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Conservative conspiracy catnip. They'll spend all their energy theorizing and debating "the missing minute" while ignoring that none of the footage shows him or his cell. Same principle as people debating the existence of aliens over blurry footage while ignoring mountains of evidence of prototype weapons and surveillance systems. Or debating the personhood of fetuses while ignoring the rights and needs of living children and women.

Keeping the masses properly distracted requires a few layers of bullshit.

If you were trying to show another species that you were intelligent, sending basic shapes isn't a terrible way to demonstrate understanding of some abstract ideas. Fascinating to consider what they're "saying" with these.

Ooooh, I'd been thinking of switching to a standalone bookmark manager. I've had such luck moving to Keepass for password management (and using syncthing as my universal "no cloud" solution) that I'm hoping to eventually get all my cloud and proprietary-vendor-features moved to self-hosted OSS apps.

The metaphor is comparing the idea of loyalty, a concept vitally important to the ideology of fascism, with the LLM trait of consistency. An LLM is highly consistent, so much so that common patterns in its output can be used to spot generated artifacts. However it is not "loyal" because loyalty is about being inconsistent in one's "beliefs" (expressed statements of knowledge) but consistent to a moment-to-moment truth defined by an authority figure.

You got insulted because you're debating in a way that seems catered towards "winning" an internet argument instead of trying to understand what WoodScientist was saying: that a fascist LLM would be difficult because it would require constant retraining to keep up with the ever-shifting fascist narrative. You've never even addressed this point, just repeatedly doubled down that because he said "loyalty" instead of "responding in line with the currert beliefs of the ruling party which change on a daily basis" that the entire argument is invalid and therefore it's "easy to train a reactionary LLM." You also keep confusing reactionary and fascist.

And I neither did a "drive by insult" nor did I "run away into the night." Though i will now rather than continue wasting my time on this. just came back to correct you yet again, and offer an actual ad hominem for you to compare against.

Fuck off, moron.

Excuse me, I'm trying to work today! Please refrain from posting this pornography in regular funny star trek threads!

Gotta be careful of that heat! Make sure to wear a big shady hat and have plenty of water when doing weed for lunch, the hottest part of the day!

OK but unless one if the 17 benefits is "drugs you to wakefulness with caffeine" then it isn't exactly a coffee substitute is it?

The metaphor was the part you were being a pedant about.

the LLMs actually stand by their principles much better than fascists

If the audience knows how LLMs work internally, then they know they don't have "loyalty," just stochastic processes. If the audience didn't know that, your pithy "aktually that's incorrect" wouldn't teach them anything correct, but would cause confusion because it sounds like you're denying the metaphor.

Also, it's not an ad hominem to say that you are acting like an LLM: with poor reading comprehension and an overly-literal interpretation. That's an observation of your unproductive behavior. An ad hominem would be insulting you or name-calling with unrelated info, such as calling you "stupid like an LLM."

It isn't a logical fallacy to be called out on your bullshit, even if it hurts your feelings.

Reminds me a lot of Moëbius, although this style has really taken off in recent years with games like Sable and shows like Scavenger's Reign. Pretty cool, I like how detailed it is although that sign seems hard to read both here and diagetically, and I find the overwhelming amount of plain blue for the buildings to be a little much.

Imagine creating one of the best, most important pieces of media of your generation. Being a rock star of a new medium, defining genres, shaping history and the world.

Then imagine struggling to keep a job, find work, and create more works in your medium. And now imagine that you were barely in your 20s when you broke out, so that the rest of your life is always in the shadow of your first masterpieces.

Romero seems like way too nice a person, too good of a being, to be treated with such indignity. In a lot of ways Bill Gates and his company have been fucking over Romero for like 30 years now.

This is far from the first Devil's Panties comic posted here and many of the others mention her ADHD. You're missing the deep lore.

Dragonball (not Z) is pretty funny and goofy. Early DBZ is also kind of goofy, but steadily takes the fights more seriously over each arc. Characters like Mr. Satan and Bu bring back some of the goofball comedy in later episodes, but the ratio of funny to fighting is basically flipped from DB to DBZ.

This process is called Flanderization, whereby a character on a long running show becomes a self-parody as their most distinctive traits and behaviors are amplified again and again. It's named for a popular side character Ned Flanders, from the show the Simpsons. Though arguably Ned undergoes more permanent personal growth than any other character on the show.

My impressions from this comic are that I would hate the creator if I ever met them.

I think the joke is a typical take on ADHDers having "eyes bigger than their stomachs" for large tasks. Swimming in a lake is very fun, and can help one feel connected to nature. Swimming across a lake is a huge task, possibly requiring training, could take a long time, and is dangerous.

Why they decided to sit on the beach instead of swimming at all, I have no idea. Maybe it's a "lakes are deep and scary because lake monsters" thing?

Outlets like the BBC regularly reused film stock and destroyed their archives. Many episodes of old shows like Dr. Who (the first season especially) are lost media due to this practice. The show's were considered like stage plays: performed once, broadcast, and the money was made. For how "innovative" capitalism is, it took the corpos decades to realize the latent value of media IP.

The ongoing push towards *AAS is the backlash to realizing that physical media gave consumers a permanent version of things. They actually prefer it under the broadcast model where you got what they felt like putting out and liked it.

My point is that capitalism and culture are fundamentally incompatible. The illusion that capitalism has culture is only because it steals culture from the people who actually create it by alienating us from the process of creation (automation, assembly lines, AI, etc) and then using IP law to claim ownership over the artifacts of culture, which they sell back to us. The owner class have never been good stewards of anything.

I miss the 90s because in 1999 I was 14, the Matrix and System Shock 2 had just come out, and the radio was nothing but optimistic pop and dance music. It was a time of high optimism, there was a real feeling that the new millennium was ours, that we were going to make the world better. Life was never going to feel like that again.

Then Bush, then 9/11. In 2 years I went from starry eyed high-school naif to being a politically engaged college student. It's hard after that to separate my feeling about whether the world (USA society specifically) really did get worse or if I was just old and politically aware enough then to notice.

It certainly feels like things declined pretty steadily. I think a lot of us were lured into comforting nostalgia by Obama. A nice little warm dose of return to the good days of before Bush! It put us to sleep like warm milk. Then waking up to realize that Bush-ism never ended.

Cruelty Squad, underneath it's sewer candy aesthetic, is premised on this idea: that you're a gig economy hitman. The reason you can replay missions is because your targets are so rich they can't actually be killed, and are replaced by new clones (or something equivalent) after every mission.

A tremendous amount of issues in the world stem from people not understanding what abuse is and passing it on to others as "the way it has to be."

I started painting in my late 30s and love it, and get regular compliments and good natured critiques of my work. I have never cried about it, and if someone thought I needed to be torn down to improve, they would no longer be in my life. But I don't hold any delusions that I'm making high art either.

People tend to have a really shitty grasp of context and nuance. People also do use AI becaue they want to skip the work and go straight to rewards. These all stem from the same issue: lack of care. We've been trained to see the world like rich people: devoid of empathy, compassion, and care. It takes time and energy to understand your situation and formulate a proper reaponse. Sometimes art is a struggle and it takes time and energy to overcome your limits or figure out what it is you actually want from the work. Properly offering good critique requires empathy, and it requires the time and energy to dedicate to the critique.

It's easy to cruelly criticize. It's easy to throw out slop. It's easy to just let the machine do it.

Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World's and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won't be announced any time soon.