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RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6d ago
Mystery drones have been lurking around airports and nuclear plants for years, prior to the war. May be Russia, may be some other source.
functor
6d ago
The US was founded by people who used violence against the government and made it a constitutional right to bear arms. If you had asked the founding fathers about the NSA, the crazy levels of nepotism and corruption and how self-centred the American elite is, they wouldn't have called shooting them terrorism. What level of incompetence and acting like the elite in Versailles is required for the constitutional right to fight back to take effect?
MayorofOysterville
6d ago
I do think those traditional definitions are a bit impractical though. Everyone refers to Arianism as Arian Christianity. And it seems really hard to define a protestant church which uses the the Biblical canon, the traditional hymns, a normal communion as non Christian. I get that Unitarian Universalists aren't that, but any outside observer who went to one of those Hungarian unitarian churches would likely call them Christian.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6d ago
v5 is much better but it still sounds Suno... It's indescribable, something about the clashing sound (if I was a musician I could be more clear).
Is what I was going to say, till I found one that didn't sound Suno at all. Wow.
Anyway, if there was ONE arena you would want AI to reach superhuman capability, one particular application that would improve your life even if AI progress stalled out otherwise, what would that be?
Writing long-form fiction to even a high-human standard. Turn all my neverfinished story ideas into full stories, better than I ever could.
MayorofOysterville
6d ago
There is a Filipino Church called Iglesia ni Christo which denies the trinity. They are fairly large 2.5 million members and do have US churches so you could check them out. Their chief pastor met with Duterte and they are mostly based in the Philippines so I highly doubt they are woke.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
6d ago
Thanks! Weirdly the second iteration looks way better, because she actually looks female in that one. No idea what happened in the first game.
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
6d ago
Did the sister end up mattering? What was the first guy supposed to do differently if his sister was in the straight?
my understanding:
Planners < FOxGLASS < Humans-In-The-Loop < Deputy Director Lady < US Government.
Some combination of the Planners and FOxGLASS have figured out that there's a layer of control above them, and are actively working to engage with that layer. The Planner squabble is not, in fact the AIs glitching out, it is the AIs intentionally generating a scenario where human manual override will be triggered, at least potentially as part of a strategy to control the controllers. The sister part generates additional stress on one of the humans-in-the-loop, making it easier to trigger the lockout.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
6d ago
I couldn't care less about elbows. The problem is that is straight up a man's face on a female body.
Templexious
6d ago
Any worldview of the current era which does not factor in the internet- tiktok and phone apps, specifically, is particularly worthless.
Ioper
6d ago
Maybe, but people seem to reuse the same tracks from every video so the actual time to find a track might not matter much if at all. I guess the question becomes, what do you care more about? The $10 for a month of suno + whatever time it takes to generate a song you're satisfied with, or spending ~1 hour in the free audio library?
striker
6d ago
Then it went to shit for reasons I haven't been able to fully articulate yet but involves the concentration of labels, rise of solo artist & built groups and of course modern production methods (and a bunch of other things).
To add: it went to shit also because pop music industry’s big data data-sciencing and machine-learning was able to identify what the masses wanted, and gave it to them. Manufacturing of, e.g. Sabrina Carpenter and Sabrina Carpenter types and the disappearance of auteurs and any sense of authorship to the margins.
Bartender_Venator
6d ago
There seems to be some kind of quality of 'general alignedness' which breaks across low-pressure generations. I just wrote a more technical post about this here though it's speculative.
Yeah, and this quality of 'general alignedness' would not be any particular trait, but a group of traits which are either necessary themselves or in combination for fitness in a given selection environment, and are very difficult to improve on and easy to fall away from (because different is generally worse). One way to think of it is that we have G as a general factor of intelligence, but that can be reasonably approximated by tests, and so a lot of people mistake it for a single trait rather than a general factor because it can be determined by tests, whereas a general alignedness factor can only be determined by contact with the environment, or approximated by someone who knows the environment well. It's something that's over and above traits and is determined by the relationship between phenotype and environment, until that environment changes. To take an extreme example in humans, extreme physical bravery in young men suddenly became much less selectively advantageous in August 1914. It seems to hang together well conceptually as long as one can see it as a kind of overlying factor composed of many traits instead of a single trait in itself.
striker
6d ago
I don't think I've heard a SINGLE pop song in the last year that I consider 'memorable' (not entirely true: Chappel Roan's "HOT TO GO!" sometimes pops into my brain unbidden).
Similar vibe (sassy red-haired female with socio-culturally relevant songs), you should look up CMAT.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
6d ago
Well then, it's scarcely any consolation that his social circle didn't erupt into cheers as at Kirk's death, is it? It would just mean the contagion didn't penetrate deep enough to affect them, rather than it being beyond the pale for them.
Corvos
6d ago
I think it’s broadly the total lack of anything approaching softness or sensuality. Hades 1 Aphrodite I’m not super keen on either but she has a coquettish pose appropriate for the Goddess of Love and Lust. This one in holding a sword and shield and looks like she wants to beat you up. Aphrodite is always dangerous but not like that.
I’m reminded of a previous post saying that one reason people liked Sydney Sweeney was that she’s one of the only models to have doe eyes and look soft and approachable rather than glaring at the camera.
striker
6d ago
My working theory: All those are great songs, but what makes them great is not JUST the notes and lyrics and performance. These things didn’t exist in a vacuum. What made them great was how people experienced them together in time and/or space, and responded to them together in time and/or space. This is why I’m hopeful that human art still has a bright future, but that bright future must take place offline more and more. (I appreciate this sounds ludicrous to anyone who’s lived their entire life with and on the internet.)
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
6d ago
Is it the shadowing on her face making her features too angular?
This, IMO.
striker
6d ago
I feel this. My immediate thought on listening to one of those Suno tracks: “We’re going to get a thousand Sabrina Carpenters now”
striker
6d ago
mark my words now, the first large music festival showcasing ONLY AI-produced music will be happening inside of 5 years.
Maybe, and maybe there will be sufficiently large cohort of people who want to go that it becomes a viable vehicle for the entertainment industry.
Much more likely, I think, is the move away from AI / digital art because people realise they need something human. That something human will be delivered not on screen or via any digital mechanism, thereby creating high demand for real life events (everything from spoken word poetry to pop-up tiny stage theatre to large concerts). The price inflation of tickets for gigs and live sports events is a symptom that shows this need for a real experience is already happening. It’s growing and not yet been adequately catered for.
MathWizard
Good things are good
6d ago
I wouldn't say "slaves to". Again, it's not too egregious, and not enough to ruin the game. But their earlier games didn't seem to have this issue quite as badly. Or maybe I just didn't notice as much because they were original fantasy worlds so they weren't race swapping classic mythology.
You can tell throughout the time that they're definitely left-leaning. Bastion had a bunch of stuff about xenophobia and colonialism being bad. I never finished transistor but it was generally anti-establishment. Pyre had a made up religion that was abused by corrupt leaders to excommunicate people they don't like. But it's never so terrible that it ruins things. None of them are ever obvious and stupid ripoffs of current events, and Pyre still has you participating in the religious rituals because it wasn't the religion itself that's bad it's just the corrupt people exploiting it.
And most importantly the core gameplay remains good enough that it makes up for the slightly offputting lefty vibes (with the exception of Transistor, which I didn't find very compelling)
But yeah, they're clearly embedded in lefty culture, if not the actual war part of it. And they seem to be gradually slipping further and further into it.
Eupraxia
Of all words spoken, all things read / most true was that which went unsaid
6d ago
...she's fine? Like I can normally see where female uglification complaints are coming from even when I disagree, but I have no idea what you're on about here, she's perfectly goonable as is. Is it the shadowing on her face making her features too angular or the bracelets accentuating her pointy elbows or what?
KingOfTheBailey
6d ago
I can't find myself caring one bit about it because the good stuff slowed to a teeny tiny dribble over two decades ago. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing left for AI to drown.
My perspective is that this isn’t strictly true. It just seems that way because algorithmic media (Facebook to Netflix), instead of expanding the window of exposure, narrowed it and homogenised everything within it. Thirty years ago in my small town in Europe, I had more choice in my local video rental store (where there was a whole section of foreign language films, that was updated frequently) than I get on all my home screens and feeds now, no matter how far I drill down.
Edit: I believe the “good stuff” is still being made, but its audience and distribution network is not part of the great algorithm fork. It’s elsewhere, it’s curated, and it’s often offline. Interested in the new avant garde. I suspect it’s here, it’s just not where 50-98% of people spend their time.
I got up to the swamp biome before moving on from SilkSong, but from my understanding all flying enemies were programmed and placed to be as annoying as possible. Also for some reason they share the same hp as tankier, slower, ground based enemies.
Some parts of the game are very high qualities, but in others you can tell that it could have used more QA or a larger consensus on what they were doing.
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