This is the slippery slope. Everyone coding with Claude says that work is going faster as long as people check it and it still throws out wild hallucinations. Where do you think those people will be in 5 years? If AI continues to develop, they will be gone. If AI crashes, they have to learn what was so different about the Claude code they didn’t have to check and will be years behind in practical applications. Every use of gen AI, LLM’s, or any other dubious ‘intelligence’ in lieu of human labor is a long noose on a speeding train you better hope you can outrun.

For music specifically, vocoders or even something like a vocaloid is still controlled at the most basic level. A flute doesn’t play without a human breath in it. The keys don’t press without fingers. A vocaloid is a silent string of bits until someone sits and gives it parameters. AI is being allowed to set those parameters and then having it’s worked checked. It may seem small but it is everything.

I mean they shipped an increbible product. When out alternatives were Zoom, with no commhnity functionality, teamspeak with no streaming or video, or something like slack maybe for coordi ation, they stuck it all together and made it work. It is without exaggeration the perfect vehicle for everything ICQ and other bespoke instant messaging widgets started almost 40 years ago.

So yeah but of course if you have something everyone wants the tendency is to monitize it until it’s a husk of its original intention. So it goes. I’m waiting for the next alternative that people want to actually shift to but I’m not giving them my money. In the meantime my actual RL commhnities are all here and they’re not Meta-tier evil yet so I fon’t have a problem with staying for now.

I’m consistently amazed at the number of people who have the audacity to try and guilt people to just start shooting eachother. I’ve never been more driven to acute violence than when someone is like ‘so when is the revolution starting’, like, motherfucker you start it ya fucken dumbass, you expecting a bunch of ‘2nd amendment types’ to just go throw themselves at the wall of the US milirary?

Oh, so you’re a fucking coward.

Shut up.

See my other response to the other reply for more but yeah, I can see that. The general mythology behind how Star Wars was made is a series of ‘too good to be true’ coincidences and interruptions.

Yeah I’m not surprised. I’m always, like, in a state of suspension of disbelief when it comes to hearing about Lucas insane conceptualizations, like hearing he suggested names like ‘Darth insaneous’ or ‘Darth icky’ at points. When I heard the Vader/Father explaination I was like “this is both on the nose enough and also too cleaver to be true”

I’m gonna be that guy and point out that Vader means father in dutch. His name was always a spoiler. I’m trying to think of how you would inMaul someone but all I can think is ‘I’m gonna inmaul you mom later’

They do that. I blocked him. They read one 200 year old pamphlet and think they’re instantly more intelligent than anyone. I’ve really become an anti-theorist, they’re fucking insufferable.

Yeah I guess there’s no accounting for the power of neophobia.

Actuall I will not. You’re bait and too stupid to get it anyway. Bye.

So yes, to be clear, you’re saying two different things but I feel like if you’re going to invoke something like marketing you need to acknowledge that marketing itself is not ever going to be the thing we use to fight something like capitalism, in which the very concept of marketing is like ‘we’ll take the giants fingers and crush his own windpipe with it.’ The master’s tools’ and all that.

Think about everything ICE is doing that isn’t being televised. Think about what Gaza would look like if this was 1990 and we only had the same kind of coverage available as we did with the Gulf War. Yes, obviously the people in power are only going to let us see the events and definitions they want to implant in the median voter but it’s so much bigger now than in the McCarthyist era.

And obviously whoever spends the most money in the marketing arena is going to win. But even then the cracks are showing. AIPAC has made itself known and we’re starting to see people, Mamdani included, who are overcoming the money in lieu of principle. Of course he’s likeable and persuasive and all of that, he’s an effective politician who understands strategy and optics. We just need more.

Yeah I was thinking about that. Like, these companies probably have some number of government contracts and those contracts give latitude to make some interesting demands.

‘Not a marketing problem, it’s a problem with markeing’…

Look I don’t want to drag you too hard here but you do have .ml in your handle so I’m gonna just do this as briefly as possible:

You are referencing a 70 year old political movement as if we haven’t had 70 years of history happen since then. We are so far past red scare tactics that everyone who found out how fucked it was died and now they’re trying it again but stupider.

We have a crazy unbelieveable opportunity happening right now, actively, in New York, where someone openly referring to themselves as socialist is making massive moves where they are proving that Government can actually be leveraged to make improvemnts for the working class and can also remove incentives for weath hoarding. People are actually paying attention to the DSA and D’s are actively campaigning against ‘themselves’ with more effert than we’ve seen them use in 10 years against Trump.

So no, not a marketing problem, it’s an availability to actually express power and follow through on actual governance problem. I know you haven’t said anything about electoralism so I will take ownership for bringing it up, but it’s effective electoralism that is going to keep this door open. It’s happening.

I don’t actually know but I imagine it’s all voluntary. It seems like kind of an endless tail chase to constantly limit anything that could feasible be used to commit a crime. Actual counterfeiting with any success requires some pretty specialized shit. Honestly if this printer could be configured to meet those specifics them more power to them. End of the day though I wouldn’t imagine this being the gateway to massive expansions in the counterfeit market.

You noticed you got downvoted, and I’m going to explain this for you very slowly, but if you can show me where in any real execution of the terms in our national political discourse you can find a unanimous adoption of your ‘dictionary definition’ of these terms then I’ll concede you are so, so much more smarter than me. I don’t think Fox news has ever spit at a dictionary. You missed the fucking point.

That is the issue. I want to say people need to operate on more of a policy facing. “What do you support?” “Affordable housing and reasonable weath distribution”, sick. Easy vote. Don’t care if they’re D, don’t care if they’re a liberal, don’t care. Obviously that’s very simple and naive. You have to do some labeling.

The problem is people have just given up on identifying the doublespeak. Trump got elected promising no new wars and some mediation on Gaza and was just straight lying. The median voter felt no reason to question it and a lot of well meaning people said ‘this is better than silence on a genocide’, and that was it. The thinking stopped and we threw the world’s easiest choice the the most belligerantly narcississtic, indigent, and negligent person on the planet.

Now these dumbfuck tankies who crowd all of our pleasant fringe online communities are taking the bait again and using their refusal to acknowledge context to feel some kind of superiority about it. I’m so tired.

Edit because my typos were out of control.

If you actually read what I said it’s what out parents and grandparents wanted to achieve in lieu of imperialism and war. They were wrong because they couldn’t face the truth that the country their parents died for in WW2 would go on the put a boot on the neck of any country that tries to challenge their one sided control over worldwide economics.Then they died in droves in Korea and Vietnam for an ideal they just couldn’t believe mislead them.

If you actually read it, of course.

I feel like this all ignored the complete bastardization of any sense of language or definition in American politics. None of these words mean anything and engaging in it is playing party to the fucked up games people have invented to delay any sort of growth or action.

“Neoliberal conservativeism” was a thing. They’re all nazis now. ‘Liberals’ is a slur against anyone who isn’t left enough. ‘Liberalism’ is the blood-shy self-blind median our parents and grandparents wanted for us so we didn’t have to watch our friends die in imperialists wars in Asia. Libertarianism was supposed to be a rejection of any of this and got coopelted by some of the most evil freaks in the system. The Left represents the most meaningful and poplist messaging we can mannage and is still consumed by bickering from people who can’t walj and chew gum or breathe at the same time.

Stop trying to argue the labels.

“You are what you eat That makes me eagle meat” -Knower, “do hot girls like chords”

I didn’t know it was called Corporate Memphis! I actually prefer it to endless dead-eyed stock photos, personally. At least someone was experimenting or focused on a goal when making it.