Ioper
23d ago
It's wild how you seem to think negative feedback has to include physical pain. Dogs are social animals that are easily trained without pain.
Ioper
23d ago
Now that I think about, everyone I knew with well trained dogs has them on shock collars. But maybe that's regional or social bubble related.
I would assume so. As I said, I know literally no-one that uses them and that includes Trump voting Americans with land (California, Nevada and Colorado).
It is? I have literally never encountered anyone in real life that uses one or even talked of using one outside of joking about doing something cartoonishly evil.
That isn't true at all. You can do granular enough tests if you want, some countries do, and barring that you can have a lottery, which some countries do, mine among them.
The lottery has not really been a meaningful thing here (at the very top level) for about a decade though now since they increased the number of spots at the medical programmes and also made the test slightly more granular.
I don't see why America couldn't do one of those things. I personally think the runaway competition for those university spots is extremely toxic and would bound the competition for like the top 1-2% (for the top bracket) or so and then have a lottery for them. Picking the lucky seems preferable to torturing your children for some zero-sum competition with no societal gain.
While I had gotten a good deal further than you had at the same age, i still had insecurities in similar ways and my impression was that a it was true for a lot of my (successful) friends as well, so i don't really think success solves this issue, at least not normal levels of success, even if it might lessen it.
My only real advice is to keep your head down and work on the material goals so that you secure your financial future. This will allow you to solve your other problems (but not solve them by itself) and for me almost all of my anxieties went away with becoming a father. I feel like society really understates just how meaningful parenthood is and how it ties you together with your family, community and the future in general.
Ioper
30d ago
That's not quite what I'm getting at. I don't really care if someone wants to read a an endless webserial or not, I don't see how that matters. What I tried to respond to was the media addiction part, with the implication that sufficient amount of quality media of ones preferred sort, like endless office episodes for those who are into that or an endless webserial, would lead people to only engaging in that, essentially amounting to a low tech wireheading.
My point is that even if we got endless episodes/chapters/whatever, most people would still want to do a variety of things outside of media consumption.
I don't believe people want to game or watch TV endlessly on repeat though, I certainly don't. Regardless of how good something is I want to cycle between different sorts of stimuli and types of activities, some providing "fun" and others "meaning".
This seems to be a lot like gambling and many addictions to me. The vast majority have no issues to engage in moderate use while a small minority can't control themselves and self destruct, and young people are more vulnerable.
Ioper
1mo ago
Or why not just straight up report whatever some state propaganda organ says?
Why would the Russian/Ukrainian/Isreali MoD ever lie? Or why would Hamas or any of constituting parts for that matter? Surely we can uncritically re report their press releases, often with barely acknowledging where said statements come from and that won't lead these organisations to try to use us to launder propaganda?
Ioper
1mo ago
a shame that Egypt can't do a better job allowing academic research to these places. But I can appreciate the bind they're in... a very poor nation, with a history of foreign archaeologists destroying their monuments, and also a hotbed of religious strife that might react poorly to sudden discoveries of ancient relics from a heretical religion.
I thought it wasn't so much that as Zahi Hawass ego standing in the way.
I don't really have this problem at all and I'm curious why you do. In not saying that everything I'm getting recommended is a hit but the vast majority is at least in my areas of interest and I don't really get recommended locally trending stuff. Could it perhaps be a difference between in how treat users based on how they make revenue from them?
I'm on YouTube premium. Are you using the free client? Possibly with an adblocker?
While i have issues with wokeness in Hades 2 Hestia isn't really it.
She is the goddess of the hearth and having skin like coal and ash feels like a thematically appropriate take. I didn't even consider that they tried to do something ridiculous like vitiligo representation.
I got more irritated at retarded stuff like Hephaestus wheelchair or the uglification and darkening of Athena making her look like a racist caricature.
Principles such as tension and release, foreshadowing, thematic development, chord resolution are the essential tools of virtually every composer, regardless of genre and whether the composer is actively aware of it or not. While often discussed in a classical context, their application is universal and apply to pretty much all genres.
This seems like a consistent weakness in at least current AI-generated music, which often does well with short-term musical grammar but fails to build a cohesive, long-form structure, resulting in a piece that feels aimless and unsatisfying, IE "it doesn't go anywhere".
These same concepts of building expectation and providing resolution are fundamental to other time-based art forms, such as literature and film, and to effective communication in general.
I think this feels similar to how earlier text generating models wrote and similar to how they still struggle to write longer form text. Perhaps the issue is an insufficiently large context window or perhaps it's something else more fundamental to how the models function, I don't know.
I actually found it comparable to a lot of the early GPT3 written content. The models were able to produce grammatically coherent text that mostly stayed on topic, it just didn't go anywhere and after reading a few paragraphs you'd get pissed having been duped into reading essentially verbal diarrhea.
This music is much the same, there is no purpose and it doesn't go anywhere. Its like 10 second segments stitched together without much thought except having smooth transitions and staying in the sameish genre.
Perhaps there are decent songs produced and it's down to prompting and iteration, but I haven't heard them yet.
Ioper
1mo ago
Another possible error here could be that the weaving the compensation is intended for isn't actually skilled labour.
Basic weaving mass producing basic cloth isn't skilled labour. It's extremely simple and repetitive. You could be shown how to do it in 10 minutes. Furthermore, it's not physically strenuous (unlike the farmwork you describe) or dangerous and you can do it indoors.
Given the above the relative compensation makes sense.
There is weaving that absolutely would count as skilled labour but that is explicitly excluded.
Ioper
1mo ago
I meant in the sense of hiring someone to do it for you. There is such an insane overproduction of these kinds of competences and it's been going on for like 50 years.
Ioper
1mo ago
I've been playing the game for quite a bit in early access and while I enjoy it well enough this does feel like "safe horny" the game, but extended to every single character and interaction. Everything is so HR approved and "safe" that I find myself just skipping through all the dialogue. Nothing is said and while it's mildly witty at times it's never funny.
I think a major issue is that they've replaced many of the major roles with women for the sequel and they don't think it's ok to make jokes at the expense of women so what we get is a whole load of anodyne nothing.
Ioper
1mo ago
Maybe, but people seem to reuse the same tracks from every video so the actual time to find a track might not matter much if at all. I guess the question becomes, what do you care more about? The $10 for a month of suno + whatever time it takes to generate a song you're satisfied with, or spending ~1 hour in the free audio library?
Ioper
1mo ago
I suppose background music for YouTube channels that are very small or even solo operations could be a good use case. These people want to pay nothing (and licenses for use in videos is not cheap), might not want to use the same audio library as everyone else and the music itself isn't the focus.
You don't notice the very clear artifacts in the sound?
I don't really understand why these exist and would have assumed that would have been easy to fix but seeing as they haven't been perhaps it's much harder than I imagine.
Beyond that the music itself is bland and the audiomixing poor, but perhaps these are prompting issues with these particular tracks.
If the technical issues can be ironed out this seems fine for stuff like background music in shops and receptions. Given that a Spotify subscription costs as much why would anyone switch though?
What is the use case here? I'm not being facetious, I think this is cool as hell but what is the use case? Composing and recording music is already dirt cheap. Extremely quick prototyping? Perhaps as a way to create temp music?
Ioper
1mo ago
Perhaps kind is too strong a word but unlike Hillary she didn't seem actively malevolent, which is within striking distance of as good as you're going to get with a politician.
Ioper
1mo ago
I think you have that backwards. International students are subsidising native students. For cost to come down other things need to happen. University services, wages and administrative bloat needs to be reduced.
One might still believe you have little to gain from them and that they might be bad in some other way (culturally or a security threat).
In theory sure, in practice it's a reliable signal that you're abusive. Furthermore, i don't want to give abusive people the social go ahead for using that tool and plausible deniability for going over the line.
I don't have a principle against physical negative feedback, I would support corporal punishment where there is a neutral third party evaluating and administrating said punishment, like Singapore style caning.
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