• What Did You Watch? 2025-11-24 (Monday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 25 04:30:41 2025
    After my Monday workout, I watched:

    Nothing. I was prepping for a Thanksgiving road trip.

    What did you watch?



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tue Nov 25 08:07:57 2025
    In article <UBI20251124@dont-email.me>,
    weberm@polaris.net says...

    After my Monday workout, I watched:

    Nothing. I was prepping for a Thanksgiving road trip.

    What did you watch?

    I watched "How Human Were They? | The Empathic Hunter-
    Architect - Homo NEANDERTHALENSIS," from Sleepless Homo.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGtRTJLSf4U

    They tried a different approach, less factual and more
    storytelling, and I'm not sure if I like it. It went
    pretty hard on the idea that we benighted sapiens were
    just *prejudiced* against the poor Neanderthals until
    recently, but think how much less information was
    available in the 19th and 20th centuries.

    I think they may have used AI to generate the script,
    too. I'm not sure enough to call them on it, and in
    theory I don't mind that as long as a human's guiding it,
    but an AI-scripted longform channel isn't far away from
    relaxing into AI slop.

    It's the future, so maybe I should relax about it. AI
    will drive out the human creators, so there won't be
    anything worth watching in public, and instead we'll all
    be entertained by our personalized AI-generated content.
    On the rare occasions when two humans meet, they'll have
    no shared culture and have nothing to say to each other.


    Melissa


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