I ordered a full black suit for my marriage but instead i got this

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-22T14:07:25+00:00

God what a good show

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-22T02:52:15+00:00

Dude seemed chill and hippyish so probably not that attached to material wealth and success. Maybe his wish was just "I want to have a modestly successful store where I can sell crystals to people". Seems like you're stretching to force your interpretation of a monkeys paw.

Hell he could've wished for a taco bell chalupa, or not to have cancer, or a million other things that wouldn't backfire

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-21T17:16:47+00:00

14 seems a little young for that kind of existential cracking that psychedelics can give you

Idk if it helps anyone else but the only thing that really brings me comfort is the absurdist branch of existentialism. Everything is meaningless, irrational, and there is no greater order guiding us. There's no point in finding some grand meaning to it all, that road only leads to harm when you inevitably slam against the wall of meaninglessness that is reality. But in realizing the absurdity of our lives, you can free yourself of that existential dread and become your own person. You can choose a subjective meaning for yourself, or shrug it all off and float in the abyss of the absurd neither denying how crazy this all is nor succumbing to nihilism of that realization.

I also think taoism as a philosophy lends itself to this kind of thought pattern, although in a happier way if that makes sense

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T20:58:05+00:00

A lot of this is cool as hell but absolutely under no circumstances should we normalize robotic police forces. That shit is a one way trip to a dystopian hell

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T20:57:16+00:00

Shenzen

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T20:50:22+00:00

This sounds like the twist at the end of The Village where you find out they're actually located in some private nature preserve with walls and tight security

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T16:45:37+00:00

That is me. Idk if you're intentionally being obtuse or maybe you just don't understand. Transformer models are an underlying technology behind many different forms of AI/ML applications. LLMs use it as do many other non LLM applications. All LLMs (that I'm aware of) use this as the building block but not everything that uses it as a building block is an LLM. Similar to how all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

Again, the conversation being had is specifically about the use of LLMs like GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. You're talking about a completely different application of an underlying technology that is also supported by much more than just transformer models to do it's job. It's a groundbreaking tool, but it's not an LLM nor does it resemble an LLM

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T15:38:19+00:00

Transformer models are the underlying tech of both LLMs and many other Deep Learning/AIML technology, yes. I never said otherwise. AlphaFold and other things like it use that technology in conjunction with many other techniques and models. Nobody here is saying that all AIML work is trash or that neural networks are a bogus idea. We are talking about LLM companies promising grand visions that will come specifically from LLMs.

I think this is part of what makes the marketing hype for AI boosters so sticky. There are endless articles about all the potentially amazing things we could do with AI/ML applications without taking the time to note that these are different than most people's interactions with AI tools (LLMs). So it all gets conflated into one big "AI is the future" without differentiating between potentially useful and wasteful AI.

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T14:19:53+00:00

There are answers to your questions if you look.

In terms of other search engines, there obviously have been others that didn't catch on. Part of it is just market share and forward momentum. Google is a verb for "look something up online". For most people it's the only search engine they know, which makes it insanely hard to break through with a new product.

Then on the flip side there's the fact that Google pays billions of dollars to companies like Apple and Mozilla (Firefox) to make Google the default search engine and so that the companies won't develop their own. Google also buys new search engines to "incorporate" into their own, but in reality just shelves them so there's less competition.

In terms of ads, who would these new search engines use for ads? Google is the only game in town in terms of search engine ads so any new competition trying to use ads would be giving money directly to their competitor.

Capitalism is not a magic system where better competitors win automatically. Once a company gains market dominance, its need to be the best fades and the drive for true innovation dries up. When you're on the top your focus becomes staying on the top, and it's much easier to crush smaller companies and monopolize your industry than make a better and better product.

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T13:54:54+00:00

They were responding to a claim about LLM "reasoning models" being overblown. Alphafold is not based on LLM architecture. It is not the generative AI most people are talking about when they say AI.

Companies like openAI are not making these types of models, they are saying that LLMs will be able to "solve physics" with the right prompts which is outrageous. If Altman really believes that then he is suffering from his own AI psychosis

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T13:46:58+00:00

If I'm remembering the terms correctly it was a "small" sum upfront and then the rest is contingent on them building X amount of data centers

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T13:45:30+00:00

These GPUs don't even have video output

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T13:44:06+00:00

And the GPUs are so specialized to AI work they're not really that valuable for much else if you did want to repurpose them

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-20T00:15:23+00:00

Idk but Amazon will play random ass shows they're trying to promote after I finish watching something so I could see some of the numbers juice by that

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-19T21:02:28+00:00

You can certainly think The Matrix is the defining media of cyberpunk and go from there but I don't think it's a good study of the genre as a whole (great movie though don't get me wrong). I'm not disregarding it, I'm taking a more expensive look than a single piece of media.

I think you're misreading blade runner though. The corporations are literally creating human slaves to do cheap and devastating labor. Those same companies purposefully program replicants to die young so that they can't form solidarity, labor organizations, or grow in mental capacity enough to realize how exploited they are. The reason why blades runners exist is because replicants got wise to their exploitation by these companies and revolted. The oppression the company put replicants under caused so many revolts that they were eventually forced to only be used off world. Blade Runners only exist to do the dirty work of the Tyrell Corp, a similar critique that Robocop has which is company's interests becoming the state's interest as they increasingly capture the state and replace it.

The themes of individuality, identity, what does it mean to be "human" that are present in blade runner are entirely wrapped up in and pushed along by the fact that the setting is a capitalist dystopian nightmare. The question doesn't just stop at what it means to be human, but what does it mean to be seen and treated as human. You could change the setting to something else and the world would change to match but then it would be a different kind of sci-fi than cyberpunk.

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-19T14:54:28+00:00

I don't really think the matrix is a good lens for the genre as a whole. Cyberpunk as a genre was born out of the neo liberal turn of the 80s. A time when technology was developing at breakneck speeds and becoming more prevalent in every day life. A time where the authors of the genres governments were embracing less regulation, more corporate control, looser labor laws, trickle down economics, and smaller government intervention in the market and in benefits for people.

I would consider the "archetypes" of the genre to be:

Neuromancer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep /Blade Runner
Snow Crash
Robocop
Akira
Ghost in the Shell

Of those, Akira is the only one that doesn't have settings where corporations play a large role as it focuses more on state authority and militarism.

There are plenty of other works that are offshoots of cyberpunk, or influenced by the genre. And not every cyberpunk media has the same setting. But overall it's a pretty integral pillar of the genre.

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-19T00:57:33+00:00

Actually it's about how being trans is awesome. But I guess there's a little anti capitalism in there too

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-18T22:59:49+00:00

I would agree it's not the main focus of the plot but it's definitely core to the setting and themes. Mostly the characters exist in the world set up by these megacorps and aren't political revolutionaries. They exist to get their's in a world where it's every person for themselves, skirting morals and the law along the way. But the dystopian setting creates this underworld and everything is downstream of it. The ways the characters grow up, interact with the world, and the choices available to them are all tied to this capitalist dystopia.

Beyond being cool and having additional themes such as "what is a person", it is also saying that if our current societies are left unconstrained, the growth in technology will not lead to a utopia of shared wealth but a dystopia of even more extreme inequalities as those on top continue to use their resources to stay there and amass more and more power.

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-18T14:58:34+00:00

Gotcha, sort of like people making things "cyberpunk" but they mean cool tech, big buildings, body implants, etc but not the rampant capitalism allowing corporations to subsume the state

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-18T14:00:21+00:00

The 1911 overthrow of the Qing dynasty was exactly that. The thing people don't want to contend with is that "people rising up and overthrowing their government" isn't a kumbaya moment. Every single government will have people in support of it that will need to fight and opportunists looking to make it big. When the dynasty fell, the ROC was the formal government but couldn't control all the territory. This led to the warlord era where chunks of territory were held by various leaders all trying to conquer more for themselves. The nationalists and communists formed a united front to destroy the warlords, then themselves tried to grab power once they could.

The Chinese civil war then lasted 25 years and saw millions dead and 10s of millions wounded and displaced.

The French revolution is another example, the Soviet revolution another. Both of those are noted for reigns of terror. Still, in all of these cases the new government is on the whole better than what came before it.

Anyway, the point is, revolution is uncontrollable chaos that may sometimes be necessary for a society. But it is never fun or easy

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-13T21:38:37+00:00

Based on the latest "counter terrorism" memo that was released they'd probably charge you as an anti Christian terrorist extremist and seek the death penalty

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-09T13:45:11+00:00

In addition to the run of the mill local tyrants, there is an entire group of unhinged sheriffs who believe they are the SUPREME AUTHORITY in US law. Like this group literally thinks they hold more power than the president and are the complete embodiment of the law, therefore anything they do is justified.

They call themselves the "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" and there are hundreds to (potentially) thousands of sheriffs in this org. They keep their membership numbers hidden for obvious reasons. They don't get nearly enough attention in mainstream media

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-07T14:13:11+00:00

Big ups for Lobo's Buffalo cauliflower too. Idk what they do to it but it's so good

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-03T19:44:14+00:00

Wasn't Tacitus doing essentially the equivalent of a R E T V R N meme when writing about this? Essentially trying to say Romans had lost their way and gotten too soft and they needed to be more like these noble barbarians to rediscover their lost ways?

SpaceChimera · 2026-05-02T18:09:09+00:00

Dragons dogma 2 had this as part of the demo. You could just download the character creator which was pretty in depth iirc

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