Collateralized Wing Obligations feat. Josh Boerman

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

WAPW is about 30% of my media diet at this point so my brain will now consume this new content with great intensity

[@philr7152]

Wales Association of Pewter Workers?? Nevermind

[@MeonLights]

God the "Bad Hang Prince Andrew" gave me a new type of anxiety. Like imagine you are already with the worst people ever and they don't wanna be around you because they find you annoying? I'd walk into the fucking sea 😅

[@scout8145]

No matter what your social anxiety tells you, you will always be a better hang than Prince Andrew. It’s a low bar, but even though I’ve never met you, I’m confident that you’re clearing it.

[@Rubicola174]

Prince Andrew walking into the Sea because he heard there's another billionaire island out there.

[@MeonLights]

@@scout8145 You know what? Despite how horrible the guy is in general, that is still somewhat uplifting, thank you

[@MrJohndoakes]

10:00 They are dead wrong about UFO sightings not really happening over cities; for example, Mexico City has had repeating waves since the early 1990s, mostly during the day. That said, at night if you stare at a tiny light in the distance (Venus, Mars, tracking a satellite by telescope/binoculars, etc.) for a long period, your eyes get tired and then they "auto-rotate" (i.e., suffer muscle fatigue). I can never forget that aircraft fly at night because I live under two flight corridors -- jet airliners at high altitude or low-altitude private aircraft, police and news helicopters.

[@darthbob88]

45:00 I'm with Josh here on the coding side. If you want to make a game, you should learn to make a game. The computer is not going to do what you want, so you still need to actually learn how to do it yourself.

[@ianking7511]

Funny thing about that though, nobody does. Except maybe ID, and it's not like they do all their work at the base metal. Even machine code is an abstraction designed to make coding less labour intensive, and that's like two or three layers down from the actual work people do to make games.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

​@@ianking7511And "computer is going to do what you want" is what normal programming is. It's better to just say that using generative AI is too many layers of abstraction

[@am3lia420]

Perfect for this morning :D epic post

[@AlRoderick]

They kind of brushed over the wimpy burger futures in there but... " I'd gladly pay you today for a hamburger on Tuesday."

[@MachineWashableKatie]

I love the way josh says south park

[@Brimstonewolf]

The only allowed form of creativity is Ready Player One

[@AbsolXGuardian]

004 is the 009 of the Chinese James Bond 40:55 I'm a massive "multi-media interconnected universe" fan, but hearing such a concept phrased in business speak made me want to tear up my final paper for my Marxist literary anaylsis class about how the star wars EU is based (lends towards writing examples of literary realism) and completely change my media consumption habits.

[@vaska00762]

I wonder what they're going to name the Special Purpose Vehicle that issues the Wing Notes.

[@Krunklehorn]

lmfao "Joe Rowling"

[@darrens3]

Sleepy Joe Rowling in a house full of mould.

[@the_newt_nest]

Josh is wrong, the reason why omegaverse for straight people is "popular" is that ads promising "spicy" content are spammed all over tiktok, and it gets people to download the app before bilking them for microtransactions.

[@ianking7511]

I've been feeling for a while like we really lack a meaningful way to critique these generative technologies, because they sit in a liminal space between computer science and liberal arts, two disciplines which are somehow at war with one another. All the problems people are capable of articulating seem to be problems with capitalism, and the artistic vacuum at the heart of tech entrepreneurship. Those are real, and likely to kill us all, but that was true long before the first LLM rolled out of google or wherever. It's such a damn shame that one of the most interesting and powerful technologies of recent years has immediately been snowed under by insane technofetishism and luddite shit slinging.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

I agree. I think DougDoug is a great example of using generative AI as one tool within an entire toolbox to create an entire work. He's using AI to do something that a person can't do, basically acting as a weighted source of randomness, providing new TSS voices (he creates the voice banks through his own impressions, which is an intriguing thought experiment), and/or averaging the random text of thousands of people.