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Reminds me of this fantastic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418657: > You only started trying it

Reminds me of this fantastic comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25418657: > You only started trying it out once they moved to GANS and VR headsets. You are not pathetic or anything, could get a real girl if you wanted to. Just don't have time. Have to focus on your career for now. "Build your empire then build your family", that's your motto. > You strap on the headset and see an adversarial generated girlfriend designed by world-class ML to maximize engagement. > She starts off as a generically beautiful young women; over the course of weeks she gradually molds both her appearance and your preferences such that competing products just won't do. > In her final form, she is just a grotesque undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain. Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. But to your eyes there is only Her. > It strikes you that true love does exist after all.

meowface 6y ago
Very insightful vision of a (proto-?)wireheading future. I suspect something similar to this may eventually be developed for AI-generated music, too. A kind of superstimulus or wirehead music that initially sounds strange and unintelligible but soon proves to be more pleasurable than anything you've ever heard before. Maybe even trained on and tailored to each individual's brain, to maximize pleasure and reward peaks. Perhaps with a little bit of optional user input, like sliders for fast, slow, bright, dark, intense, soft, "dopaminergically flat vs. spiky", etc.
- twic 6y ago
  Maybe that's what vaporwave already is.
m463 6y ago
> Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. I imagine that would define hot mess.
Chris2048 6y ago
> undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain Is there any science behind this being possible? I would have thought morphing blob of porn-shapes would be more realistic.
- twic 6y ago
  Different strokes for different folks.
- PoignardAzur 6y ago
  I guess the non-science-fiction equivalent would be these weird hentai where the girls have huge distorted boobs (like, twice the size of their head or bigger) and similar freakishly unrealistic anatomical details. ... that a friend of mine told me about.
puddingnomeat 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy5-X_wRBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy5-X_wRBQ
bsanr2 6y ago
Thankfully, I will be among the large subset of the population which will be immune, as, per deep learning tradition, the data set the GAN will be trained on inevitably won't include any fats, blacks, or non-binaries.
- bsanr2 6y ago
  Can't tell if downvoted because people are mistakenly reading this as racist/homophobic, or if they're incensed at the completely accurate insinuation that machine learning datasets focused on "attractive" people are likely to mainly consist of photos of skinny white people.
camjohnson26 6y ago
Sounds like heroin.

meowface 6y ago

Very insightful vision of a (proto-?)wireheading future. I suspect something similar to this may eventually be developed for AI-generated music, too. A kind of superstimulus or wirehead music that initially sounds strange and unintelligible but soon proves to be more pleasurable than anything you've ever heard before. Maybe even trained on and tailored to each individual's brain, to maximize pleasure and reward peaks. Perhaps with a little bit of optional user input, like sliders for fast, slow, bright, dark, intense, soft, "dopaminergically flat vs. spiky", etc.

twic 6y ago
Maybe that's what vaporwave already is.

m463 6y ago

> Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. I imagine that would define hot mess.

Chris2048 6y ago

> undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain Is there any science behind this being possible? I would have thought morphing blob of porn-shapes would be more realistic.

twic 6y ago
Different strokes for different folks.
PoignardAzur 6y ago
I guess the non-science-fiction equivalent would be these weird hentai where the girls have huge distorted boobs (like, twice the size of their head or bigger) and similar freakishly unrealistic anatomical details. ... that a friend of mine told me about.

puddingnomeat 6y ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy5-X_wRBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMy5-X_wRBQ

bsanr2 6y ago

Thankfully, I will be among the large subset of the population which will be immune, as, per deep learning tradition, the data set the GAN will be trained on inevitably won't include any fats, blacks, or non-binaries.

bsanr2 6y ago
Can't tell if downvoted because people are mistakenly reading this as racist/homophobic, or if they're incensed at the completely accurate insinuation that machine learning datasets focused on "attractive" people are likely to mainly consist of photos of skinny white people.

camjohnson26 6y ago

Sounds like heroin.