This feels like one of those transformative historical moments that we'll only ever read about in alt-weeklies and underground history books, twenty years from now.
"What is it about the inferior Arab race that is responsible for the worst war in human history?" will be an Op-Ed I can see myself reading in the next generation.
This is cool, from a digital visuals perspective, because it is building out a very detailed library of human behaviors to model after. A richer catalog provides a lot more potential for engines that want to render more complex human behaviors.
But its also kinda... illustrative of the soft upper limits of generative AI, as this is still ultimately a discrete (and presumably fairly limited) library of motions that will result in visually distinct characters all falling into the same set of physical behaviors. Both a small rambunctious boy and an elderly infirm woman crossing a gap in the pavement in the same way isn't realistic. And while you can solve this by adding more data points, you're still having all small rambunctious boys and all elderly infirm women crossing the gap in the pavement in the same way. And while you can solve this by adding variations... how much modeling are you really willing to do for sufficient variance? Idk.
We get generative in the sense that we can reskin a stick-figure model very quickly using a catalog of behaviors. But we don't get generative in the sense that the computer understands the biomechanics of a human body and can create these stick-figure models in believable states.
I do think one thing that will fatally undermine modern western concepts of whiteness and privilege is the inability to yell at someone's supervisor.
A fundamental problem with passwords is that you either have a "secure" selection of large, distinct, constantly rotating codes that you have to keep track of on paper/in an app (insecure!) or a single memorable code that - once it is cracked - exposes all affiliated systems (insecure!)
There's a serious argument to the effect that a physical id tied to a digitally managed rotating set of large arcane codes is at least as secure as the paper/app-based list of hard codes. The big problem with this technology is that it requires a more complex hardware interface with more attendant IT support. So you're talking about $$$ that people don't want to spend for additional technical security.
Two-factor authentication is cheaper and easier than biometrics. So we've settled on that instead.
Please drink the Diet Mountain Dew Verification Can.
I would be willing to bet that this translates to any social delineation. I betcha age gaps, language/dialect differences, and sexual preference signals all flip the same switch in the male gamer brain.
But I'd be even more curious to see if women exhibit the same habits in a woman-dominant environment. Do they naturally move to enforce peaking orders that ostracize outsiders like their male peers, or do they follow a different pattern?
The Future Is Now
It absolutely is making fun of all sides. But in the same way Blazing Saddles made fun of all different kinds of Americans.
There is still very clearly a righteous protagonist and a nefarious antagonist. The nature of the story is absurd, but the message is crystal clear to anyway with half an ear listening.
No child should have to die alone
New liberal bumper sticker for 2024.
I do not believe either Dulles brother was in the room
My psychiatrist telling me this all the time.
"You think you can beat me." Smug smile widens. "Do you even think that's air you're breathing?"
Its very weird to think that China and Russia would ally with Venezuela over a border dispute in Guyana. Although, huge points for name-checking Juan Guaido as a military commander.