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Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

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Post by munk-a »

officeplant wrote: post #107
munk-a wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cannot conceive of how being able to view someone carries an equal value for a person as a week or two in Cancun chilling - or how they can spend money that easily that took them weeks of their life to earn through labour[1]. [1] There's a segment of the population that I'm ignoring those that are either trust fund babies or useless economic leeches, when those people blow 100k on a car that they immediate crash I…

I'm friends with a fairly well off single guy who has admitted a great deal of his spending to me at times. Keep in mind he's a steadily working guy in oil field inspections which pays close to $300k a year, which is pretty damn good in our poor area in the southern US. According to him in the last year he's spent $18K+ in clash of clans alone and its not the only mobile game he plays. I've watched him drop thousands…

Sorry, to clarify - 300k is a pay rate so far beyond what most people make that I'd consider it to fall under my caveat. Any person who is making enough money to be replaced with a well compensated manager leading three entry or low mid-level pay (120k for the manager, 60k each for the team member) is... sort of astounding. I don't know what level of productivity you'd need to hit to rationally be compensated at that level while other people get so little.

And to clarify a bit more, 11k for a person making 300k a year is just a single week's take home, so maybe a more measured response is just that this is equivalent (for a person making 300k to a person making 60k) as blowing 1k at vegas on a weekend.

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Post by lostphilosopher »

Balgair wrote: post #115
lostphilosopher wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

David Foster Wallace predicted not only that, but its rise and fall. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527

Great Read! I'm reminded of a Nebula(?) Award winning short story about hive-rats interacting with nobility in the 'future'. The nobility is shrouded in apperance/voice/stim tech such that the AIs are more the person than anything. A princess is brought to the under-city by her father to a shop that can fix the princess' tech, as it is malfunctioning. The daughter of the shop owner tries to peer into the princess' li…

Do report back if you find it! I'll check it out.

Part of the premise of the Deus Ex games (thinking specifically of Mankind Divided) is "augmentations" that can make people better in all kinds of ways, but are generally only available to the wealthy elite which leads to all kinds of trouble. What happens when the "elite" don't just seem better - but objectively (and universally) _are_ by real measures. Longer and more accurate memories, longer life spans, more knowledge of their surroundings, better judges of character, stronger, faster, smarter - etc. Not necessarily "faking it" they really do remember more, but that's because they can store their memories in a chip in their head. All at a cost that prevents the 99% from having these advantages. (Though, the progress made by these folks can be broadly beneficial.)

Yes, yes, I know somebody is already itching to comment that this is present state - I'll leave you to it.

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Post by robocat »

mLuby wrote: post #100
Diederich wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> quite sad. I wonder if you can expand on that.

Observers generally experience sad feelings from seeing someone waste resources, and experience anger when someone is taken advantage of, probably because we perceive our risk increasing (in a tribal sense). Soliciting (and receiving) outlandish "donations" from strangers can look like both a waste and a con. By tribal risk increasing I mean that if Ogg loses his harvest fording the river, now the tribe has to feed h…

> from seeing someone waste resources

I think the word "waste" really doesn't apply to just shifting money between people. Although there may be waste elsewhere (or it may be just unfair).

Re: Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

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Post by robocat »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #17

I'm a guy and I have no idea why some guys throw ridiculous money at good looking girls online. You have no chance of meeting them, let alone anything else. If anything, throw money at not so good looking people, their lives are harder on average.

That's like asking why do people watch porn when they won't "meet" the pornstar.

I can totally get why someone would pay for interactive porn (although I personally spend my money on my own (wasteful) interests).

Re: Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

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Post by justinator »

malandrew wrote: post #103
certmd wrote: post #36

I think a reading of the relevant passage from David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" (from 1996) re: video conversations is appropriate here. http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527

I was actually looking through the comments to see if someone would reference DFW videophony.

Same - exactly where my brain went.

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Post by yorwba »

newen wrote: post #102
6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #84

I know this is tangential to the whole thing, but this is a cool feature of the Chinese language: >The story has been incredibly popular across Chinese social networks with more than 600 million people reading posts that use a hashtag which translates to "female vlogger experiences bug showing her old lady face" and more than 50,000 using the hashtag itself. In english, you're never going to get a twitter trend of #F…

Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.

It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires slightly larger fonts to achieve the same legibility.

It's maybe also interesting to note that hashtags are delimited by # on both ends, because there are no spaces between words you could use to find the end.

[1] https://m.weibo.cn/search?containerid=231522type%3D1%26t%3D1...

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Post by SlowRobotAhead »

rundigen12 wrote: post #127

All I see is a filtered woman on the left and a different unfiltered woman on the right, the whole time. At what time does the glitch occur?

If you’re talking about the YouTube video, I don’t think they captured the glitch from A to B, just the unfiltered capture.

Re: Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

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Post by newen »

yorwba wrote: post #126
newen wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good chance it's actually just 6 to 7 syllables long. So, not just writing but compact speech too.

It's #女主播直播出bug秒变大妈脸# [1]. 12 syllables. I can get an English translation down to the same syllable count: #StreamingBugTurnsVloggerGirlIntoOldWoman It obviously still takes up more horizontal space; to fix that you'd need to use a font that squeezes about 3 Latin letters into the same space as one Chinese character. However, the gap in information density isn't actually that large, because Chinese usually requires s…

Interesting. I never would have thought a hashtag that long would gain so much popularity but there you go. It must take a long time to type too.
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