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113 points willmoss | 4 comments | 21 Oct 24 09:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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arnaudsm ◴[21 Oct 24 12:43 UTC] No.41903559[source]▶
This is great for creating a media-garden for your children!

Kid content on YouTube and TikTok can be extremly disturbing, even for an adult. Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.

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komali2 ◴[21 Oct 24 13:51 UTC] No.41904151[source]▶
I thought things had changed after ElsaGate but I peeked into the airbnb room at a friend's party the other day and the kids were watching youtube, and it seems that type of content still has a hold. The kids were watching some really long video of this guy that kept making an AI-esque youtube-thumbnail style open mouth face after some 5 second event occured. E.g: Man runs into door, makes youtube face. Man tries to sit on toilet, but the toilet lid is down. He lifts it, and finds the toilet's full of colored balls, youtube face. Driving, shot of a speed bump, shot of him bouncing in his seat and hitting his head on the ceiling of the car, youtube face.

The kids were utterly enthralled. I wish I could find a link to the video but it was just some autoplay on a smart tv and I never managed to grab it before leaving the party.

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1. dbspin ◴[21 Oct 24 13:54 UTC] No.41904184[source]▶
Slight tangent, but it's my intuition that some version of this is the end game for media. Completely compelling, AI created, individually attuned videos generated in or near real time that appeal so well to the individual (adult) viewer they overwhelm our learned resistance. Infinite Jest, but rather than dying laughing you orient your entire life around engaging with the content.
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2. jareklupinski ◴[21 Oct 24 14:28 UTC] No.41904562[source]▶
if we can fit that power into a box that can fly with me to alpha centauri, i think we'll be ok

once we figure out feeding and waste management, entertainment over a low-bandwidth link will be tricky

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3. dbspin ◴[21 Oct 24 17:17 UTC] No.41906207[source]▶
Picture a two curves of technical progress. One is the process toward creating a 'hot' media stimuli so addicting that it shifts your utility function. The other is the route to interstellar travel. Now imagine the relative resources that are being expended to push technology along each curve.
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4. jareklupinski ◴[21 Oct 24 18:55 UTC] No.41907194{3}[source]▶
an intersection of the two curves must exist, at some point

when two roads diverge in a yellowed wood, blaze down the middle