mynoise's Cafe Restaurant generator got me through years of working in a noisy open office. Can't recommend it enough. I put the cutlery noises on mute though.
The recent show Mrs. Davis also has a similar concept in which an AI would send random workers with messages to the protagonists, unbeknownst to the workers.
I don't have an answer to that, I just want to highlight how blurred the line is between what the community tolerates and what it doesn't. There is a thread with a similar discussion, but somehow the one that comes from fiction didn't trigger the same reaction as this article, which deals with science: Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068015
Could it be that you unconsciously prefer serif fonts to sans serif fonts? Sans serif fonts are preferred by people with dyslexia, for example.
Another thing that comes to mind is high contrast in stroke thickness, thick vertical strokes and thin horizontal or curved strokes. This is reminiscent of engravings and calligraphy, but can be difficult to read on a screen, especially when the font size is small. Anti-aliasing options can also affect this and lead to even greater differences between letters than expected.
Since you are referencing 42, let me draw from another piece of literature to respond.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
It's not the machines themselves that are inherently tyrannical, it's the human will to dominate now supercharge by technology.
LLM hallucinations aside, unregulated artificial intelligence for mental health therapy is a very slippery slope. We cannot allow, say, advertisers and brands to have access to the mind of our most vulnerables so directly.
awwwhhhh!, I was enjoying the so close almostness of our current wrangles with what we are building compared to our literary greats imaginings on the subject.
my personal suspicion is that the whole AI phenominon will exacerbate an already frenetic time of change in how humans live, here
AI, will I think become a defining test of good judgement and compitency, like having a fun but sometimes dangerous and evil friend, who never goes away, for everybody....heres your AI, it bites sometimes, NEXT!
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