popalchemist

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by popalchemist 3d ago
Counterpoint: Love is not power. "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." -Jung
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by popalchemist 3d ago
propaganda for one of the scummiest men to ever live
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by popalchemist 5d ago
This is trapped behind a paywall. But I will save you the read: the only sane explanation is that consciousness (in the broad sense, not the particulars of human consciousness) is fundamental. That explains how laws can exist, and why nomat
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by popalchemist 5d ago
I thought it was already explained at a granular level. But here we go again: Pre-ai: You compose a song. It exists in your mind, or on paper, as a series of notes and chords, sometimes with words. This is not yet "a song", it&#x
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by popalchemist 5d ago
You do not have to understand something to accept that someone else does.
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by popalchemist 6d ago
I'm a composer and I can 100% get behind this workflow. I will often compose on one instrument (guitar or keys) and then throw the midi into a DAW and experiment with sounds. This is that.
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by popalchemist 6d ago
Why have a feature that lets you get what you want? are you kidding
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by popalchemist 6d ago
The use case is control. It's essentially a controlnet for the actual music writing. So a musician could compose melody, harmony, and lyrics and generate many performances of the same song until they get one they like. A non-musician c
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by popalchemist 6d ago
Rad! really well done.
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by popalchemist 8d ago
What I said was not a critique of founders, just the devil they make (sometimes necessary) deals with.
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by popalchemist 8d ago
Do not mistake any VC's eagerness to find fresh meat for the grinder for a philanthropic or otherwise virtuous motive. VC exists for one purpose only. Extract value from others.
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by popalchemist 17d ago
The things I mentioned are not personal judgements, they are recognized traits of autism (although they appear on a spectrum and there's variance).
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by popalchemist 18d ago
"A normal tuesday" is my current pet peeve.
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by popalchemist 18d ago
the content is written by a group of autistics and displays characteristic lack of social situational awareness, i.e. it's tone-deaf as to how it will be recieved. It comes off as extremely pretentious, bordering even on megalomaniacal
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by popalchemist 18d ago
the content is written by a group of autistics and displays characteristic lack of social situational awareness, i.e. it's tone-deaf as to how it will be recieved. It comes off as extremely pretentious, bordering even on megalomaniacal
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by popalchemist 18d ago
I am all for opposing Empire, but this is incredibly cringe and self-defeating.
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by popalchemist 19d ago
Your argument boils down to the idea that human life is not worth defending, even when capital actively undermines it by undercutting honest people's honest efforts to work for a living. Thank you for outing yourself as a low-empathy,
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by popalchemist 20d ago
You keep framing it as getting incensed over other people using ai to write code; but that isn't what it's about. A dev union would not attempt that; it would attempt to ensure quality of life for your class of people (and their f
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by popalchemist 20d ago
Has it occurred to you that it isn't only self-interest but concern for others that drives collective bargaining? It's essentialy a way for the little guys to stand up to the 1% to fight against the unending series of abuses and d
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by popalchemist 24d ago
It feels like every other sentence out of this man's mouth is a lie, distortion, misrepresentation, or manipulation.
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by popalchemist 24d ago
Whether his point is valid or not does not change the fact that I do not want to hear from him. A broken clock is right twice a day and a screaming edge lord teenager will occasionally say something insightful, it doesn't mean I should
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by popalchemist 25d ago
Instant yawn and instant dismissal; I don't want advice from a psychologically stunted man-child.
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by popalchemist 25d ago
More of this. Yes.
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by popalchemist 25d ago
the same amount of matter can be arranged into arbitrary dimensions.
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by popalchemist 25d ago
It's not a matter of luck, it's a function of the degree to which one's psyche is fragmented. The default in my industry is exactly as you describe. The only reason it isn't so for me is because I refused to give over my
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by popalchemist 25d ago
That's really not true. You can have complete ownership of your creative process even if you work toward a brief/goal specified by someone else. I say this as someone who has edited movie trailers for major motion pictures for 20
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by popalchemist 25d ago
marxist alienation (or even debord/situationist alienation) is a spot-on analysis of this mode of neurosis. kudos.
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by popalchemist 28d ago
what now
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by popalchemist 28d ago
because it's actively aiding fascism and the literal extrajudicial kidnapping, murder, and sex trafficking of children, women, and minorities at the behest of big brother who in the current administration are enacting literal fascist,
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by popalchemist 29d ago
you're not anti-car just because you don't oppose those cameras with the same vitriol. Flock is orders of magnitude more evil.

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