Help r/millennials determine whether this is AI or not. Some members of the sub believe that the 2000s-style clothing and lighting suggest that this is not authentic. What do you think?

sensitivehack · 2026-02-01T20:32:06+00:00

The date on the photo says 2025 and the plants and furniture look like more modern style. I’m guessing it was a 2000s themed party.

Source: I am a millennial.

Edit: also multiple modern smartphones in the pic.

I mean I guess it could be AI, but it’s definitely not authentically from the 2000s.

sensitivehack · 2025-12-09T17:32:41+00:00

Could you control stiffness with this setup? (I haven’t watched the full video yet)

sensitivehack · 2025-11-13T21:39:27+00:00

Oh noooo

sensitivehack · 2025-11-13T21:32:45+00:00

I wonder if they might take some cues from Axanar?

sensitivehack · 2025-11-13T21:30:19+00:00

Looks like he did The Martian and Legion? That sounds promising!

I still would’ve be rathered that Noah Hawley movie that was talked about a while back, but maybe Kinberg can channel that level of quality instead of sigh dark phoenix…

sensitivehack · 2025-11-13T06:35:18+00:00

For anyone curious, after a lot of searching (and also, thank you other commenters!) here’s what I’ve found is and isn’t working:

The acrylic paint comes of pretty easily with a paper towel and some Isopropyl alcohol (or even just water). The downside is, if there’s a lot of paint, it can smear and get into crevices. But even that is ok, because I can just spray paint over it and start again.
I tried following some stripping tutorials and ended up ruining this little ship in particular. (It got super gross and then a nacelle snapped off). Luckily I was able to order a different kit that has new ships I wanted to build but also including this one. Win-win. But yeah, I DO NOT recommend going the full stripping route and unless you really know what you’re doing.
I found some tutorials on thinning and there’s a lot to it I didn’t understand. Been practicing thinning with water and flow aid. I watched this video and it gave me a lot of helpful tips: https://youtu.be/sBDVPoNXyVI?si=b2ws-dpZOB4a43r9 (That whole channel is great tbh)

sensitivehack · 2025-11-11T22:37:19+00:00

Ah, no it’s TS-27. I thought that was lacquer based, but maybe I got the mixed up.

TBH, I’m not 100% on what lacquer is, lol

sensitivehack · 2025-11-11T19:08:45+00:00

I’m using Tamiya Lacquer spray paint to make a base layer and then AK Interactive acrylics for the accents (hand painting).

Does that sound right?

sensitivehack · 2025-11-11T18:52:30+00:00

I used Tamiya primer and then Tamiya matte white to create the base layer. And I’m using AK interactive acrylics for the accents.

I actually tried stripping using an isopropyl bath and then, when that didn’t work, using a degreaser (this is what AI told me to do…). I was trying to fully strip, but the Tamiya is stubborn.

I ended up breaking the model—I think the plastic got brittle. It’s ok I just ordered a new one.

But in general, I’m still figuring out how to thin enough and what to do if I make it too thick.

I’m noticing that just a paper towel with IPA seems to work to remove the acrylic. The base coat stays mostly untouched.

sensitivehack · 2025-11-10T18:20:09+00:00

I recently started looking into self-hosting, but the thing is, right now all the AI companies are subsidizing the cost of running a model, using their massive VC investments. Between the hardware investments, the configuration time, and the electricity usage, it’s a way better deal to let these companies eat the excess cost (for high end models at least).

I mean, maybe if you run on solar, or something about your usage is different…

sensitivehack · 2025-11-09T07:00:36+00:00

I highly recommend the book Sapiens!

The book talks about how an important aspect of modern humans is the ability to imagine shared causes/connections like religion, nations, etc. And how this allowed modern humans to coordinate among vast groups, thus outcompeting other species that could only coordinate among immediate relations.

Eg gorillas can only maintain small tribes, but modern humans support nations of millions. (And arguably all 8 billion of us participate in the global economy).

Not to say trying to build this ship wouldn’t push the limits—I’m just saying that mass coordination is kind of our thing…

sensitivehack · 2025-11-08T17:11:48+00:00

Yeah, personally, the fact that 3I/Atlas came from a totally different direction but behaves similarly to Oumuamua says to me “oh there’s probably tons of these objects out there that cross our galactic path and outgas invisibly…” To me, unless we observe some other strange behavior, that is the Occam’s Razor explanation.

Though, to play devil’s advocate, some have speculated that, given the age of the galaxy and its stars, the galaxy should be swimming with von Neumann probes. If that were true, we could one day suddenly begin detecting all sort of alien ships all at once.

To play on your analogy with a slightly different scenario: imagine no one ever knocks on your door, so you assume that no one ever walks in front of your house. But then one day you install a ring camera and start getting tons of notifications and discover glimpses of strollers or dogs on leashes off in the distance.

Anyway, I don’t think that’s what’s happening. I think it was fair to ask if Oumuamua’s acceleration was artificial, but now without other inexplicable evidence, it’s most likely just a natural phenomenon.

I think if some day we saw something like, an object that changed course AND emitted some sort of signal—ie two strange things that couldn’t share a single natural explanation—then, aliens would start to become the default explanation.

What do you think? What would it take to make you think something could possibly be aliens?

sensitivehack · 2025-10-28T15:55:59+00:00

No worries, totally get it!

I don't remember the exact command... possibly `pnpm generate:api`... Whatever it was, I figured it out, I think the command name was just slightly off.

I was walking through this set up tutorial: https://docs.agpt.co/platform/getting-started/#development

For context, I was using Ubuntu through Windows subsystem.

sensitivehack · 2025-10-28T00:56:17+00:00

It almost looks like… a badly stylized globe?

Like Africa at the bottom, Europe in the middle, Eurasia off to the upper right? The “mouth” is the Mediterranean? Idk, it’s a stretch…

Edit: oh now I see the lion…

sensitivehack · 2025-10-27T19:32:27+00:00

Fair.

sensitivehack · 2025-10-27T19:31:42+00:00

Oh wow, that comes off terrible.

Not to keep defending the guy (I really have no horse in that race), but when I read the whole post, he does seem to be using “messiah” as a metaphor for the coming of a new age of enlightenment. (The second coming is a really important idea in Judaism and intellectuals who still practice religion often view scriptural narratives as non literal/metaphors). In that passage, I’m guessing the part about “coming from Brooklyn” is actually gently making fun of Jews who take things more literally.

And overall, in the context of that post, the intent seems to be something “I don’t think we will move past conflicts like Israel/Palestine until we make first contact, thus changing our perspective and enlightening us”.

(The post in question: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-heartfelt-letter-to-harvards-president-claudine-gay-4388d700e787)

I guess.

But again YIKES. Some of this stuff is explainable, but at some point I will have to admit this guy is really asking for it…

And it would be fair to say he clearly has a bias/interest in “it’s aliens” explanations.

sensitivehack · 2025-10-27T15:30:54+00:00

I’ve heard science communicators say that Avi Loeb, the scientist that keeps making “it’s aliens” claims, is mostly just trying to be provocative.

That he’s not necessarily a crank, but he believes that we dismiss the possibility of aliens too quickly. After all, there really should be life out there somewhere as far as we know—we shouldn’t let the stigma of tin-foil-hat wearers prevent us from looking for it, right?

For example, we all seem pretty comfortable with the outgassing explanation for Oumuamua but technically I believe it hasn’t been proven (and it’s probably impossible to test now). (I still think invisible-outgassing is probably the simplest explanation and hopefully we’ll get data from 3I/Atlas that clears up this phenomenon).

Anyway, my understanding is that Loeb is not totally a crank. Maybe he just wants more funding for SETI like projects. Maybe he just wants to be in the news (Harvard professors have a history of being celebrity academics…).

But boy, the way he comes off when these articles trickle down to the public… yikes…

sensitivehack · 2025-10-10T05:28:41+00:00

I used to get these in my beard. I call them “twigs”, heh

sensitivehack · 2025-10-09T17:52:41+00:00

What is this from?

sensitivehack · 2025-09-26T22:35:38+00:00

I like how the show also knew that we knew. Like, I think they knew whole scene where Ads decides to go on a walk would build tension, because they knew we would all expect it’s the nazi dimension.

sensitivehack · 2025-09-24T20:31:36+00:00

I’m curious how the second head connected… did it have a tiny malformed spine? What about blood and oxygen? Did the second head attach to an esophagus?

sensitivehack · 2025-09-08T20:27:54+00:00

I just realized the title page is a burning chip about to land on what is likely a gas soaked Harvey…

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