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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · Oct 22

what if cats but they're bass clarinets

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 21h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I always got the feeling there was some heavy curation going on there

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 10h

yelling "ENLIGHTENMENT! ENLIGHTENMENT!!!!!" into your phone while trying to access their customer support hotline

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

you have got to be fucking kidding me

google search results for "samsara":

1. Samsara's AI-powered technology helps lower costs and improve fleet safety with AI-powered dash cams, real-time GPS, ELD, telematics, maintenance, routing, ...

2. Wikipedia: Saṃsāra is referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration/reincarnation, karmic cycle, or Punarjanman, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or ...

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

I dunno, I've just seen this happen way too many times, where someone with expert knowledge in one area think that genAI is bad at that thing, but reasonably good at things they're not an expert in. It doesn't take much connecting the dots to see a pattern here!

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

I dunno, the music generated by genAI is pretty "well-formed" in the sense that it has recognizable chords and melodies and rhythms and stuff. If it doesn't seem well-formed to you, it's because you have higher standards for music. Some people have higher standards for text

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

To me, gen AI's generated writing and classical music are about as good as each other (pretty bad), and gen AI doesn't "understand" anything in the sense that we do, so how well we understand either is irrelevant

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

I have to say after seing autechre, nine inch nails, and an eliane radigue premiere all in the span of less than a month, I am feeling pretty dang musically fulfilled

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

For people who care about writing, gen AI text is less convincing. But as something that resembles human writing at a first glance, it’s passable

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 11h

I guess what I’m trying to say is that there’s nothing inherently special about classical music that makes it harder for gen AI to produce. The difference is probably that you and I care about classical music, so it is less convincing for us

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 12h

Also, David Cope and others were using computers to spit out classical music in the 80s and even earlier. It is not that hard to generate something that will pass the Turing test for most people

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 14h

Can we get the double i in there? Skibidiism?

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 15h

Is it qvftenprq purs yhtbyv? (rot13)

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 18h

After softlocking me twice during a tricky optional boss, I think I'm gonna take a break from Silksong

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

not me, I’m like “I just went to the autechre show”

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

in a world where people try to sculpt music into very specific shapes, autechre brings a “hey look at this cool rock I found” energy that I deeply appreciate

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

autechre perceived!!!

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

line for autechre show is around the blockkkkk

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

in the sequel godot turns out to be a giant mech

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

imagine there's no godot
it's easy if we try

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 1d

CFA today filed a lawsuit against the CSU. We seek an order prohibiting the CSU from disclosing CFA members’ personal info in response to federal subpoenas without providing notice to workers and an opportunity for them to object. Read more in our press release:

www.calfac.org/cfa-sues-csu...

A truncated version of the press release available at the link

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

what font is this? it's v appealing

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

godot is short for god overtime

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d

I am pro-mortality but it is a bit on the short side for all the stuff I wanna make and do. Definitely preferable to mandatory immortality though. I suspect anyone who’s ever had The Ideation would probably feel the same

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 1d