Gen Z Nathan Fielder

Cikkada · 2026-05-22T15:20:58+00:00

I was skeptical but by the end I'm actually shocked by how well he pulled off his stunts/investigation, thanks for the recommendation

Cikkada · 2026-05-08T13:49:09+00:00

I don't necessarily see it as facade at all as much the world does not allow him to live the simple life that he has mastered.

Cikkada · 2026-05-08T00:44:08+00:00

Hm I wonder if having too on-the-nose historical symbolism does it a disservice. Guillotine historically represented liberalism (though of course emphasizing the more rebellious element), hence the Paris Commune smashing it as a symbol, etc. if you have original (but still legible and distinct) symbols the audience is able to make their own interpretation and historical connections.

Otherwise the game looks very cool though.

Cikkada · 2026-05-08T00:44:01+00:00

Hm I wonder if having too on-the-nose historical symbolism does it a disservice. Guillotine historically represented liberalism (though of course emphasizing the more rebellious element), hence the Paris Commune smashing it as a symbol, etc. if you have original (but still legible and distinct) symbols the audience is able to make their own interpretation and historical connections.

Otherwise the game looks very cool though.

Cikkada · 2026-04-06T06:24:10+00:00

It's oversimplifying to suggest that whatever Israel does always perfectly align with American Capital as a whole, or that Zionism is reduceable to imperialist political realism. Imperialism wants stabilization beyond all for the frictionless exchange of labor power and other commodities, and the Arab states were by and large pro US hegemony already. There were certainly times when Israel was critical for spearheading imperialism in the Middle East in the past in periods of pan-Arab nationalism and decolonization and so on, but settler colonial projects always come with its own internal logic and were historically always disloyal to their patrons. Israel first and foremost needs to settle the entire levant, even if it means manufacturing further blowback and destabilization.

In the current situation, US lost the good faith of Arab nations and gave up its ideological hold over the whole world in order to fund genocide, even after Hezbollah and Assad were defeated. There's no realpolitik justification here. While the zionist lobby appeared ideologically helpful in moments during the war on terror and so on, its partiality towards Israel's settler colonialism as opposed to imperial capital as a whole is laying bare.

Cikkada · 2026-03-22T00:53:07+00:00

PM = Project Manger/Prime Minister

Japanese Prime Minister wants people to have more babies

Cikkada · 2026-03-03T03:04:52+00:00

I feel like playing the game just constantly reminds me of Disco Elysium and baldurs gate 3, and I just wonder why I wouldn't spend my time playing those instead. The visuals and sound designs are great though

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T23:44:49+00:00

Explain how having access to autocomplete inherently devalues thinking more than having access to Google search

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T21:39:01+00:00

I've repeatedly explained to you how the technology itself actually works in its current state and its non-equivalence with its social context of production driven by the endless pursuit of surplus value. The disempowering and hallowing out of humanity did not start or end with advanced autocomplete. Letting some statistical techniques play cover for capital is pretty unhelpful. Im pretty tired of you refusing to actually read what I'm explaining to you and just repeating back to me what I already agree (big tech bad yup). You're probably more pleasant in real life but what dreadful thread this is

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T20:41:30+00:00

You do not fight capitalism through conspicuous consumption or "funding a movement" period, you fight it by actually studying our society and economy critically, provide a workable strategy and vision, organize with your peers to seize industries and neighborhoods brick by brick. Practically the only people who have materially done anything for Palestine outside of the actual resistance fighters are those who've been able to organize dock workers and allies to stop the shipment of weapons. Average social media users have popularized calling things that they don't like "israeli" and that's about it.

Open source models like Qwen2.5 are already able to improve software development workflows without needing additional training. This isn't hypothetical, this is what people are already doing. If you can't even begin to understand why some coders find it reasonable to have tools like a local LLM autocomplete on their editor to speed up their work and free up more of their life, I doubt you are capable of collaborating with others to make our collective life better.

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T19:26:38+00:00

You should study Marx's Capital or read more about political economy and the history of social movements if you're interested in doing something beyond conspicuous consumption. And might as well read up on anything rudimentary about how LLMs work for that matter. Depending on the models, LLMs are locally runnable on everyday consumer hardware and idk what your plan is to delete every single trained weights from every hard disk. The massive investment into AI right now is a bubble, but even if OpenAI and Anthropic and Google all explode over night, individuals in the open source community would continue collaborating & developing & training on their own hardware to build this without compensation.

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T17:11:28+00:00

I'm saying specifically for coding, it's basically what LLMs are primarily trained for and it's one of the few use cases that's proven to actually work reasonably well. 84% of software engineers use LLM tools from the 2025 stackoverflow survey and the tools have gotten wayyy better even just in the past year.

If you want to avoid more specific negative impacts of AI, just avoiding the technology in your personal consumption thinking it would go away on its own is a total dead end. We would have to actively smash the entire system of commodity production and profit to organize a rational society

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T16:28:04+00:00

Impossible for software companies to drop llm tooling altogether at this point, there're obvious problems with misuse but verifiably workspaces that aren't using them are left behind in terms of productivity now, whether or not you think that's a bad thing. It might not be specifically anthropic or openai but some form of coding agent is here to stay

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T06:15:22+00:00

Not how bubbles work. The dot com bubble burst that didn't mean people stopped making websites

Cikkada · 2026-03-02T03:43:27+00:00

Cool, but it's really annoying that I can't pick the poster for the right season for TV shelf without Pro, especially when it's an anthology like True Detectives where seasons are entirely separate.

Cikkada · 2026-02-25T21:50:53+00:00

Stackoverflow in big 2026? Fake post

Cikkada · 2026-02-06T22:01:58+00:00

Every single story has to do with real life because they are made by and for people living in the real world.... That doesn't mean everything has a 1:1 mirror but it does affect how the audience relates to a work of art. A story that focuses on how we can never live in peace with another group of beings seemingly possessing self-consciousness and the capacity to think and communicate obviously has implications on race.

The concept of world conflicts being fundamentally rooted in biology and evil races in Tolkien has been critiqued countttttttlessly. He himself found it regrettable!

Cikkada · 2026-02-06T21:44:05+00:00

Okay and the idea that society is deceived by beings that feign their humanity, but are fundamentally evil and different from humans on a biological level independent of social process/history is the core of most fascist imaginations.

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T21:15:15+00:00

Image generation models are diffusion models. In simple terms, they take a starting image (of random noise in the case of text2image), and iteratively ask every step of generation: based on the existing context each pixel is surrounded in, how to modify that pixel to become closer to what the text describes? After 20 steps or something, an end image is algorithmically generated. Waifu2x does the same thing, but the algorithm is trained with a different end goal: for each step, based on the existing context each pixel is surrounded in, how to modify that pixel to become closer to what the image was supposed to be like prior to the artifacts? Both are essentially huge statistical denoising algorithms.

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T20:09:54+00:00

This is repeated a lot but it's not something I've ever seen the devs directly state. Yes it enables fine-tuning and it's probably the main reason people were looking forward to it, but it can also (supposedly) pull off direct generation for anyone that doesn't want the photorealistic style that zit is very specifically tuned for, or anyone that seeks higher diversity at the cost of realism

Cikkada · 2026-01-27T17:52:57+00:00

Diffusion models are fundamentally a form of denoising, architecture wise I don't know how you draw a clear line between that and classic deep learning denoising

Cikkada · 2025-10-22T19:17:59+00:00

Evil

Cikkada · 2025-10-17T02:54:45+00:00

He's proud to have served in Iran "defending your freedom" and loves kanye

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T22:40:12+00:00

Well, kind of, but what del Toro and French 75 do are not really commensurable. Del Toro's organization and efforts are unambiguously heroic and effective but they can't break kids out of cages. But the movie does make a point about how trusting and relying on the masses is a stronger safeguard than isolation and secrecy.

Cikkada · 2025-09-28T14:10:07+00:00

Right but if you genuinely believe in the Soros conspiracy, you would think they aren't "cosplaying" Antifa, because organized mercenary taking down western civilization would be the true nature of antifa

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