Harod Uthgar
Chris Gioran 💔Techbros: Here's the detailed technical plans for a working Torment Nexus.
Everyone: Building a Torment Nexus is a horrible idea.
Techbros: Why won't people focus on the technical merits of the proposal.
Tane Piper ⁂@chrisg That's a very similar thought that went through my head this morning after seeing this
Tane Piper (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I saw this ad today on LinkedIn. I think this is a glimpse of where things are heading with the SAG-AFTRA strike too - soon actors likeness will be a drag & drop tool where directors and producers can play god with their digital dolls, like some Titans in the clouds. This *is* the bad timeline and we should seek to discourage tools and system that remove the need for humans.
@tanepiper Yeah, this is the bad timeline.
rastilinThe thing that gets me is... once it's possible for people to make full movies without actors. Why do we need the hollywood studios anymore? Won't we just have independent film-makers doing fully AI movies by themselves?
RAK@rastilin @tanepiper @chrisg: The Hollywood studios'll have economies of scale for distribution, which is a problem.
Jonathan Hartley's old account@raktheundead I don't understand this. Distribution is a solved problem. I personally could bankroll, and engineer, the distribution of even the most wildly popular blockbuster movie. Or are you being sarcastic in some way I'm not picking up on? Or do you mean "distribution" to mean something different than me, like "access to movie theaters"?
@tartley: 'Or do you mean "distribution" to mean something different than me, like "access to movie theaters"?'
That plus access to streaming services for long-tail revenue. I understand that the actual act of getting movies into cinemas is easier now than it's ever been because of digital distribution, but Hollywood still has the pull to get its films into a huge number of cinemas at once at a scale that the indie studios can't guarantee.
@raktheundead ok, I get it, thanks for walking me through it.
Chris (He/Him)@chrisg Tough to appreciate the complexity of the noose while it's actively choking you.
DM ME UR BESTIGORS @chrisg best fediverse server name idea spotted
tormentnexus.skynet
Blake Leonard
emberquill 
@drudgesentinel @chrisg believe it or not there is already a Mastodon instance running on https://torment.nexus
Third spruce tree on the left@chrisg Unless by Torment Nexus you mean Total Perspective Vortex in which case I'm onboard.
'cause Fairy Cakes.
Zaphod and the Total Perspective Vortex
Animated clip from the second series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
@tezoatlipoca haha, haven't read the book for years, so it took me a while but the memories came back.
well played, thanks for the reminder 🙂
Your Autistic Life@tezoatlipoca @chrisg How about a Lament Configuration?
John M. GambleMe: this is a terrible idea, but that's a really interesting hashing function. Is it GPL or MIT licensed?
The Torment Nexus will be licensed AGPLv3 running it aaS is allowed only on GCP.
Alister Bulman
Big Kumera Energy@chrisg when I saw browser tech with
Authors:
* $name (google)
* $name (google)
* $name (google)
* $name (google)
I knew this was going to be godawful selfish bullshit.
Claude Gohier@chrisg
Also:
By Tom Gauld.
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2377304-tom-gauld-science-fiction-author-or-tech-company-boss/
Yesterday's Rose@chrisg
#SidMeiersAlphaCentauri #SMAC version:
"Behold! The Nerve-Stapler."
"Dude, that sounds like a bad idea."
"What are you talking about? It's a Stapler, but with 100% Neuro in it. We're disrupting the industry!"
(NB: This quote is not attributable to any particular Leader in the game. This is because this is an old game and scifi writers sometimes couldn't foreseesee the Coming Madness. ...also, I don't know why my Android keyboard capitalised that.)
#SidMeiersAlphaCentauri #SMAC version:
"Behold! The Nerve-Stapler."
"Dude, that sounds like a bad idea."
"What are you talking about? It's a Stapler, but with 100% Neuro in it. We're disrupting the industry!"
(NB: This quote is not attributable to any particular Leader in the game. This is because this is an old game and scifi writers sometimes couldn't foreseesee the Coming Madness. ...also, I don't know why my Android keyboard capitalised that.)
Jacqueline@chrisg something something "they were so busy trying to figure out if they could that they forgot to stop and ask if they *should*"
Rachel@chrisg I saw a wild exchange on here recently that went like this:
Person: racist tech is bad and we should not make racist tech
Techbro: the code/model isn't racist, it's the training data that only includes a narrow sunset of people so everything is fine!
Everyone else: ....... Ok so that is still pretty bad, you see that, right?
Techbro: Nope. Please only consider how the algo could maybe have been been used in a less racist way
@transitory @chrisg Oh, I think I saw that exchange too! And yes, I was one of the people thinking "That does not refute the point. It barely even shifts the blame."
@transitory That problem is everywhere.
These people don't understand that technology is political. What problems we think are important enough to solve, how we solve them etc these are political decisions. And it's inconvenient for them, because 1) it's hard to think about these things and they are not that smart and 2) it bites into the bottom line,
Just Boby
Cthululemon@chrisg
Can’t we work from a spirit of collaboration, focusing on the benefits and real-world use-cases of the torment nexus? For example, advertisers can harvest our screams directly and we don’t need to come up with plans for the weekend.
Can’t we work from a spirit of collaboration, focusing on the benefits and real-world use-cases of the torment nexus? For example, advertisers can harvest our screams directly and we don’t need to come up with plans for the weekend.
Irfan@chrisg how was Satoshi’s BTC white paper received? I wonder.
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Yoji@chrisg I think about how much I've soured on things like aerospace.
Like, fighter jets themselves are dazzling in their ability and complexity. But then you step back and see what they're made for, and it's grotesque.
"The people designing the rockets wanted to go to the moon. The people funding the rockets wanted better bombs."
Rachel@chrisg I saw a wild exchange on here recently that went like this:
Person: racist tech is bad and we should not make racist tech
Techbro: the code/model isn't racist, it's the training data that only includes a narrow sunset of people so everything is fine!
Everyone else: ....... Ok so that is still pretty bad, you see that, right?
Techbro: Nope. Please only consider how the algo could maybe have been been used in a less racist way
Person: racist tech is bad and we should not make racist tech
Techbro: the code/model isn't racist, it's the training data that only includes a narrow sunset of people so everything is fine!
Everyone else: ....... Ok so that is still pretty bad, you see that, right?
Techbro: Nope. Please only consider how the algo could maybe have been been used in a less racist way