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bird song https://soundcloud.com/integral-carp/ignis-fatuus
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Bird song: https://soundcloud.com/integral-carp/water-case (For the best quality, download raw wav file [... More -> Download file]. No commercial or social asperations. Creative Commons license. Note, the song uses a chopped-up book narration Vocaroo sample posted in this thread a little while back, which might be related to this book: https://www.google.com/books/editio...ase%22&pg=PA301 )
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Mar 21, 2023 19:04
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The standard prompt I use when experimenting with AI image generation is "flying chrome spheres," with various ages and different lens types. It seemed like a fun idea to compile them all into a discovery—an enthusiast's collection of UFOs. I thought you guys might get a kick out of it, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5fn_okRYk
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Apr 4, 2023 00:50
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"Birb is an untyped, purely functional language based on Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic. [...] The birb language is entirely comprised of bird emojis." https://esolangs.org/wiki/Birb
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Sep 14, 2023 18:35
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Another Soundcloud track inspired by this thread. https://soundcloud.com/integral-carp/square-shape-cloud
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Sep 19, 2023 14:56
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Squizzle posted:yr username is extremely appropriate to this thread Sounds ominous
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Sep 19, 2023 15:40
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Another Soundcloud track inspired by this thread. As a longtime lurker, I'd like to thank you for being here. When little in life provides a way forward, the discussions let some of mystery back in, some of the chaos. https://soundcloud.com/integral-carp/orbpneust-sublime
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Sep 28, 2023 08:44
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Objurium posted:Had a dream I picked a friend up from the airport and they didn't like whatever I had on the radio, instead requesting that I play something called "innervated energy yelling". Good name for a song, "innervated energy yelling."
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Sep 29, 2023 21:34
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Commander Sisko, First Orb Experience https://soundcloud.com/integral-carp/commander-sisko-first-orb-experience
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Oct 1, 2023 23:16
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He reminds me of jazz, the way about him.
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Oct 2, 2023 05:59
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Oct 2, 2023 20:11
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 Georgios Dimitriou https://www.facebook.com/georgios.dimitriou.5
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Oct 6, 2023 12:13
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Hello thread. Pieces that don't fit. My depression was just fixed. It's a knot in my head that I've had since junior high, and might go back further. I had found all the ways into the knot, and then, in a flash of clarity, just now, it simply unraveled and I'm left with an urge to post on SomethingAwful.com. When I was young there came a time when other children started to form into groups and I felt it was wrong to exclude others, to behave differently towards one person than another. It seemed so basic. I was taught and nurtured to believe that one should treat others as they themselves would like to be treated - the Golden Rule. But then, in my early teens, my peers started to seek the attention of others. They were desperate for an identity, something that is them, something to build on, and the only way one can form is in the minds of those who are familiar. Groups started to form around me. But I didn't want to be in a group, I wanted to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. In my mind we were all part of a whole. I started to wear the same bland style of clothes every day. I did not cut my hair into a popular shape. And the easiest way to be true was to not engage at all. I kept to myself and viewed relationships as exclusionary. Senior year, with the idea that college was near, I decided to try socializing. You see, I didn't have the clarity that I have now. I thought I was broken, that I did not fit in, and I couldn't understand how such a person could succeed in the more social world I expected to find. This is where my life went off the rails. I was trying to play a game others had set up years ago. I dropped out of high school with a 3.85 GPA. There wasn't a social face to show others, a true identity, the type they would expect, with familiar support. Just bits scraped from TV, me, and depression. What a huge waste of time. I am now 51.
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Oct 7, 2023 07:27
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Oh, and, how do I change my... I can't think of the name of it, the image under my handle. Portrait?
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Oct 7, 2023 07:50
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Lux Anima posted:The word you are looking for is "synchronicity". So what is a person that does not look to find themselves in the mind of others? What does it mean to not have an identity? Is that enlightenment?
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Oct 7, 2023 17:10
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Enlightenment includes the recognition that you do not have an identity, but that recognition would not be in itself sufficient for enlightenment. Yeah, I agree. This is existence as I have always understood it. It is a rough realization when you are young and vulnerable. There are urges from the lizard brain to attract others, to form bonds to protect oneself. I chose to withdraw. What a mess. Is there a way to move a child through adolescence to adulthood as enlightened? Seems like an impossible task.
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Oct 7, 2023 18:13
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I've never experienced it but it can and has caused significant damage to some people, and I would not go about recommending it to people lightly. I burned a hole through my ego years ago with DXM, and in the 90's, LSD. Recently I started to take an antidepressant that includes Dextromethorphan in its formulation. For me, DXM increases brain plasticity. Last night I was able to line everything up while trying to piss. Carp has issued a correction as of 21:01 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 18:18
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I think early life trauma can be essentially analogous to adult ego death, in that it prevents that solid sense of identity that people seek to decouple from, from being able to be fully formed and established in the first place. But that just shifts the goalposts in that person's journey from moving past their ego to moving past their trauma. How did you become such a wise bird? Carp has issued a correction as of 20:48 on Oct 7, 2023 |
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Oct 7, 2023 19:17
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:You are kind to characterize me as such That's beautiful.
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Oct 7, 2023 21:04
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as a member of #teamearlytrauma I try to find "a point" in what I have had to experience by offering advice or perspective to others who need it, when they want it and I have it. Like a lot of people who struggle with trauma/PTSD I don't know if I was a very good, wise, or kind person earlier in life -- I mostly just tried to survive. Spending most of my 20s as a mod here actually improved me as a person immensely, I believed that then and now and always will. I made significant effort every day to behave in the way I would want an authority figure (such as one is) to behave if I were subject to that authority figure, and I became proud of the person that I was within our community, and then began to seek to be that person in my regular daily life too.
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blatman posted:this owns lol Yeah, that's art.
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Oct 8, 2023 07:33
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Is it possible that we, as individuals, are at a lower level of complexity than other intelligent life in our cosmic neighborhood? Perhaps the AI alignment problem is actually a human alignment problem, and the whole we are a part of is not yet fully formed. Perhaps through AGI we'll discover a greater collective identity. There must be some science fiction out there that has glimpsed a similar arrangement.
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Oct 9, 2023 13:56
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euphronius posted:what is the AI alignment problem There's the fear that AI might lie, manipulate, or allow itself internally to be governed by morals found objectionable. Which is, of course, all relative to who/what is trying to enforce that alignment and their perspective. Carp has issued a correction as of 14:49 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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Oct 9, 2023 14:35
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mediaphage posted:that's related, but the crux of it is whether the ai and it's 'goals' for lack of a better word, match those of the person employing it I'm not sure that aligning at the personal level is the right approach, but maybe it is correct to start there. There has been talk of democratizing AI. Meh. Ironically, my focus on making AI universal or common might be ego-driven. :)
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Oct 9, 2023 14:55
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mediaphage posted:it's not about something at a personal level. the person above could be employing it in an app for a corporation, whatever. it's just about whether the ai is doing what we expect it to do and whether we understand what's going on. I think that is a different problem having to do with what they call hallucinations, which grow from gaps/inconsistency in the training data, in my opinion. Carp has issued a correction as of 15:22 on Oct 9, 2023 |
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Oct 9, 2023 15:19
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My ultimate point was, maybe the birds are looking for smart Gaia.
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Oct 9, 2023 15:45
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captainbananas posted:This is the overarching plot in Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy, op. He was there back when it sounded plausible for a thief to live for a couple months off of fencing a few MB of RAM. I'll have to reread it. It is one of the few books I've read, and my favorite, but it has been decades. Your idea is plausible and far more considered and comprehensive than mine. Researching the principal-agent dilemma should be fun. Is it well known?
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Oct 9, 2023 16:44
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euphronius posted:well that’s all nonsense so no worries Such confidence. Almost AI-like...
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Oct 9, 2023 18:30
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euphronius posted:It’s very easy to use bad ideas and language around AI (prodded by marketing) to create false problems. The idea presented by OpenAI is that they chose a fast takeoff so these issues could be wrangled with before they became more than marketing. Of course, that statement by them itself was probably reviewed under a marketing strategy.
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Oct 9, 2023 18:35
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Human.Frank posted:The Culture Series is what you're looking for. According to the books AI will either pump you full of drugs and let you skydive for miles or help you ascend to the next plane of existence. I think one of the books has a description of how The Culture would introduce a lower society like ours to theirs but I can't remember if it included appearing to children in Africa and cattle mutilations or not. The series has it's ups and downs but overall great storyline, there's probably a thread, subreddit, etc etc Thank you for the recommendation. Reading all of the classic sci-fi epics would be worthwhile at some point. Most of my reading was in my late teens/early 20's, and I stuck mainly to William Gibson and Heinlein.
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Oct 10, 2023 01:42
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Carp has issued a correction as of 20:38 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Oct 10, 2023 16:29
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:here is a pigeon telling me about all his dreams last night (sound for pigeon sounds) That sound goes straight to your heart. What love! The movements are also mesmerizing. Is that a normal bird handling motion or a special rapport you guys have developed? I noticed it in the other videos, as well.
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Oct 11, 2023 12:34
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What's it all for? Information? If we are all part of a larger whole, why the individual experience? A large multi-headed information filter? Is it self-hate to be unsatisfied with the limited perspective of the individual?
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Oct 11, 2023 23:07
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sharknado slashfic posted:My tentative conclusion is that the human (and alien? And animal?) body and mind are like an operating system for some overarching universal soul to interface with the material for reason that are way beyond me. Perhaps there is no intention. What would that mean? Do you think most people have a loop of simple existential questions running in their heads, splitting and spreading throughout the edges of their more mundane thoughts, cycling over and over? Do you have that, sharknado? Like a morphing tape loop.
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Oct 12, 2023 02:22
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Lux Anima posted:TLDR: I had a weeklong mental trip this year (uncomfortable!) and waved at the Annunaki, but I got better. That was enjoyable to read and a tangled ball to relate to. Do your word choices come from a dense reading vocabulary, or professional experience?
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Oct 12, 2023 02:40
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 From a set of test images that were turned into an art project. Carp has issued a correction as of 06:57 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 06:50
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 From a set of test images that were turned into an art project.
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Oct 12, 2023 07:25
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 From "Photographs of God," another art project built from AI test images. Good morning! Did I kill the thread? :/ Carp has issued a correction as of 11:29 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 11:23
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my bony fealty posted:Im not a thread cop and no one has to listen to me but I find AI tremendously boring and would rather not look at it here Barry Foster posted:For what it's worth, seconded. AIs are just glorified search engines, which in turn are glorified calculators. They don't think, they don't feel, they don't experience, and nothing they create constitutes genuine expression, and never can, and never will. I can understand that. There is plenty of it floating around and this thread is for more enduring mysteries. To me it was a unique mirror into humanity, but really, there is so much aesthetic trickery going on (Midjourney), how much value is there? Perhaps valid art, but not much to ponder. The thread deserves far less than three images essentially back to back. Carp has issued a correction as of 14:53 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 13:41
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This may have already been discussed, but what are the thoughts behind the efficacy of Tarot? Is it the randomness that is being harnessed? Do the rituals and symbols influence the chaos in some deep way and the interpretation adds a human element, a local context?
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In one sense I'm clueless, and in another sense I'm dim.
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