#you don't suck

[thepeacefulgarden]

[hardtruthsfromsoftcats-blog]

It's not that you suck, it's just that technology has a way of becoming that much better.

This doesn't have to be a bad thing. There are certainly people who take pride in their calligraphy, but few people lament the advent of the printing press, which can pump out literature orders of magnitude faster than any scribe. Nor, I'm sure, are people too sad about automobiles replacing coachmen. It wasn't a great job for the unpaid horses. In both of these cases, technology displaced people's livelihood.

This trend has continued for a long time. Although the previous examples show that it wasn't always the case, AI is least likely to replace jobs where dexterity comes at a premium, where bespoke contraptions must be constructed rather than instruction sets on programmable, general-purpose Universal Turing machines. Despite the hype, robots lag behind computer-based AI; we haven't been able to mimic the fine-tuned musculature of biology on humans, though hardware is always getting at least a little bit better. But it does threaten jobs where physical processes can be efficiently emulated in software; e.g., musical performance.

AI will revolutionize the way at which we interact with technology in work that is chiefly nonphysical. It will no longer be sufficient to have skills, but to have metaskills. It's not knowing about how to solve a problem, but about knowing how to figure out how to solve a problem.

As an AI researcher, I have to admit I was a bit caught off guard; I feel like I was lapped. One day I woke up and there was a paper on generating incredibly convincing images from text, and a live service for doing it. Later that year, I woke up to find that GPT-3, which had been available in API-form, was suddenly available in free chatbot form, and was much easier to use and iterate with. It all felt magical. It all felt scary. Were things moving too fast, or had they just not been moving fast enough for too long? I felt powerful, but so did everyone else, and in a way, that made me feel vulnerable and powerless.

The biggest difference I see between now and in the past is how fast AI is improving. AI image generators just commercially came out last year, but Midjourney is already at version 5 just one year later and we are already seeing photorealistic results. The implications of that are discussion for another time, but the point is that new technology is appearing quicker and quicker. AI can code quite well; does that make me, a computer scientist, obsolete? Probably not. But if my own miscalculations and recent trends are to believed, I'll be worse than a machine quicker than I thought.

[cluster-c-pds-culture-is]

Cluster C is a long list of things you messed up before because you did short term relief of not knowing over long term relief of actually knowing what happened (like an extreme amount of times, I lost count, I suck)

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[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[butchfalin]

some things to remember:

if you see a popular post where two people are jokingly giving each other shit, it is both possible and extremely likely that these two people are friends messing around. if you approach a stranger with this overly familiar hostile energy, you are not being funny. you are just being rude.

remember that it is both extremely possible and highly likely that op will see everything you add to their posts, including tags. don't say things you would not say to their face.

a post urging people to not be rude to strangers is not a wink-nudge suggestion that people should actually be rude, nor is it a sign that op just needs to toughen up. asking people to be kind is not an outlandish request. if you find yourself offended or see it as an opportunity to show how funny you can be by being mean to someone you don't know, you're just an asshole.

it is much easier to say nothing than to go out of your way to be rude. blocking people is good and healthy. block whoever you want!

posts were more often than not made to express one's thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. they are not intended to be directed at you, nor should they be taken personally

every account has a person behind it who can see and respond to your actions

if someone stating these things makes you angry, think about why that is

[liquidstar]

Yes, Greece still exists, we didn't all die 2000 years ago. Yes, people speak Greek. You people are so fucking stupid for real. So many of you claim to love ancient shit but can't even acknowledge the actual living culture of the people whose mythology and classics you romanticize. You keep leaving annoying comments about how you just forget Greek people still exist, thinking you're being quirky because you love ancient stuff soooo much that you forgot about the people it came from. You think about it so little you don't even realize that an actual Greek person has to read this shit, making it clear how little you actually care about the culture beyond the romanticized (and westernized) mythology. Don't claim you love Greece, don't use our mythology anymore if you can't acknowledge that we're still around without making it about how little you think about us. It's mind boggling that you'd think a Greek person would read this and think you're anything but obnoxious. Explode.

[questcult]

I don't understand how or why people don't like their own art.

Like it can't just be insecurity, because I 100% KNOW that I'm useless.

But I also know I'm funny as FUCK and I can write well, just not productively or consistently, hell I even know that I can code.

It's like, yeah I suck, but my work is still good tho, I still laugh at comedy bits I wrote years ago, the spaghetti I call code still fuckin' runs my guy.

So what's tearing everyone elses love for their own work down?

Like, is someone lying to all of you to make you think you suck, and if so what's their address, I just wanna talk to them.

[msboutofcontext]

[5weekdays]

they gotta give me more enrichment at work look what i just doodled

^ joke that would have killed in 2011

🏳️‍⚧️ this post has come out as trans 🏳️‍⚧️

[dareduffie]

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

[zoe-oneesama]

Quick, get out of the blast radius!

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[thepeacefulgarden]

[lineffability]

sometimes I see people calling Aziraphale selfish in an accusatory way, as if it's a flaw that needs to be smoothed out, as if it isn't a trait that is at once defiant and emancipating, as if his selfishness isn't mostly wielded in an empowering and kind way, as if it's categorically bad to want things for yourself, to enjoy them, to have and keep them, as if selfish isn't the most revolutionary thing an angel can be

[shanniakharina]

a little addition to bakery enemies au part 184 from @buggachat I put the dialog to let y'all know where I imagined it'd go!

If you haven't already, go check her comic now!

ID: [Adrien blushing a bit is leaning over giving Marinette a kiss on the cheek making her blush profusely while she looks shocked. Adrien has a speech bubble over him saying "you're amazing".] End of ID

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bros before Ho(oh my god is that Hanguang-Jun?)

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[roach-works]

hey i just wanted to say thanks for still expressing positive sentiments towards homestuck even after all this time. most BNFs aren't creating fanworks as much anymore (no one could maintain that intensity forever tbh!) but when they completely divorce themselves from that part of their life it's just... those creations brought a lot of joy, and it's extra sad when they feel the need to go scorched earth. i'm happy your works are still around and i really do wish you all the best going forward!

i think a lot of us abandoned homestuck because of two factors: the first was the collapse of the proudly sex-positive fandom space that let us be weird and creative without fear or shame, and the second was the fact that homestuck ended, then launched several epilogues, in a way that seemed specifically designed to mock fans for caring.

like, some very dark, sad, awful things seemed to happen to hussie, and he certainly did not have a good time with his own fandom. but from the perspective of someone in the audience, if a show i love turns on me and starts directly insulting me for loving it, caring for it, and hoping for the best, i get up and leave the theater.

'isn't it horrible to be the hero? aren't stories just prisons? isn't love ultimately meaningless? isn't hope the main driver of tragedy?' sure, fine. yeah. you're not the first man to ask these questions. they're big damn questions!

'aren't you stupid for sitting there and watching me ask these questions? because the answer is that i'm an idiot for asking them and you're twice an idiot for thinking that the answers might be worth the wait.' now you're just being an asshole to yourself, your story, and your audience. im taking my toys and going home.

homestuck was a brilliant, fascinating, unprecedented monument to storycraft... and it ended like a sandcastle getting kicked over by a toddler. that, to me, is the central tragedy of the piece.