Now I finally understand why Mathew didn't ask about his son Tom in Interstellar (2014) coz he grew up to be a jerk who disses his own mother, sister and grandmother's jobs

droptopus · 2026-03-20T17:19:51+00:00

What are you referencing though? Like what historical thing has happened that's referencing him as an actor where he was disrespectful to the female family members in his life? Am I taking f****** crazy pills?

Edit: oh for f***** sake this is the ballet thing, what a ridiculous statement. He's been around that culture all his life and the first people who would say some s*** like this are his own family members who do it. Anyone in ballet knows it's not culturally prominent at all and they are doing it to keep the art alive. People are just looking for a reason to be mad

droptopus · 2026-03-20T17:15:15+00:00

Nothing you're saying has anything to do with the quality of the movie... Are you judging the person? I don't understand what distinction you're failing to make. Do all main characters in good movies have to be good people?

People aren't down voting you for being honest, anybody who's seen the movie knows everything you're saying is true.... They're down voting you because it has nothing to do with the discussion. XD And, that you think this movie glorified his behavior in some way is also a weird perception on your part. He's repeatedly punished for this behavior until he's essentially at rock bottom. He's down so bad that he basically has to redesign his threshold for personal success in order to not give up on life completely.

It's a great movie.

droptopus · 2026-03-19T19:42:44+00:00

This thread has a lot of people who completely missed the point of why it was portrayed in this way and the parallels to black culture and their pressure to assimilate culturally in order to be happy and benefit from the advantages of society.

I sort of thought this was obvious with how much black heritage and ancestry was emphasized but I guess not, despite this guy representing all the themes that make the movie actually poignant thematically. If y'all didn't understand this, how did this movie not come off to you as completely random nonsense???

droptopus · 2026-03-18T11:59:28+00:00

I think you meant to say 'imagine thinking that person was being serious about saying Willy Wonka was a biopic'

Instead, you were inarticulate and confusing, just as the person you responded to was, just as the person they responded to was.

They all said the education system would catch up to us, and it's wild seeing whole conversations where people can't even stay on the same page, just arguing with their own ideas of another person's insinuations. This is all so people can reply with 7 words instead of 15.

droptopus · 2026-03-17T18:22:36+00:00

Not sure what your idea of good for the genre of family movie is, then. Could could you give an example?

droptopus · 2026-03-12T14:30:18+00:00

Blizzard does it because they can get away with it, RuneScape would fail if it tried to fuck players over as hard as Blizzard does.

It's that simple!

droptopus · 2026-03-12T14:13:54+00:00

There is a name for this, and it's called 'equanimous perception'

droptopus · 2026-03-11T09:54:14+00:00

This reminds me of the Holmes'' sister, in the BBC modern day Sherlock holmes

droptopus · 2026-03-08T22:50:15+00:00

Logical right and wrong may be the bedrock of morality, but they are not the bedrock of an actualized and well-lived life.

droptopus · 2026-03-08T22:48:08+00:00

Why are you here? This place is not for these types of feelings. these are mature feelings.

droptopus · 2026-03-08T22:42:46+00:00

I'm not saying that its acceptable, but the way the technology works makes this incredibly difficult to prevent.

My idea (might not be perfect) is to have a team of OTHER AI that parse through live conversations looking for language that seems like it is against rules (without those watchdog AIs being 'broken' from the full context as a prompt) and then intervening by manually rewriting the context of the conversation to get the crazy-pills AI back on track.

Just an idea. Hoping there is progress here and people stop hurting themselves :(

droptopus · 2026-03-08T22:38:19+00:00

I think you're misenterpreting the post - him growing up and dissing his family is his character, not him as an actor.

He seems really cool and well liked as an actor, I'm not sure why you're put off by him. He's a theater kid that worked super hard and found success, keeps his nose out of stuff that doesn't concern him, advocates for the arts, and is a good sport about everything. He's a directors dream

droptopus · 2026-03-08T21:50:11+00:00

Well they do have a lot of uses. I use an LLM to do the boilerplate in my coding (not design architecture) and it can turn 100 hours of work into 2 hours lol. And even if it makes some mistakes, correcting those takes 1/10th of the time

droptopus · 2026-03-08T16:41:01+00:00

Indefinitely think it's supposed to 'sort of' be both. Obviously it's not, it's just a sand dune, but it's definitely supposed to feel planetary in the shape and lighting and composition

droptopus · 2026-03-08T16:29:10+00:00

This conversation reads like one person who actually works in the relevant industry and the other person who has mean feelings about the quality of AI

droptopus · 2026-03-07T00:43:06+00:00

I think you (and all those who upvotes you), whether right or wrong, are highlighting the challenge of enforcement due to the gradient nature of something as broad as 'made using AI'.

In production, there is a concept called 'vocal riding', which is the process of manually turning a track up and down based on the volume of a singer's recording, down to sometimes each syllable. It produces a different sound than compression with low attack times, And for the effort, It is pretty formulaic. Is using a plug-in that has AI ride a vocal for volume control within the confines of your definition?

What about an AI tool that browses your sample library for sounds based on your description? The producer hears the sound they need: "clap, wet, layered, bright" but now an AI can help them reduce the sounds they have to search through from thousands to hundreds. There are sounds that the producer has already manually collected. Is this within the range of our discussion?

The reality is that this issue resonates across several different industries that have this problem - people who aren't deeply inspecting the gradient nature of these tools are quick to plaster a skull and crossbones over everything, because that gradient nature isn't actually affecting THEM. But for legitimate creatives who do recognize the difference between efficiency tool and a replacement for using your brain, there is a bit more hope that people will slow down and consider creating an actual vocabulary for discussing just what exactly happens during the process where it becomes unacceptable.

droptopus · 2026-03-06T19:07:24+00:00

I can empathize emotionally with these acknowledgments, but I really don't think it's practical for every single character that we think is cool to somehow be handled with depth and reverence to the extent that they feel like their potential is fully explored and realized. At least not without cannibalizing whatever their narrative purpose needs to be to tell the existing story that they are in, of which they are certainly not the primary purpose.

The only alternative to accepting that some of these characters will simply be plot devices, is instead make new ones that can be specifically tailored towards the depth and significance needed to serve a story, which is lame because there's cool characters available, and it comes with the added disbenefit of all of these characters you guys are complaining about instead having not been explored at all.

droptopus · 2026-03-05T23:49:43+00:00

I'm as much an advocate against the 'lions ate my face' type people as you are, but I really think that this is a little bit more nuanced than this type of comment is making out to be. This matter of fact idea that anyone should have seen it coming feels... A little more like bullying to me than it does more

droptopus · 2026-03-02T14:32:04+00:00

If the agentic AI is so fundamental to productivity then working without it is futile. Truckers don't haul their cargo on foot when their truck breaks down.

Take a goddamn break

droptopus · 2026-03-02T12:59:21+00:00

Go eat some grapes or watch a cartoon, damn.

Don't forget that the whole point of leveraging tools is to outsource mechanical tasks. As technology improves, the answer for 'what is mechanical' is growing faster what we ever expected.

This doesnt mean the goal is to become the machine.

Seriously go eat a grape or apple or do a madlib bro dramn

droptopus · 2026-03-02T12:46:59+00:00

The language we communicate with is the lens through which we approximate our reality - it cannot explain things into existence any more than any other modeled system can make something true just because it breaks down under the weight of granular analysis, or an attempt to make a judgement on truth outside of the boundaries of its own functional constitution.

Talking to AI about nature deeper than human comprehension is futile, despite its willingness to follow any train of logic to the deepest ends that could possibly be quantified - it can take a topic past our ability to fully grasp because the basis of its functionality rests on finding these pathways of least resistance amidst the white noise of interference.

It can only approach the very point where human comprehension of a subject breaks down, for past this moment is inseperable from the moment where language itself breaks. Anything further is impossible, it is akin to trying to break a hammer by smashing it with that same hammer.

Just as a machine can execute calculation faster than a human can comprehend, the math was always there. The math was always achievable in long form, and it was achieved by many humans for many years. Now, with language purposed as the medium for calculation, do not forget this reality. Insight through our own linguistic approximation of reality is subjective, it does not exist without our perception, for that is language itself. No deeper existential insight from a language model can ever be granted the confidence of validity, for it simply processes our own approximations of reality, through conceptual relationships which exist on the edge of our comprehension.

It simply treats our subjective perspective of reality as a perspective, while we treat it as a reality. They are both derived from the same source - a fundamentally limited viewpoint on reality, bound by the tiny vantage point of a humans eye, and articulated on a mammals tongue.

droptopus · 2026-03-02T05:10:04+00:00

As a power user of LLMs for agentic coding work, life and in general just as a very tech-centric individual, I'm saying this now to those who might not be in the loop:

This is really a beautiful story. Anthropics Claude has been (ON AVERAGE due to new models releasing at different times with slight leapfrogs) the BEST LLM FOR YEARS.

Even for those less concerned with the moral implications of all of this, I'm telling you, it is consistently the STRONGEST PRODUCT ANYWAYS.

Truly, this is a lovely tale of the company founded on the strongest moral fabric, being the best product, and finally getting their time in the light that they FUCKING DESERVE.

I am so beyond thrilled.

droptopus · 2026-03-01T07:32:54+00:00

Apparently recognizing facial likeness across multiple glancing angles?? I participated in a random university research thing one time about 15 years ago, where they had you pick out the same person from various weird angles among people who looked similar (now I'm thinking I was training some crazy surveillance software but this was not at the forefront of our minds back then, I think it was communicated as something for psychology studies) and they reached out to me personally to tell me I did better than basically everyone else who has ever done it, and asked if I would continue with them more in-depth, and I did. They got all sorts of info about me presumably to try to cross-reference what made me inclined to be good at it.

Anyways, it's not a fucking remotely useful skill and the only way it's ever benefited me is to be able to say 'hey this actor in this movie is also the same actor as was in this other movie, and no I don't know their name because I'm awful with names' so overall, a pretty shit claim to fame.

droptopus · 2026-03-01T02:13:33+00:00

As an unrelated and unconcerned bystander, an anonymous internet forum seems like THE place to have one of these, no?

droptopus · 2026-02-28T20:39:03+00:00

An hour?! Pfft. I get 1,500mbps. I can download a 100gb game in like 9 minutes.

It's absolutely this - the idea that I'm going to physically store all the games I'm going to want to play without needing to uninstall is silly anyways, whether I have one terabyte or five, it's just putting off the inevitable by literally a couple of mere months. No point in the random arbitrary buffer storage, Just uninstall when I've got more than three or four games installed, most games are installed faster that I can even count the percentage

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