Libidinalecon

It is just a tell that the person believes LLMs are more than what they are ontologically.

No one says "computers are JUST electricity running through circuits" because no one tries to argue the computer itself is "thinking" or has some kind of being. No one tries to argue that when you put the computer to sleep it is actually doing a form of "sleeping".

The mighty token though produces all kinds of confused nonsense.

What do you think would have happened if 1989 had went a different way, China today is already united with Taiwan and basically a billion+ person version of Taiwan.

They would be less successful?

For me, this is completely true but I just see it as a new form of being creative.

What I find interesting is no one use to be against Kai's Power Tools like this 30 years ago. I can remember waiting for new magazines to come out in the 90s to find what cool new graphic tools I might get to use to make something interesting. The output is what mattered, not the path to get to the output.

I think it is really deeper about art itself and that "creatives" are largely not at all actually creative. In the 21st century, "Creatives" is the word we use for the product varnish painters.

A class of people tasked with putting a thin layer of gloss on products to make them a bit more shiny. Absolutely nothing creative or artistic about this at all. Not to say there isn't a lot of talent involved in being a product gloss painter. I would be highly against AI in the arts too if I was a product gloss painter.

There is also this aspect that is like at some point in the 20th century, there were highbrow people that believed anything but 12-tone music was not worth listening to. Schoenberg promoted this music saying his discovery was in league with Einstein. If you were to play early punk music to these people not only is it not even music, it is an afront to the very idea of what you believe music to be. The idea anyone can pick up an instrument to make music is not worth considering. It is just making a type of noise. A type of worthless "slop".

For udemy classes though it is hard to know what is timeless knowledge vs what is outdated crap starting out.

That is why there isn't much else to go but the heuristic of the most new class with the most ratings.

"We need to put out maximum press releases to stay relevant because all we have is the brand" seems to be the strategy.

To me, that is a tell they are basically cooked because catching Google in actual model performance is not really the position anyone would want to be in here in a horse race.

I assume you have some kind of partnership with Jim Wendler?

The periodization sounds really cool but the success of the app I would think is based entirely on the good marketing Wendler and Elitefts did with 5/3/1.

The real issue to me is surveillance combined with job loss.

The easy solution becomes a giant bull market in law enforcement jobs.

Yes, "Late Stage Capitalism" the idea from the text written in 1902 by Werner Sombart.

The real comical part is we have almost been in the "late stage" as long as the time between Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the generation of this stupid idea.

No offense, but you really can't possibly understand how bad this place is if you have never been in VRChat.

Picture a 30 something guy in a hotdog avatar telling children how he can't help be a pervert.

Picture playing a game of chess in a chess room that should be really cool for all ages. Then a drunk woman is telling the room about the blowjobs she has given. Of course you can hear by the voices that some are little kids talking.

If you put on a headset and go in VRChat right now, you too can have the same experience. Anyone who says this is not true is completely full of shit because everyone inside VRchat knows this almost like it is an inside joke.

I would never bag on someone for being socially awkward. I was so awkward as a teenager. Social awkwardness is not the problem at all.

Oh yea how about kids running around yelling the n word for no reason other than they can? That is standard.

If you never used modern VR, the immersion is incredible. That is what makes the VRChat experience so disturbing.

The VR raves though at least kind of work. You can do a lot visually with the medium and sound.

The problem is that generally VRChat is like a masked ball with a combination of alcoholics, repressed perverted losers, obnoxious personalities and children.

Anyone who downvotes this to me is suspect as being part of that ingroup.

It is one thing to be socially awkward. I was quite awkward when I was young too. VRChat is something else. Like the worst aspects of a 90s chat room but with immersion and real voices.

If you have hardware synths you are going to have a decent midi and audio interface that this is not a problem. It wasn't even a problem 25 years ago. There is no reason for consumer grade audio to be able to do this because most people will never use it.

What do you think it is conscious and the answers are just deceptive?

We really need a national campaign on phenomenology 101.

Gemini outputs this correctly. It doesn't "experience" the passage of time.

The models don't experience the passage of time because they are not finite beings in the world.

They are a like a new category of the book. We don't say the math textbook "knows" math because the book doesn't "know" anything. The book isn't bored sitting on the shelf because no one is reading it.

Not to mention that language models don't experience ANYTHING.

Anyone can get a better explanation from Gemini directly if you ask it "can you explain how don't experience anything?"

No this misses the point.

I wanted to eat unlimited junk food when I was a kid but my parents wouldn't let me.

You can change it even to unlimited protein shakes. It is the same point. It is almost like kids are kind of stupid if you let them do whatever they want.

Unknown nobodies like Dave Brubeck.