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enemyofperfectI dreamed that Google was giving out virtual ravens and flamingos to early adopters of some new service they'd developed.
I was outraged. You can't create artificial life and then just carelessly hand it out to anyone who can navigate a sign-up form! Inevitably, some of these fledgling AIs were going to end up being deliberately mistreated. That's how the internet works! And they didn't even care what fates their digital offspring might suffer -- they hadn't bothered putting in any safeguards at all.
This time, Google, you have gone too far, I thought.
It turns out there's pretty much nothing that's more adorable than a raven and a flamingo hanging out together and being BFFs, though. I mean, if we can believe my dream.
I was outraged. You can't create artificial life and then just carelessly hand it out to anyone who can navigate a sign-up form! Inevitably, some of these fledgling AIs were going to end up being deliberately mistreated. That's how the internet works! And they didn't even care what fates their digital offspring might suffer -- they hadn't bothered putting in any safeguards at all.
This time, Google, you have gone too far, I thought.
It turns out there's pretty much nothing that's more adorable than a raven and a flamingo hanging out together and being BFFs, though. I mean, if we can believe my dream.
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Date: 2012-06-05 06:50 pm (UTC)Mental image FTW
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Date: 2012-06-23 10:05 am (UTC)By the way, you were partly responsible for my actually drawing them. The image stuck in my head, but without the tiny bit of added encouragement, it probably would have stayed there -- so, thanks!