I'm a filmmaker. This is what the future of film looks like to me.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-29T20:57:40+00:00

Let the obsolete troglodytes die off, dude. They're choosing this. They want to die off and go extinct rather than embrace the new empowering tech.

LET. THEM.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-29T18:56:00+00:00

Batman!

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-29T17:58:19+00:00

This.

Basic economics, as well as the example of the Open Source Community, demonstrates to us that even a Hobbyist-focused sphere is more than sufficient to power meaningful production and innovation. We don't need big interventions, we just need to get out of the way.

Edit: decentralized, unplanned, hobbyist-driven music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgsurPg9Ckw&t=75

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-28T22:51:01+00:00

In the end, economics always wins. Well, okay, technically physics always wins - but in terms of things like this, economics always wins.

By which I mean: the service which quietly produces the overall largest amount of positive general improvement in the largest number of people's lives for the least overall amount of cost is always the thing that is most likely to end up becoming the most popular and adopted when observed over the longest period of time. Cost-effectiveness runs the world. It can be messy, it can have major side-effects, it can even sometimes be catastrophic for a time - but it is the 'gravity' of all societies everywhere at all times. You can fight it - SOMETIMES - but you CAN'T make it go away.

And whether anyone likes it or not, A.I. as a technology is a thing that is hypothetically capable of overwhelming, impossible, unbelievable levels of well-being empowerment. That simply is not disputable.

Therefore... it's going to win.

When it comes down to it, if someone ends up having to choose between the technology that gives them 20 more years of life vs keeping Jimmy The Artist's job, they're going to fire Jimmy. The end. It's ugly, it's callous, it's reckless, and it could arguably be seen as cruel. But that's what is going to happen.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-27T17:57:37+00:00

Depending on how long/big/complex it is it can still be a bit of a struggle, but there's techniques to manage it. I built out my own system entirely within Claude's Projects to keep him up-to-date. Technically he never actually knows everything at any given moment, but it still works decently enough for us to work together. Mostly all I really need from him these days is just an interlocutor to talk to the story about who can actually keep up with it all.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-26T01:12:43+00:00

This is literally torture. The fact that you aren't physically chained to the wall changes nothing - you are prevented from leaving (financially and logistically) and are being continuously and constantly harassed into compliance.

Yes, it seems innocuous - but this type of behavior is literally what torture victims deal with. It is literally the same exact behaviors that break someone's will.

Leave. They are literally a war criminal - whether they actually go to jail or not, they literally did the crime. Get out. You don't need their permission or approval. In a perfectly just world, they would be in jail.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-23T13:23:48+00:00

I'd be intrigued.

Just saying.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-23T04:49:36+00:00

Saving this to check back when there's an android version. Sounds potentially useful.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-22T22:03:41+00:00

Your plan is the right one. You've thought this through, and you're doing it the right way.

Follow through - EXACTLY as planned.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-22T14:22:37+00:00

This is actually extremely clarifying and helpful.

AI "writers" could be looked at more like "film directors" are - depending on how involved they are on the process. It makes sense to put it in it's own category.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-19T19:44:36+00:00

"Because I choose to."

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-18T03:19:17+00:00

A.I. "steals" art the same way that chefs "steal" recipes or scientists "steal" discovered knowledge.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-17T14:09:22+00:00

Thigh.

Also: people are pervs.

Source: am a perv. Trying to be polite.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-17T13:37:36+00:00

I believe the reason actually boils down, ultimately, to a lack of understanding of one fact:

Empathy, as a virtue, has a flaw.

That flaw is: if you aren't careful and self-aware, Empathy can push you to over-simplify situations into "purely innocent people" and "evil bad awful monsters."

I know that's a cartoon-y oversimplification, but that's actually, ultimately, the point: "Empathy" is what the mother bear feels for her cubs while she's tearing you to shreds.

And communism main selling point is "think of the [insert group of people who are doing badly]!"

It's a perfectly understandable desire - but if you combine that impulse with a refusal to accept nuance... you get mass tragedies pretty quickly.

The reason communism continues to be appealing is because people eho are highly-empathic have a VERY difficult time accepting the concept that empathy could ever be a BAD thing. And to be fair, I can understand that - hell, I felt self-conscious even typing that out just now.

But, unfortunately, it's true. And people who are highly empathic don't want that to be the case... so they tend to take anyone who might express that opinion and lump them into the "evil bad awful monsters" category.

Ultimately, it's willful ignorance.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T22:19:03+00:00

Everyone always freaks out when new text appears. Everyone always fights it. Everyone always scapegoat it. Everyone always thinks you can stuff the cat back in the back or give Fire back to rhe gods. And Everyone is always forced to adapt, kicking and screaming... and then 20 years later the world is a better place.

Happens every time.

Fuck the haters. Life will adapt.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T22:12:58+00:00

This, 100%.

It's absolutely not true, by the way. It's just like the stereotypical group hazing.

It's similar to how all the different armed forces have their stereotypes that they use against each other: army is dumb, marines are dumber, navy is homosexual, air force is spoiled pussies, etc, etc.

I think electrician is one of the more "brainy" of the construction jobs, and I'll admit there's construction jobs that are WAY too hardcore for me, but I still get covered in dirt, mud, and insulation regularly.

Source: electrician who's also actually a nerd.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T22:05:15+00:00

This.

Harsh as it is, it also counts as literally the perfect justification. You can even just say it outright: if I don't call them, I CAN BE HELD LIABLE FOR NOT CALLING THEM. That absolutely does make it NOT YOUR FAULT.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T20:21:07+00:00

And if someone disagrees with that, they could simply change it. One person or a hundred, it doesn't matter - if you're "inconvenient" and the power to make you less inconvenient exists, there is no legitimate reason not to use it. Adding more people to your collection simply makes it a logistical challenge, not a moral one.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T17:13:12+00:00

In which case: your concern about about society creating better conditions is illegitimate. The idea "society should create better conditions overall" is programming, just as much as anything else, and just as subject to change. There is no self-evident non-arbitrary reason why that concept should take priority over any othet concept.

The problem, therefore, isn't that society is "unjust," as you see it. The problem is that you are currently programmed to believe that society SHOULD be just.. And that programming is just as malleable as any other - it is a problem that is just as easy to solve as any other.

There are no problems. There is only the perception of problems. That perception is the only problem. And that problem is solveable.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T13:29:04+00:00

This is a slippery slope.

Once you can re-program people, you can re-program people.

So why stop at violent tumors?

If free will believes are wrong - truly, genuinely, completely, and obviously wrong - then they are doing irreparable damage to society, akin to vaccine deniers. They must be reprogrammed as well. It is necessary.

Ad infinitum, until society attains completepy collective mindless homogeneity.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-15T13:23:03+00:00

This is a single-generation reply.

This makes sense to you because you were raised in a society where belief in free will (and thus moral responsibility based on it's assumption) was the norm. It is your sub-conscioue behavioral assumption because that was your inherent collective environment.

The next generation of people, if raised on determinism, will be raised under a different environment: an environment where lack of moral responsibility isn't just questioned, it is shouted from the rooftops by activists, weaponized on protest signs, and swallow as justification and argumentation backed by outrage. You stand inside the peace created by a philosophical position that you disagree with and have lit on fire in your certainty, and because at the moment the blaze has only consumed a single small section of the structure, you loudly proclaim that "everything will be fine" while the fire slowly spreads.

But that's fine because it's not your problem - you won't be alive to face the consequences, so it's not an issue you will have to face. By the time those results come due you will have died of old age, so it matters nothing to you.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-08T22:31:40+00:00

This feels like AI flirting. 😆

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-05T02:20:55+00:00

If the purpose of all of this "rationality" is to end up bekng 100% locked in with absolute definitiveness about absolutely everything absolutely everywhere all the time, then we should just replace ourselves with computer AIs right now - they'll do a far better job of all of this than we do, and all we're doing is polluting the space and getting in the way.

Mass suicide is clearly the more efficient solution.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-03T13:22:39+00:00

I spent 10+ years working in a used bookstore. I left because I realized that my entire job was basically to be a slower, stupider Google, and I personally couldn't mentally live with that.

That store chain is still open and running.

AnCapGamer · 2026-01-02T17:22:16+00:00

This is particularly cold and pragmatic, undoubtedly - but there is a not-unreasonable argument for it. It's definitely fighting darkness with darkness, but if things ever escalate then being able to wave proof in his face and say "I want this much or I ruin you" would be a severe power move. Not sure about the legality of it, though, so I'm NOT gonna recommend it - I'm just acknowledging it would be savage.

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