It’s like how most of you consume things that are bad and wrong. Hundreds of musicians that are really just a couple dudes writing hits. Musicians that pay to have their music played on stations. Musicians that take talent to humongous pipelines and churn out content. And it’s every industry, isn’t it?

So much flexing over what conveyor belt you eat from.

I’ve watched 30+ years of this slop. And now there’s ai. And now people that have very little soul, who put little effort into tuning their consumption, they get to make a bunch of noise about the lack of humanity in content.

Contestants must run through these brick walls, swim through the magma pool, climb the 50’ smooth steel wall, and jump the chasm before smashing the watermelon at the end! Only the top 8 killbots will move on to the next round.

Police get caught running searches on their ex girlfriends. Police are barely better than gangs and they’re using sophisticated tech to fuck with their local communities. Brilliant. Add the CEO of Flock to the list of persona non grata.

“If we assume X theorem is true, Y theorem is true, and lemma Z is true, then …”

This is actually about our models and seeing their incompleteness in a new light, right? I don’t think starting from arbitrary axioms and then trying to build reality was about proving qualities about reality. Or am I wrong? Just seems like they’re using “simulated reality” as a way to talk about our models for reality. By constructing a “silly” argument about how we can’t possibly be in a matrix, they’re revealing just how much we’re still missing.

Assume I read the article and then made a post.

I wonder what it means. If you search for music by Suicidal Tendencies then YouTube shows you a suicide hotline. What does it mean for OpenAI to say people are talking about suicide? They didn’t open up and read a million chats… they have automated detection and that is being triggered, which is not necessarily the same as people meaningfully discussing suicide.

That’s a great question!

I do indeed read my posts back—how else would I proofread them? 🤖

Haskell

Need jammers to confuse and break Teslas. They’re weapons designed to break laws and protect occupants at the expense of bystanders. Can’t be mad if a bystander redirects your Tesla into a ditch.

Data brokers are allowed to buy data from the dark web after our data is hacked. I saw a 1 million fine I think?

App store owners will use this or that, which will get hacked, then our data will be bought up, and then it will be endlessly repackaged and moved around. That’s why you can’t remove your data using those scam services; the moment it’s moved to another broker it’s fair game again. You’ll never scrub your data.

Your insurance will know what apps you installed. Walmart will know what apps you installed. Police bypass warrants by leasing this data from corporations like Flock. Just add it to the pile.

After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I build a Beowulf of my own?

I don’t get it. Little “drivers” that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?

Where is the “requirement” for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?

I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You’re supposed to pretend it’s necessary! Did they skip that step?

I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.

It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.

It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.

Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.

But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.

Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.

Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won’t even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.

I think Claude would refuse to work with dictators that murder dissidents. As an AI assistant, and all that.

If they have a model without morals then that changes things.

Hollow Knight seems like mainstream game industry shit to me. Solid game, massive hype, lots of sales. And I wouldn’t even remember it in a couple months if not for other people.

It’s like how Shovel Knight is a really good platformer but then you play it and it’s… just a good platformer. An indie gem! But also, something you’ve played before.

You know what AAA companies didn’t do 20 years ago? Dwarf Fortress.

Great observation! You’re definitely not alone—people have noticed a shift in internet discourse in recent months. This is likely due to the rise of AI. Would you like to delve into the societal effects of a dead internet?

This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.

Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia’s current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.

It’s not even a good thing that the article only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.

Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.

We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.