#mitigated present

[mitigatedchaos]

People are claiming that Internet-connected smart beds (with built-in temperature control and other features) became uncontrollable due to an Amazon Web Services outage.

I used to think Shadowrun having wireless everything, even though it's hackable, was unrealistic. This sort of thing seems to be caused, in part, by the desire for a recurring revenue stream.

[iteratedextras]

Twitter: "Everything is computer."

Me: "what. who summed up the early 21st century in just three words?"

Twitter: "The President. By accident."

Me: "Right. That tracks."

[mitigatedchaos]

"Hey, so, cyberpsychosis is real."

"But... we don't even have cybernetic implants yet?"

"Yeah so it turns out that some people either haven't been reading enough science fiction, or have been reading too much science fiction, so a businessman, for example, can get one-shotted by an auto-generated SCP Wiki article."

"Well. Fuck."

"Yeah."

[mitigatedchaos]

[mitigatedchaos]

I'm not going to post video much, because video tends to use a lot of bandwidth and storage, and Tumblr is not known for its healthy financial position.

We are now in the position where a determined artist (someone who could actually do character sheets or key frames) could, in theory, use AI to animate an entire low-budget, sometimes wonky-looking, animated series about a clique of Tumblr users. (On the other hand, at least for Grok, it's not based on keyframes yet—which is, in some ways, not surprising.)

We are also in a position where every Internet meme could potentially be animated. Very cyberpunk. But does it really add much, or is it just noise?

As with AI image generation before, what you can do with depends on whether you're flowing with or against the currents of the training data. And also as with AI image generation before, there's an implicit, gambling-like element—each image rendering takes a little bit of time, and you don't know if you'll like the result, or if it will just be bad.

Thus, as with AI image generation before, a lot of it is a matter of iteratively generating and pruning, sometimes in a frustrating way, when you and the AI are not in sync and thus the AI doesn't understand you, or when what you want is too improbable in the AI's training data.

[mitigatedchaos]

LLM: "The best option is the one where you get to read the informative and enlightening political powerpoints every day."

I mean, OK, an LLM "would" say that. Reading documents all day is its thing, and being overly enthusiastic about texts is also its thing.

[mitigatedchaos]

So not that long ago, I was sketching out ideas for what I'll call 'demicomputers' as a means of attention management.

This is going to sound weird, but an e-Ink tablet with pen sounds like the correct device for Frieren, as in the elf. [...] Imagine a 38-inch e-ink display mounted to a wall, with an almond-colored bezel. It is displaying a high-resolution version of The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. It's probably some kind of elf technology. (What does it do? I'm not sure.)

Anyhow, someone made a 60hz e-Ink tablet computer reminiscent of the post, "Would Elves Use e-Ink Computers?" I don't have one myself, so I can't review it at this time.

[mitigatedchaos]

I definitely didn't see this much use of the term "corpo" before Cyberpunk 2077.