I’m early Gen Z with a kinda poor family. So I had CRT’s and old VHS but also grew up on the internet.

I feel an extreme gap between me and people a few years younger. I graduated in 2018 so I was some of the last people to have a traditional highschool experience. Before Covid, Zoom, and Chatgpt.

I also mostly grew up with computers instead of phones so Im only just now getting into TikTok, I’ll likely never truly revolve around it like many others (both older and younger than me).

Don’t get distracted from the important moral of all this:

There was a sewer man.

It may be understandable to view the novel as high art using pedophilic themes to craft an intriguing story, with no intention to titillate.

Then you check out the author’s other work…

The exhausting thing is this literally happened. Trump shat his diaper in court and the MAGA crowd started the “Real Men Wear Diapers” bowel movement.

Oh yeah, Jezza seems great, from what I know he actively left the Mormon faith and was ostracized by most his family. He uses this experience to be a more empathetic and better person.

All the more sad when Shad tries to claim he’s just as good an artist and Jezza doesn’t have the heart to call him out on it.

Oh it gets worse with Shadiversity. Huge AI art guy, his brother’s an actual artist too so it’s hard seeing Shad brag to him. Very “anti-woke” and paints his conservative Mormon beliefs on everything.

The worst unforgivable part is the end of his book has impregnated rape victims step up to defend the rapist protagonist because he “gave them” a child, while the ones that didn’t get pregnant were jealous.

He loves to bring up that the book is supposed to explore this immoral character. But this isn’t the protagonist’s viewpoint this is just how Shad thinks the world works. This is how Shad believes rape victims think.

Very sad to see, I followed him for swords and castles but Jesus Christ.

“But council I was merely casting the humble and fun Balloon Animal spell ~targeting penis~”

There was a brief window after ChatGPT when I had a twinkle in my eye and thought “this is an impressive start, how will they improve it? How will they make it more efficient?”.

That went away when all the tech companies in unison slurred out “make it bigga!” then pushed to production.

Some of the high concept type of spells you can make eventually is insane. You truly can play with forbidden magic except it’s sawblades and nukes.

Noita just has that genuine sense of awe and exploration I’ve only experienced in OuterWilds (Also a really good game, progression is story and information based, do not spoil).

I’ll be playing work 🥲

Besides that I’m currently playing Paper Mario for the first time (I don’t know if remakes count on this sub).

Also Noita, if you like exploration and tinkering, and can find humor in dying a lot to physics or yourself, then I highly recommend. You could sink endless hours into it; beating the main portion of the game is jokingly referred to as the “tutorial”.

I imagine it’s because the attributes that IQ measure could be the same as we use to measure success.

Effectively if your test is based on the skills needed for STEM, and the STEM fields have jobs with high pay and respect, then you’re likely to be considered “successful”. But the same person could be awful at communication, politics, the arts, and just be ignorant at large to how the world works. They may even be hyper specialized to their field but lack the flexibility in their intelligence to understand other STEM fields (I hear physicists are guilty of this).

Another, simpler answer, could just be that already wealthy people have better access to stable education, so they were already successful in many ways.

I feel like the current Machine Learning gold rush is amazing from a technical perspective, but I feel like a lot of technophiles miss the real potential.

What we have is the first crickety engines of this technology. We’re not building futurism masterpieces with the equivalent to a steam engine.

We have great new tools that we can use to further understand and optimize what we built, instead of just throwing more and more compute on top of our first design.

The human brain uses a light bulb of power, so we know we are massively inefficient. And recent research like MAMBA shows that there’s still more improvements to make.

And Anthropic’s Mech Interp shows there’s ways to better understand the neural networks to improve performance without relying solely on a “black box”.

The tech has great potential, but the massive server farms being dedicated to it now is just crypto style overhype and fear of missing out.

God you don’t realize how many tiny things you need to buy until you don’t have them.

You’d expect to find something like a ruler, some tape, a pen, sticky notes, ect. but realize you gotta buy them first instead of just searching your clutter drawers.

Don’t know if this has been fixed but Gemini was telling people it’s unethical to teach people C++ or memory management.

Because it’s considered “memory unsafe” but Gemini took it literally and considered it to unsafe to teach.

My favorite fact about all this is that Spielberg insisted on the giant raptors during production. Around the same time the Utahraptor was first being studied, an actual giant raptor about the same size.

Less fun fact, it was gonna be name Utahraptor Spielbergi but it was changed last minute because Universal was suing museums over the word Jurassic. Trademark trolls ruin everything.

Guy on the right, look at his sheer confidence!

He’s already won and he knows it.

Literally what uprooted my “rational” centrist opinions on everything.

The timetable quote just hit me and my sensibilities like a truck.

Half of these just feel like Twilight Zone episodes with no moral to the story.

“Isn’t this guy fucked? Anyway cow tools”

Yeah but then you get older and it doesn’t cut it anymore so you switch to the harder stuff.

Yup, lol