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Sagebrush posted:boy was that ever my experience with the diamond age. re-read it a few years later, and all the Primer bits are just so tedious. and then I still had the same reaction to the ending. I may have read it a third time, I can't honestly remember. basically gave up on his stuff after Quicksilver, just had no interest in continuing that series
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lol it's basically his Prequel Trilogy, and we all know how well that went for Lucas 
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Chris Knight posted:re-read it a few years later, and all the Primer bits are just so tedious. and then I still had the same reaction to the ending. I don't mind the early parts of the primer where it's fairy tales to teach a little girl how to fend for herself and be a good person and whatnot. But the later part where she learns to build a universal turing machine from a story about chains of binary code going into a robot automaton was a real eye roller. I think he wrote himself into a corner with the idea that this magic book would be able to teach someone the sum total of human knowledge through fairy tales Also retrospective lol at the idea that in this world they have atomic level matter compilers and mechanical logic that fits in the thickness of a sheet of paper but synthesizing a human voice is too hard so they have to hire real time voice actors for every video game. It felt really like it was crammed in so that the girl would have a mother figure who I expected she'd eventually meet in real life, and it was building up to that, but then that lady just randomly gets replaced with some dude and she disappears and you never hear from her again? What?
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I don't think it was that synthesizing a voice was too hard, it was that having it emote convincingly and correctly when interacting was hard (the actors were also doing performance captured facial expressions). something that's still true of AI voices and characters today even though it's light years beyond what was around when the diamond age was written IIRC there's a quick mention near the end that most of the magic books in the world use synthetic voices, having real actors involved is an expensive luxury so only the proof of concept/secret gift edition has it and the mass production models don't bother
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Dec 1, 2023 18:19
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I can actually believe that "voiced by a real person as a luxury signifier" would be a thing
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I could also believe "real person gets fired and replaced by a different person and the company expects nobody to notice"
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I can actually believe that "voiced by a real person as a luxury signifier" would be a thing Hell that's like the most believable part
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Chris Knight posted:first time I read Diamond Age, I got to the last chapter or so, and was like "what the gently caress just happened here?" I think l I did diamond age as an audiobook and I can't recall 98% of the story beyond broad descriptions I was fixing some car paint damage while listening, so it's a toss if it was the fumes of Neal's writing
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oh, I wore a mask and had ventilation, it was neal
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Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation Cool, where do I apply for the job of smoking weed all day and watching ghost in the shell and coming up with garbage like this?
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ADINSX posted:Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation that conference looks dumb as hell and was probably just an excuse for a bunch of field grades and middle managers to take their families to disney world.
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yeah, I, too, watched encounter at farpoint
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ADINSX posted:Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation they're clearly gonna do it by making it a game and getting teens to play it like in Ender's game or.....some other thing I forgot the name of. hbag, your country needs your CoD headshot skills
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also armoured core 6 just came out why aren't they building ACs that can do sick grinds and flying kicks???
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that is definitely tumblr
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I read it so you don't have to the guy is using chat GPT to quickly do high level translations of old Japanese smut magazines for research ("research") into Otaku culture But chat GPT refuses to translate many of them because it's got so many politeness filters that when its output contains the word dick or pussy it just blanks the whole thing So to complete the work he has been using alternate freely available models that have the filters turned off, which are all anime girlfriend simulators, so he has to get his translations by interacting with the model as if it's a waifu
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anime waifu is just another gui
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Sagebrush posted:I read it so you don't have to
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Agile Vector posted:yeah, I, too, watched encounter at farpoint they used that same pattern fabric for a lot of set pieces in early tng.
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Sagebrush posted:I read it so you don't have to infernal machines posted:that is definitely tumblr
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Jabor posted:I could also believe "real person gets fired and replaced by a different person and the company expects nobody to notice" that has probably happened with vtubers already
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Carthag Tuek posted:that has probably happened with vtubers already
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roles get recast all the time in movies, tv, and video games, but I don't think it's happened that a role was recast and the production tried to keep it a secret and gaslight everyone into not noticing
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haveblue posted:roles get recast all the time in movies, tv, and video games, but I don't think it's happened that a role was recast and the production tried to keep it a secret and gaslight everyone into not noticing george mcfly in bttf2 did this. they got a prosthetic mask to make the new actor look like an aged crispin glover. he ended up suing and won, and the resulting verdict was the beginning of protected likeness clauses
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https://twitter.com/BoneJail/status/1710449127736172576
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lol amazing
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can we get a translation
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looks pretty clear what it does to me
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I think it's pretty clear
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that's not what I said was it
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:i was all-in until they mentioned blockchains Yeah. That's turns a lot of people off. It's only currently necessary for bootsrapping decentralised proofs. If it's the energy consumption that bothers you, it might please you to hear that the Truth Beam has the potential to form the basis for a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus network with much lower power requirements.
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haveblue posted:looks pretty clear what it does to me some sort of cyber toilet I think
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:some sort of cyber toilet I think turn your monitor on
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FMguru posted:turn your monitor on idgi it's still showing my posts
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