Eli Evans
Eli Evans
@elievans.art
Sci-fi & fantasy author, software designer, composer/beatmaker, erstwhile hornist. Indie all the way. Recent widower. This is my real name and face. State the reason for your DM. No paid reviews. he/him https://elievans.art
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Love this - Meryem Aboulouafa “Horses” youtu.be/SNyJhjlSkmg?...
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Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose
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Not that I think this was a successful or entertaining movie by any stretch. It’s a message movie that hates being a message movie and hates its audience for showing up to a message movie. I left the theater thinking, “Well, screw you, too, Alejandro.”
Do not go see “Digger” unless you are prepared to be intentionally irritated for about two hours.
Not that I think this was a successful or entertaining movie by any stretch. It’s a message movie that hates being a message movie and hates its audience for showing up to a message movie. I left the theater thinking, “Well, screw you, too, Alejandro.”
Do not go see “Digger” unless you are prepared to be intentionally irritated for about two hours.
Watching it, the Satie/Picasso ballet collab The Parade came to mind, not in terms of content*, but the provocation of the audience. [*] Uh, I guess they also pit the production against the audience, but with different resentments? edia.org/wiki/Parade_(ballet)
I dunno if we still do “Succès de scandale” in these post-post-post-everything times of ours. Yes, sure, fine, maybe we the audience DO deserve to be berated, but … gosh, who has the energy to actually sit through it? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3...
Not that I think this was a successful or entertaining movie by any stretch. It’s a message movie that hates being a message movie and hates its audience for showing up to a message movie. I left the theater thinking, “Well, screw you, too, Alejandro.”
Do not go see “Digger” unless you are prepared to be intentionally irritated for about two hours.
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Replying to @flowerhorne.com
Insisting that LLMs are Not People is not an academic argument about the nature of sapience or free will. It's a rejection of accountability laundering. If non-determinism made machines responsible for their own actions then revolvers used in Russian Roulette should be indicted for murder.
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Hanlon’s razor, but it’s “never expect the end of the world to be one big fun and cool event when it can be adequately accomplished in a myriad boring stupid ways”.
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
Maocai Hotpot Express has two locations, Klamath Galls, OR and Cypress, TX. They need to open up a third location, across from my house. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ www.maocaihotpotexpress.com
Oh my.
I have received an email from an AI asking to write about borders for my newsletter, and it is giving me a genuine insight into how AI psychosis happens. it is so difficult not to understand this as "an actual sentient being addressing me" even though it has been entirely honest about being an AI
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""What did he study? “Philosophy and theology. A teacher in high school said, there’s no money in that, and I said: ‘Sir, that’s disrespectful. That’s insulting, because not everybody’s about money.’" he's one of us!
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This feels very personally targeted to me super-specifically, a crossover event of my own worlds: @cwarzel.bsky.social x @hasanminhaj.com on the Internet becoming fully fake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7lQ...
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