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On 1/3/2021 at 12:37 PM, mcbpete said:
"Could you leave the decks alone please. Stop scratching yer fookin' decks"
Yoo, sorry to bump this thread I'm listening to this gescom thing again after Sean's AMA, and I swear I've heard a vocal sample like this in a mix somewhere ("Could you leave the mixer alone please" etc), but I can't remember or find anything. Were you referring to something specific here?
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1 hour ago, 714681746476436 said:
South America is fucked. It is not a fault of the US that gangs flourish there. Believe it or not, I see south Americans as equally capable as the people in the US. They are responsible for sorting out their own issues - illegally sneaking into another country is not the way to do that. There are legal ways to enter the US.
Yes or no: are you aware of the long history of the US government intervening against the will and interests of South and Central American nations and peoples?
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I'm hearing a ton of JLin influence on this.
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Me as a character and human being. I am definintely part of the IDM subculture. When do I get my rewards.? (dividends etc.
edit: not gonna accept bribes or some weird fucked up shit. just basically go waawy or I will shoot you dead lol, (not kidding)
Salvatorin you're my favorite poster on WATMM.
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I think sufficiently advanced AI is sentient, but we will have a difficult time as a society coming to grips with this or even accepting it as the reality. This entire area of epistemology is a really tough one since technically none of us, including myself, can actually even prove that other humans are sentient, or that anyone else exists, or that even if other people do exist, they aren't just p-zombies i.e. blobs of matter walking around with nobody inside observing the signals coming into their eyeballs.
Consciousness is romanticized and "spiritualized" by people as a sort of new-age buzzword, but it's very clearly an inherent aspect of the universe itself - consciousness is real. I'm sentient, you're most likely probably sentient unless the aforementioned philosophical problems have very counterintuitive answers - and we're just created through sexual reproduction so there's nothing super weird happening here, it's clearly an emergent property of certain arrangements of matter.
I would go further and say that consciousness is an emergent physical property of certain types of self-referential computational systems such as ourselves and animals, and of course, if this is the case, sufficiently advanced AI as well.
We're learning more and more as a species that our language based categorizations are not binding upon nature itself but instead tracings we draw on top of it, trying to make sense of it. There is no inherent reason why AI cannot be sentient. There is no inherent reason why "synthetic" experiences of said AI are not just as significant as any other experience, unless we want to denegrate experience as a whole
Be aware that there is much drummed-up fodder about the AI, with a goal to create steady and positive acceptance of the AI research. There is this unilateral force of opinion that the AI is a logical continuation of our development as a species, with all sorts of utopian idealism about how the AI would make our lives easier and streamlined. Everything can be replaced with an algorithm. Nothing is mystical, wondered at, and sacred anymore; everything can be calculated and replicated, over and over again; improved, personalized, accessible anytime you desire. No more longing, working to achieve, failing to achieve. I say force of opinion, as the recent scientific and rational radicalism is presenting itself as the only solution - a perfection, without the burdens of spiritual ways. A ghost in the machine as the allegory... the idea that sufficiently powerful computational machine is spontaneously capable of emerging as a sentient being. However, there is really no proof. It is an idea perpetuated to the level of a dogma. No one really knows. The singularity is a theoretical construct. In the most positive light I can see this as not understanding what a spirit is, what is it that makes us human. It has achieved a level of political propaganda. It needs to in order not to delay and revise the aspirations that lead to the want of creating the AI in the first place. The true "why" lies somewhere else. If it's going to make our lives easier and better and whatnot will be a mere byproduct. The primary "why" is to have power and supremacy.
I say propaganda, because it's really just a play of words. Your feelings are "mere" electrical signals interpreted by your brains? Well of course, there must be some medium, but that doesn't mean that we are just a bunch of biological wires. Love is "just" high brain activity? Of course it is, if you look at it from only a point of being able to measure things with lab oscillators. But measuring is not understanding. Defining reality with such an approach is seeing with tinted glasses. What else is there? Well, because I don't understand, I can only say what I know. Brains are computers, so strong that they are now sentient. Just like that. Well, that's quite an unilateral idea, devoid of any other possibilities.
Let me take one strong example from 2049 to prove one of my points: A scene where K meets the huge holographic ad for Joi. It is one of the definite examples of the practical use of the AI (among strong, subdued and efficient killing machines). It's basically a billboard, sensing your presence, evaluating your emotions and aspirations in order to access your very personal space. "She" is nude, beautifully rendered, speaks to you in a soothing voice, saying things in a manner your closest friend or lover might, with a tagline "I can be whoever you want". It's an advertiser's wet dream. This is the reality.
2049 was a horror film for me, as I said before. It depicts that world where everything is replaced with algorithms and computers. You can fall in love with a hologram and don't need genuine biological partner, because you are nothing more than a set of wires. To fall in love you only need a beautiful face, puppy eyes and attention (audition) of your particular way of life. Horrible.
Curious, are you really big on Jean Baudrillard?
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Man, i get pretty psyched up reading about how revolutionary people think OPN is, but any time I put on one of his albums I'm left pretty unsatisfied. I'm always keeping an ear open for these new set of parameters I keep hearing about, but I never hear it. Maybe this time the glory will present itself. *will report back in 3-5 days time*
If you haven't checked out Commissions II yet, I highly, hiiiiighly recommend it! The Bullet Hell Abstraction tracks are otherworldly and Suite for Magnetic Rose is stunningly beautiful.
Unless of course, you've already given it a listen and weren't too keen on it, though I have a feeling this album is going to be one hell of an incredible masterpiece. I like what I'm hearing in the trailer and all the talk about death metal guitars haha
Also check out his XLR8R podcast which spins Autechre straight into Yeezy and pulls it off flawlessly.
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Likewise, if you have a character with dissenting behavior that isn't necessarily a clear cut villain, the author risks the characters dissenting opinion being interpreted as their own personal feelings.
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Did anyone read Airboy #2 and actually find it offensive? I'm trying to wrap my head around this.
If you portray any minority in a comic book/fiction, your characterization is immediately representative of every member of said group.
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Anyone here reading Airboy?
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I still love Kanye tho. I bet he knows what's up.
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Just read this page of the thread alone and I'm flabbergasted and befuddled at the thought of anyone having the motivation to give a shit about any of this stuff anymore.
I just love capeshit.
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Just caught up with the new 52 animal man, gutted its finished. Easily the best DC title about (that I have read). Finished on a high though so I'm happy about that.
Yeah I was sobbing like a small child while reading AM #29. Probably one of my all time favourite single issues though.
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Oh word I just realized he did the fill ins on Sweet Tooth haha. Yeah Mind MGMT looks pretty cool.
I'm really want to start Annihilator. I've been trying to go through Morrison's headcannon (done Animal Man, Doom Patrol and on Invisibles), but I think I'm just gonna jump ahead and read that. Multiversity has been great as well. I like each new issue even more than the last.
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anything fictional? i like sci-fi/horror/weirdness mainly
I'm a huge fan of Jeff Lemire's stuff.
Essex Country (weird)
Underwater Welder (weird horror)
Trillium (weird sci-fi)
Sweet Tooth (wierd sci-fi horror)
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I think the birds in Aisatsana are a really clever way to serve the same effect as the creaking from the swinging piano at the Barbican. It seems really deliberate.
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My boy IceJJFish
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No way, this is a meandering mess that never gets anywhere.
How many seconds does the average Aphex Twin track take to get to the point and grab you by the neck? Two?
Yeah. As I skim through it a bit more the 8-bit-y video game stuff seems really out of place.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y14O46AQrQ
Believable?
I think its a pretty decent fake. A couple of sounds/techniques sound like they get reused a lot more often than I'd expect from Richard. And not in an Acid/AFX/Tuss kind of way.
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Stay In The Car
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Was better. To each their own, but the last season or two they've really been milking it for all it's worth. And I still tune it every week.
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I fucking hate this fucking show, but I simply must find out what happens next.
Ah. The How I Met Your Mother problem.
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Ghostface Killah has an annual 10 softest rappers in the game list. Do you think we could get an "Autechre's 'N' softest electronic music makers" list?
Or feel free to substitute "softest" with some other adjective to your liking. All in jest of course.
On a more serious note: you've both talked about starting out Autechre with very basic to no real understanding of music. Has that had any effect on communicating and working with other musicians/composers? Do you two have your own kind of "language" when discussing work, that doesn't transfer so well when conveying things to others Autechre might be working with?
Bonus question.
Have you sought out training for specific things since then? Possibly not music related, but still relevant to Autechre's output; I think Sean mentioned he went and learned some physics in this thread.
Cheers! You guys have been a huge inspiration.
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Ghostface Killah has an annual 10 softest rappers in the game list. Do you think we could get an "Autechre's 'N' softest electronic music makers" list?
Or feel free to substitute "softest" with some other adjective to your liking. All in jest of course.
On a more serious note: you've both talked about starting out Autechre with very basic to no real understanding of music. Has that had any effect on communicating and working with other musicians/composers? Do you two have your own kind of "language" when discussing work, that doesn't transfer so well when conveying things to others Autechre might be working with?
Bonus question.
Have you sought out training for specific things since then? Possibly not music related, but still relevant to Autechre's output; I think Sean mentioned he went and learned some physics in this thread.
Cheers! You guys have been a huge inspiration.
Gescom - AMKS_1
in Autechre
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FSOL yes! I remember this exactly thank you