does it matter? Yes, because that's not what matters. That kind of sentimentality is deficient because it's as Wilde said wanting to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. It's like asking, why pursue a real relationship if pornography gets me off You're supposed to be into the world, not into yourself. If that was what mattered we should stuff you into the matrix p…

>because that's not what matters

According to you.

>why pursue a real relationship if pornography gets me off

An ever increasing number of people are making this choice as well. You don't like it? Then do something different with your own life.

Post by Denkel » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 5:33 PM UTC

falcor84 wrote: post #203

WhitneyLand wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That observation doesn’t really prove that the argument fails, right? Just because analogies were used powerfully beyond the experience of a writer doesn’t let us conclude that AI has transcended or will soon transcend the value of all qualia (Mary’s room thought experiment). And on the other hand we do have evidence to the contrary. AI is not capable of writing a movie script that resonates with people like this. It…

> AI is not capable of writing a movie script that resonates with people like this I'm reminded of this interview with Casparov from 1989 (less than 10 years before he lost to Deep Blue): >A machine will always remain a machine, that is to say a tool to help the player work and prepare. Never shall I be beaten by a machine! Never will a program be invented which surpasses human intelligence. And when I say intelligen…

This a silly counter-argument to a comment that literally ends with: >People will argue if and when these gaps can be closed. I think they can be in principle, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon.

You are replying to someone that says "currently is not happening" and using someone else saying "it will never happen" as if that was some kind of gotcha.

Re: The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

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