Edward Newton

It's not that AI is original. It's that our prompts are *extremely not original*, and we don't realize it.

It's just a synopsis machine.

And it's a great one!

But if you knew AI was only synopsizing what the best and worst of us said at some point before, would you trust it with big decisions?

It seems like magic because "wow, it constructed an original sentence and seemed to understand my question exactly!"

Not really. It identified the important words in your sentence and tapped into its pattern database to spit back out a pattern it identified somewhere else.

You and I can only identify limited pattern structures in speech, and that's after we're exposed to millions of words. Does anyone here still know how to diagram a sentence?

That's all AI is doing. Diagramming sentences, with millions of structural connections.

Hot take:

"Generative AI" is really just "Summarizing AI".

All it's doing is condensing and rehashing things it has already seen before, based on your prompts.

The "magic" of its answers are really in the magic of Big Numbers.

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Sure, you've got anti-cheat protection.

But do you have anti-perspirant protection?

I need a setting in my MP lobby for "no sweaty gamers, please."

Where is my "filthy casuals only" lobby matchmaking?

Scrubs. Possibly Dexter.

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

"once we find the genie, we are certain the first thing it will want to do is go live in a bottle on your face."

Oh yeah, that's my understanding, too. But getting to see what they chose to leave out is really interesting. I have never actually watched yet is, I don't want to risk it on a bad VHS player.

I have a bootleg copy of the six hour work print of Apocalypse Now, I just haven't found a VHS digitizer I trust enough to put through it.

Two skeets. The first is Saeed Jones saying he just realized Frazier is about a toxic male podcaster. The second is THE Bebe Neuwirth replying with “this is what I’m saying!” I love her.

Thank you, bluesky, for giving me the moment of zen I needed tonight

Scam.

My game HFTGOOM/He Fucked The Girl Out of Me has been de-indexed by itch.

Since I was worried that they might eventually take down my games, I've decided to self host my games on a personal website.

You can now find my games here:

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I'm definitely one of them.

I think the Swindle was my first consciously indie game experience, which is like having your first real romantic relatonship.

I had been chasing shallow over-polished experiences because that's all I thought there was.

And then you meet someone who just *gets you.*

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It’s time for our own collective shout. Who are you calling?

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Jay Leno has always struck me as a guy who works constantly because he's afraid of being broke.

"Alienating half your audience" because you're ridiculing of fascist behavior strikes me as someone who is playing with scared money.

You know, if you're not actually a bot, but you waste people's time like a bot, on the Internet you are still effectively a bot.

I'll be the idiot: are LLMs constantly being fed news and legal bills? I wasn't aware you could poll LLMs for current events.

#2 would be something like "isn't it hilarious that this guy is out here trying to protest in defense of writing and he can't even spell?"

#1 is "we're flawed and beautiful and I love it"
#2 is "I'm being a snarky asshole"

which, in fairness, are both on brand for you

I can't tell if you're trying to test if I'm a bot, but if so, fair, and I'm waiting for stuff to compile anyway:

#1 is "This guy made his own sign, misspelled something but he gives zero fucks. It is awesome to see everyone out here. We're flawed and beautiful and making our voice heard"

I'm legitimately just asking, because I can't tell if you're being sincere or ironic. No offense or attempt to "problematize."

Is it "hell yeah fellow misspeller"

or "everybody thinks they're a writer, sheesh, get the basics then come back to me"

I don't know if the other thing was a bot, but I'm in the same boat. Are we saying "hell yeah, you know it's a writer cause they misspelled" or are we ridiculing them for their spelling? I'm here for the former.

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This hit me.

I was thinking this THE ENTIRE TIME.

He sued CBS (and Paramount) over something else. This would be suing Comedy Central (and Paramount).

No, the legal war where Trump would try to sue them, because he's deranged enough to try, as he has with others who did a lot less.

I don't have to hand it to anyone, but I appreciate that they are baiting our lawsuit-happy president into a legal war with Paramount.

They can be dicks and doing a usefully good thing anyway. Life doesn't have to be a series of morality litmus tests.

A piece of a line from the Address to the Haggis (a monologue I had to perform) will float up until my subconscious at random:

"warm, reeking, rich"

It's incredibly awkward to be present for.

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