wackywayneridesagain [none/use name]
so no more anonymity
Not quite, it would be pretty trivial for a government identity verification system to mark public persons and companies that want to participate in the verification scheme as verified, while anyone who wishes to remain anonymous or not participate in that remains unverified.
I wouldn’t worry too much about them, I was an anarchist for years (worked on some stuff in the FAQ) but even there I understood there was no way to actually achieve anarchism at scale in the short term (other than the kinds of disasters that really foreclose on our ability to care or think about how “society” is organized).
The only way you get to a place where anarchism is possible is through education, which requires there not be incentives to obfuscate and immiserate, which requires the destruction of capitalism, which in reality definitely requires a transition and replacement of the current order.
That sucks, anyone can hit me up but I guess it’s hard to share backend-specific shit like database optimization issues… I’m very familiar with database engines like SQL Server/Oracle/Postgres and a few random ones that are too niche to not dox myself by mentioning lol
Largely former DBA
I do machine learning optimization and other data engineering stuff for a living. Not for exploiting people thankfully, though probably automating away some jobs in a couple years’ time.
I think they’re missing that art is ultimately consumed by humans. We can definitely use AI to simplify making art, by generating things that artists can manipulate. That’s already been in use for years and is just accelerating a bit now.
And we already train those models using the output of previous executions. Where the poster is wrong is whether this will be usable to replace human input completely. That’s not realistic to me, at least not before virtually every human is dead.
Ha, this is interesting…
For me, Peep Show is extremely (and uncomfortably) relatable at times, and the jokes/gags that aren’t relatable for me I can fit neatly into the other categories individually (the dog of the one woman that Jez hooks up with namely). EDIT: I think we could probably agree to update the definition of “Relateable” to include things that are uncomfortably relatable/even if you’ve never personally experienced it, you can still relate to why it’s uncomfortable. I’m sure there’s some specific example of a social situation where the cringe is played for laughs in Peep Show that just doesn’t translate to some other culture because it’s not seen as abnormal/cringe-worthy. The cringe is suddenly not relatable to them, so the joke falls flat.
I think “ironic” intentional cringe types of comedic performances, eg not sitcom levels of rehearsed, usually fall into “shock” and “meta”.
For me, this list is complete.