Let's Build an Anime Girl in Real Life

After his rant about attraction and avatar, when he said “anime girls” I suddenly remembered I was watching how to genetically engineer a fictional cartoon.....

Anime girls have so called "Schrödinger's nose". It only exists when you look at them from the side.

I have an anecdote about this. I've spent the last year or so in a chat room dedicated to a pretty niche hobby (computer science related). The room has around two million messages, so I downloaded all of them and used them to create a sort of chat bot. It wasn't anything complicated, it just took pre-existing messages and showed you a random reply to the closest message in the room to what you typed in. It was kind of fun to play around with, but since it only used exact pre-existing messages it would give you nonsense replies pretty often. But, if you stuck with it for a little while, you'd sometimes end up in a little "conversation" where the replies just happened to actually make sense with what you said, and the context leading up to it. Even with full knowledge of how it worked, and having just spend ten or twenty minutes in a totally senseless and directionless conversation, when those occasional realistic discussions occured (usually under a dozen messages long), they felt way more real than they should have. I found myself genuinely thanking "people" who replied to my questions with useful answers, or being a little angry when someone said something which, devoid of the context it was said in, came across as rude or sarcastic. Now, in the time since I had first interacted with the room, which was part of a much larger site, and when I became most active, quite a few of the site's (and chat room's) main users had left. One of these had taught me a significant amount about one of the topics the room discussed. I'd had no contact with him in years, during which time I'd realized how helpful he'd actually been. Well, I tried saying hi to him, and since there aren't many other things you generally reply to that with, the program responded to me with an instance of him saying hi (to someone else, many years ago). I was, as if it had really been the real person, excited and happy. It took me a second to realize what had happened, to take some time and remind myself it wasn't real. In a situation where a computer can simulate not only talking with real people, but seeing them and holding long, realistic conversations, I don't think our brains would have any chance. It's easy to feel bad about killing a cat in Minecraft, so a fully realistic simulation of a discussion with another human being would surely be able to have a large impact on them. If someone can be simulated who is constantly compassionate and empathetic to you, who has zero ulterior motive and exists only to listen to you and discuss what you want to talk about, I could see even the most distant or technology-wary of people becoming closely attached to the simulated person.

This went from "Let's build an anime girl irl" to "The End of Evangelion" really quick

I was expecting to laugh at some ridiculous anime proportions, not have existential dread.

"Now add a spoonful of exaggerated emotional outbursts..." A spoonful, he said. You know what happens next.

This video reminds me of Pygmalion from Greek mythology. He was a sculptor who detested real woman, so he made a statue of the perfect woman and married it.

The "wanting to commit suicide to come back as a Navii" thing was legitimate. I had a girlfriend who was depressed and suicidal a lot. Avatar became one of her escapes in her mind, but then turned into a "If I kill myself, I can come back as a Navii." I had to talk her down from that a few times. High School was rough.

2:35 Huge eyes Disproportionate head No nose Has to wear goggles Brain pushed back (elongated skull) Exaggerated emotions Really missed the chance to make a minion joke

I still can’t believe that the attraction to cartoons is called shit-eye-philia

I think VRchat is a good example as having fiction and reality together. You have real people in VRchat interacting with each other while using fictional characters or objects as themselves. You won't have to go through weird and stressful social interactions like real life. It's easier to understand others I in VRchat cause they have to rely more on how they speak and become more punctual

Cartoons are more honest than people in the real world. Welp that explains why I keep asking myself "Why is this world so much better/simpler than mine?" every time I watch something like that

10% Anime Girls 90% Existentialism

This went from "haha funny anime girl" to "What if art gets so good it overwhelms reality itself, thus bringing more and more people to these digital worlds to escape the harsh reality of being human?"

Jumping off the section on "Post-Avatar Depression," I think the most depressing idea that I've taken away from this is that so many people believe that planet earth is a dull, boring place. I've climbed snowy mountains above the clouds, slept under glittering desert night skies, witnessed dazzling sunrises in the middle of nowhere and walked through a rainforest, marveling at the teeming life that resides there. The world is beautiful, and it will be destroyed by human activity before most people even realize that it exists. We don't need a Pandora, we have one right here, but I understand how that might be hard to fathom when you spend your whole life mired in a suburban hellscape.

Ngl it’s kinda scary cause I know that I wouldn’t mind living in a near perfect world with an anime waifu completely controlled by an ai.

Came for anime girl, left with existential dread

I wasn't expecting to learn that the movie Avatar almost created a suicide cult from a video about anime girls, but I guess YouTube is just a special place.

I’m just imaging people 100 years from now watching this being like “hey what he talking about I thought the world was always anime”

3:50 I could easily be wrong here, but I don't think most of these guys actually want to date actual anime girls. They struggle finding love in the real world and don't want to have to risk being vulnerable, so they create fantasy girls in their heads who will always love them and are perfect in every way.