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[–] 1 point 1 day ago* (2 children)

I don't know. Is it a man reciting a 2 hour long poem written in Gen-Alpha Skibidi toilet speak? Because if it is I'm not watching it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    No, it's not a 2 hour long epic poem of toilet speak, although maybe it sort of feels that way. I think it's intellectual, maybe it's pseudo-intellectual nonsense, maybe it's "I'm 14 and this is deep" intellectual masturbation, I'm a philistine and an idiot and I can't always tell the difference. I'm not going to pretend I'm qualified to thoroughly review or vet the material, but it really seems like it's trying to be intelligent and actually discuss serious things. At one point he equates Skibidi toilet to digital brutalism, for example, as an art form that is intended to be unpleasant as part of its artistic notion. He seems to be, facetiously most likely, posing the argument that in a way we are already serving the machine god and the algorithm and this is what all humanity's history of progress has brought us to, this is what our idealized machine god considers art. And if we don't like it... I think maybe he's trying to imply that maybe we should reconsider our pursuit of the machine god. But it's kind of over my head, to be honest.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 19 hours ago

    maybe it's pseudo-intellectual nonsense

    Nah, it's the real thing. I don't agree with him on every point but it introduces a bunch of important philosophical ideas (e.g. the "body without organs") and gives you some idea what they're about even if you've never heard of them. Then it puts all those together into a steady relentless logical build-up of evidence to get you to accept the reveal at the end. It's not rigorous in the way you'd expect from a book, but it's pretty good.

    Personally I think it might be useful to think about the machine not being quite so monolithic as it's made out to be. It's multiple instances of the algorithm, competing with each other and evolving memetically through natural selection.

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