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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
L8I LinkI saw this video of Figure robots being melted in the style of Terminator yesterday and it affected me more than I thought it would, like it really unsettled me for some reason....I saw this video of Figure robots being melted in the style of Terminator yesterday and it affected me more than I thought it would, like it really unsettled me for some reason.
https://youtu.be/pfAh5oQDPDM?is=kCFdQ_XcL7pIqqqy
The tone of it is just weird and the implications of robot’s willingly somersaulting into molten steel does raise questions, aside from the ‘conscious’ debate
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Comment on Tildes Survey #8: What is your favorite video game? (Results) in ~talk
L8I LinkSuikoden 1 There was something so special about playing it as a 12 year old. Building a castle, recruiting 108 characters, side games, great battle mechanics, fantastic music. I still replay it...Suikoden 1
There was something so special about playing it as a 12 year old. Building a castle, recruiting 108 characters, side games, great battle mechanics, fantastic music. I still replay it now and again.
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Comment on Digg has shutdown (again) in ~tech
L8I LinkKinda feels like there should be an equation to work out optimal numbers for a social media site to gain traction, over what period and then what is the limit before it degrades to some sort of...Kinda feels like there should be an equation to work out optimal numbers for a social media site to gain traction, over what period and then what is the limit before it degrades to some sort of lowest common denominator. As it is, I’m a very happy lurker on Tildes and used Digg for all of a few days before giving up.
I trust content on Reddit less and less every day, and it honestly feels like a lot of the real users feel the same but can’t quite extricate themselves from it. There are some very useful subreddits I still follow, but anything big is pointless.
Niche is best.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
L8I LinkHeadache - Thank You For Almost Everything https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_klvI3a_kpjJBNVnVHKHB9Az0dZDPhGL4k I've never been one for lyrics, but there's just something about Headache...Headache - Thank You For Almost Everything
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_klvI3a_kpjJBNVnVHKHB9Az0dZDPhGL4k
I've never been one for lyrics, but there's just something about Headache that I love, a mix of the profound and absurd. Vegyn's production is so good as well.
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Comment on Some people can't see mental images. The consequences are profound. in ~health.mental
L8I LinkI only discovered I have aphantasia 2 years ago, aged 38. It was quite the bizarre realisation that most people actually can mentally visualise things, it stunned me to be honest and definitely...I only discovered I have aphantasia 2 years ago, aged 38. It was quite the bizarre realisation that most people actually can mentally visualise things, it stunned me to be honest and definitely felt weird for a while. I’ve read of some people becoming super depressed after finding out, I was bummed for a bit, mostly about how I imagine most people can dwell on fond memories aided by visual memory. On reflection I think explains a few things about me as a person and my preferences. The main two being that I have always loved music and film but struggled to get into fiction writing. I also seem to deal with grief quite quickly and always have done. The crazy thing to me is that it is such a recent discovery scientifically, you’d have thought this would have been known about for 100’s of years and well studied. I can definitely relate to a lot in the article, thanks for sharing.
Right, I’m off to sleep… where I do actually see things in my dreams!
Not sure whether this belongs in here or the what have you made thread...
I have run an MP3 blog for 20 years, lots of those links went dead over the years so I decided to archive it all in one place to listen to
kandv.xyz
Twenty years of electronic music, from 2006 Hype Machine blog-era electro and disco, through techno and deep house, to ambient and experimental and wherever I find myself now on the listening spectrum.
As blogging died and followers dropped off, posting to my blog has always become the way I playlist my favourite songs. This hopefully makes it easier to continue doing that.
Feel free to have a listen :)