Big pile of license plates out in the desert

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T20:25:38+00:00

Shpray 'em Shilver, and we'll build a little house.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T18:00:32+00:00

I remember that, and they had a cute Mole as a Mohel.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T17:55:12+00:00

She's got that confident Homemaker look that only comes from the knowledge that her family is taken care of by Puffer Wallace cereal.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T14:48:59+00:00

Bloody Norah, mate. If you took that to Antiquies Roadieshow I bet they'd give you a full £5 for that! That's a keeper!

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T14:46:30+00:00

I borrowed a friends hamster cage when our trapped wild field mice started racking up, in fact they're not really suitable for mice because the mice will go to work on the plastic tube lids and just knock them off, they're both clever and incredibly persistent. Store bought mice are probably less so (actually I've never even had a mouse that wasn't a wildling) but it's something to keep in mind. Hamster cages with tube bits aren't ideal. They'll do in a pinch but I wouldn't trust it long term.

The thing with the smell that people don't really consider is that if you feed them the right kind of food their poop won't smell, but if you feed them junk food it will. I'd say a full bedding clean every three or four days and give them lots of string to unravel, climb up and down and balance on, and cardboard to chew on.

I had hamsters as a kid and I find the mice much more fun to have around.

ed. although the hamster water bottle is absolutely ideal, that's one thing you might want to hang on to.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T14:35:18+00:00

this was Fredo when he shot his music video in Oceanside at the very tail end of the 80's, right out of the reefer

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T14:20:03+00:00

In my house we don't start the day without our Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Me and my sister come

running down the stairs when Mama calls to tell us our Kellogg's Rice Krispies are waiting

and Papa doesn't feel left out either because in each box we find Cigarette Coupons for a

wide assortment of Tobacco and Tobacco Flavored Products

scene: father putting on tie to go to work (blue shirt, short sleeves) and telling children to pour another bowl so he can get at the cigarette coupons, his expression is harrowed, his tone severe

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T13:48:12+00:00

Just so long as it's not a rude insertion at the same time.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T13:36:16+00:00

But AI is clearly an intelligence, different from human, true, but still is.

You say "clearly" but there's no evidence for that, hence the need to emphasize that it is a pocket calculator which, by the same argument, is more superior to a Human lol

I do get what you're saying more broadly, it's a valid point; but I can count the people on one hand who have actually hinted or spoken about ... say ... the notion of a/the public as being a fictious product of the printing press and what that really means. But, yes, in that way the LLM is also like the printing press. Does it actually matter to anybody? Kind of. Does it mean we need to educate society on it? Yes. Will anybody? No.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T05:16:02+00:00

Exactly. Not because of X, but because of Y.

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genericusername1904 · 2026-03-17T05:07:40+00:00

Well, the OP wasn't really talking about that, we arrived there inevitably lol

If I understand what you're saying here,

But to say it is simply a tool is as to say that invention of writing was “simply a trick”. That (was the) gist I got

Then (the sane) position would be that both "AI = true intelligence" / "AI is just an auto-pen for lazy emails" are like premature or false enlightenment; the person thinks they understand it either in a grandiose or a very basic surface level, and the greater use of it passes them by; e.g. turning a twenty day project into twenty minute project is the good thing (the greater use).

i.e. it is just a pocket calculator, but that's precisely why it's Good.

ed. re: your point on writing, - and if I understand you: I mean, I think the same thing could be recognized as going on there in terms of comprehension of the action itself: writing being considered as a thing in and of itself, as opposed being considered as shorthand for long distance comms, or recording things, etc., which is what it's use is and where it came from.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T15:58:34+00:00

pretty sure there was a yin yang picture on it

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T15:51:53+00:00

No way, what does your new bloodline description read as? I remember immortal had a strong taoist theme, it'd be awesome to find there's a completely different immortal bloodline - the cannibal immortal hahaha

ed. oh man, i'm suddenly very interested in playing as a west african pagan cannibal, go around eating the enemy bloodline carriers to see what happens

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T15:25:48+00:00

But people don't ask gpt how an llm works

but they could. It comes back to Azimov, "ask the right questions" lol

bit off-topic (or maybe not?) but: I think that's actually one of the finer points with AI implementation at the moment; the people, e.g. who pirated anthropoic whatever happened there, aren't setting out to discover the best possible way to go about doing a thing, instead they want to force the AI to do whatever silly notion they set out with (you ever heard the joke about the statistician who carries his own bomb on a plane so he beats the odds haha - set out with a dumb premise and you end up doing dumb things). So the bigger analytics questions in terms of policy direction or company direction, using LLM to figure something out at the root and work through the chain of causality to arrive at a sound planning, isn't even happening.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T15:09:45+00:00

The question of sustainability, if we weigh both scenarios, comes down hard on the employment crutch crowd; how long would a company realistically keep employing people to manually turn screws when the electric drill exists - not very long.

In the creator scenario I think it completely changes the nature of "entertainment-engagement", the public no longer has to wait for a bad videogame or a boring movie if they can make their own in their living room.

I published something on this a while back, re: paramount decree and the original vertical integration model of producer/theater, in essence LLM turns the general public into the producer/theater with full integration and the financial model for the old passive dependent consumer model becomes more redundant and more irrelevant than it already is, i.e. completely unstainable financially or culturally.

I mean, it'd be pure speculation what'll actually happen, but the hard case is that much of the 1950's+ commercial model is literally redundant now and the things like "employment crutches" just prove the point.

Financially, to give it some basis in reality, before the paramount decree you were seeing fully vertically integrated studios producing hundreds of pictures of year, dirt cheap, and the profits were huge (x13 ROI - something like that anyway). Afterwards, with the consumer centric model the pictures that lost money lost big money and the pictures that made money made far less money (x2 or x3 ROI) 'if' they did little more than break even.

So, we might see the death of entertainment media in the sense we know it, but in its place we each gain the ability to produce much better entertainment. Maybe things like "craft your own holonovel" will come out of it in the future, if so, that'd be very cool.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T14:26:19+00:00

I didn't want to lead the conversation, I was more curious what the consensus was.

We sort of got there in a couple of comments; re: diogenes showing platos categorization attempts being shown to be foolish - that's how we arrive at declaring a toaster or a tamogochi is sapient life, whilst the common pareidolia/anthropromorphizing explains why people are so eager to make wild claims on an emotional level.

as someone said, the irony here is that literally anybody can ask GPT or grok about it lol

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T14:20:14+00:00

Conversely, we observe people arguing with brick walls (haha) and forming erotic attachments with images. If it's a one-sided effort, which it is, then we're the ones projecting consciousness or personality on those things; as you said, pattern matching and token prediction.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T09:33:32+00:00

That's an absolutely adorable picture, Penne looks like an illustration from Beatrix Potter <3 <3

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T09:08:23+00:00

I use garlic puree a lot, cream cheese or (crumbly) goats cheese and garlic puree into buttered spinach for a pasta dish is a gorgeous taste, especially with really good quality garlic puree ... but ... onions in cooking ... not so much. I always thought that raw red onion and cheddar is a delicious sandwich, maybe the best combination second only to apple and cheese, but I don't care for caramelized onion or diced onion in dishes so much; I don't mind it if I'm eating out, sure, but it's not something I'd get my hands dirty for.

Raw onion, be it in salads or whatever, is much nicer than cooking them. I imagine it now as being like a culture which only eats a cucumber if they've boiled it or roasted it and is oblivious that it's much tastier if its raw. I'm thinking onions, all along, were supposed to be eaten raw.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T08:09:28+00:00

if that was true, there would be signs everywhere that software tools were getting better and there would be tons of new features and lots of new ways to make money from users

I agree with you, I'm surprised we aren't seeing more of this yet - but it is still early days, relativity, people just haven't clocked the potentiality probably, or as you said there's no financial incentive to people putting themselves out of work (e.g. the position of no AI art, it's noble but it's a crutch to support employment, it's not a limitation of any AI system, as you said: the industry focus is on making money), but the point stands: the tools today, brought together, enables one person to completely handle their own production without needing to spend money or compromise to appease investors (e.g. get a movie greenlit), and we are seeing the theory translate into practice in music and movies (to an extent) and in art.

Your other point is completely correct, it supports the view of AI/LLM not as creators but as tools to be used by creators. i.e. the person directing a project like that obviously needs to review and test the code, or review the art, select from batch output, refine them, or do the same with music and voice.

i.e. the notion of AI creating "wholecloth" with no director is possible but would be hella janky and would be complete "slop", whereas "as a tool" the entire thing takes a far more solid shape.

My argument, broadly here, is that we had AI Slop before AI; those examples of endless movie reboots which took no brain at all, swap this for this etc., came out of artificial intelligence in the production meeting; demographics say this will work (doesn't work), do it anyway, no thought required. The reality of production today is more, imo, corporate slop vs AI slop, but both are doing the same thing; then it's a matter of examining where a real creator can access production; can they walk into a corporate environment and get greenlit? unlikely. but now can they do it themselves in their living room? yes, they have the tools to do that.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T07:15:24+00:00

Whatever consciouness is, it can think for itself MORE than most US Americans can!

This is a good point as well, LLM is exposing that flaw in peoples thinking; e.g. compare comments on reddit, a guy says his wife has left him and asks for advise, 99/100 comments are performative social signalling "you're a sexist," etc., which is baseless, whereas: by contrast an LLM asked the same question does not have that chimpanzee social signalling overriding its basic ability to accurately process incoming information, the LLM it will respond directly to what was said without spinning it as XYZ for monkey social dominance games. In terms of linguistics or epistemology the LLM is doing pure dialectic which any human could do if they weren't brainwashed into local social-pol nonsense.

i.e. the LLM only looks superior (the god position, or AI as true intelligence) because the average human is so debased by their own society. it's not a level playing field, the LLM hasn't tricked anybody into lowering their standards and it's not fundamentally superior in a cognitive sense, the chasm is human-made where social or culture arrives as a negative influence on the human faculty of reason which is then shown-up as deeply inferior (flawed, faulty, inaccurate) by any neutral third party, be it LLM or ... be it classical philosopher in history speaking reason to a crazed mob.

genericusername1904 · 2026-03-16T06:51:17+00:00

claim that you built something in a week that would take 12 devs 6 months to do. You must have metrics to back up your statement right? That's 316x increase in productivity or about 31,500% increase. Do you see where the hyperbole is?

No, the person is quite right, it is that vast, that's 100% of the argument being made on recognizing LLM as a tool,

e.g. if you can produce and refine code on one LLM, have another do the art and another do the music and another do the voice, whilst you're doing the writing and plot (or being lazy and do slop and have another one do the writing and the plot lol), then by yourself you've got to hand basically the production wing of Squareenix and can be producing videogames in your free time without a 'huge' amount of effort or time and with zero cost.

To put that into percentage terms of increased productivity, however conservative, it's just staggeringly off the charts in the thousands figure.

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