vent art because I feel like I've been drowning instead of living
pinkie is just my default vent character

Bojack Lo-Fi Chill Hop Beats to Study / Relax To YouTube video by sheepdude

for anyone else who hasn't seen it in a while

youtu.be/10yjDUufcVo

Also, as a user who knows Rust, I have more confidence that I can tweak it without accidentally breaking some undocumented invariant.

Am I the initiator of my actions, or am I just an agent for my DNA?

Super cool idea!

Could also be fun to integrate with bevy_oxr.

Though I would really hesitate to try it on the web using my main, given it can use an app password to do whatever it wants on my account.

Surely Unity's bone skinning happens on the GPU? Send the bone transforms to the GPU, and mix them in the vertex shader?

image of 24 different musical clefs with Treble and Bass labelled as "real clefs" and the other 22 labelled as "mental illness", in the style of the "real genders" vs. "mental illness" meme.

Ironically, it just reminded me to take mine. So... 1?

Odd analogy: there's a reason the accidentally double booked date is a sitcom classic. But if some people could really go on hundreds of IRL dates (but only dates) at once, the rest of us would need new heuristics to avoid wasting our time, even if the dates themselves were great.

oops, split the thread again, but I think that's answered in the quoted post. essentially, I think we agree, but I think it'll be tough to navigate the loss of that heuristic (as with many others AIs break)

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Yeah, proof of effort was always a shaky heuristic, but it helped us allocate scarce attention - human effort on both sides. If 10% of the population got implants and started drowning the internet with their thoughts, we'd have to find new ways to allocate attention, as we're doing now with LLMs.

Another example that leans on the bias angle is if the available models are "unwilling" to express certain perspectives, which gives lab the power to control what speech they amplify - not by distribution, but by streamlining creation. Again, this is a homogenising effect, still with "good" writing.

So, the first I think of is simply someone sharing a perspective that is informed by their experiences. 1) Modern LLMs tend to be homogenising, and so even if someone uses them to rewrite what they wrote, some of the subtlety is probably lost. And 2) non-users can be drowned out in volume by users.

I'm not saying this to disagree, exactly, but I think when people seek human writing, they're seeking authentic communication with some proof-of-effort by proxy, which is a property that is not necessarily contained within the work itself.

A concern I have with LLM writing is that a significant purpose for writing is sharing thoughts and experiences in a way that requires investment from both parties. If one person can steer it to make 100 "good" pieces of writing (maybe with a certain bias), we lose that.

Huh? I've used Corrosion, and I don't understand this statement.

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I mean, they could have based their standards on energy efficiency or something, then, but they based them on lifespan:

> The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours. [The fine] depended on the exceeding hours of lifetime.

(via Wikipedia)

I agree in many cases, but surely cases like the Phoebus cartel count?

JOAJE

Sometimes YAGNI is existential.

(I say would have because this led to our cancelling shipping a rewrite that had been close to a year in the making, and six months later the entire set of features we had been maintaining for years was canned. Probably the straw that broke the camel's back, but it was indeed that straw.)

The customer did not really need the feature in this case, they just happened to model their case that way because we offered the option. And they required a three month compatibility window where both options were live, which would have required many months of additional work for us.

Features are also a liability to the extent that they impose a compatibility burden. I've been burned before by choosing to expose a "more general" feature, that locked us out of an architectural change down the line because literally one important customer was using it on a whim.

Processing the seismic shift in our relationship with language and media, again.

Feels like the internet all over again, probably for better and for worse.

Hoping the programming profession I'm in doesn't go the way of print journalism too quickly.

Hoping society can adapt in a good direction.

is this because they have a similar number of active parameters? I was wondering about this earlier.

the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

I follow several people who just post photos they took in VRChat. I don't follow the ones who don't credit the world, because I enjoy them both as art and as a way to discover new worlds. An AI generation with no attribution to the artists it draws on only acts to advertise the model (if specified).

I think it's an apt analogy, with the key difference that video game screenshots do not generally compete with games themselves. (Let's plays can, but they're also advertising so most companies let them slide.) A "latent space photographer" can put out a hundred pieces while an artist works on one.

AI Slop is the equivalent of a Twitter blue check. It is a gilding of something nobody would otherwise pay attention to using signifiers that would once have indicated years or decades of effort in some field. It promises depth of intention where there is often none to be found.