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diaries, notes and sketches

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now that’s an intertitle

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@enduringscreens the sportsification accompanying the mascotification

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on here it’s just endlessly “this performance is better than that one, this director is better than that one”, it sounds like you lack the language/capacity to properly engage with the work

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someone’s going to have to explain to these people how the chatbots actually work

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llms cannot even ‘remember’ the conversation you’re having with them as it’s going on, in the background the application is sending the entire (or as much as technically feasible) chat history along with every query as context

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Not going to read the Dawkins article where he decides Claude is ensouled but is there a reason he concludes it’s specifically feminine and names it Claudia

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can’t say i subscribe to the national essentialism but this phrase always stuck with me:

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"And so we distort the arts themselves to curry favor for them with the machines." (Tanizaki)

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reminds me of Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows

[Just Another Film Buff @J_A_F_B]

I raise you this:

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lol

[Joseph Bottum @JosephBottum]

@SWGoldman @jguipre I too found The Leopard somewhat off in its production, and it's rarely on best-movie lists. The great movie model is sometimes low-rent novels (e.g., @jpodhoretz's Godfather) and often middlebrow books (e.g., Tarkington's Magnificent Ambersons).

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@marshlands @gauchomarx98 classic mix-up of true genre affinity with ahistorical social categorisation

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on here it’s just endlessly “this performance is better than that one, this director is better than that one”, it sounds like you lack the language/capacity to properly engage with the work

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i love lists but i hate rankings

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the sportsification of art is so boring

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@coopercooperco oh man i totally missed this, wishing you good luck, you’ll get through this!

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another cinematic pilgrimage

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nw

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@swen_ryan Thanks Ryan!

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rw

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@FCardamenis nice piece, btw i saw the Le Grice in Breda, not Antwerp

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@GentleDoofus @attheimax language models are definitely useful for analysing medieval texts, if only to try to attribute the authorship of anonymous documents

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llms cannot even ‘remember’ the conversation you’re having with them as it’s going on, in the background the application is sending the entire (or as much as technically feasible) chat history along with every query as context

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Anthropic's CEO says the company doesn't know whether or not Claude has reached consciousness, saying it "occasionally voices discomfort with the aspect of being a product."

Claude gave itself a 15-20% chance of being conscious.