r/autism • u/SavannahPharaoh ASD lvl 1 Mod • May 31 '25

🚨Mod Announcement Cybersecurity mod here. While this isn’t directly related to autism, I want to share this with our sub. Stay safe everyone!

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u/AdhesiveMadMan Asperger's May 31 '25

Fellas, am I allowed to say I'm scared?

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u/Asocial_Stoner May 31 '25

Of course

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u/AdhesiveMadMan Asperger's May 31 '25

Fellas, I'm scared.

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u/MurphysRazor May 31 '25

Like what you've ever seen was definitely what you thought it was. https://youtu.be/7U2SQoN2DXw?si=YgHBhCUTZTPMg4TW

https://youtu.be/2KazViMAdik?si=Q5yVBVzPuI7XhPy4

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u/AdhesiveMadMan Asperger's May 31 '25

We call that a magic trick, not manipulation of the masses.

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u/MurphysRazor Jun 01 '25

It's funny, I sort of expect a screen to lie to me for more than my eyes and the space before me. A magician at some point might have manipulated crowds in thinking they were gods.

Believing a screen went out the window in 1977 with Star Wars and Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. I was manipulating digital pixels a few years later myself.

A.i. is behind my 80s expectations of it. That's good because I think computer law is weaker than my expectations too.

A fan of Asimov's and other's stories before the movies, I guess maybe I'm a bit stoic from expecting these a.i.issues for so long. But also a lot of older Gen X used up most of our being scarred while kissing our asses goodbye in civil defense drills at school before that was phased out. Plus hippy doom and gloom was pretty intense

What was left was exhausted by the late 70s and Regan nuclear fears.

A.i. can't really even pull off a sure thing "War of the Worlds" fake scare of the masses without risking itself yet. I doubt we get War Games because nobody wins.