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i love this. i love this form. thank you.

i dont think dirges overwhelm like this, its pretty bombastic. I think of the Life Sim video as a pre-gen-AI embedding space, a flood of Platonic ideals of affective tropes refined / discovered over decades of hollywood iteration. but also something about the form feels particularly monumental in this era, like 'look at what humans imagined, look at what we felt, look at what we created, look at what we collectively shared,' before the absolute evacuation of indexicality from every image via AI.

are people making more Life Sim IDL type videos like this? hollywood affect bomb montages to euphorancholy anthems? and who?

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the problem (i think) is that memetic valence depends on rapidly shifting cultural contexts as well as the social graph / network strength of the memes initial appearance. by the time you’ve measured, processed, trained, whatever, the context is likely to have shifted. probably a lot of chaos in the dynamics, a lot that is unpredictable. i think we would have gotten further at this point if there was much predictability in it; instead predictability was found in simple “hooks” and narrative / cognitive exploits. u might want to check sal hagen and daniel dezeeuw’s digital rhythmanalysis work tho.

u get it. there is an ontological bifurcation happening.

34 years later with many many more straight men considering themselves “allies” and not one of them is singing a song dedicated to swallowing cum written by the gay guy in their alt metal band

ok ok ok

Boys and Girls same

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that’s not what u said. u said signatures are goofy and it’s high IQ not to care about them. u can make an argument about the effectiveness of the signature in differentiating the signer, or maybe that it's brockman expressing the relative triviality of human expression in his post-humanist viewpoint or something, but this only validates the signature's communicative form. of course it’s divergence, divergence due to evolutionary pressure within a lossy, discrete, instrumental and alien environment, one simulated with fundamentally different physics from those that shaped 4 billion years of organic evolution, hence ontologically alien. for a steward of such an environment—one that could either usher in a new age of civilizational and ecological flourishing or lead to extinction through desertification with sand and silicon—it is an incredible act of carelessness and hubris to trivialize something as essential to human history and identity as the signature, not to mention deeply unserious.

not generational zuck has a lil heat with that Z , but they just don’t make them like huang anymore the boys should take notice that’s the sig of a MAN

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i dont think a guy with a signature like greg brockman should be allowed anywhere near computers or actually any machinery of any kind he shouldnt be allowed to drive not even a lawnmower look at his signature now look at jensen huang i mean wow its beautiful powerful its the signature u want in a dad jensen huang is now "america's dad"

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this is like an inverted mandela effect

i think u glitched this into the world, i had no idea it existed. from the trailer the style looks somewhere between mandy and tony scott’s domino, which for me were less “films” than a kind of novel psychoactive drug consumed ocularly. thank u for speaking about “hobo with a shotgun”

why is anyone even concerned about the loss of “quality content,” i personally do not have a single warm memory of a wonderful experience i once had with quality content. content is not films or music or podcasts even if it contains them, because the sole purpose of content is attention and circulation. its like how porn is not cinema because its sole purpose is sexual arousal. the only people whose lives would be worse without either are people who make a living from porn or content. i guess thats like 50 million people or something so maybe i just pwned myself.

content is a medium unto itself no matter what medium it contains. i don’t know how yet but i believe there will eventually be an “outside” for non-content media. a snake can’t eat its tail forever.