I don’t want to spend time with my kids. That’s why I didn’t have any.
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Funny story. My cousin’s parent were super christian religious. The sect where they “speak in tongues”. Anyway, they would play bible readings on tape to him at bedtime. One night, they started the tape and left the room. Some time later they heard him screaming from Hus room. Of course they came running in and found him in tears, utterly panicked. The stereo had eaten the tape or died (I don’t remember), and he thought that god had died.
So yeah. Should be good.
Poor child. Having to go though all that shit
My grandparents only hid in the basement while I was napping so when I woke up and saw piles of their clothing on the floor, static on the radio, water boiling on the stove, I’d think Jesus came back, took them To heaven and left my 7 year old ass here.
As an adult, now I think they wished they could go to heaven and leave me here
He actually managed to turn out pretty cool.
Please switch me to a different multiverse without Trump or AI
Fuck that, hop in and help out. Many of us are reversing this shit already and the more people doing that the better it gets. That goes for everyone else reading this that has not joined up yet too.
Want a better multiverse and life? Then work together and do. We will win against all this shit. Together. Work together locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally
I empathise with that, I really do. Our govt (Oz) have introduced an office of AI and relatively strict restrictions on data centres.
The cynic in me says SkyNet is already here and we’re just sitting ducks.
It is my hope that one night I’ll take a rip of DMT, and when I come down, I’ll have leapt to a better timeline.
Or in other words, hoping that the next leap would be the leap home.
Al says that Ziggy says I’ve got a 0.23% chance each time. So 🤞
If you want to optimize a parent-child time with AI, maybe optimize it with not having children instead.
Exactly what I was thinking. It makes me think of the book Four Thousand Weeks, and Chasing Daylight.
The former is about the trap of productivity and thinking you can fit more into your day than you can. Hint: no matter how much you get done in your day, you will want to try to fit in more
And the latter I don’t want to spoil but there was a quote along the lines of “Gene looked at all his colleagues who wanted more and thought, do they know when they will have enough?”, again the idea that we will always want more.
Reading to your child and spending time with them is enough. Forget all the other distractions the world offers you.
/rant
Unrelated thought, what’s more resources-consuming, a child or AI?
AI. All the resources of the world go into it to tell you to make a sandwich.
Child. 18 years hard labor and you might make the kid to take down Skynet.
Children at last have a chance of paying off and doing something good.
Fuck those parents for using a tool to take a break!!!
“Go play outside”
“Play with your toys”
“Do some arts and crafts”
“Listen to an audio book”
“Go read”
… So many ways parents can get a break, this is just the same but different in a more creepy way and using something that sucks up all our resources and takes our jobs.
How is listening to an audio book different than a book in parents voice?
The point is not that the children cannot listen to books but the bonding ritual that is reading to a child. Hearing the stories they like to hear. Having them ask for a specific one. Singing your child to sleep as well - you can still play music but the act of them watching you sing and hearing your voice is important.
Go listen to a Tonee or whatever when you get home from school while I’m making dinner and let your imagination run wild to Gabby’s Treehouse audio books but I’m reading Cinderella tonight.
And did this guy say he’s offloading all of that? No. Everyone here is screeching “because AI”.
His partner asked him to read to the baby and he said to her that he didn’t want to and that he could train an AI model to replicate his voice so he didn’t have to.
She could be a nagging and needy, codependent mess but he still knocked her up and stuck around so when your partner says “Why don’t you read to the baby, it’ll be cute.” You read to the damn baby.
This is all fake and likely words you could only utter on the green text comm, so really, let’s not worry about it but this guy did, in his shitpost, say “No, I’d rather not read to my baby.” Homeboy checked out before the damn thing could even crawl over to the electrical socket and take the easy way out of being raised by him.
Not “because AI”, I just hate people who don’t read to their kids… And AI. It’s a combination of two things I hate.
Children need parental bonding.
Also, an audio book wont assist in helping the child learn to read.
Not what I asked.
An audio book does not provide parental bonding time.
An audio book doesn’t have words that can be pointed to by a parent.Clearer?
Not what I asked. But it’s okay, I’m SURE you’ve been screeching over the dangers of audio books for years 🤣👍
If we’re just talking about that specifically then actually it might be quite good to have an audio book that uses the parents’ voice, if we ignore privacy concerns about cloning your voice.
But the context of the post is saying more than that. They’re talking about not spending time with the child and reading to them, which I think most people disagree with. Just as I think most people would disagree with just giving a child an audiobook instead of reading to/with them, irrespective of whose voice is being used
Oh nooooooo a parent took a break and a shortcut? Let’s make 800 assumptions and make up an entire MCU for this man to live in where we can make a million more assumptions that this guy is just abusing this kid.
Y’all have widely taken a tweet out of context and misrepresented …… because AI.
In the words of you: Not what I said
👌👍 audio books are the devil. Y’all have let AI mush your brains.
yes
🤣👌👍🤡
It was considered unethical when Harlow did it to monkeys, but I guess it must be fine when parents do it to their own children, regardless of the ensuing panic disorders… 🤷
He had to make his baby announcement photo about AI agents? Dad of the year, guys.
Fucking sociopaths.
This has to be satire
hey grok, please fuck my wife
His spouse reasonably complained that an audiobook wouldn’t be in his voice. But Sng wasn’t to be outdone in the zero-effort-parenting department.
“I can train a voice model,” he countered, before addressing his readers: “Parenting hits different when you work in AI.”
Sometimes I feel bad about myself, but at least I don’t say stuff like this.
Honestly, ai-people might just fully replace reality TV in the “well, at least im not that guy”-department
I love how you nerds one day are like, parents never get a break cause kids can’t play. Then this comes out, literally an incremental change of something that’s basically been going on for 60 years, and you all screech WANT TO IGNORE YOUR KIDS, bad parents!!!
Holy shit, AI has rotted your brain’s just by existing.
Recorded bed time stories have been a thing for 60 years. Parents getting 20 minutes off doesn’t mean they aren’t being read to.
