This video is a cool look at what the internet used to be like not just aesthetically, but culturally and in our real lives. I don't think these are new ideas to anyone here, but it's a really well done video essay.
The Internet Used to Be a Place
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The Internet Used to Be a Place
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This video is a cool look at what the internet used to be like not just aesthetically, but culturally and in our real lives. I don't think these are new ideas to anyone here, but it's a really well done video essay.
This video is a cool look at what the internet used to be like not just aesthetically, but culturally and in our real lives. I don't think these are new ideas to anyone here, but it's a really well done video essay.
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Re: The Internet Used to Be a Place
Oh yeah I got that Video recommended recently, it is a really good watch. I also would recommend the other two she made after this, the one about Decay and the one about AI Hallucinations.
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Re: The Internet Used to Be a Place
Cameron’s hoard of clip art is a delight. Both as a child and now, I love these. I can, without exaggeration, spend hours combing through these short loops, enthralled. 
Praising ‘under construction’ signs made me smile; I remember when these were considered bad etiquette.
Hearing Discord and Reddit named among sites which evoke the net’s past is curious. I must concede that, in its structure, Discord is a successor to AOL and the rest as central chatroom host, and perhaps, if we were writing twenty years ago, I would be discussing how to convince my friends to switch from MSN or Yahoo Messenger to Jabber instead. The similarity in interfaces might have made things a bit easier. Certainly, Discord is something I have empirically tolerated in a way I cannot tolerate SNS proper, precisely because it is akin to the older rooms. Meanwhile, Reddit indeed is an amalgamated message board like this; I browsed it using a proxy (first Teddit, later Libreddit) until about a month ago, when the hive mind tendencies in communities on any topic from cartography to Avatar became too noxious for me.
I have been collecting notes on items which I would like to include on a personal site for a while. There are many topics about which I would like to write articles over the summer, but it is hard to think of a unifying theme. Some of the topics are non-fiction, but I would also like to show off a fictional setting I have been developing with friends for years (and possibly discuss other fictional works). How should I go about this?
Still no formal horizontal breaks, so I get to keep typing here. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
I watched the other two films you mentioned, but was far less impressed.
The reel on decay was rather weaker for me. There are two reasons for this which I can identify. For one, I have formal education in thermodynamics and theoretical informatics, and found the descriptions of entropy rather too slow for my taste. Beside this, I am religious and therefore find the assumptions about heat death, and themes associated with existential crisis in general, to be misguided. The horror fails to horrify. (It is far easier to scare me with simple gore or bright flashes.) I believe that it is quite possible for man to preserve things for millennia (I look with awe on the pyramids) and indefinitely until doomsday comes at last and all decay is for ever undone. Permanence is a core value for me; I am not interested in what I cannot keep. I believe everything can be organised into a fixed and eternal structure, and this is indeed one of the themes which I would like to explore on my personal site. I think this is also one reason I have become a mathematician; the work of thousands of years ago remains as respected today as when it was new. It has always been conscious that it is about being, not becoming.
Disparate beliefs about philosophy of mind and human origins in the reel about garbled LLM output made it the weakest of all. I know what linear algebra is, require no metaphor for it and believe it is basically unlike intensional human thought; this film had anthropomorphised it too much. Beside this, this is my first exposure to their auditory output. The results made me laugh in the same way the bizarre text output of 2019–20. I cannot understand why someone would find these scary, beyond the viscerally disturbing quality of the images, akin to gore. I cannot take this software seriously, refuse to use it on principle and am baffled when others do. The screams are obviously not a soulless machine’s, but the unheard cries of countless souls whose pleas have been noticed only by the scraper that quietly collected their despair like a ragman picking for rubbish. Plagiarism powers LLM, and this is just one of the many more disgusting instances of this.
Praising ‘under construction’ signs made me smile; I remember when these were considered bad etiquette.
Hearing Discord and Reddit named among sites which evoke the net’s past is curious. I must concede that, in its structure, Discord is a successor to AOL and the rest as central chatroom host, and perhaps, if we were writing twenty years ago, I would be discussing how to convince my friends to switch from MSN or Yahoo Messenger to Jabber instead. The similarity in interfaces might have made things a bit easier. Certainly, Discord is something I have empirically tolerated in a way I cannot tolerate SNS proper, precisely because it is akin to the older rooms. Meanwhile, Reddit indeed is an amalgamated message board like this; I browsed it using a proxy (first Teddit, later Libreddit) until about a month ago, when the hive mind tendencies in communities on any topic from cartography to Avatar became too noxious for me.
I have been collecting notes on items which I would like to include on a personal site for a while. There are many topics about which I would like to write articles over the summer, but it is hard to think of a unifying theme. Some of the topics are non-fiction, but I would also like to show off a fictional setting I have been developing with friends for years (and possibly discuss other fictional works). How should I go about this?
Still no formal horizontal breaks, so I get to keep typing here. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
I watched the other two films you mentioned, but was far less impressed.
The reel on decay was rather weaker for me. There are two reasons for this which I can identify. For one, I have formal education in thermodynamics and theoretical informatics, and found the descriptions of entropy rather too slow for my taste. Beside this, I am religious and therefore find the assumptions about heat death, and themes associated with existential crisis in general, to be misguided. The horror fails to horrify. (It is far easier to scare me with simple gore or bright flashes.) I believe that it is quite possible for man to preserve things for millennia (I look with awe on the pyramids) and indefinitely until doomsday comes at last and all decay is for ever undone. Permanence is a core value for me; I am not interested in what I cannot keep. I believe everything can be organised into a fixed and eternal structure, and this is indeed one of the themes which I would like to explore on my personal site. I think this is also one reason I have become a mathematician; the work of thousands of years ago remains as respected today as when it was new. It has always been conscious that it is about being, not becoming.
Disparate beliefs about philosophy of mind and human origins in the reel about garbled LLM output made it the weakest of all. I know what linear algebra is, require no metaphor for it and believe it is basically unlike intensional human thought; this film had anthropomorphised it too much. Beside this, this is my first exposure to their auditory output. The results made me laugh in the same way the bizarre text output of 2019–20. I cannot understand why someone would find these scary, beyond the viscerally disturbing quality of the images, akin to gore. I cannot take this software seriously, refuse to use it on principle and am baffled when others do. The screams are obviously not a soulless machine’s, but the unheard cries of countless souls whose pleas have been noticed only by the scraper that quietly collected their despair like a ragman picking for rubbish. Plagiarism powers LLM, and this is just one of the many more disgusting instances of this.
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Re: The Internet Used to Be a Place
I saw this video a few weeks ago when it was recommended to me. I really love her visual style and method of storytelling. It really makes you feel nostalgic for the old internet.