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I am really jealous of what the more creative/motivated kids growing up today have access to. When I was a teenager not long ago, I was mostly motivated by che
by zawerf 8y ago
I am really jealous of what the more creative/motivated kids growing up today have access to.
When I was a teenager not long ago, I was mostly motivated by cheating in games which got me learning basic scripting for keyboard/mouse macros which then led me to increasingly complicated stuff for botting.
But there are so many more motivating factors for learning how to code today, and they have never been more accessible. For example if you want porn of your high school crush? You gotta train your own deepfake for that. You will start off as a script kiddie but when you grow up you can tell people you've been training neural networks since you were 12.
- matte_black 8y agoJesus, I would have hoped they would achieve more noble pursuits instead of jumping straight into artificial child porn.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoI think that was meant to be a joke.
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- soared 8y agoKids are not into noble pursuits.. I learned html/css and webhosting stuff by making phishing sites of for my favorite video game.
- matte_black 8y agoWhen I was younger I was into noble pursuits. I loved to study programming and would talk about ways I would want to help the world with my future skills. That's all gone now... At some point I started to get darker and more cynical, and began to see technology not as a way to improve the world, but rather as a way to take what is mine. It started as a few disappointments here and there, then into short bouts of anger, then expanding into a constant simmering rage. Don't know if I'll ever recover. What happened...
- clamprecht 8y agoHow much of civilization is built because of the desire to reproduce? I'll bet a lot. And when you're 16 it's normal to be attracted to other 16 year olds.
- thisrod 8y agoWhen I was 13, and the major problem in my life was that all the other boys in my class were straight, I used to daydream about AI and animatronic solutions. The obvious social engineering approach wasn't obvious to me at the time.
- naeemtee 8y ago> For example if you want porn of your high school crush? You gotta train your own deepfake for that Who says society is going to shit?
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