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  1. In case anyone here hasn't seen SORA yet. OpenAIs new text to video model: And this is the worst it'll ever be
  2. Thanks for the write up, really interesting to read and I'm glad you feel so much better now. It seems like your experience is centered around feeling that people hated the changes that were happening to your body, and that those changes were wrong in some way. I'm not sure what you were referring to here though: "it's just offensive that you could think to do this", is this about wanting to transition? And do you have ideas about why you felt negatively about the changes? from wikipedia I've gotten: Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity A man is an adult male human A woman is an adult female human so when I plug it all together I get Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being an adult male human, adult female human, or other gender identity which has a bit of a circular definition, so I'm not sure what the deal is here
  3. Care to explain further? I feel like this depends on the definition, if you define it as some software running on a computer that is capable of all the mental capabilities of a human(in a functional sense, being able to learn, complete tasks etc, not something like consciousness) then I don't see why this isn't a real concept or possibility. Maybe you mean that the concept itself contains a contradiction that makes it impossible? Like the term "communist utopia".
  4. Yeah I like the shoggoth way of viewing these things I reckon it's pretty accurate. I highly recommend this article of you're interested in this sort of thing: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators basically viewing these models as simulators, since they are trained to predict the next token, they must learn how to model the systems that produced the tokens. Because they have been trained on pretty much the whole Internet it means they are in theory able to simulate (to some degree of resolution) a wide range of types of people and situations.
  5. Stereotypes are the natural consequence of having a system that tries to model the world using categories and course grained approximations, it's impossible to avoid this if you're trying to model a complex domain, humans are not above this.
  6. Is there a definitive text or place where Marx's final views are layed out in an accessible form, if I hypothetically wanted to enter this discussion...
  7. Sydney show was seated, Melbourne was standing
  8. Great recording, thanks for that. interesting how different it sounds when you aren't feeling it through your whole body. Feeling the bass was such a big part of the experience, I'm getting the feeling that a lot of what we heard last night was actually bass frequencies below the audible spectrum that we could feel only through our bodies, is that a thing?
  9. vkxwz

    Melbourne 23

    Same deal at the Sydney show tonight, and they ducked under the table for most of the time where it wasn't light£ off. Never been to a live ae show before but Sydney was incredible, far exceeded my expectations (that I formed from listening to the Helsinki set)
  10. Yes I agree the emotional connection is the important part. I think that on some level our mind has to figure out what's going on and reduce the complexity to simplicity in order to connect to that emotion in the first place though, but that seems to happen without needing that "intellectual level" understanding, it could happen on a subconscious level. When this emotional connection happens I think it's because our mind realises that the best model of what it's hearing is that it's sound produced by an entity that has it's own emotions and internal life. music with lyrics obviously shortcuts this because we know it's a human and are used to interpretting emotion that way. A story containing other conscious experiencing entities is much more meaningful than a bunch of shapes moving around, no matter how complex and perfect that may be, and I think that autechre nails the former even though it appears like the later on first listen for some tracks.
  11. Yes I agree he meant creating complexity out of simple principles in the process of making the music, but I'm saying that because the music is constructed in this way, our minds can basically learn to reverse engineer it in a way, reducing the complexity/noise back down to simple principles, and I think that this phenomenon is one way music can "click". I'd like to know what you mean by these other methods in more detail. I've recently gotten stuck into logical positivism so I'm probably taking a more extreme view on this that I usually would, but the way I currently see it is this; in order for you to know that something is true or have any level of confidence that it is true, it should be either a tautology or something verifiable by sense contents. And overall I think the only thing we have access to is the information of our conscious experience, so all that we can do is study this information and make models of it, etc. I do agree we are only really answering how and not why with science though, we are just building models that can make good predictions, which is valuable. I think I know what you mean here, I'd rather be watching an ecosystem unfold than have YOU FEEL GOOD YOU FEEL GOOD shouted at me
  12. I don't remember any broken english, just you refusing to explain further. I recently realised you were probably referencing Schopenhauer in that thread, maybe I'll revive that thread and start pestering you some more. I don't think theres anything more to metaphysics that it being misunderstandings of language really. You talk about explanations about mechanics being shallow, and I agree but this is all we have, just observations and models. You seem pessemistic about this approach but the alternative is incoherent, and whether you like it or not; modern science actually has produced models that are predictive enough to give us great control over the world around us.
  13. There are so many tracks that I just don't understand despite listening a lot, maybe some day they will click like the others. With draft I feel like the theme of the album is things falling apart and breaking down, so that's why it doesn't click in a way that makes everything seem like a perfectly functioning unified whole, because it isnt. But then again maybe in a few years it'll all make sense to me in a way that contradicts that, who knows.
  14. I think that often the thing being expressed can't be expressed in a more accessible way, like the format is more intertwined with what is actually being expressed than if it was just an interchangeable language that you have to learn. Can you expand on this? I do believe that there is something in the music that is more concrete than just a subjective feeling dependant only on the listener, I think that with these kinds of tracks there is some sort of objective structure that holds some intrinsic meaning no matter who is listening or if they perceive it. Similar to a mathematical equation, or a video tape of some real world event. I think the question is then how can these objects be embedded in sound in the first place, and how do we reconstruct them from the sound, in our own minds. I think it comes down to how our perception works, and how we are constantly contructing a model in our brains that serve to explain our senses and predict the next set of senses. If we cant model something, it's perceived as noise (what is probably happening with hoggy's friend), but through paying attention to something we build up an internal model that is able to predict it, and this model is the meaning we find. There are many ways to model and predict the same thing, for example a track can become entirely predictable just by you memorising the order of all the notes and sounds as one sequential thing, but it's proveable that the smallest / most compressed encoding of some data gives the best prediction of how that data will change next (there's a formalization of occams razor called solomonoff induction that has been proven). It seems like our minds are always trying to find this most simple encoding, in order to be able to understand/predict better, and with less information stored. In the case of music that clicks, I think it's because the music can be modelled in a relatively simple way despite being so complex, so when something clicks you experience reducing a ton of complexity to simplicity. Something in this vein that I enjoy it when music has a momentum to it and feels like physical objects with weight moving around, bouncing off each other, being pushed and pulled and there being elasticity, like things are being stretched and then releasing by contracting again, throwing an object back to where it came from.
  15. No damning evidence here but definitely some bits of info that make it seem more likely. It's slowly working it's way toward being on of my favourite releases, super dark, gritty, aggressive and subtle all at the same time, there are lots of really quiet sounds I never even heard in my first couple of listens honestly that now seem like integral parts of the tracks. Some parts actually feel like drukqs drill type tracks except taking place in the same space as gwarek2. If it's RDJ, it's easily his darkest release in terms of mood imo. And good catch @hoggy, at around 1:25 ish in backyard, it's possible it's not but it sounds like it.
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