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Post by sumeno »

engeljohnb wrote: post #53
Papazsazsa wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news" Apathy is for cowards.

I think being constantly outraged over stuff happening to no one I personally know for twenty years that will never affect my daily life has become too exhausting for me to keep it up, and I'm not convinced my learning about it is helping anyone. It's not changing how I vote. Apply whatever insult you want to it, but I'm finished. Making a data center in my home town? I'm going to do anything I can to stop it. Entert…

It's a pathetic outlook to just roll over and let everyone screw you over constantly

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Post by skeledrew »

jcgrillo wrote: post #55
Papazsazsa wrote: post #42

You can't prompt-inject the intangibles. Now, Cannes specifically – and entertainment generally – is rife with hucksters and people who started off as hucksters only to later become credible. Culture jamming is often looked back on as innovative! But the difference between this and, say, Adbusters is that Adbusters and artists in general tend to punch up, whereas this – regardless of merit – is looked at by other art…

> Higgsfield, a San Francisco startup valued at $1.3 billion.. I don't think these are filmmakers. They aren't here for the art, they're here to find product market fit and, increase revenue, and raise another round at higher valuation.

Sounds like none of the largest blockbuster films were made by filmmakers.

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Post by LastTrain »

embedding-shape wrote: post #20
coldtea wrote: post #10

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> Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :) A, yes, denial with fix everything. Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes as a bubble and takes the economy and their livelihood with it.

Filtering what information you let affect your brain and mood isn't "denial", it's taking care of what you consume. Try sitting and reading about death, suicide, harassment, violence exclusively for a week, like if you were a social media moderator, and you'll notice how quickly you're affected by these things, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. > Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes a…

After 2008, things got better for some and worse for most. I am in the former group but it doesn’t make me oblivious to the latter.

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Post by artisin »

sen wrote: post #47

OP article is an LLM-rewrite of this Futurism article: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cannes-not-show...

Or perhaps it's some authentic plagiarism? That would be a refreshing change of pace.

edit: scratch that; it's an AI-rewrite, just like the article OP posted yesterday, the day before that, and so on.

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Post by eithed »

krisoft wrote: post #63
eithed wrote: post #59

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True - your comment reminded me of Cube; that was done in 3 weeks, with budget of $350,000 CAD (according to wikipedia). Another favorite of mine - Primer = 5 weeks with budget of $7k. edit: looking at others, Pi - 4w and $130k

> Cube; that was done in 3 weeks The cube was not “done” in 3 weeks. Maybe they shot it in 3 weeks, but there were years of pre-production, and at least months of post-production. (According to wikipedia.) Saying that it was done in 3 weeks is like saying that windows 11 was done in 45 minutes, because that is how long the compilation lasted. > with budget of $350,000 CAD “50% of the budget as C$350,000 to C$375,000…

Fair enough, I was looking at budget fields on wiki rather than reading the tidbits - thanks for the correction still!

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Post by embedding-shape »

coldtea wrote: post #32
embedding-shape wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Filtering what information you let affect your brain and mood isn't "denial", it's taking care of what you consume. Try sitting and reading about death, suicide, harassment, violence exclusively for a week, like if you were a social media moderator, and you'll notice how quickly you're affected by these things, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. > Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes a…

> Today obviously is different, but back then it felt impossible things would ever change and return to normal. And that feeling was right: they never did return back to normal. If anything, they've gotten worse!

Well, my context is Spain, maybe in your country it's differently today, but compared to the times I wrote about in my previous comment, things are a lot better today, and lots of people who previously weren't thriving are today, unemployment gets lower all the time and the economy seems to recover faster than other countries.

Maybe try a better country next time? :)

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Post by embedding-shape »

Papazsazsa wrote: post #30
embedding-shape wrote: post #8

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> I'm tired of move fast and break things Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :) Some things of course impact your day to day life, but most of these "Hate / Love" articles and news are mostly made to drive clicks, not to actually make your life better.

The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news" Apathy is for cowards.

> Apathy is for cowards.

No one is suggesting apathy here, I'd suggest direct action if anything, but being mindful of what content you consume isn't "apathy", that sounds like the words of a coward :)

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Post by embedding-shape »

gilrain wrote: post #49
embedding-shape wrote: post #20

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Filtering what information you let affect your brain and mood isn't "denial", it's taking care of what you consume. Try sitting and reading about death, suicide, harassment, violence exclusively for a week, like if you were a social media moderator, and you'll notice how quickly you're affected by these things, even if it doesn't feel like it in the moment. > Like when the AI either costs them their job, or crashes a…

I just wanted to let you know my career ended in 2008, directly due to the global recession, and it never restarted despite intense effort. Your feeling that “everything will return to normal” is not actually rational.

That's truly terrible, and I'm sorry you went through that.

I think we're talking about two different countries here, everything did go back to normal here, and things are today better than ever for most people. I'm sad that that didn't happen where you live too, but it is very rational and real, it's actually what has already happened.

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Post by ryandrake »

eithed wrote: post #11

While $500k 90m movie done in two weeks is an accomplishment, looking at the trailer it's very dubious to me on the quality of it. Plot, characters, audio - everything screams "I've already seen this somewhere", there's no substance here, at least for me. And while computer visuals are nice, it's nowhere "Love Sex Robots" quality where they're driven by computer graphics as well.

The trailer gave me this weird feeling like I've seen the movie before, even though I obviously haven't. Then it started to dawn on me. Nearly every line in the trailer is a line from another similar action-adventure movie. I bet if you searched a corpus of scripts from all past movies, you'd find each line directly in some other movie. Then I noticed the same thing about the characters. They may look unique at a surface level, but the essence of the characters are all tropes from previous movies. Same for the fight choreography, same for the score. It's as if the movie creator's AI prompt was "Take every movie made in the last 10 years that would have appealed to 14 year old boys and mash them up into another movie with visibly different characters."
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