Amateur Expert Opinions: had enough of tech dorks who think their social misfitness will be solved if they simply get the right upgrade chip & convince everyone else to install it too

had enough of tech dorks who think their social misfitness will be solved if they simply get the right upgrade chip & convince everyone else to install it too

the onion layers are morbidly fascinating: here's a dude who doesn't get women, doesn't get "getting a buzz on," doesn't get human conversation, doesn't get how "society" works irl at all

lol there was actually a Futurama anthology bit about a scientist who invents a robot that can do literally everything for him then is upset when it takes over his entire life, incl his familial cares

"Robot! Experience this dramatic irony for me!"

NOOOOOOOOOOO

there was also an Archie comic about this

Almost as if art beat the tech bros to these ideas with no effort and also figured out where they fall down 🤔

Isn't that more or less the plot of "Multiplicity," too?

There's a whole sci-fi human cloning subgenre whose formula boils down to the same serious of story beats and cautionary moralizing

Makes sense; you can write a lot of different stories from that starting point

The thing is most of them wind up basically being the same story

Originally (or as far back as I care to document my own childhood memories while at work) there was a Ray Bradbury story, "Marionettes, Inc." It's been adapted (& credited) a few times: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marione....

I thought the joke was that he also gets the robot to experience the tragic irony for him, while he drinks

also the Worms episode

is this a diff episode from robot 1-x cuz the professor purchased that one and it basically did that same thing to bender

I'm autistic and I don't understand people, getting a buzz on, human conversation or how society works, but I can still instantly tell that his post is one of the dumbest takes I've ever heard.😂

I was gonna say!

To be fair here: there's all the social trouble of various types of neurodivergence (ADHD and all its baggage here!) and then there's the deliberate malformation of social identity that people like that guy voluntarily inflict upon themselves to feel "outcast for their superior intellects"

Apparently didn't understand Roxanne/Cyrano de Bergerac either.

What makes it sadder is that a banger drunk/stoned conversation topic like that’s wasted by him tweeting it out unironically like that.

Right? This dolt thinks the only reason men drink is to get over their abject terror of talking to women?

HOW will AI help with that, too

we will inform each other of how many rocks we should eat each day

isn’t using earbuds to catch a buzz called tinnitus

It's gonna be the future soon / And I won't always be this way / When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away

I mean it would be awesome if we had a lot more public spaces that weren't alcohol dependent but this ain't it

i've been dry for 20 years, agree, dude has a skill issue

But hey this company event is being hosted in.. you guessed it, another bar 😎

I adore alcohol-optional events. Have a nice cider if you want, but there's also tea and coffee, maybe some snacks, and more importantly, group activities. Just something more interesting as the focus. Fortunately more common than it was, but the momentum has been definitely dented by Covid 😕

This could be the most ridiculous tech-guy argument I've ever heard and I've heard a lot of 'em

bro has some probably-unsolvable skill issues

He might want to read the play that ROXANNE is based on and find out how well that strategy ultimately worked out

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fucker thinks he's socially superior but doesn't even know the real source literature here, just goofy

I look forward to a future where one sends a cute person to a bar with an earpiece tethered to a witty person, they meet a similarly accessorized imposter, and the two homely nerds who sent them eventually get married. Like in “When Harry’s Avatar Met Purportedly Sally.”

There's both Oglaf *and* SMBC webcomics about this scenario. Actually, multiple of each. Turns out it's a funny idea and shouldn't ben taken seriously.

No reply yet. Weird!

Sorry loser, he's too busy creating the torment nexus to read a whole play

Or at least watch the, near-contemporaneous with Roxanne, adaptation starring Gérard Depardieu.

Reminds me I should watch the Peter Dinklage version

!!! i should too

I prefer the Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah one.

Or God, just watch the whole movie even.

Dude, I’m #ActuallyAutistic, I miss social cues that NT people see as written in blazing neon letters as big as the Empire State Building, an I STILL don’t have this guy’s social skill problems.

I know, right? I'm flat terrified of drinking and my go-to flirting move is blushing and changing the subject and I /still/ have more going on than this guy. It's like seeing my funhouse mirror reflection itself in a funhouse mirror.

babe can you shut up for a second i can’t hear the ai

They fail to realize that the only way I would use AI in a social situation is if I was already very drunk

AI to get me home safely, like order and pay for a taxi

AI that monitors BAC & tells the bartender when to cut someone off wait let's not give anyone actual good use-case ideas

AI earbud just playing "stop talking, stop talking, SHUT UP, SERIOUSLY SHIYT UP" at increasing volume as I get drunker and drunker and start saying stupider and stupider things

“You can’t sing! Get away from that karaoke machine! What are you doing!?!”

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