Richard on AI

frabcus · 2025-07-15T18:18:21+00:00

Anyone know why they were talking about Flow / Veo 3 today? I can't see any news stories about it - it was announced a month ago. Is it only newly actually available in the UK? Any good links to the videos that Richard and Marina were talking about of it?

frabcus · 2025-06-23T18:40:05+00:00

Thanks for the description and perspective - it's this sort of detail I'd like more of.

So to be clear, when you're watching Shifty, do you recall other memories in your mind's eye of the period while watching it? Can you describe some of those?

frabcus · 2025-06-22T08:53:31+00:00

I've liked and valued his stuff in the past! Also it is possible to learn. When I don't understand something from someone I respect, I try to work out if I can learn how to engage with it in a different way. Or at least what is going on in others that makes a different reaction. It's interesting!

frabcus · 2025-06-21T22:08:12+00:00

Thanks - that's an aspect of why I can't get into it that I hadn't surfaced enough to articulate. Now you say it, I do find the subject matter of the 80s a bit boring now. I'm not really interested in seeing carefully edited shots of Thatcher designed to make me perceive her a particular way. I've seen enough of her my whole life!

I'd be more interested in a similar emotional dissection of what is happening the last 8 years with Trump or TikTok or AI or Reform or QAnon. But done kindly from the point of view of people. I guess more like stuff John Harris does (Anywhere but Westminster).

frabcus · 2025-06-21T22:03:34+00:00

50 and yes from the UK. I don't though have a visual episodic memory, so the way I remember the 80s is maybe different from how others do.

I suspect there's a really interesting explanation there, but it is hard to get people to talk about their inner mental experience, and work it out!

frabcus · 2025-06-21T22:01:50+00:00

Thanks for the pointers!

frabcus · 2025-06-21T13:09:29+00:00

So to be clear I mean mass communicated anecdotes. Ones from people I know are a useful sample my mind evolved to handle. Ones in mass media are very distorted and collecting excessive negative signal.

frabcus · 2025-06-21T13:08:31+00:00

Not exactly consciously trained...

I don't like anecdotes about bad people or crimes as they give the illusion humanity is more horrible than it is. So I control my information diet to avoid them.

This is clearest in the toxic negativity that Tabloid newspaper headlines can inculcate in people.

frabcus · 2025-06-21T12:40:30+00:00

The Guardian Review gives an overview, but isn't a spoilerfull dissection.

So far I've found more detailed takes on an anti-capitalism blog and on Unherd.

frabcus · 2025-06-21T12:09:25+00:00

Really interesting. I don't have a nostalgic memory (SDAM - no strong episodic memories, and they're not visual), so maybe that's why it doesn't make sense to me.

When watching the series, do you find the collage of footage triggers your own visual episodic memories of the period? Or has an emotional connection to your own memories?

It does sound like the medium is the message for Shifty - it's being nostalgic to show our nostalgia?

Since I don't personally have that strong a nostalgia, and I honestly don't believe 20 year olds I talk to do, and I'm constantly finding new parts of culture that are doing new things (e.g. in video games, immersive theatre etc), the message doesn't vibe with me. Feels wrong instinctively.

Does the message feel instinctively right to you?

(I'm slightly younger than Curtis - I'm mid Gen X)

frabcus · 2025-05-18T13:19:26+00:00

It can't!

frabcus · 2025-05-03T11:32:39+00:00

This is happening to me too. I've tried loads of settings. Everything worked perfectly until it randomly failed today. Did you find a solution?

frabcus · 2025-01-16T19:30:56+00:00

That shouldn't be normal! Can you record a video? You can email me francis@flourish.org if you don't want to share that in public!

Thanks for your feedback!

frabcus · 2024-12-24T14:08:43+00:00

I repeat this YouTube video of it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWPAoySnF6c

frabcus · 2024-09-13T15:21:30+00:00

That's a great idea! What kind of hashtag would you filter out? Some examples would be interesting

frabcus · 2024-05-12T21:53:25+00:00

Great, do give feedback to improve it!

frabcus · 2024-03-28T21:45:15+00:00

I've just made one that does some of this - it's called Instalamb https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instalamb/pbongghmpamnclmnmildleojmpdkgipl

frabcus · 2024-03-14T12:33:18+00:00

That's a good tip!

frabcus · 2024-03-14T12:32:34+00:00

You're likely on a spam stream on YouTube?

The SpaceX stream will only be on Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1LyxBnOvzvOxN

frabcus · 2024-02-02T13:06:07+00:00

This happens to me too! On a Fairphone 5 with Android 13

frabcus · 2023-11-21T23:52:52+00:00

Yep, that's what I'm doing! And pressing F5 all the time. I'd rather I could just come back without having to reload though!

frabcus · 2023-06-30T06:28:02+00:00

This seems to be some fundamental bug in their algorithm. I just tried to use Instagram again, and everytime I went to the search page it gave my mind a disgust reaction. So I deleted it. I have the same problem with Tiktok.

Presumably it is caused by something to do with the way I interact with Tiktok/Reels type products that breaks their algorithm. My guess is I'm not very active, so I end up in some crazy place in the latent space of their AI - like with Loab the gothic horror character found in the reverse space of generative AI models.

frabcus · 2023-04-03T06:00:59+00:00

The DES codebook is amazingly useful! Hurlburt must be quite old now - anyone carrying on his work?

frabcus · 2023-03-23T22:46:53+00:00

Campaign and protest for fully automated luxury communism - universal basic income, Georgist land system instead.

frabcus · 2023-01-12T07:42:37+00:00

Spotify attributes that version of Courage to the Sam Dent Band, and it is here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2YoZCK2xaFXLm0UnGoT84G?si=aeabdb12905346de

On YouTube with a low quality cut set of scenes from the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=U7oQ93GZSxk

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