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I didn’t say the AI artist was worth a damn😜. My point is what can AI do in an artistic realm without a human to guide it, provide it a perspective and feedback loop? Nothing. You can’t quantify art, you can’t reduce it to some mathematical, deterministic “better” outcome. Like you could have an AI optimize a drug so that statistical models show increased survivability against cancer. The funniest thing about the AI artists work in the coffee shop? It had a $250 price tag on it, right next to a bunch of “real” art priced similarly. It was nothing that couldn’t have been produced with Midjourney by anyone in 15 minutes. But… I’m not sure it was objectively worse than all the “real” art around it. It’s all just local bohemians who, if they had real talent, wouldn’t be relegated to the walls of the 3rd best coffee shop in Salida, CO population 3000.
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graphic: Rampage Jackson’s son Raja Jackson may have beaten a man to death
Goredho replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Yeah, these guys I saw could be wrong, and that statement sounds very different than what they felt was going to be coming from the promoters. Wrestling is tricky. I mean, they are essentially roleplaying assaults all the time, and real injuries are inflicted all the time. Where is the line at which the law can ascertain what is real and what is part of the show? Where is the line beyond which the wrestling business wants to invite the law's scrutiny? -
graphic: Rampage Jackson’s son Raja Jackson may have beaten a man to death
Goredho replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Not arguing contrary to what you or @956 Worldwide are saying. I personally agree with you, just stating that some people feel like its somewhat likely the wrestler and everyone adjacent to the wrestling production are going to want to stay out of a prosecution/be uncooperative for reasons that only make sense within the wrestling business. These guys are more experts in wrestling than they are legal matters, so after that they are just speculating from a non-legal opinion on what the police might do with all the video evidence but no cooperative witnesses between the victim and people involved with the production (promoters, other wrestlers). I mean, its attempted murder, and pre-meditated at that. I don't think there is any other conclusion that we can draw from the videos we've seen. But if the victim and all the other wrestlers are going to undermine that conclusion by saying, "All the videos before, during and after the match were intended to be part of the storyline. The victim's catastrophic injuries were horrific, but not intended and not malicious. The only intent from everyone involved -- including the accused -- was to sell the audience on a malicious assault happening. Unfortunately, it was unclear to everyone involved -- including the accused -- that serious injuries had been suffered by the injured party" under oath, what's going to happen? If the police/DA know that going in, are they going to want to bother? I don't know the answer to that. -
graphic: Rampage Jackson’s son Raja Jackson may have beaten a man to death
Goredho replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Saw some video last night where some wrestling talking head was predicting nothing criminal comes from this. He related stories of how when he was involved in regional, independent wrestling, one of the uniform things across orgs was that if you were publicly shown to not be a badass, you would be fired -- no ifs, ands or buts. You can go out, party, have fun. But if you get into a real fight, you better win, because if there are videos online showing you to be less than a badass, your job was over. He believes that unless this wrestler dude can physically never wrestle again, he will likely not press charges, treat it as part of a storyline and try to use it as an angle for a rematch against Raja. Otherwise, he's done as a wrestler at any level with all the videos and media attention showing him getting his shit pushed in. And if the wrestler doesn't want to be involved with a criminal prosecution, there won't be one. He's probably wrong as fuck, but who knows. The police do seem to be waiting on the victim to want them to do something, and nothing seems to be coming from the victim's direction, yet. -
I think the genesis of rap music is a good example to examine in this context. How did rap music as a genre form after some isolated protorap tunes like SugarHill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"? A lot of it was a human expression of music using the tools that poor black kids in the ghetto had at their disposal. R&B, funk and soul records from the 1960s and 1970s and a couple of turntables -- all borrowed from parents. A DJ would take the same record on both turntables and alternate playback of the same passage of music to create a continuous vamping loop. They'd provide decorations and fills using scratching and other DJ techniques. A rapper would vocalize in a rhythmic chant vs sung melody about life as an African American in the 'hood. This is the core of songs like Public Enemy's "Don't Believe The Hype", Eazy E's "Boyz-In-The-Hood" and Ice Cube/NWA's "Fuck The Police" and other such songs from the era where rap exploded onto the scene. These are people that had a desire to express themselves and their life's experience, but without access to the traditional tools to make a full music production. So they invented a new form of music with the tools they had, printed albums and cassettes, distributed via their own record label which meant initially selling it out of the trunk of their cars to others in the hood. And as much as people can criticize rap, one thing you cannot take from it at that time is that it was raw and authentic. It was an expression of real human emotion and hardship at a time when glam was over, punk was winding down, hair bands were dominating rock with songs like "Girls, Girls, Girls", and grunge had yet to emerge from the pacific northwest, sopped with angst. An interesting experiment would be, if you took an LLM and trained it on just the music of 1960s-1970s R&B, funk and soul records, could it invent rap or something like it without a human perspective providing input and feedback? I don't definitively know, but I would guess, no, it couldn't. Or at least not with intent. It might luck into it by chance as Rick Rubin says is possible. But it does not have the experience of life in the ghetto to guide it. It does not have poverty limiting the tools it has at its disposal. It hasn't been slammed down to the street top by black police showing out for the white cop. It doesn't have other people from the ghetto validating it by buying it out of the trunk of someone's hooptie. In a vacuum of all of that lived context provided by humans, I don't think AI would "discover" this new genre. But maybe I am wrong about that, I dunno.
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Related, a cross post from the music forum: A thoughtful perspective from Rick Rubin. While I think he’s right about what AI lacks now (a unique perspective), it kind of presupposes that the average music consumer cares about such high falutin’ ideas. I think this is where AI augmented human creativity comes in. The human providing the editorial perspective and AI allowing rapid iteration through ideas. Like, I saw a print from someone at a coffee shop who described themselves as an “AI artist.” It was of a handful of sheep eating dollar bills from a feeding trough and ignoring a lush field of grass behind them. A kind of cynical statement about life in a capitalist society. Using Rick Rubin’s terms, the human provided the perspective in the piece of art, and AI just provided easier access to that perspective being realized in a tangible way. I think that is the sweet spot for using AI in art forms like music.
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A thoughtful perspective from Rick Rubin. While I think he’s right about what AI lacks now (a unique perspective), it kind of presupposes that the average music consumer cares about such high falutin’ ideas. I think this is where AI augmented human creativity comes in. The human providing the editorial perspective and AI allowing rapid iteration through ideas. Like, I saw a print from someone at a coffee shop who described themselves as an “AI artist.” It was of a handful of sheep eating dollar bills from a feeding trough and ignoring a lush field of grass behind them. A kind of cynical statement about life in a capitalist society. Using Rick Rubin’s terms, the human provided the perspective in the piece of art, and AI just provided easier access to that perspective being realized in a tangible way. I think that is the sweet spot for using AI in art forms like music.
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Anyone want some artisanal, hand crafted software?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
He should just hire the underemployed human racists. -
Saw it last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was not a big enough fan to understand that they had much more intent in their catchy songs that decorated my childhood than what they might provide at face value. Was cool to learn what they were really about and trying to achieve.
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I’m saying there are groups inside and outside this country that gain from our societal discord, that have no problem engineering societal discord where and when they can, and if they had the means to use gender dysphoria as a means to engineer societal discord, well… their morality and conscience certainly wouldn’t prevent them from doing it.
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Yeah, maybe. I mean, if you wanted to introduce rifts in conservative families between parents and kids to get the parent's riled up enough to support the overthrow of the established order, this would be a good way to do it. I don't doubt that there are people in power for whom the end justifies any means. The real question to me is are the tools available through online targeting, influencing, etc... to where they would have the means.
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From what I have personally seen, the conservatives who are the most pissed off and have a real, personal experience in the matter are those whose kids come up to them one day, state they are trans and start asking to be called by different pronouns. These parents blow a gasket and look for someone to blame. The conservative info-sphere is right there ready to provide them with targets. These families talk to their friends, their pastor, etc... about the experience. The conservative narrative is reinforced by experiences conservatives have with their own kids, or with friend's families that they know. Are these kids legitimately trans? In my opinion, knowing these kids, and knowing full well it's not my place to make such judgements, the answer is, pretty exclusively, no. So where are they getting the idea they are? Again, just from what I have personally seen, these kids are getting it from a combination of YouTube, teen gamer culture, discord, Minecraft servers, etc... They get it from their online hangouts, especially during lockdowns when everything else was shut down and kids were spending a lot more time than normal online. Places where it's "cool" to be trans and internet anonymity and disconnection provides a sense of safety. You can get as tinfoil hat as you want after that. Is this just the 2020's equivalent of a teen coming home with a tattoo in 1990 much to their parent's chagrin? Or is there a strategic effort to influence kids online and engineer these feelings within them and the resulting rifts in U.S. families as a means to weaken American societal cohesion? I dunno. The only thing I am certain of is that these kids sure as shit weren't groomed by the poor public school teacher just trying to not be an asshole when a kid came up to them after class questioning their gender because they know they could never talk to their conservative parents about it. They either go to private religious schools or are home schooled. If a kid's ultimate life's happiness as an adult lies in being trans, then I want them to be trans as fuck and not have that right be imposed on. This is just what I have seen from conservative families with kids experiencing gender dysphoria over the last few years. YMMV.
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Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Goredho replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Man, I gotta say, it's really nice to be in a position where there's a great anticipation for Longhorn's football before a season. I know there were the last year or two as well, but being in the playoffs two years in a row means it's not a fluke. What Sark is building is real, and going to endure for the foreseeable future. There will be a time when we get stuck in the doldrums of success, things start to degrade and we eventually have to go through another Charlie Strong/Tom Herman rebuilding era before we find the right guy to steward the program, but man, I don't see anything but good times on the 5 year horizon. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Goredho replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I'd be surprised if not. -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Goredho replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
Well, Frank Drebin is Frank Drebin, and I think you are correct in your Surly fetish assessment. I'm sure he and many others here would be like... -
Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
Goredho replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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More proof that AI should replace CEO's.
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We have different Roadhouse fantasies. I've always wanted to rip out someone's esophagus (and to play as well as Jeff Healey).
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You are correct, economic populism is the way. 82-88% (reports vary) of US citizens have a net worth less than a million dollars, a figure which is becoming worth less and less by the day under Trump 2.0. The economics of that 82-88% should be the D platform, full stop. Nothing else should matter to them until they quit getting their ass demolished by the combination of populist Trump and their own milquetoast politics-as-usual approach. I've never seen an organization more in need of turnover at the top than the democratic party. That needed to happen in 2015 so a new, charismatic leader could emerge to convey this new message. Someone who can sit down with a blue collar worker, make them feel comfortable and hold a conversation with them without coming off as condescending. Calling people deplorable is no way to win friends and influence them. Oh, there isn't anyone in the bullpen that fits the bill? That's just more evidence that the current D leadership is a fatally flawed joke with regards to political strategy in this new era of politics where the people outside the "pool of likely voters" are now likely voters. Get rid of the inept and complicit at the top. They are a large net negative. And Democrats need to realize they aren't going to reach the people they need to reach to flip this script through traditional means. An interview on 60 minutes doesn't mean shit compared to an interview on Seth Rogan's podcast. They need to emerge from the traditional, safe venues where they are asked polite questions with decorum. They need to enter the lion's den and show that they are A) not afraid of Trump/MAGA and B) not what they are portrayed as in the skewed conservative informational vacuum. EN-FUCKING-GAGE. Democrats have lost the faith of the working class everyman and need to earn it back, at the same time the opposition will be doing everything in their power to undermine any re-emergence of trust. So what? The only good solution was to never allow yourself to be maneuvered into this corner. Yet here you are. If the new Democratic party is worth a damn and not complicit, they will find a way to overcome that shit. I fully expect them to do none of the above meaningfully, but would love to be happily surprised otherwise. We'll see.
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I've tried lots of permutations of gear, and one thing I've found is that I really like to stay analog for things that go in front of my preamp (or facsimile of a preamp in my case) in a signal chain. Fuzz, dist, OD, phaser, envelope filter, etc... Just my experience that the digital replicants are exposed as such at the head of a signal chain. Digital modulation, delay, reverb, etc.... in an effects loop (or after your amp/cab facsimile), I don't have any issues with -- these are like having effects loaded on a channel strip of a recorded track in a studio. But being super impressed with Tonex for emulating amps and cabs, I am very interested to try out some of their stomp box captures in front of an amp (real or modeled). If it works well, it might be good as a wildcard dirt box that could be used for tones outside my core analog dirt pedals. This video shows them switching back and forth between real pedals and tonex captures of the pedals, and I can't hear much difference. But it's YouTube sound quality, and it's not testing things like reactions to rolling off the volume knob and such. But I have a tonex one here at the house, I might have to just download some of these captures and try them out.
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