Nuzlocke tourism

I kinda want one now

You should be proud of yourself indeed

I’m an IT guy and I get mad anxiety with anything soldering, welding, …

I am incompatible with anything less digital than a PC so I got mad respect for this sorta stuff.

Non-binary PC is just a quantum computer innit?

I watched quite a few videos and read some articles on this.

There are multiple things at play.

1. Protests make opinions known. This is basically what you outlined.
2. Protests make the government and / or the police blink. If a protests picks up enough steam, it puts governments and military and police on notice that any escalation might be dangerous. It signals volatility, and this is basically a dare against a government, and it creates rifts of dissent within government.
3. Protests signal power to a populace. Imagine you’re at home, you hate the government but you feel unsure about making your opinion known. Some part of it is personal consequences, but some part is also just that you wanna know if others feel the same. Imagine a crowd of millions of people outside saying what you thought all along. Even if you’re not joining, you sure as hell feel strengthened in every small thing you do against the government, even if it’s just talking about it with your friends an family.

Especially if there’s still such a crackdown on protests, the second and third point are valuable goals. The point of a protest is almost never immediate action but an intentional display of pressure. Everything suddenly becomes high stakes and another opinion enters the streets, disinfecting the halls of power one sun beam at a time.

Yes it is.

If it’s not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it’s legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it’s worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.

In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.

What I’m saying is yes, there’s a tiny chance that it’s not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.

Famously at Edward Snowden’s first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.

13 drive-by quick-access points

The more I hear from you the more it seems your mom is completely oblivious to your world and your thoughts. I’m glad you are talking to us, and I hope you also have friends who can give you even better advice (and maybe a therapist when you can get there).

Just know you’re doing a truckload of things rn so if you manage to make it, that’s incredible, and if you shut down and need to take your time, that’s completely understandable even if your mom doesn’t get it.

My dms are always open if you need to talk to someone ^^

“you should listen to some real music, not this new softie garbage” type beat

Music changes, there’s some I don’t like but I’m still not gonna be a dick about it. I don’t like jazz, but you can have your jazz. That’s fine by me.

Yeah boring.

I guess it’s almost past the “not this again” zone where it becomes transformative meta humor, but for that it’s not self-aware enough.

I wish your opinion was shared more.

I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.

I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.

I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.

Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.

Bunch of reasons, few people have pointed out in other comments already, including:

• text =/= dialogue
• LLMs train on the average guy, not good actors or only well done plays
• AI models are statistical approximations of patterns that emulate behavior of the real world. It’s gonna take shortcuts wherever it can
• maybe there’s specific tricks for positive or systems prompts that will improve quality in your case / on you model
• the model you are using could be bad for the task
• some of the points you are making strike me as personal preference; they could just as well apply to non-AI written series

Those are some things that play into why it feels like it’s awful at it. Some of it perception, some of it is true.