Finally finished it. Took me like, maybe an hour and a half per model because of the awful, awful keying, obvious mould lines that needed scraping and some of the greebles that needed gluing on (Like the hands off the shoulder on model 5).
Incredible, felt like i was working with finecast again.

It was this voodoo doll that got me as a kid. Something about it really unsettled me. Looking at it today it's still some very evocative art.

stay winning ESA

And I say this as someone that has been suicidal in the past fwiw

That's not to downplay that it might have been an enabler, providing a feedback loop that encourages the user to do so, but more to point out that suicide is an inherently irrational act, so SOMETHING needs to be going on to make it look like the right choice in the first place.

By allowing Sillicon Valley to claim "AI" as their word you accept their argument, and accept the commodification of an entire field of research.

And again, the problem is capitalism. The over-use and abuse of LLMs (A dead-end technology) and Diffusion Models is not inherent to AI Research as a field. It's sillicon valley trying to find a new hypergrowth market now NFTs turned out to be a Dud.

It's been very strange seeing people who don't know their Bayes from their Random Forest try and argue with me about a field i did actual research in.
Some truly incredible takes include "You should stop calling what you did AI then", and "Actually AI and Machine Learning have nothing in common"