I don’t like how people use “hallucinations” to refer to the output of neural networks, but you know what, it is all hallucination. It’s hallucination on our part, looking at arbitrary sequences of tokens and seeing meaningful text. It’s pareidolia, and it’s powerful.

Study finds greedy white children would rather have two fictitious cookies than one real one they can eat.

(This particular study, if there even is a real study, is infuriating because what it’s really measuring is how much you trust a figure of authority to keep their promise. I wonder why black kids would have issues with this!)

Oh cool it’s even worse then!

Racism is insane; it fixates on superficial characteristics like skin color rather than important ones like IQ and time preference.

I’m sorry, “time preference”? Is this piece of shit referring to Colored People’s Time as a scientific concept or am I missing something?

This is such a cursed tweet ughhhhh

B-but homophobia is a social phenomenon. It’s not real (genetic)!

Or people could take away different things, especially since post-2014 (?) Scott approaches controversial issues much more cautiously and deliberately made known (Kolmogorov) that he was never going to fully honest around certain topics, inviting (deliberately or not, accurate or not) Straussian readings.

Ugh. These people seem sad and they make me sad.

What do they mean by “in color”? If it’s just various tints throughout the film that’s normal and cool. If they mean full on colourised that’s messed up.

I’m honestly obsessed with it because it’s so baffling. It takes effort to make your smile look this fake, and dedication to stick with it year after year. There’s no way he hasn’t been told how bad it looks, and how he could simply squint his eyes just a tad and it would look so much more natural. It’s got to be a choice.

This is cool but will any of it explain the most pressing MrBeast question: why does he smile like that? I’m assuming it’s because he’s always thinking about how terrible a person he is.

They’re good for making earnest sounding vocalists sing about poopy peepee caca, which I regret to say I will never not find hilarious.

They’re advertising automated slideshows? In 2024? That’s desperate.

neither left nor right (feudalist)

Yup, that sure is the sort of meandering non-melodies suno can already produce.

Yeah my thought always was if it was a real game they would allow home printed copies.

Veering completely off topic, if we’re talking privileged young men with enormous musical ability coming out of nowhere and networking themselves into releasing crazy music, I’m rather into Hermann Szobel myself.

It’s a pretty fascinating bit of history too if you’re into this sort of thing.

i like turtles

Yes whatever I think of his aesthetic priorities and the way his image is cultivated he does seem genuinely passionate about music and I do respect that. I’m sure I’d actually forgive him a lot more if only he didn’t sound so ludicrously posh.

I think he can compose some really neat vocal harmonies but yes as you said his singing voice is grating and uh, honestly sometimes it’s like vocal blackface

You know you’re dealing with serious people when the dogwhistles come out.

Jacob Collier to me is the archetype of the rich kid with enormous talent and not an ounce of taste or integrity, so I can’t say I’m very surprised by this.

See also this nonsense, though now it looks rather innocent compared to the google news.

He’s such a waste of musical ability it makes me angry and his face is annoying!