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  • Someone else’s use of it doesn’t shoehorn it into your life; you’re letting your irritation at google suggesting it every three minutes lead to saying no-one else should use it.

    Generating stuff with AI takes a comparable amount of energy to playing a video game. It doesn’t “delegitimize information” in any way, and doesn’t devalue the “art making process”, it’s just a different process for arriving at something kind of similar. If the outcome were the same, it might devalue the process, but that would then be a good thing.

    That only leaves alleged copyright infringement which to be honest I thought we were cool with. In any case, the OP’s use of an AI image generator isn’t going to lead to them not buying the art it was trained on so, again, not really a problem.

    If you don’t like it, don’t use it.






  • Yeah. I guess you can analyse it as:

    1. Denying the antecedent: “showering every day prevents smelling bad, therefore if you don’t shower every day, you will smell bad”
    2. Confirmation & Selection bias: “that person smells bad, therefore they can’t shower every day, making them an example of not showering every day leading to smelling bad”
    3. Bias of anecdotal evidence, presumably - at least, I’m assuming that most such people really do smell bad to themselves after only a day, which is treated as a reliable indicator of everyone’s condition.

    It’s quite interesting to me, because it clearly becomes a very emotive topic when the difference between waiting one, two or three days to bathe is pretty abstract. I have developed a hypothesis that it’s the feeling of having a shower when one is feeling sticky and sweaty and dirty, and then coming out feeling nice and clean, that gets readily associated with bad odour. I then think that this link simply can’t form easily if your feeling when coming out of the shower is not “nice and clean” but “disgusting ball of skin-flakes held together only by paraffin and artificial grease”.

    I have encountered this kind of attitude before but I was actually surprised to find it that prevalent here, because I expected more people to be sympathetic to conditions which require deviation from the norm.









  • I noticed that you didn’t reply to the following pretty important things:

    How are you correlating the smells of all these people with how often they shower? How many people have you asked that question of?

    and

    people of different age, race and sex all smell different, with a common gene among Asian people resulting in little to know body odour.

    So I’m not going to get into further personal details until you show some good faith there.

    For that matter, you never said how you were able to know how you yourself start to smell so badly after merely 24 hours out of the shower if this information is so unavailable.

    And just remember that it was you who used the word “delusional”, not me.