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Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by huffmsa »

basetop wrote: post #80
intertextuality wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting "dumbass idiot 𓅩" with a bio of "shut the fuck hi" is a completely serious account? It's fairly obvious that it's a tongue-in-cheek joke, the linked url doesn't even work.

It surprises me sometimes how innocently naive people are. How people miss obvious jokes, parody and sarcasm online. I figured as more people use the internet, the less naive they'd be, but it seems like the opposite is happening. And the more obvious the joke, the more people seem to take it seriously.

Eternal September has some how gotten worse over time.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by Insanity »

huffmsa wrote: post #82
Insanity wrote: post #43

To me this just looks like garbage. It's not disturbing, or all that weird.

Yeah but have you tried singling out an item and naming it?

Yeah but garbage often gets broken. Containers that get broken, a dog-like pillow that is messed up,..

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by TeMPOraL »

basetop wrote: post #80
intertextuality wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting "dumbass idiot 𓅩" with a bio of "shut the fuck hi" is a completely serious account? It's fairly obvious that it's a tongue-in-cheek joke, the linked url doesn't even work.

It surprises me sometimes how innocently naive people are. How people miss obvious jokes, parody and sarcasm online. I figured as more people use the internet, the less naive they'd be, but it seems like the opposite is happening. And the more obvious the joke, the more people seem to take it seriously.

On the mainstream Internet, you can't ever be sure. What you consider an obvious joke can actually be intended as 100% serious by the poster. Or it could be some small agency's "brilliant" plan at social media marketing targeting unsophisticated normies.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by dalbasal »

sriku wrote: post #76

Visual Jabberwocky? (Possibly made by a GAN?) Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ... “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”

Perfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic.

It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by EamonnMR »

What scares me about the responses is that this appears to be the first GAN-output that many people have seen. This does not bode well for people being able to recognize this sort of thing, should that become important (spotting 'this person does not exist' profile pictures for bots, etc.)

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by madaxe_again »

pgl wrote: post #15

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

I've experienced this, not as a result of having a stroke, but as a result of severe dehydration and depleted potassium making parts of my brain shut down, or at least malfunction horribly. It is terrifying, and even looking at this picture makes me begin to feel the panic I felt during that episode. I could not identify anything, or figure out the connection between what I was touching and what I was seeing. Bath taps became cats, my hands were strange alien objects that kept intruding into my field of view, the ambulance was some kind of great bloody animal that I was about to be fed to. I screamed blue murder and wept while clinging to a towel rail, apparently, until the paramedics sedated me.

It's hard to quantify just how scary losing that connection to reality is.

I need to go have a cup of tea. Looking at that has really shaken me.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by RandomBacon »

philwelch wrote: post #22
pgl wrote: post #15

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

Well, now I know what's going on if the real world starts looking like that. And I bet it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8

For anyone wondering what that is:

> The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, vaguely reminiscent of Bob Dylan, but the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words "all right". Celentano's intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by micheljansen »

A while ago, I had a migraine with stroke-like symptoms in the other direction: I could form thoughts in my head, but could only get a garbled mess out of my mouth. As a knowledge worker whose most important asset is his brain, this was one of the most terrifying experiences in my life.
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