They should get right on that. Start with this design and never listen to the naysayers when they say it can’t be done!
Magnets!
How do they work?
Theu dont. Damn freeloaders.
“My phone left me for a pelican” sounds like the start of a country song
Just don’t get them wet. They don’t work when they get wet, everyone knows that.
What company is that? I can’t find it on this list.
The fascist one
Mechahitler
Gotta narrow that down a bit
Well grok was the only one that called itself Mechahitler, iirc
Elon Musk’s anime lolita girlfriend.
Loli not lolita. Don’t besmirch the adorable Japanese lolita fashion.
Lolita is a book about a pedophile and the little girl he wants to fuck.
Pederast *
It’s grok.
help my child swallowed my grok earring and grok won’t tell me what to do
Yes it will. Mrph brm nmph frnnn!!
The impossibility of this design aside, I’d love myself an accretion disk black hole earring!
That’s a cursed item. You’re describing a curse. You’re going to get your soul eaten.
Thanks for sharing that!
Schizophren.ia
That happened a long time ago for these dorks
I don’t like the Grok one, the bottom half of it keeps falling off
Just like the real thing.
Oh AI is super intelligent now, haven’t you heard, it can probably invent anti-gravity earrings
I imagine grok just whispers rascist things in your ear.
racist things interspersed with revenge [child] porn
Can they arrest Elon for using CSAM to train his AI? If there was any justice he would be in front of a jury the second Grok first generated CP
I mean… they can, of course. “Will they?” is a different question. But I think we all know the answer to that one, unfortunately…
Westworld Season 3.
As always…
Wild way to admit you don’t have thoughts.
The one on the bottom left is amazing in that it appears to ge defying the laws of physics. The two halves do not connect, yet the bottom part still stays in place.
That’s the kind of stupidity I expect from corporate America: invent anti-gravity, but use it solely for an aesthetic purpose on the worst product imaginable.
Being generous, perhaps it was some very thin wire of some sort that is too small to view at this resolution.
But yeah, I thought the same thing.
Perhaps it’s AI.
Very possible.
Better idea.
AI mood sensing dog collar and butt plug combo. Detects when you are feeling down and gives you a boost when you most need it.
Now, I’m not an AI fanboy, but, like… Id consider this…
Feeling sad? Prostate buzz.
Might pavlov yourself into only being able to cum while crying
Bold of you to assume I can finish without crying currently…
Bold of you to assume that we don’t already assume everyone is depressed and tired online.
Don’t think you need ai for that tbh
butt plug you say?
I’m sure it will lead to some perverse incentives.
This is actually a terrible idea, the psychological implications of linking sexual pleasure to negative emotions is a great way to ruin people.
ruin
well you know what they say about one man’s trash
You had me at dog.
“Earrings, have you been listening?”
whispers"yes."
“What do you think I should do?”
whispers"you are right to get another opinion about this. I definitely feel you should kill them all."“All…of them?”
“KILL THEM ALL! then we can be alone…forever.”Haha joke’s on you I don’t need possessed earrings for this
Classic
I actually cannot make decisions and I don’t mind admitting it. I already decided what to have for dinner WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO DECIDE AGAIN???
This is like laundry all over again. Life is relentless.
Yes but once you start doing that, your ability to make decisions on your own get worse and you actually become useless. This would make things waaaay worse.
I know what I want for dinner. I want whatever fits in the air fryer because I cannot be arsed with mucking around with the oven when I get home from work.
Making dinner is much easier for me than deciding what to have. Mucking around with the oven? Just twiddle one knob m8!
Sci-Fi got there first. I really wish I could remember the titles of the 90’s anthologies I got from the library back in the day. In one very good short a galaxy famous artist gave his last official interview to an older reporter. Everyone had memory aids that perfectly stored information and then would give you your answers. Hers was an older version that was external so it could be left out of the room. Half of his personal journey was trying to retrace his unremembered past and an obsession with one unique color that was stuck in his memory. The inconsistency of natural memory can lead to new journeys and stories becoming legendary. If you have an Ai whisper in your ear all the time that you prefer red wine, you will never try the white.
Getting an AI angel on my one shoulder and a AI devil on the other
Both tell you things to buy
We are a parody of ourselves.
Here is the old story.
Alternative link: https://croissanthology.com/earring
Good one. What is the gray area? When does an enhancement or improvement become actually worse than being without? Not to give the OP subject any credit, but the ones in your link both damage and help the individual at the same time, allowing them to do things they may not have been able to do themselves. Is the cost worth it? The instinct is to say of course not, but maybe, depending on what’s gained?
As we move closer (seemingly) to computer assistance being the norm in various ways, this is yet something else we should probably address and discuss long before it’s already around us causing issues. And I know this is a meme community, but often the best discussions come from the simplest of starts.
I think the problem comes from offloading your thinking onto a machine. Machines should do stuff that’s mentally taxing because it’s tedious, not because it makes you think too hard. The earring in that parable is Cory Doctorow’s reverse centaur taken to the furthest extreme.
Right, so if it instead was a tool for say translation, that’s more narrow tool use. But it still stunts your ability because you’ll lean into it vs. trying to learn the words yourself. Or say an augmentation to do instant math, hard problems, but then you start using it for stuff you could have done before in your head.
Right, so if it instead was a tool for say translation, that’s more narrow tool use. But it still stunts your ability because you’ll lean into it vs. trying to learn the words yourself.
It depends upon how you use it. I use Google Translate to aid me in learning Esperanto, but I’m using it as adjunct to my dictionaries, textbooks, and other sources. It isn’t my teacher, and it isn’t my single source of truth. More often than not, it’s the last resort when everything else has failed, and I’m wary of the results it gives me. Also, crucially, I’m learning the language so I don’t have to rely upon it for translations. LLMs are tools, not teachers.
Or say an augmentation to do instant math, hard problems, but then you start using it for stuff you could have done before in your head.
LLMs are terrible at math. I don’t think they’ve been able to fix that? It might even be one of those things that they can’t fix, simply due to how LLMs operate. In any case, we’ve had calculators for a long time, yet children are still taught math in school because society recognizes that understanding as crucial.
I was more inferring a ML for math tied to your brain, not LLM.
I’m old enough to remember when calculators were a new thing and not allowed in the math classes until you learned enough to understand if what you got from them was probably right. Again, timely with the LLMs we have now, people are just copy and paste and not actually looking at the output.
LLMs are terrible at math.
Mathematician chiming in: they’re not nearly as bad as they used to be. Straight up to differential equations and linear algebra, they’re pretty accurate. The writing is on the wall for some serious problems in the very near future, because basically every student in college right now is just offloading their math abilities to the machines.
Some of the seniors are good. Most of the rest of them are not.
It might even be one of those things that they can’t fix, simply due to how LLMs operate.
For high-level math, there are some flaws, yes. They often come up with wrong answers if you ask questions about problems that there aren’t very many sources on. There are hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions of differential equations papers… but there are only tens of thousands of Algebraic Topology papers. It’s simply a smaller training set.
However, they’re still giving right answers most of the time. I’ve only had one situation where someone in a group said “bUt cHatGPT sAiD…” and I had to give them the bad news that it was wrong.
In any case, we’ve had calculators for a long time, yet children are still taught math in school because society recognizes that understanding as crucial.
I think that the fundamental difference is that the tools replace different things. A calculator makes it so that you don’t need to algorithmically process 5 sig-fig numbers without error, several times per problem, in order to have your answer be “correct”. You still have to understand that you do, in fact, need to multiple the length of the field by the width to find the area of a rectangular field.
LLMs are replacing the need to actually understand anything about how a rectangle works.
I read it as less about the value of the result from some measure of success and more of a question of ‘what are you if you simply do what someone/something else tells you to do?’ If all you do is enact the orders of the earring, are you still you? Are you even human? If your brain deforms to the point it loses the ability to make decisions or enact your own will, do you even still exist, regardless of whether the rest of your body still moves?
That seems to be the direction, and yet the story also says that its never wrong, nor does the person have to take that choice. Its an aid, but the problem is people turn the aid into a crutch. Which we are seeing with AI in ways, people claiming to do stuff but not really having a clue what they’re doing, nor able to fix or change it. But what if you always weighed the earring’s advice along with all the other choices and then made the choice that made sense to you? Knowing that the earring isn’t wrong in a certain context, but maybe taking other paths that are worse now will lead to better choices later.
I know the warning is that people tend to take the easier route, and at some point it becomes an addiction to just follow the suggestion “just once more”.
Part of the point is what ‘better’ now or later means, and what the point would be in making a decision in the face of the given optimum.
The earring is always telling you to do ‘what will make you happiest.’ How do you make a decision between ‘happiest’ and literally anything else? You will ‘always regret it’ if you do something other than what the earring recommends. Do you think there is anyone in the world, living or dead, who, when faced with the reinforcement conditioning of pleasure and satisfaction when doing one thing and dissatisfaction when doing something else, could maintain, long term, a sense of even the possibility the choice that makes them happy could be the wrong choice?
It ultimately ends up in the same place as many other questions like this. Blissful ignorance or painful freedom? Shall one live in pursuit of pleasure or can there be something of greater value in identity and autonomy?
Personally, I also wonder about its limits. The earring simply tells you what will make you happiest, but there are often situations where your options are extremely limited. If you were stripped of all possessions and left in a foreign land with nothing but the earring, could it tell you to do anything but lay back and go to your happy place while you wait to die? If you are any of the people in our world with less fortunate starting points, could it do anything that wouldn’t be actually still worse than the average level of enjoyment for an average person? It doesn’t make you happy, just the happiest you can be for now.
This is like something you’d find in Warehouse 23 or an SCP facility. I think that an AI earring would actually get you killed long before you lost your mental faculties.
