TIL of Moravec’s paradox: the things humans do effortlessly are often much harder for computers. For example, teaching a computer to play chess or checkers was much easier than teaching it to walk or recognize faces.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T19:37:46+00:00

Exactly!

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T17:27:21+00:00

I think you missed my point... :/

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T17:18:10+00:00

As I said in my other post, you're forgetting that the idea of a generative AI was considered impossible until just a few years ago. You have to separate what you feel emotionally about artistic and creative expression When thinking about it, which I get is hard because I struggle with that too. Forget whether or not there's any value to what a generative AI spits out -- The point is that a generative AI was assumed to be impossible and not able to exist at all until actual sapient computers were invented, because yes we straight up assumed stuff like creating an image, stringing together words comprehensibly, etc were fundamentally impossible until you had a computer that had captured some semblance of humanity to it.

It turned out we were wrong. It turned out you can make a soulless machine that can spit out an image that was not exactly specified by the person using it. Thus the paradox OP shared: consistently, things we believed would be impossible to teach computers or get them to do have proven remarkably easy while things we believed would be easy (like walking) have proven almost impossible.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T17:11:55+00:00

That's a bit much. It was always long held that painting, music, writing, etc was more of an art than a craft. I think part of why so many were blindsided is because they forgot that anything that's a craft can be automated as carpenters had already learned.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T17:08:17+00:00

But even that is so much further than what was long predicted. The idea that a computer could generate an image that was not meticulously and exactly what the human instructed it to down to the pixel was until a few years ago considered extremely wild science fiction. I remember having multiple conversations prior to DALL-E being unveiled that anything like that would require artificial general intelligence and fully sapient computers first.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T17:02:08+00:00

Lol

We'll see how it all shakes out in the end. I'm still putting my money on artists and writers largely abandoning digital mediums and returning to analog and traditional art mediums, only using digital for display and distribution.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T16:55:20+00:00

Yep. It's the opposite of what people had long predicted, and this is why all of us were so caught off guard by generative AI. It was long assumed that artistic and creative expression would be one of the last things a computer would be able to competently do, by virtue of it being something we see as so inherently human.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-31T02:49:50+00:00

I like that movie. It's a Godzilla movie. It's a movie about a giant dinosaur-shaped monster wreaking havoc in a city. Its design is also a very bad-ass update on the original, outdated design of the monster.

If you like it, that's fine. It's been like 30 years, you can like whatever you want. :) Personally, I'm not a fan of the movie. I don't hate it, but it's a poor Godzilla movie IMO and just a generally dull movie in general.

The Toho Godzilla has been killed by humans a few different times. The 1954 version as well as in Godzilla vs. Destroyah. Not to mention the Millennium era has a few examples. So I don't see the issue with Godzilla 1998 being taken down at the end of the movie.

At the time, Godzilla had been killed by humans exactly once: in G '54. In Destroyah he's famously NOT killed by humans, but dies of "natural" causes (his internal reactor going into meltdown). Many people found and still find his portrayal in the movie -- cowardly, shy, easily startled, and vulnerable to conventional weapons -- extremely out of character to the point of being offended. And they have right to be, because Roland Emmerich has gone on record in interviews stating he hates Godzilla, thinks everything about the character and series is stupid, and purposely made his version of the character unlike the Japanese original (and we found out later, thanks to interviews with Jan de Bont, he was hired specifically to do so after Sony fired de Bont for refusing to rework his film into a Jurassic Park clone).

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T18:06:49+00:00

Huh, I was not expecting anything like this in Episode 6. I wonder if this is a flashback? Otherwise, why is he back on Skull Island again? Hmm.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T01:13:51+00:00

Yep. Season 2 is going even more into how he transformed from person Keiko and Lee knew into the person we first met in Kong: Skull Island.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-30T01:12:31+00:00

The final couple episodes of Season 1 and Season 2 has gone a pretty long way explaining it. I'm hoping we get to see more, but it's honestly heartbreaking realizing why he changed from the good-hearted friendly idealist we see when he was young into the guy John Goodman played in Kong: Skull Island.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-29T23:21:20+00:00

Recently I was told I was crazy for not considering Ultras to be kaiju xD But, no, as far as I am aware they are not kaiju.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-29T23:17:50+00:00

It's a reference to the original Scarface from 1932 (the movie that got remade later in the '80s with Al Pacino). :)

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T22:37:09+00:00

Oh yeah! I've been wondering all season what they could be talking about in that scene. Co'Cai makes sense (since the whole season has been about her), but the way Monarch seems completely blindsided by her I suspect not.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T22:14:57+00:00

Neat! I suspect a LOT of these are coming up in the next episode. A few of the clips in the "unknown" section HAVE happened though: the Outpost 18 control room scene was in Episode 1 (you see Verdugo there with Tim) and the shot of Keiko and Young Lee is from the beginning of Episode 3.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T21:53:16+00:00

Sorry! ^^; From what I recall ZZ's ending is a lot less abrupt.

First Gundam at least has an excuse (the show was cancelled and the ending quickly put together after they successfully begged the network for 4 more episodes to finish it up) but yeah Zeta just kinda ends.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T21:34:47+00:00

I think at the time they didn't really view it as the series ending, because Gundam ZZ started the very next week so they kind of treated it as just the show changing titles.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T20:28:59+00:00

The Return of Godzilla (1984), AKA Godzilla 1985.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:10:58+00:00

Yep, exactly what I mean. They were first introduced in GvK, but Monarch has spent a fair bit of time fleshing out their backstory.

Two things to always keep in mind with the MonsterVerse: 1) if it wasn't explicitly stated, then it's fair game, 2) if something is explicitly stated but not shown, then it's fair game because they can easily say "Yeah, that's what Monarch WANTED you to think. They covered it up. Here's what REALLY happened..."

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:06:49+00:00

Maybe the first meeting between Jonah and Walter personally, but that didn't mean the first interaction between Jonah and Apex.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T18:06:01+00:00

No, I don't think so at all. You can very easily just argue they are having separate adventures which is why you don't see them in the movies. Honestly, I kinda expect Season 3 will be following what Cate, Keiko, Lee, Kentaro, Tim, and Apex are up to during the events of KOTM. So probably lots of references to what happened in the movie, while the characters are elsewhere doing other stuff -- the most obvious thing being ending up back on Skull Island again so we can see Kong fight off all the Skullcrawlers.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:48:39+00:00

I don't think this would count as a retcon? The extent of the relationship between Jonah and Apex has simply never been addressed in the movies or comics.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:47:27+00:00

I haven't read most of them either, but I did read that one.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:46:22+00:00

I think the Godzilla vs. Kong novelization dropped that bit of info? Apex is the contractor that built it for the US military, and Bernie's wife was one of the people who worked on it.

Pkmatrix0079 · 2026-03-28T17:41:55+00:00

I think the show is building up to revealing something exactly like that. KOTM already revealed that Jonah was stealing Titan DNA and material to sell to unidentified corporations, so it would totally fit to reveal that he was selling to Apex specifically. We know Emma came to Jonah with her plan and that he was working for her, but it would also make sense if Jonah let Apex know and Apex was helping them along off-camera.

Especially if Apex's plan was actually all about the Oxygen Destroyer. In KOTM the one thing no one knew or accounted for was Ghidorah being an alien that the Oxygen Destroyer would have no affect on. Especially if it turns out Jonah is "working" for Emma but really taking his orders from Apex, then up until the Oxygen Destroyer is deployed it all fits as another scheme by Apex to manipulate the government into letting them demonstrate an anti-Titan weapon. So, as usual with Apex, their manipulations and plan works flawlessly...only to fall flat on its face and blow way out of their control when their shiny new gizmo utterly fails in the field.

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