slacking lotus

normal man in a normal land

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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
— Cyril Connolly

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I think we care a lot about relating to people through music because music is so much about personal subjectivity. Music makes us feel our own existence. Knowing someone else knows all the same words to a song that you also love makes you see them as more of a real person.

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@PuckFupett69 3 x 20mg? jeez

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@theRealJohnPeng @deepfates Old nation-state governments have been supplanted by a new status quo in this series. Basically political governance no longer directly has anything to do with where you live. Most (not all) people in China are Mitsubishi, most (not all) people in North America are Masons.

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@itseieio @deepfates this is like, so misleading as to where the story is going, but it’s all accurate

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@itseieio @deepfates You say “it explores how politics and culture change after safe, fast, cheap flying cars become a commonplace global system, it starts with a heist investigation”

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@deepfates side note, the hive art is sick

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@deepfates There _are_ lots of sequences of visual spectacle as well. I want to believe!

Also, as much as I was immediately ensorcelled by the opening chapter and its bold gambit on the subject of “science fiction”, I think it also might be pretty out there and confusing for the GA

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@SurrealistShip it’s the next thing we’ll all be sick of in ten years and then it will continue for ten more years. Right now I’m enjoying it while I can

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@MarkovMagnifico like 6 or 7 out of ten imo having just walked out of it. Walked out thinking “yes, that was The Odyssey”

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Odyssey time

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@godspeed_aflame “I read it for the articles” was always supposed to be funny because it was actually such a plausible defense

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@LeahLundqvist normie ai knowledge:
* it’s a kind of computer system
* you can type to it or send it pictures and it responds and “is smart”
* you can ask it how to do things or what things are
* it can make pictures or videos
* it uses lots of electricity
* “they” build data centers “for it”

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@LeahLundqvist people do not know anything about ai. If you meet someone who has an understanding of training, or why it’s called a “language model”, that is better than “it sucks up everything and that’s how it learns”, you’re talking to a top 5% understander

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@SandyofCthulhu going meta and treating “knowledge of xp and other game mechanics” as Lolth cult secrets

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@HaroldsAltAct @Mcboots It was a crazy gimmick, but that was part of what made it an awesome game.

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Anyway, I think this is a lot of the neurosis of our current culture. An unprecedented deluge of important-seeming, non-actionable information.

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For most of us, our biggest problems are very small and ordinary. If you can’t do anything about an oncoming bad event, you don’t really “have” that problem. At most you have the problem of preparing your response in case of the inevitable.

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But, the way you move through the world, the varying set of affordances available to you, is so complex. The problem with the advice is that it’s given in response to questions about those systems. It actively obfuscates people’s discernment of cause and effect.