@Hyolobrika @crunklord420
True. Don't think anyone actually managed to track the real person down, but I think most leads pointed to someone of Asian heritage.
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
Not familiar with him. What does he have to do with the 1950s though?
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
>Hollywood trickery
What, in the 50s? You for real? That's even before the fucking Moon landing. Thinking they had the tech back then is bad enough, now we're going back almost another 2 decades?
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
Not something I've heard about. Maybe something happened later in her life, but she felt things just fine in her youth.
@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @verita84 @maxmustermann
Can't say I know one way or another. Eventually we reach a point were a particular question becomes relevant: if someone/something manages to simulate intelligent thought well enough, how can you distinguish between actual intelligence and a simulation or AI or whatever. If Helen Keller was that good at repeating whatever she was told to, how can we be sure it was just repetition and not her actual thoughts?
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
>are the videos genuine
Damn... I didn't think about the 1950s AI deep fake technology.
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
This is the second time you mention feeling, do you mean like in emotions? Where do you get this from?
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
I don't know fam, the video shows she's quite competent at communicating for someone deaf and blind.
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
Dictated, sure. Whether the thoughts themselves actually originated from her, or she just basically repeated what she was taught, that I don't now. Even today plenty of kids come out of university saying and writing a lot of marxist bs. Doesn't mean the ideas are their own.
This Helen Keller discussion made me wonder, why don't we get more conspiracy theories about really old events. Like what if Jesus only staged his death? What if Cesar never died, and really was a god, and retired to Argentina? What if Atlantis participated in a conspiracy, and the other conspiring nations had to sunk it because Atlantians were trying to spill out the truth?
@a1batross
I'm basically the guy in this comic...
@maxmustermann @MK2boogaloo @matrix @colonelj @MisterRogersSnapped @repent @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @adolf @verita84
>What if Helen Keller never existed?
I mean... clearly a person calling herself Helen Keller existed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ch_H8pt9M8
I honestly don't even see a use in speculating whether she existed or not.
And if you can't imagine how one can communicate thoughts and ideas in different ways than you, than you lack imagination.
@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @verita84
>I think she was used.
Honestly, I could believe that. From what I remember about her story, is that she couldn't communicate with anyone until she was like 5-7 years old. Children lost in wilderness and recovered late in their development like this are really hard to be raised properly and usually lack the full intellectual development of an adult human. So I can definitely see Helen Keller be ripe for all sorts of manipulation.
@crunklord420 @harblinger @kino
N-n-n-nagger.
@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @Christ @verita84
I believe it can be done, but what would normally take a child a few years to master by himself, it would basically take maybe even decades for someone like that. My blind guess is that at best she knew only a small number of words, and she had to practice long and hard to speak phrases for reporters.
@MisterRogersSnapped @MK2boogaloo @matrix @SouvlakiSmuggler @Zyklon_Dan @colonelj @repent @adolf @verita84
>All of her ideas and opinions magically mirrored the feminist views of her caretaker Anne Sullivan.
That's reasonable. I thought you were gonna say something like "she wasn't actually blind&deaf". If her caretaker was feminist or whatever, it makes sense that she'd mirror whatever education she received. Just like so many university students today get brainwashed in the most crazy ideologies.
>Stephen Hawking
Regarding his face blinking or muscle twitching or whatever it was interface, that was more recent indeed. Well into 2010s I think. Made by Intel IIRC. Don't know much about this one, I'm more familiar with his prior, finger-click interface. But I don't think they were that different in one crucial aspect: they were anything but rapid. From my understanding, any speech he made, was in no way "live". He prepared every single word, maybe even weeks in advance, and he'd just hit play when put on the scene. If someone made you think anything he said was "spontaneous" in any way, they basically lied to you.
As for "how long can a dude live with ALS", you'd have to ask his doctors. As far as I'm aware, his case is considered a miracle that they don't really understand yet.
>used him as a front facing sympathetic figure
This one I find hard to believe because interviews and speeches from him are pretty hard to come by, which is odd just going by the fact that he's been called the Albert Einstein of our generation. He's definitely an important figure, but if someone wanted to use him like that, they didn't manage to do it very well. They also chose a poor target, because it would be hard to parade him around to give talks and such, like they do with Greta Thumberg. I'd have an easier time believing this about Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Didn't mean this as a way to "expose" anything. Was legitimate curious, especially about Stephen Hawking, cause I've found him an interesting figure since I was a kid, and read a few books of his.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...