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Why do you choose to be here and not watching ai generated videos of apes slapping Russian gangsters?
I'm looking connect with people and see the world from different points of view and integrate the results of that into my model of reality; I'm not looking to be entertained, really, although sometimes that happens too.
Insofar as the thing I'm looking for can be achieved by AI, I welcome AI interactions. (I spend a substantial time every day just talking to LLMs for this purpose.) But most slop isn't really that, or it's a low-fidelity version of it.
Not much for me in the apes slapping gangsters beyond momentary novelty, although that, too, is a useful thing to understand about the world.
The distinction between entertainment and seeking connection makes sense to me. If I assume that the millions of subscribers to White Dog Catsss are just seeking entertainment, perhaps it helps me understand them. Perhaps they don't read an article or listen to a podcast or watch a tv show with a story because they don't feel they have enough time, and so they click for twenty seconds of novel imagery.
Is the most attractive thing about these kinds of videos their short duration?
The slop discussion is interesting because it challenges a person to say what, exactly, is objectionable, or (alternately) laudable? People have a gut intuition that slop is bad, but why is it bad? Or perhaps: under what circumstances?
Based on what I've seen, most people have trouble articulating their reasons; and when they can, their reasons are usually dumb and grossly inconsistent with their other revealed preferences.
It's a good exercise to do, if you haven't thought about it.