You’re referring to something from the initial release.

Yes, I am. Why can you only interpret that as a complaint about right now?

When someone goes ‘hey, remember–’ that doesn’t mean they’re unaware of anything that’s happened since.

I had a stray thought about mathematics and a silly moment from a decade ago. Y’all are being dicks by reading that as impossible ignorance. Like I just woke up from a coma and this was the most pressing thing to comment on.

Say Nazi in the title, you fucking cowards. Sprinkle on some allegedly if you have to. You know goddamn well what it was.

Scunthorpe and ¢i@L!5 are why we can’t have nice things.

Rated R for graphic violins.

Actual piracy doesn’t bother me, but I’m supposed to care that a robot learned English by reading library books? Learning is what libraries are for. Yeah, the draw-anything robot can only draw The Simpsons because it’s seen The Simpsons. How else was it supposed to happen?

Training is transformative use. You can’t spend a zillion compute-hours guessing the next word of a story, in such a way that it can fake Tolkien retelling Shrek as a rap battle, and claim that’s the same as LordOfTheRings.txt on an FTP server. What the network is and does will not substitute the original work. Not unless the Silmarillion had more swamp ogres than I’ve heard.

Image stuff will become a brush that does whatever you tell it. Type the word “inks” and drag it over your sketch, and it’ll smooth out your lines. Type the word “photorealistic” and it’ll turn your blocky shading into unreasonably good lighting. None of this prevents human art. The more you put in, the more you get out. Stable Diffusion is a denoiser, where the concept of noise can be defined as bad anatomy.

Video stuff might end Hollywood, as soon as editors figure out they’ve inherited the Earth. The loosest animatics can become finished shots without opening Blender or picking up a camera. A static image of what a character looks like should be enough to say, this stick figure is that guy. Or this actor is that cartoon character. Or this cardboard cutout is that approaching spaceship. The parts that don’t look like that are noise, and get removed. We’re rapidly going to learn how blobby and blurry an input can be, for the machine to export a shot from your head, just the way you imagine it. And where it’s not exactly what you intended - neither is any shot ever filmed. A film only exists in the edit. So anyone who can string together some already-spooky output, based on the stories they’d like to tell, is going to be a studio unto themselves.

Did you know the word “recall” refers to events that happened in the past, when things were different?

Release early, release often.

The worst decision for all this work would be to leave it wasting away on some guy’s hard drive. Push whatever you got.

Just fund it with taxes, you dolts. Should’ve done it in the first place. It’s a function of the state, like anything else that some people use and some people don’t.

Recalling when two people found the same planet and did not see each other, disproving any implied multiplayer -

What’s the birthday paradox look like for “trillions?”

The do-anything robot gave us exactly what we asked for! That’s a vulnerability!

Also: jailbroke, surely.

What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

Human comprehension.

Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!

__MACOSX folders hither and yon.

That chair makes the thumbnail look like an FPS screenshot.

Just a bit cagey.

We’ll be testing […]

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Aw, I like the gloopy “name any of these games” banner.

I still can’t believe that’s a real bird name.

Formerly Grunt’s.

Training is transformative use. Sluicing data through a pile of linear algebra, to mechanically distill the essence of words like “fantasy,” is not what copyright protects against.