When we moved into a new flat, I had just finished unpacking the last of all the boxes and had a huge pile of flattened and packed together cardboard to take to be recycled. When I sat down I had a sudden thought, "where's my cat". She's strictly indoors only, and isn't usually interested in the outside world anyway.
So I call her, ans shake the treat bag, look in each room, nothing, and then start turning over blankets, anything she could hide in at all, nothing. We check the outside hallway, the balconies, nothing. Now panicked, I have my wife looking too and I freak out that she may have climbed into one of the now very crushed boxes without me noticing.
I'm making a mess of the cardboard pile I spent all day tidying, and my wife calls, "come upstairs". Sitting upright, perfectly normal, my cat, on the top shelf in the upstairs bathroom, all the way to the side, but in plain sight. Litterally this cartoon.
You know, I’ve considered that if the Holodeck from Star Trek was real - there would be no need for anything else. I mean anything except the factory that makes them, the power plant that runs them, and people to maintain all that stuff.
Your house would just be a holodeck simulation, and you could go anywhere. While we never see such things in the show, it stands to reason that holodecks could be networked together into a shared experience with other people somewhere else, but sharing the same virtual space. So an amusement park would just be a program you turn on and the people visiting are all real, just projections from their own holodeck. Heck even your workplace could be a shared holographic simulation. L
The only time anybody would need to leave their holodeck is when something real needs attendance. In star trek they have matter replicators, but without that you’d still need real agriculture and textiles and such. So, plenty of people would have jobs that require them to leave the simulation. Literally everything else though, all holodeck.
Wireheading is a term associated with fictional or futuristic applications[1] of brain stimulation reward, the act of directly triggering the brain's reward center by electrical stimulation of an inserted wire, for the purpose of 'short-circuiting' the brain's normal reward process and artificially inducing pleasure. Scientists have successfully performed brain stimulation reward on rats (1950s)[2] and humans (1960s). This stimulation does not appear to lead to tolerance or satiation in the way that sex or drugs do.[3] The term is sometimes associated with science fiction writer Larry Niven, who used the term in his Known Space series.[4][5] In the philosophy of artificial intelligence, the term is used to refer to AI systems that hack their own reward channel.[3]
The VR involved in the comic is probably a bit of an unnecessary middleman, but same basic idea.
We don't really know if there's actually VR involved in the comic. The robot does not say that, and the headset might just be to apply electrical stimulation directly to the brain, like the article you linked suggests.
I encourage everyone to take at least a simple, basic self-defence course somewhere. While a kick to the crotch is painful to men and women, there are other simple techniques everyone should know in case this one attack vector isn't an option. One example is quickly slapping their ears with cupped hands, as if trying to clap with their head. It also helps to practice the right motions a few times, ideally on someone with a protective suit so you can actually use your full force.
False. Kick them in balls, and when they double over in pain, you kick them straight in the teeth, the throat, or right between their eyes. A side kick to the temples are pretty effective too. I support every woman and child wear steel toe boots
Thank you. For some reason I thought he was in a group chat with both of the people or something, not that they actually were the same person. It makes a bit more sense now.
She recently posted on Reddit she's only posting there, not interacting with anyone because of the toxicity. I think it was the usual thing high profile women end up getting on social media that men don't, namely rape threats and death threats in their DMs all the time.
Not going back to the R site to find her post but that stuff always makes me sad
First thing I did when I signed up for Reddit back in the day was to turn off DMs. I refuse to believe she's too stupid to figure that out. She wants to be the victim, and frames every conversation she has in that light.
I don't really know enough about any of that. But I still don't think it's right people should be forced to turn off their DMs and comments because they're recieving messages like that.
Oh, I agree... you shouldn't have to, but we all know that DMs are used only for harassment, so.... yeah, if you don't, then you're asking for it. I wish people were better, well, people, but we aren't.
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