*This idea is very "personal computer," but wouldn't you be much better off with *someone else's" AI "personal exoself"?
*I could tinker with my laptop every day, and make it "extremely like me," but that's a lot of effort for an unstable payoff. It's like changing all my fonts to my own handwriting.
“Well, if you were to look at the last 15 years, who has made the most consequential creative decisions in the world?” You’d be hard-pressed to argue that it’s people who would traditionally be considered artists."
*Probably all techno albums should be required to take ten years to make
*Yeah, you're pretty badly off when you have to generate pop music as your new post-doctorate side hustle
*I wonder what "diffusion capacity" has to do with "disastrous diffusion capacity," like, a national surrender to a bad, crazy fad
*Marc Laidlaw, a cyberpunk writer from "Mirrorshades," has a Youtube music-video with a million views
*And counting
RE: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@aceryz/117451977958276875
*I get it that you enjoy being bewildered about AI, but why are you troubling distant strangers on Mastodon when you oughta be socializing in some Polish coffeeshop
*Shall I recommend one where Andrzej Sapkowski hangs out
*This "fuel crisis in Bali" looks like an interesting rehearsal for a "fuel crisis in Ibiza" some day. #paradiseisland #forawhile
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-bali-fuel-shortage-long-lines-487f05c7fcf8f458fbf2d1177e374d81
*Chatbots don't "discuss" all that well when they're dead
*I've "talked" to a lot of 'em
RE: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@aceryz/117450529694792645
*Also Adam Savage would be an ideal guy for a discussion of this kind
https://youtu.be/pUaxIn1N8ZI?si=NqpW5R--OY58UNFM
*Unfortunately I can't "prompt" Adam Savage. He's a busy guy and also nine time zones away
RE: https://social.hackerspace.pl/@aceryz/117450529694792645
*Yeah, the ideal people for that effort would in fact be the curators and staffers in the National Cinema Museum in Turin, where they have the Andre Deed archives
*However, before I trouble them, I need to know what I'm talking about
*Italian Situationists invent the culture-jam concept of "fake news"
*This didn't work out all that well in the long run
@bruces A link?
*Once it *realized* that the robot was a costume, it gave some quite good advice about costume construction and fabric preservation
*But it hallucinates when visually classifying "robots"
*Copilot is really *taken in by the stage trick," you see, it's as naive as a small child
*I don't know why I found this noteworthy and startling, but it changed my opinion of the chatbot's capacities
*Then I realize that Copilot really believes that the "Uomo Meccanico" is a functional humanoid robot
*It can't understand that it's merely an actor in an FX costume
@bruces Listen and undestand!
The LLM is out there. It cannot be reasoned with. It doesn't feel confusion or doubt or bemusement. And it absolutely will not stop... until you stop prompting it.
*So I'm discussing this early silent-film with Microsoft Copilot
*How to measure the robot costume, use photogrammetry to reverse-engineer the robot and derive the proportions, and so on
*He thinks that agents can figure out the snarls and tangles in big-model neural nets
*This Nordstream trial ought to be a thriller movie, but they arrested one of the guys while he was consulting for a thriller movie
https://eutoday.net/nord-stream-trial-germany-ukrainian-officer-war-crimes/
*It used to take quite a while for Internet trends to become pop videos
@bruces Really quite glad it has such a low view count.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica/117442976585251847
*I blame science fiction dystopias
*So, create a subgenre and then create a specialized magazine for it, that seems pretty good
With stories written by AI.
*Vietnamese totally digging AI, USA trembling in fear
*An extensive,we-built-an-AI manifesto, that is as dense with jargon as marzipan
Sin contenido textual.
*Vibe-coded replicas of established commercial software-packages
"Chelina Manuhutu Live at ANTS Ushuaia Ibiza," I like the way those syllables work, they sound very "tech-house" all by themselves
*Patient Chinese guys stole $100M with a supply-chain attack on crypto wallets
*They had to buy a wallet company first, but they got it done
*Well, they're still chugging along after 130 years, depending on how you frame what's going on
*They've been destroying themselves even without him, but now they can speed it way up
Sin contenido textual.
@bruces Usually “boosts don’t mean endorsement” but what does posting an anonymous drawing mean?
*A fashion runway seems like a good arena for humanoid robots
https://mercisf.com/2026/10/07/robots-take-the-runway-at-sf-tech-week-come-dance-with-them/
*Ukrainian drones blowing up a Yandex data center. The distribited Internet was invented so that there wouldn't be any data centers to blow up.
@bruces Redundancy in the modern Internet means that you now have MULTIPLE single points of failure.
These disinformation specialists must be a really busy bunch of people. Also, they must have a lot of well-paid enemies
*Lunar ultra-wideband coverage.
RE: https://mastodon.uno/@massimolauria/117377404469773824
*I've had that wise-duck AI experience, but now the duck is actively coaching, with agency. "A lot of people commonly do X in your situation, so tell me to do
X and I'll do it for you"
RE: https://hci.social/@designfactotum/117377414803108378
*What an interesting concept. All random typing, or text, is somehow subjected to a Shakespeare strange-attractor? How would that work, exactly
*Mathematicians publicly pledging to perform AI-free "human mathematics."
*Hmmm. These AI-generation credits are an in-house gamer-economy. #AI #monetization
*What beautiful, unearthly jargon. It kills me that I more-or-less understand this
*I've also read this remarkable book, and yes, the exciting and provocative topics that technologists talk about, those are not the vast bulk of commonplace and even antique things that people actually use.
*If there's a polar opposite to "traditional computer programming," it must be this
*Really piling on the self-justifying AI erudition there; you could spend half a lifetime plowing through the footnotes
https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-history.html#future
*Man, that's a darn good video. For a one-shot, with no editing, good lord
*Could AI scan a thousand old DIY punk-hacker videotapes and find the maybe-15-minutes that are truly unusual and interesting
*These airborne killer robots would be ideal for detonating expensive, too-centralized Amazon data centers
*Cheap, fast, powerful, proliferating worldwide and they fly
Apparently these Amazon guys have forgotten that there was ever an "Information Superhighway" and are simply declaring themselves to be the nationally necesssary new one.
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-data-centers-built-together
*Decentralized Web Camp, which seems to have been an actual camp full of hackers sleeping in tents
*Why would you NOT want silver jewelry merch from a band you like
*What does "the Internet" physically look like as a network
*Well, it doesn't look much like it used to
Home Depot Data Shed in your backyard. #designfiction
https://theadjacency.com/p/the-great-data-center-fallout--d28b6243814ef2534d1501bd
“squeeveillance,” the idea that people will let cute things surveil them
*How could this not be good? Well, given that it's Chinese AI slop, there may be a colossal nimber of ways
*I would read this with keen attention if I was a tech-artist in Brazil
https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/barbarian-currents/
*Aim for the NVIDIA chip
*Neal Stephenson making his extensive case for hand-writing fiction with pen and paper.
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
So the Baroque Cycle and REAMDE were all written by hand...?
Holy moly!
45 yrs of the V2_Lab for Unstable Media
https://mailchi.mp/v2/four-evenings-with-philip-vermeulen-21073549?e=06ba357d2f
RE: https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/117336726865890758
*I'll have to think about this, which is a commonality for me when Adam says something
*For decades now, even. #reified #clunkyintensity
*OSINT guys become high-value fake-AI targets
*Because the squeaking wheel gets buried in slop-grease
*Absolutely
*Now dissect the other machines in that region that are feeding people, shipping goods, running hospitals, moving people around, keeping lights on etc etc #SinoGlobalism
*Knowing this, it should be easy to create transsexual fruit flies and create utter panic in the US Congress
*Are you still agentic-engineering with elaborate, careful prompts, like you were one year ago? Lo, how obsolete, how self-defeatingly Neanderthal you are for painfully learning how to do that
When the commenters underneath the video can't decide whether this is corporate capture or satire. That's also a statement.
*into the tall weeds of attempting to prove that digital photographs are real evidence and not AI-slop
*I blame threats even greater than science fiction dystopias
*This seems entirely reasonable and also totally impracticable at the same time
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/23/the-gnome-llm-policy-that-i-want/
What if it's never "AGI" but just a talkative two-legged chatbot that can eat all the code and mathematics
@bruces The chatbot ate my homework!
"Internet Phone Book" has hundreds of artsy personal websites and no slop or social media
*Am I having some kind of mild stroke, or am I just catching up with the most recent Boards of Canada record
*Gigantic Imperial-approved official super-encyclopedia, and, eventually, everybody just ignored it and beat it to pieces
"asymptotic rates of acceleration will unravel the tawdry scarecrow of consensus reality"
*If you backpack to some remote village hoping to disrupt the undisrupted, they've already been wiped out by some Nepalese landslide
*Well, it looks like everybody is Jekyll and Hyde, not one brain but truly two different brains
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html
*I had it figured that "CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso" were gonna be weird musicians, but that is like Os Mutantes levels of South American weird
*I wonder if there has ever been an objectively-scarier kid in the world than Feynman at Los Alamos
@bruces Shvitzing in rhe Mew Mexico heat.
"The five that remain are: the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, the Hodge Conjecture, P versus NP, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Yang-Mills existence and mass gap." #math #bigproblems #AIbait
@bruces why shouldn't AI tackle the halting problem? I suggest they get to work on that.
*I'm suffering maybe 5 percent of what these 404Media guys are suffering from agent-harassment
*But yeah, I'm suffering
https://www.404media.co/theres-a-100-chance-ai-agents-are-already-ruining-the-internet/
*Can a worm's brain fly around in a fruit fly's body? Yeah, it sort of can in a simulation, only not "really," whatever that means
*However, the China in "Cyberpunk 2077" is so much like modern cyber-China that I'm not sure anybody from China would even bother to notice the difference
@bruces Indeed!
*This Deepseek Chinese guy opines that "Cyberpunk 2077" is a social-realist portrait of the world when and if American AI takes over the planet
*What will "net.art" look like when there is no more Internet and only platforms? Ming-bogglingly utopian, maybe, a high-point of civilization
