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Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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So telling someone to make a table for you is more human than making it yourself, because you're using natural language instead of saws and hand planes?

I would say yes, conversing between two humans, maybe even collaborating, is more human than a solitary human using inanimate objects.

Basket weaving is more human than conversation. Language is entry level artificial man.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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So, why did you use it in this case?

So you consider calling something "ironic" an extreme position? On a more general note, you will find that many people are uncomfortable with the idea that AI will replace human work, especially when it relates to art, which this project in question references.

But there are many more tech things we take for granted that could be seen as ironic as well. I think I never saw this movie but being a young adult and an Internet nerd in the late '90s early -00s I remember perfectly how many people were negatively discussing it because it was dehumanizing, destroying personal relationships in flesh and a long etc. And while the future turned out to be not so good as some early adopter thought, it also never turned into something so bleak as detractors said it would.

And I think the same will apply here, with GenAI.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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Watch it if you haven't already. I accidentally landed in the middle of it while doing some illicit late night channel surfing when I was a kid.. this left quite an impression. I think it was a healthy formative influence for me and primed me for rejecting fads / peer pressure, distrusting authority, etc. Probably also helped me to resist the more unhealthy aspects of a religious time/place, and I was even doing ligh…

What I find funny (only not really) is the wildly different interpretations of this film people have, for many they seem to be primed by other things to see in it what they want. Basically skeptical of common forms in modernity, that is very clearly the intention. However, I have also seen that in extreme far-right communities this film represents how Jewish people control the world... somehow I don't think that is w…

I have not clicked, but recently I was suggested a video whose title was more or less: “everybody thinks 1984 agrees with them”.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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If it was a basic biological function then the marketing department wouldn’t exist.

Consumption and love/sex are things we tend to do naturally, but marketing just ramps it up to a level we probably wouldn't reach if we weren't forced or manipulated into it. Just about anybody can fall in love, but marketing can pressure you into thinking that not falling in love and being with someone means you've failed at life and marketing can fill with you anxiety if you aren't in love, or haven't had sex, or y…

Of all the phenomena in modern life a person might have anxiety about, the kinds of sex they are having (or not having) seem like the thing most relatable to their hunter-gatherer ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, long before the invention of marketing.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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on the same line, but less pop meme replacements https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/artificial-cl... it replaces terms used to exalt Artificial Intelligence to what they really mean, and some tongue in cheek jokes against things that are used to pass billionaires/tech as friendly (e.g. replacing bill gates with his actual name)

That's so obnoxiously stupid and annoying, wow.

That's how most people feel when presented slop btw

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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post #62

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"Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it's an ethos" -- The Big Lebowski, another influential film to many people.

I like The Big Lebowski, it has some fun lines, but John Goodman's Walter Sobchak doesn't have a monopoly on the English phrase "Say what you will about X". And indeed apparently the line was in fact "say what you want about the tenets of national socialism", not "say what you will about the tenets of national socialism" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_29yvYpf4w ).

The second half of the line was also relevant, since the claim of Jews controlling the world was specifically a Nazi one.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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post #24
post #15

Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.

What if it wouldn't get done otherwise? (Genuine question as we're all trying to figure this shit out)

We'd all be better off for it. I don't want you to take a shit on the table and call it dinner. Even if you don't cook.

Re: They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

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post #24
post #15

Oh the irony: "They Live", a movie famously about alienation and dehumanization, and you let AI do all the coding.

What if it wouldn't get done otherwise? (Genuine question as we're all trying to figure this shit out)

It wouldn't have. I put this off for 11 years, the joke wasn't worth the manual effort required

AI is amazing at jumping into an unfamiliar codebase, it was probably 20 mins total work

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