Marty M.C. “Super Fly”

WhatsApp had 500 million MAU when it was bought up.

That’s 250x the fediverse.

They really don’t care.

Yeah, it’s been hilarious watching the fediverse think Meta gives a rat’s ass about either reaching them with content or getting access to their horde of memes.

This is about preempting regulation.

Meta would love nothing less than having their interoperability push still end up as a walled garden, and if I didn’t know better regarding their total disinterest about Lemmy or even Mastodon existing, would even suspect that the degree to which they’d be meddling in the conversion would be creating posts about how people should be irrationally upset and defederate from Threads.

Though they don’t care enough to be involved in the conversation at all, and know full well that the fediverse will hit scaling issues should it ever miraculously gain traction long before it is actually a threat in any way to their market dominance.

All that said, it’s still pretty hilarious to watch the inflated self-importance and slight paranoia that goes with it leading to bitter debates like this though.

Great link! Appreciate it. And yes, very exciting to think about.

Which is part of why it’s crazy.

A diffusion based generative AI in theory isn’t doing any of the same processing to determine the end result. So it’s just effectively eyeing it and saying “this looks right” and nailing what’s a non-trivial rendering technique.

I’d hung out with a vision machine learning researcher at Nvidia for a while discussing broad concepts around what was necessary to render for the human eye and what was not.

But I’m increasingly wondering as the tech progresses if we may end up reaching an inflection point where generative AI for complex scenes ends up being effectively cheaper than actually rendering the scene from scratch in the first place. Almost like a fidelity instead of geometry focused version of foveated rendering where the game software spits out a scene with no frills and a dedicated AI unit in the GPU generates a ray-traced, subsurface scattered, anti-aliased frame that looks awesome and yet wasn’t accurately rendered at all.

The lighting in particular is great in this. The transparency of the ear and nose.

Looks like it was combining Walter and the Dude into one.

Just dissonance.

The whole pedophile thing is more about demonizing political opponents than it is about protecting children.

So when you point out what is actually endangering children but doesn’t demonize their political opponents, you’ve gone off script.

The goal in their nonsense is the dehumanization and demonizing. Undermining that goal with an appeal to the underlying realities of the thing they are claiming is extremely dissonant as they are effectively caught between a rock and a hard place.

So their reaction is anger and frustration and dismissal, as actually engaging with the topic in a meaningful way would necessitate abandoning the world view they committed to where their hatred for others is justified based on the righteousness of their cause.

If you bring up that the majority of childhood sexual abuse occurs in the home by the people responsible for taking care of the child, they lose their minds.

It’s clearly not about the children.

I like the bling.

Users.

The generational divide for a lot of things has probably never been greater in human history, and given the current rate of change, that’s probably going to continue on for as long as we do at this point.

Shell shock wasn’t PTSD. It was actual neurological damage from the concussion of constant artillery strikes nearby for prolonged periods.