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ArjinFerman

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There're extensions that let you set your own css for any site, and a thread (two, in fact) for people to share their modifications. Maybe someone will come up with something you like.

old.reddit.com was fine-ish, until they started deliberately crippling it. The app sucks, and I was always using FOSS alternatives, that is until I realized there are literally 3 subreddits I even bother checking up on, and ended up bailing on the whole site.

Thank god we moved.

It's all the very fine people from /r/drama.

The other day someone asked if Holocaust denial was off limits, so when Zorba replied with "not per se...", it was only a matter of time before someone tried to push the limits.

As I age, I find myself slowly converting to something resembling Hlynkaism.

I mostly agree with you, hell I'd go even further, in and of itself, I don't think it's all that wrong to debate whether it happened at all or not.

But that's missing the point: what sort of person posts something like this as his opening move, on the day we move offsite?

Edit:

This account is private

This user has enabled private mode to cloak their posting history.

Very "well meaning, but misguided" vibes from that one.

I'm sorry, an internet person talking about how bulliable people are is a bit much.

Already deleted.

Your social media rule is a good one, but I take it a step further and I actively try to cut out even the things I am using.

Recently I've been looking for off-BigTech communities, and it's crazy what a desolate wasteland the internet has become. Anything that can be done to promote these indie alternatives, should be.

As others pointed out, the comment has been copy-pasted from another sub, so appeals to style make no sense here.

Yeah, because the whole comment has been copy-pasted. Pretty sure dramanauts know ho to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V.

According to your fellow drama appreciator, there's a guy over there with an axe to grind, who's pastime it is to convince people, that everyone here is a nazi.... I might need a bit more than "trust me, bro".

Could also be sneerclub, but I don't see what they'd get out of it now that we're off redit.

What's the opposite trope? (...) White father and black mother?

Yes.

One source I've seen complaining about all these movies where a white guy gets the black girl is Tariq Nasheed

What movie was he referring to? The last one I saw, funnily enough, was Dear White People.

If you agree on this much, then I have one question: which party ends up as the Party of AI?

The Schwab Party. Left and right are just aesthetics anyway.

But the artists and the musicians and the writers and so on are all vaguely left-aligned as well, and they are currently the main reactionary force against AI.

Doesn't matter, so were meritocratic free speech warriors. You either get with the program, or you get replaced by someone who will.

The outpouring of art we'll see from people who didn't have the resources beforehand is something that excites me.

Except we've been down this road before. While the future you describe is theoretically possible, it's simply not what we're going to get. Before AI, Computers also democratized art production. CGI that would blow the minds of every single person on Earth back when I was a kid, is reproducible by mildly talented teenagers, for basically no cost other than their time. Same for editing, SFX, or practically any aspect of media production.

On top of that, the Internet later democratized distribution. No more begging publishers to kindly take a look at what you created. If people like what you made, they will get it from you directly, and tell all their friends about it.

And what is the end result off all this "democratization"? A golden age of creativity? People taking risks to create new art no one has ever seen before? Or millions of people making the exact same video, talking about the exact same thing, hoping to appease the recommendation algorithm, and endless livestreams of people playing video games, and gossiping about the news, and things other people have done?

To answer your prompt on tribe distinctions, this one might fall more on the growth/retreat split that was brought up by Ilforte. Retreat mindset focuses on artists losing their jobs and deepfakes allowing for misinformation.

There's more to the retreat mindset than that, though you're right most people will focus on attacks on their livelihood and identity. My fear is the effect AI will have on humanity as a whole. My fear is we will turn us into mindless consumers, incapable of creating anything beautiful anymore, or even understanding the world around us.

Am I going crazy? Is there bug in the shadowbanning feature? Or are some posts being randomly disappeared, but are still visible from the firehose feed? Examples:

I'm guessing your comment is a reply to me, though I can't be sure since I can't see it in the main thread, and didn't get a notification...

The Schwab Party, would be group of disturbingly well-connected techno-dystopians, dreaming of a world where everything is uberized, and everyone is under constant surveillance. To what end is anyone's guess. Personally I think they want to get rid of us, and enjoy the world for themselves.

I don't expect a reactionary turn, though I suppose it might happen if they will find it necessary to keep their influence. Right now it looks like they will be doubling down on Woke Capitalism.

The democratization brought by computers, the Internet, new tools, etc. has created a golden age of creativity.

You go on to describe what I already described in my comment. Yes, computers have made it easier than ever before to create art, and the Internet made it easier to publish it... but I just don't see the explosion of creativity. In fact creative people seem to be barely hanging on, against all odds. Everything is set up encourage commentary and criticism, rather than actual creative expression, and on top of that, to do it off the cuff, rather than plan you want to say.

This isn't necessarily the fault of the Internet. Like I said, I do think the creative utopia is theoretically possible, but to get there, we need a lot more than tools to make stuff as cheaply and easily as possible.

Why is this?

Because the less you practice something the worse you become at it, and AI generated art doesn't give you a lot to practice.

If people seem dumber now because of things like Twitter

First of all, I'm not on Twitter, so I don't think it's that. I'm not even sure if people are dumber now (though I am open to the possibility), I just think the kind of people that would use to play music at your local pub, paint, or join a theatre group, increasingly just don't bother anymore, and that AI will only make it worse.

Yeah, they're showing up now.

When they were still invisible, I also wasn't getting any notifications from responses to my comments under them, and I still don't see either of those chains in my notifications.

There are addons

Or you can save it in your account settings:

Yes! This is exactly how I think it will go down. I also don't see a way out of it for society as a whole. Personally I'm toying with the idea of going pre-Internet-Amish, but I'd be down for the Butlerian Jihad as well.

Turned out someone submitted a fix for this very issue overnight. Should now be solved, check again!

Oh sweet! Yeah seems fine so far.

This is still an issue, though :( Workin' on it.

I'm swamped with work right now, but I might be able to help out in a month or two.

They seem to be flourishing. It feels like every day I can find something new and amazing that I'd never heard about before. The problem is that there is too much good stuff out there right now, because as an individual you have limited free time and lots of responsibilities and goals.

I don't know if I'd call 2013 "almost every day", and I only skimmed, so I don't know if it's amazing, but setting issues like this aside, the problem is most definitely not that there's too much stuff. I can accept the idea of Big Tech, and Big Media conspiring to hide all the good stuff from us, and flooding us with mediocre crap, but not that I never saw this comic because there's so much good stuff out there.

I still think art as a hobby will be widespread despite it not being economically viable.

I sure hope so, but I'm worried. Few forces are as powerful as human laziness, and even personally, I can feel myself giving into it quite often.

That's really exciting.

To be fair, I also know where you're coming from. I have my own art project, where I used AI generated voices to make a... I suppose "short horror story" would be the best description. Yeah, was loads of fun! But so was early Youtube, and now it's corporate schlock. I'm worried same thing will happen with AI.

We used to have to have 9 farmers to support 1 non farmer. Better technology has turned that number on its head, and I would bet on it continuing to do so.

Yeah, but that was about materially supporting people. For the most part, you don't run into weird Pareto-distribution winner-takes-it-all social dynamics, when switching from farming to non-farming labour.

Uh... have you considered to possibility we act the way we do, because we want to, not because we're subconsciously threatened into it?

But do you have an argument against it "dems r real racist", or is simple mockery supposed to be enough?

This conversation sure took an unexpected turn!

Allow me to paraphrase to make sure I understand you: Deep down we all want racial harmony so neither side is racist. It's just that we all believe intelligent people should reproduce more, which may come into conflict with racial harmony, and may cause either side to appear racist?

I'm not sure how intelligence and reproduction enter the picture, or if the majority of people agree with the 'ought' you put there.

It's really hard for me to believe you don't know what it means. it's not 2010 anymore.

Yes, Cultural Marxists didn't come up with

"different cultural groups have conflicts" because Marx didn't come up with "different economic groups have conflicts"

What specifically from "marx's theory of class conflict" is present in today's cultural conflict that wasn't in any other cultural conflict?

The idea that we live in an exploitative system, where people are divided into classes, one designated the oppressor, and the other the oppressed.

No it's not.

MLKs "I have a dream" is generic progressivism.

"Girls can do whatever boys can" feminism is generic progressivism.

"Racism = prejudice + power", and "patriarchy" are Cultural Marxism.