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[Loud Whispers]

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a_s I _as^ceND i_nto k^e_ba^b fo_r^m

bleat me to life anew

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[Naturegirl1999]

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[TamerVirus]

OH MIGHTY HE-WHO-IS-GOAT
REVEAL THE WONDROUS SECRETS OF GOAT TOWER!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[JoshuaFH]

The Goat Upper Class looks down upon the commoners from their Ivory Goat Tower.

[Yoink]

Wait, that thing in Goat Simulator was based off a real building?!

[Kagus]

Wait, that thing in Goat Simulator was based off a real building?!

Yup! Goats love to roost, so that building style lets you stack them vertically while also providing a little bit of mental stimulation. All for a reasonably simple design.

[Yoink]

That's pretty cool. Goats in general are pretty cool.
At least until they do stupid shit like eating lantana and dying and giving the human children who loved them a Big Sad. >.>   



New Happy: an employee at the supermarket joked with me when I needed help with the perpetually-useless self-checkout.   
When I'm out, alone and sober in public it is nice to be reminded that I still appear human enough to joke with. Dunno why but that cheered me up, especially given my frequent failures in the murky field of social interaction.   

[wierd]

really needs side-rails though. 

Goats *WILL* fight over who is at the top level. Unless your walkway is wide enough to accomodate goats butting each other, goats will routinely be pushed off through such dominance struggles should you fail to put (very durable) guard rails on.

(this is especially true of the little pygmy shits that are pictured. Fiendishly smart and bitchy, those ones.)

[Iduno]

New Happy: an employee at the supermarket joked with me when I needed help with the perpetually-useless self-checkout.   
When I'm out, alone and sober in public it is nice to be reminded that I still appear human enough to joke with. Dunno why but that cheered me up, especially given my frequent failures in the murky field of social interaction.   

Nah, fuck those machines, and the dicks who put them in to get rid of employees and making customers do their jobs. Although the machines are nice enough to believe whatever you tell them you bought if you have the ID number.

[Naturegirl1999]

I used a self checkout a few times and didn’t have any problems. We will need to restructure the global economy to not require humans to work to get money when machines/AI start doing the jobs humans were once needed for. We need to figure out how to coexist with AI.

[TamerVirus]

Although the machines are nice enough to believe whatever you tell them you bought if you have the ID number.

Your mileage may vary!
In some places if you breathe too hard on the scale it goes "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA. ANNIHILATE! KILL! KILL!
In other places you label everything as bananas and it'll go "This fella really needs his potassium! 20 pounds of bananaramas? Totally legit"

[Naturegirl1999]

Although the machines are nice enough to believe whatever you tell them you bought if you have the ID number.

Your mileage may vary!
In some places if you breathe too hard on the scale it goes "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA. ANNIHILATE! KILL! KILL!
In other places you label everything as bananas and it'll go "This fella really needs his potassium! 20 pounds of bananaramas? Totally legit"

Why would people lie to the machines? Would the people who lie to machines attempt a similar trick with humans? Treat the machine like a person and be truthful with what you are purchasing

[IcyTea31]

If it's at all possible, someone will try to buy 20 pounds of ham as bananas to save money. Yes, some have tried that even with human cashiers. Yes, it is both illegal and immoral, but that only stops honest people.

Idiot-proofing a machine that takes arbitrary input is a massive amount of work and requires the engineer to understand the machine. The more advanced the AI is, the less likely it is that its maker understands it. This is probably one of the biggest hurdles in releasing AI to the public.

[JoshuaFH]

If it's at all possible, someone will try to buy 20 pounds of ham as bananas to save money. Yes, some have tried that even with human cashiers. Yes, it is both illegal and immoral, but that only stops honest people.

Idiot-proofing a machine that takes arbitrary input is a massive amount of work and requires the engineer to understand the machine. The more advanced the AI is, the less likely it is that its maker understands it. This is probably one of the biggest hurdles in releasing AI to the public.

No you see, the self-checkout machine is passing the Turing Test by simulating the apathy a human cashier would display.

[Naturegirl1999]

What if one were to give the AI’s body a camera and teach it what various items look like so that humans would have a harder time fooling it?