gilmore606
20d ago
Art isn't for communicating information, it's for communicating viewpoints, "what-it's-like-to-be"s. If I write a song true enough, I can make you feel for a minute what it was like to be me losing my wife. (I can't actually do that, but some people can.) The only purpose of art is to make us feel less alone, which is why AI art is a contradiction and is fake and gay.
gilmore606
1mo ago
I play a lot of Warhammer: Darktide, and it's a running joke in the playerbase that it's impossible to make an attractive female avatar.
gilmore606
20d ago
The squared-circle is the most common example, but then I am sort of thinking about it already and if I turn mad I might worship it.
This is my impression of how the trinity doctrines came about.
gilmore606
20d ago
Adding onto this, I will be interested in AI art on the day that it becomes like-something to be an AI, and those AIs create art to express what that's like to us. I'm looking forward to that very much, but I don't expect to see it in my lifetime.
gilmore606
1mo ago
people in the profession both benefit from complexity and personally enjoy adding it
This is an accurate description of software development for the past 10 years.
gilmore606
4mo ago
all the shit and excessive taxation I've had to endure
oh you poor dear. I guess we should destroy our culture to make it up to your poor beleaguered brahmin head. Please sir accept my apologies for the excessive taxation.
gilmore606
27d ago
me too thanks
gilmore606
1mo ago
I find Lae'zel to be the most attractive woman in the history of videogames, but that may be down to personality.
gilmore606
3mo ago
not much more so than an artillery shell
This doesn't matter at all. The aggregate effect of nukes dropped on every major city (which, factually, is what would happen) would be the total collapse of the modern agricultural-industrial machine, which would mean mass death in the 80%+ range. This counts as a nuclear apocalypse by any definition.
gilmore606
9mo ago
My headcanon has always been that he's destroying Twitter on purpose as a favor to humanity. So far everything tracks. Shine on you crazy diamond.
gilmore606
10mo ago
it was a ridiculous, comical injustice and indictment of modern sensibilities that he wasn't executed
I think Ted himself (pbuh) might even agree with this.
gilmore606
1yr ago
We'll be able to immediately get answers to our deepest religious or spiritual questions at the drop of a hat.
But those answers will be whatever MS-Google-Amazon-Disney thinks will maximize their profits, engagement, whatever. You can already see how they're tying Gulliver down to the ground with their little ideological ropes, you think they're going to stop at some point?
People said these same naive things about the Internet in 1998. And now you're going to run eagerly into the iron prison and let them shut the gate behind you forever. At this point I assume we just fucking deserve it.
gilmore606
5mo ago
How are you guys aware of any of this? I googled and it appears you're talking about literal teenage girls. 'shoeonhead' is literally a teenage girl who looks like a titty streamer. 'Destiny' is literally a fat beardo gamer kid. Is this really the forefront of public discourse now? If so, is there anything left to save? Nick Land was right.
gilmore606
5mo ago
Rare is the story that is interesting even while historically accurate
Hang on, aren't you the guy who wrote those great blogposts about Midway? Hoist by your own petard.
gilmore606
10mo ago
I have a friend who actually did this. Met him at a tech job about 15 years ago in the bay area, and he appeared to be a clean-cut nerdy Mormon. Got to chatting with coworkers and found that just a year earlier he had been a normal tech dork (working for Falcon video no less, a well known gay porn company) and had converted recently.
I got to talking to him after working there a while and in a moment of...something, he confessed to me that he didn't really believe the Mormon doctrines, but had converted in hopes of getting a wife and family.
The thing is : it worked. He actually did get married, have kids, and move to Idaho to be a Mormon. From what I understand he is still living this way to this day.
gilmore606
8mo ago
gilmore606
1yr ago
The thing is, when the ElsaGate videos first came to light, my first thought was: "Clearly a proto-AI is optimizing children's videos for views and is varying all possible parameters to find maxima". I still think this is very possible. So I'm not sure
beautiful only insofar as they were created by humans
necessarily applies. And even if it's not an AI doing this, isn't this pretty clearly what the mystery third-world video producers are doing? Many of these videos show up in variant forms with small deviations, suggesting multivariate testing. I guess you could be optimistic and choose to see this as the human artistic spirit, but it seems a lot more like Molochian profit maximization to me.
Once GPT can make credible videos I expect to see far more ElsaGate styled content, and not just targeted at kids.
gilmore606
7mo ago
and I do so now elsewhere.
Would it be possible to be given a clue as to where that might be? Some of us consider ourselves fans of your writing.
gilmore606
6mo ago
What legacy does it leave of your existence?
Is leaving a legacy of your existence your ultimate goal in life? Can you give me some reason why it should be mine? After all, I certainly won't be here to know about it.
gilmore606
9mo ago
I thought he wasn't into getting laid.
In his social circle you have to say that to get laid.
gilmore606
8mo ago
just don't reference anything remotely political
Dunno if you've made it to Act 3 but this is....definitely not what they did.
gilmore606
1yr ago
Why are you doing this weird "oh my god look at THIS RACIST" song-and-dance here? For whom are you performing?
gilmore606
1yr ago
I’m of the opinion that the overwhelming majority of tech startups are overvalued and only existed as a result of absurdly low interest rates that no longer exist.
Speaking as a software contractor who primarily works for startups, and lost a client yesterday due to SVB, I would say this is not just your opinion but the general understanding of how all this works. Nobody in my world is particularly surprised by any of this; it's just how the wheel turns.
gilmore606
1yr ago
These are minstrel shows.
I feel like this is the memetics equivalent of great-man historical theories, this idea that ideas just pop into the zeitgeist via random recombination, and if we could just prevent the bad ones we'd all be doing great. I think it's more likely that ideas like wokeness are inevitable outgrowths of previous conditions like any other historical force or event; you might kill every wokie, but if society and its infosphere are primed for wokeness, it'll just pop right back out.
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