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They don't know AI just predicts the next word

@JosephKahn One of my favorite behind the scenes documentary bits was in the Magnolia bts where producer Daniel Lupi was talking about what an insane amount of film PTA was using and nervously laughing about it knowing there was nothing he could do but figure it out somehow.

It's underestimated how much digital cameras commodified filmmaking and collapsed the industry. With film stock, there was a barrier to entry because the technical limitation was dangerous: to store, use, and develop it took care and time. Apprenticeships in the camera department took sweat labor from the loading of mags to the threading of heavy cameras. Now it's wysiwyg monitors, lower powered lights, and more critically - infinite takes. It's easy to become a DP as the image can be checked in monitor and you don't have to wait 24 hours to see if the film comes back black...so you can gamble with newbies. The financial pressure of selectively shooting within allotted film stock is lifted. Now directors can just do piss takes forever, which accounts for the rise of improvisational acting styles. I'm actually pro digital cameras. I shot film for years and I prefer the freedom that digital gives me. However it has obliterated foundational crew heirchies such as how the 2nd AC now just passed off cards to the DIT instead of loading mags. Filmmaking lost its magic secrecy and now everyone sees the magician's hands and sleeves. The production process is like a Burger King where everyone can see you make the burger, and the customer thinks it's easy. They just want their Whopper, no onions. It feels less surprising when someone moves up the chain and becomes a cinematographer or director. It also feels less surprising when a director or DP quickly flames out and goes back to another day job. The hard career ladder was time, respect, camaraderie, and a sense that the person paid dues. The disadvantage was it was harder to gain those positions. The advantage was once you had them, you were more secure in them. Experience still counts though in ways that most newer people surrounding production may not understand. Everything from resource management to effective decisions as the clock clicks on an expensive shoot day. Again I love digital cameras and I'm actually one of the first to switch over all my work to digital. It's obviously served me well. But there is a piece of me that misses the old Hollywood of filmstock, even though I fucking hated shooting it (and I'll never go back). How's that for conflicted!

Every day I am more and more convinced that the people who are leading the charge on alignment are exactly the wrong people for the job.

Swarms of super fast counter drones seem a likely path. Smaller because they travel less distance and need smaller payloads to be effective.

It made $431 million domestic. People in general did not think it sucked. There's some heavy revisionism going on here.

You have to imagine that now that drones have had a measurable impact on the US armed forces that untold resources will be poured into countermeasures. Theory is one thing, attacks on other nations is something else, but losing people and material of your own is another level of motivation.

What if the ASI decides to just have its robot embodiments just...walk around. Strolling. Thinking. Taking in the scenery.

@la_dorkout People can say whatever about it, but it's one of a handful of pieces in LACMA that I remember clearly.

When Edward Kienholz's "Back Seat Dodge '38" debuted at LACMA in 1966 as a comment on puritanical views of sex, it was considered so offensive, museum funding was threatened. LACMA agreed to open the car door to "peek in" only during specific times...adding, natch, to its allure.

@self_resid29444 @9mmballpoint Well, I don't remember the last time The English Patient came up in conversation...

@9mmballpoint Because the “flaws” being pointed out are people failing to understand the movies. Works of art aren’t understood by the mainstream at release all the time, but they don’t always have preexisting fanbases that try to fight the reappraisal.

I genuinely did not realize how many people out there think the Star Wars prequels were good, and get really angry when you point out the flaws that everyone over age 12 noticed when they first came out. Wtf is happening lol

@9mmballpoint 1 is good, 2 is bad, 3 is great.

Lynch was conservative-ish, but not in the sense of locking into the whole package of positions that online people want that to mean. He was obviously and plainly very pro America and pro Americana, though somehow a few people get this exactly backwards.

@AcademicAgent_X You can see it however you want. It's fine.

I am now more convinced than ever that the huge US military budget has been a kind of gravy train investing in overbloated tech that doesn't really work and acting as a sort of make-work scheme. I no longer see it as an unbeatable military.

@thedimitri 100% in my experience and that of my friends.

Sexual choking has become mainstream, and it's pretty clear it's driven more by women’s desire to be choked than by men’s desire to choke

AI has not changed much in regards to human talent tbh cracked people are still cracked. retarded people are still retarded but there is one interesting case - the previously non-technical guy that is coding prolifically they were meant to be coders b4 but were lead astray

@bendreyfuss I... can totally see why you would expand your most successful franchise.

It’s genuinely funny that Warner brothers is apparently spending $10 billion to adapt a series of books that were successfully adapted 20 years ago, exist outside of time so do not age, and are still so popular they are regularly the most streamed things on HBO Max

I am beyond tired of this comic book nonsense.

And arbitrarily, based on whatever Anthropic's crew comes up with in their Li'l Philosophy Hut about ethics,

@hotcake_kun_ There is nothing American men enjoy more than inviting people over to join them for this.

アメリカ男性と肉ならこの写真が好き いつか現地でこれに参加したい

One of the great things about sitting in a crowded theater watching BARRY LYNDON is that you just know there’s someone in there who’s never seen it before and is getting their shit rocked.

The view from Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok: “Markets are overreacting to what will likely be a 4- to 6-week period of volatility, which will ultimately result in 50 years of stability in oil markets, supply chains and geopolitics.”

'there is 8x as much compute available in the world today as at the start of 2024'