That helps, but sometimes the community is more general and the content I don't want shows up anyway. E.g. I've created an account soon as I saw US News & Politics show up, seeing the opportunity to block it. Yet the more general World News frequently has US-specific stuff (fair, I guess, seeing as the US is part of the world, despite them labelling anything not them as "World", e.g. "World Music"). Or US news and politics showing up in Lemmy Shitposts. I enjoy some shitposting. But why???? Can't get a break. At least filtering out English would free me from so much US
I have taken to doing the hand-washing gestures I learned during the pandemic. Helps dry my hands quite well. Funnily enough, I think I lost the habit of washing my hands that way, now going for a quicker method. Don't even know when that happened
For updating your waste status? Well, if you're Scout Condor, maybe.. The average person, though? I don't think so. You can, however, get tons of coupons from cool restaurants, through targeted ads
What is wrong with re-watching one's dream? I mean, sure. I've written some dreams down, and looking back some of it's kinda cringe (also crappy, cause dreams are random and I can't remember well)
Also, if dreams are "random data streams based on what is being stored into long-term memory as you sleep", why random-ass dreams? Not always I wake up feeling like "damn, what a topical dream!" It's, like, "Oh, Robotnik took Sonic's wife and I gotta help him", like. What in that is being stored in my mind?
being able to view other people's dreams
I did mention it's a private thing. Not like Smart Pipes sharing your last poo to your online followers
Am baffled by the inclusion of ai in this comment, though. Feels... out-of-place?
Why is AI out of place? I mean, if it (or machine learning, at least) can "see" or "learn", or "spot" patterns, and then replicate them, it could be used to try and see a pattern between one's brain activity, and what imagery could be associated with it. If it can find these associations, it could then work backwards from the brain activity to the image. Like, it receives brain activity when I see or think of an apple, and it knows the context of the apple. Then, without the context, and with enough training, it could figure out when you're thinking apple. In theory, at least. Not sure how brain activity works, and if there's anything differing in different contexts that could be picked up like that (i.e. that you could somehow differentiate between thinking apple or any other thing going on in your brain)
One cool use I'd like to see for AI one day would be recording dreams. A machine that reads your brainwaves, sends data to AI. The AI could be trained by showing someone an image, and then feeding the AI the description of the image, and brainwave readings, such that it can find patterns. Later, well-trained, it could translate brainwaves into concepts. Feed that into an LLM to connect these concepts, generate a title, sinopsis, and some prompts. Use prompts to make a video out of it, a trailer, and a poster. Add to a personal library. By having a local AI of your own, with your data, controlled by you, AI could have references of you, like name, general information, how you look, etc. Wake up in the morning, make yourself a cup of milk, sit in front of your computer, open your dream library. Browse around your own Dream Stream (though local, so no streaming. Unless server). A title/poster catch your eye? Read sinopsys, watch trailer. Interested? Give it a watch!
Bro, I just had the craziest dream. Come watch!!!
Lying in bed? Shit, I bet there's gonna be a sleep paralysis demon jumpscare any moment now
Wait, you just gonna leave us on a cliffhanger like that?
Oh, I hate stuff like that. When I'm thinking, and I get distracted for a moment with… honestly, what even. And I get stuck on my thought like a scratched vinyl, just looping on the last part. Not moving past that, and suddenly struggling to remember where I was going with it, and where I came from with it. "…and then… uhm… uuuhhhhh… uh, where was I going with this?"
I, too, took to writing dreams. Had one where Robotnik takes Sonic's wife and I have to help him or something. Hopefully no one finds these notes lol. Some things are better left in the past
Chicken fingerin' good!