You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
Movies' primary usefulness is as loss-leading awareness for properties which power other, more profitable parts of a marketing machine. At least for Disney, anyway.
(to clarify: big box-office revenues don't necessarily mean huge profits)
So... Disney's business model is making TV shows so other companies will pay them for airtime, and makinng movies (and to a lesser extent TV shows) so video game, toy, and clothig companiwes will pay them licensing fees?
That sounds rather unseemly, tbh. Like they're the corporation most culpable for a consumer capitalist society where folk culture has been replaced with intellectual property and the monopoly rent-seeking that follows it.
It sucks that a movie's success is judged by the money it makes instead of how good the story is. Same with TV shows except with ratings or the network's views on it.
It’s almost 2014 and there are still people who are mad about deleted something awful subforum “Laissez’s Faire”. May you continue to be mad into your early grave.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So I dreamed Haven was running a contest for some radio station that involved answering trivia questions on an Android app
Also the radio station had bumpers by Casey Kasem, but they were all recordings...he never seemed to do anything live
I wonder how big a group of followers I could get if I peddled fascism via current left-wing rhetoric techniques.
"In this blogpost, I want to propose not a race realism, or, god forbid, a racism, but a weird racism. I intend to radicalize the works of the great race theorists of times past, drawing out what most suits our current times and pit it against the still brilliant but dimmer "race realism" of people like Steve Sailer and Razib Khan. In doing so, I hope to provide an ideology capable of establishing neocameralism"
Yeah I could do that.
This must have been how L. Ron Hubbard got his start.
I wonder how big a group of followers I could get if I peddled fascism via current left-wing rhetoric techniques.
"In this blogpost, I want to propose not a race realism, or, god forbid, a racism, but a weird racism. I intend to radicalize the works of the great race theorists of times past, drawing out what most suits our current times and pit it against the still brilliant but dimmer "race realism" of people like Steve Sailer and Razib Khan. In doing so, I hope to provide an ideology capable of establishing neocameralism"
Yeah I could do that.
This must have been how L. Ron Hubbard got his start.
Buys into bizarre pseudoscience where ideas are parasitic
Has a cult
Reactionary followers
Is harming autistic people.
Imparts teachings in short lectures that one has never quite read enough of.
Started out as a deeply lonely alienated person.
Claims to mathematical precision, in reality not so much.
Thinks they can tell physicists what their discoveries mean without input from said physicists.
Jargon heavy
oh right
i know for a fact that my university's Freudian theory professor would contest a few of those, but you will definitely have read more Lacan than me so idk
as far as i've read Yudkowsky's math seems more meaningful than Lacan's
in the sense that Lacan's math is usually barely relevant to the subject matter under discussion, as far as i can tell
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So... Disney's business model is making TV shows so other companies will pay them for airtime, and makinng movies (and to a lesser extent TV shows) so video game, toy, and clothig companiwes will pay them licensing fees?
That sounds rather unseemly, tbh. Like they're the corporation most culpable for a consumer capitalist society where folk culture has been replaced with intellectual property and the monopoly rent-seeking that follows it.
It’s almost 2014 and there are still people who are mad about deleted something awful subforum “Laissez’s Faire”. May you continue to be mad into your early grave.
Nobody remembers them for Lambie-Nairn's pretty graphics, they remember them for THAT
But then again that was a dumb idea for a show, so
haws
This must have been how L. Ron Hubbard got his start.
Take your arguments back to your analytic philosophy class, mainstream cur.
oh right
i know for a fact that my university's Freudian theory professor would contest a few of those, but you will definitely have read more Lacan than me so idk
as far as i've read Yudkowsky's math seems more meaningful than Lacan's
in the sense that Lacan's math is usually barely relevant to the subject matter under discussion, as far as i can tell
i do think he liked to play the mystic and made his work deliberately inaccessible
say what you will about Yudkowsky, he tries to make his ideas fairly accessible and uses plain English