you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.
shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience
wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i'm surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like "this is only the beginning!!"
also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia
oh fuck he's that asshole? the one that was so petty about a negative Polygon review for said game that he stalked the reviewer's Twitter page until he could find a quote to mangle into a recommendation to put on the game's Steam page? including the reviewer's full name, against the reviewer's repeated, explicit wishes for it to be removed?
but the NULLGE
that's one possible reason, yeah. just seems like a really odd choice -- much like the fact that they dislike "crypto promotion" but still accept payment for secrets in crypto. doesn't feel like it would be that hard to find a sympathetic furry artist willing to draw in a nondistinct style or keep work under wraps. idk
the only reason it seems odd to me is that the overwhelming majority of furries either actively dislike or hate "ai art". maybe they're the odd ones out, or they just don't care for a throwaway group
i suppose there is something more "magical" about having the computer respond in realtime, and maybe it's that "magical" feeling that's getting so many people to just kinda shut off their brains when creators/fans start wildly speculating on what it can/will be able to do.
how that manages to override people's perceptions of their own experiences happening right in front of it still boggles my mind. they'll watch a person point out that it gets basic facts wrong or speaks incoherently, and assume the fault lies with the person for not having the true vision or what have you.
(and if i were to channel my inner 2010's reddit atheist for just a moment it feels distinctly like the ways people talk about Christian Rapture, where flaws and issues you're pointing out in the system get spun as personal flaws. you aren't observing basic facts about the system making errors, you are actively in ego-preserving denial about the "inevitability of ai")
i prefer P=N!S, actually
Instead of calling you a misogynist pig
no one said this
this isn't TiA, you don't have to make up angry feminists to be mad at anymore. you're free now
If the house doesn’t have a roof, don’t paint the walls.
i adore this line. because yeah, what i see the rest of the tech industry doing is either:
without even stopping to ask: why would anyone want to live here?
i couldn't delete the one question i had on stackoverflow, so i used a text generator to overwrite the body and title of the question. fight garbage with garbage
i suppose if Elizabeth Holmes can wear Steve Job's turtlenecks and carry a biomedical scam to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars by doing so, maybe "financial pickup artistry" will see more success attracting VC funds than "pickup artistry" has attracting the ladies
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oh gods we're going to get so many self-stylized Elon clones. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
goddammit! you have no idea how many variations of "first person walking simulator projected image texture trippy visuals" i slapped into every search engine!
but yes, that was the one i was thinking of