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Today I am trying to catch them all.
Original is here on instagram.

The perfect virtual woman (an ultra short story)

You only started trying it out once they moved to GANS and VR headsets. You are not pathetic or anything, could get a real girl if you wanted to. Just don't have time. Have to focus on your career for now. "Build your empire then build your family", that's your motto.

You strap on the headset and see an adversarial generated girlfriend designed by world-class ML to maximize engagement.

She starts off as a generically beautiful young women; over the course of weeks she gradually molds both her appearance and your preferences such that competing products just won't do.

In her final form, she is just a grotesque undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain. Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. But to your eyes there is only Her.

It strikes you that true love does exist after all.

(Stolen from here.)

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Time for some light educational reading (Mummy Laid An Egg)
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Interesting Links for 16-12-2020

Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap

(tags:solarpower thefuture GoodNews viaDanielDWilliam )

Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten man security team in Norway

(tags:saudiarabia Norway )

A Ban On "Medieval" Virginity Testing In The UK Has Passed First Commons Hurdle

(tags:virginity UK law )

Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by 'weaponising fake news'

(tags:conservatives fraud OhForFucksSake )

Canada set to raise carbon price considerably over next decade

(tags:co2 globalwarming Canada economics )

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth's Organisms

(tags:humans nature earth )

Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

(tags:UK privacy Facebook )

Warner Bros would love you to die for Wonder Woman 1984

(tags:movies pandemic OhForFucksSake )

Master of the Pecos River

(tags:rivers water Texas USA )

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

(tags:language program neuroscience brain )

Pregnant women allowed partner 'at all times' as NHS changes covid rules

A few months late for us, but hopefully life will be easier for new parents now.
(tags:NHS pregnancy pandemic )

The AI in the Cyberpunk game can't drive. And hides that from you.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1338929166301990914.html
(tags:games design driving OhForFucksSake )

Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon's birthday

(tags:birthday surgery death healthcare )

Child abuse gangs in the UK are mostly white

(tags:race abuse children UK racism )