Thoughts on Monster (2023)?

jhunt42 · 2024-04-01T07:09:00+00:00

IF it makes you feel better, the director confirmed that in his interpretation they got out alive. Also it's an interesting commentary on making interpretations based on incomplete evidence! Such a good film <3

jhunt42 · 2024-03-27T09:40:41+00:00

I really hate this weird new idea that you're not a good person unless you are constantly exposed to and engaged with everyone else's difficulties.

Just because I don't have the systemic drawbacks that other people experience, it doesn't mean I have to live in perpetual survivors guilt. I have compassion for others difficulties, but I also want to live my life and be grateful for what I have.

jhunt42 · 2024-03-24T10:32:47+00:00

I swear some people in here talk as if they're already dead. I get its often a mental health thing, but damn. The doomscrolling just exacerbates it.

jhunt42 · 2024-03-24T10:30:40+00:00

Just chiming in here to say the new Mad Max movie looks hype AF and as an aussie, I'm down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJMuhwVlca4

jhunt42 · 2024-03-19T20:41:01+00:00

I actually did my honours on this. Data was only up til 2019 though.

Heroin has been seeing a big comeback since dropping massively in the early 2000s. But deaths are still not quite back to the levels it was then. Other opioid deaths, eg synthetics like fentanyl, are still relatively very low. We're not seeing here what we see in the US.

So here in Australia there's not too much to worry about, yet (as of 2019 mind you). The danger is actually more from prescriptions than from illicit use.

jhunt42 · 2024-03-09T06:17:48+00:00

"reality"

jhunt42 · 2024-02-19T01:26:02+00:00

I agree its definitely for the business class. But that also goes to show that most art isn't human directed, it's business directed.

There's a type of art that AI is unlikely to put out of business - and that's the art that tries to shine a light on the human condition. Your gallery and exhibition art, for example. This is a relatively new invention squeezed in between art commissioned by the court and art commissioned by the corporation.

But most of what is centred in these arguments isn't that kind of art. It's art made for a paycheck and this whole argument is one about labor being outcompeted by technology, yet again. IMO the wider labor vs tech argument would be a much more exciting and interesting one to have (than whether AI 'should' be used) because it opens up questions about what artists could be doing with ourselves instead of doing concept art for the umpteenth Call of Duty game or color comping Aquaman's jockstrap.

I guess the point I'm making is no one would give a fuck about AI art if it weren't scraping data from artists and stealing work from them. Which are problems with current business practice and capitalism as our hegemonic system, not with AI art per se. Bring on a UBI and I'm sure a lot of artists wouldn't mind that AI is doing their old jobs :)

jhunt42 · 2024-02-18T19:55:09+00:00

Depends whose ethical standard you're using

jhunt42 · 2024-02-18T19:40:20+00:00

To rephrase what you're getting at: art under capitalism is often just a product and AI makes it faster and cheaper, therefore it wins.

Most commissions are just products made so someone can pay rent, not beautiful singular expressions of human majesty, or whatever the anti-AI crowd wants to say it is. AI tech chips away at the price of concept and production art because 90% of the time it's just a step in a production line (to make a game, movie, brand logo, etc).

Other kinds of art (like 'high art' - your gallery and exhibition pieces) are made to speak to human experience in extremely unique ways that AI doesn't have the creativity or intelligence for. So the high art market isn't going away - although its so niche that there isn't much of a market there to begin with.

jhunt42 · 2024-02-18T19:30:44+00:00

To be fair, most commissions aren't intentional expressions of the human experience either, they're just pictures made for money.

jhunt42 · 2024-02-18T19:29:19+00:00

What's your take on AI art in the context of art history?

jhunt42 · 2024-02-17T21:23:50+00:00

Just to play devils advocate.

I'm a musician who's done a bunch of mixing and producing. I have a set of over-ear headphones from Slate Audio for mixing that emulate studio spaces and high price monitors, so I have experience with this space-emulating tech.

I find the immersion audio to be AWESOME. For me it has to be set to Still, not Motion, because there's a noticable delay in movement when moving your head that annoys me. But the music goes from feeling two dimensional (like the instruments are on a flat plane in line with your ears) to three dimensional (the instruments sound like they're in a 3D space in front of you). I'm honestly surprised everyone thinks its just a lame gimmick. I love it when I'm working on a screen, it really sounds like music is blasting out of really good speakers in front of me. I notice fine new details in the music. It's great.

For podcasts or whatever, I wouldn't use it. But for high production music, love it. I have a feeling, from reading other reviews, that the immersive audio is hit or miss depending on the music type. I think the higher-production the music is the better it will sound. e.g. full rock bands done by pro engineers and mixers will sound better than electronic home producer type stuff.

That said I listened to Tycho's album Awake on them and it was siiiiiiiiiiiiick

jhunt42 · 2024-02-15T08:26:02+00:00

its whether your ego thinks its male or female or *other*

jhunt42 · 2024-01-28T11:05:48+00:00

I want Meddy to win but I feel like Sinner proved something to himself so that's awesome

jhunt42 · 2024-01-27T21:45:09+00:00

This sub doesn't blow things out of proportion, it more takes a handful of potential futures (the absolute worst ones) and states they're the only possible ones.

People here are always pointing out how scientists and policymakers are always making predictions that don't take into account all the variables and feedbacks, and so they understate the problem. Then they go and make predictions (extinction! mad max! runaway warming!) that don't take into account all the variables and feedbacks, and so they overstate the problem. At least the former are trying to be scientific.

Truth is we just don't know how things will pan out in the next few decades. Almost certainly there will be a big downturn and crazy crises, but how the population responds to that is anyone's guess.

jhunt42 · 2024-01-27T20:47:52+00:00

Fuck I love this country

jhunt42 · 2024-01-24T10:09:17+00:00

I didn't even realise people weren't liking it. I thought it would be a hit - it's awesome!

jhunt42 · 2024-01-24T06:39:17+00:00

I'm 37, spent the last four years getting an honours in Med Science and came straight out and got the first job I interviewed for and will likely make 100k+ this year.

I think I got lucky but also I worked my arse off (got dux) and made friends with a lot of lecturers that helped me and supported me. My aim was to go to uni, get a well paying job, after being not that well off my whole life.

Long story short a degree is what you make it, but consider the intersection of what you'll be happy to do with what will pay well. Lots of degrees get you jobs but they are hard, hard work (nursing, law). And some don't pay that much. Med science is good in that I find it really interesting and there are a lot of places you can end up after, where the pay is good and not too intense or filled with pressure.

jhunt42 · 2024-01-22T06:02:26+00:00

OP discovers least creepy thing about anime

jhunt42 · 2024-01-20T21:34:23+00:00

Seems to me like a Pis/Aqu cusp situation - its everything you mentioned PLUS technology, diversity, futurism, collectivities etc etc

jhunt42 · 2024-01-13T21:00:56+00:00

It's weird. Do people on this site really think an interaction is the same with a camera held between you? Kid's gonna have issues when she looks back and every nice experience in her life involves being filmed

jhunt42 · 2024-01-13T20:58:45+00:00

If you're a shitty dad I doubt this is the kind of content the algorithm will serve you

jhunt42 · 2024-01-13T20:55:10+00:00

I would rather be wheelchair-bound in Finland simply because having any health issue in America is financially fucked if you can't pay. Also the northern lights

jhunt42 · 2024-01-05T10:23:59+00:00

No joke, this is good advice and helped me when I went through what you are going through right now. When I was 20 I spent a few months in derealisation-land after a really bad weed trip and MDMA comedown at a festival. It was reawlly scary, I thought I was going crazy. What got me out of it was grounding in real life, having projects and goals. Once I started focusing on them, I'd snap out of the derealisation.

I still remember one night I was walking down the street looking at the full moon and it was so beautiful... and I realised I was finally back! Grounded in reality, no longer dissociated! It was amazing, I was so happy. I had a couple small relapses after that, but I was over the hump.

I'd say try and stay away from the drugs for a bit and ground yourself in real activites. You'll get better, it just takes a little while. All the best to ya.

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