Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
I do like it also, but notice how they try to hide most of these strange effects in their demo video. Theyāre trying to pass it off as a playable minecraft. Anything interesting about the technology is a defect to these people.
They also claim this is āthe first playable AI-generated gameā when the exact same sort of thing already existed in 2022 (and it looked a lot more efficient and haunted): https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/ Maybe it doesnāt count if you call it āNeural networkā instead of āAIā.
That article gave me a whiplash. First part: pretty cool. Second part: deeply questionable.
For example these two paragraphs from sections āproblem with codeā and āmagic of dataā:
Well, ājust read the dataset broā sound great sounds great until you are staring at a dataset with 100 000 examples and someone is asking you to interpret it.
yeah, that āmost of the internet will be Al-generatedā nonsense is tanking my ability to take them as domain experts seriously.
still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-youāre-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples
Itās dream logic.