Reading Monkey rn,. the abridged trandlated version of journey to the west. Its pretty amazing tbh

I have one friend who reads theory and I am in the process of converting others, the first one was a raging liberal when I first met him but yea, all of my commie friends are people who I've converted

you should be in sales

LMAO, thank you comrade.

where do you suggest i start?

Just pick Eye of the world and don't look back, the one prequel new spring is best read after the series, or like after book 7, since there are a lot of things that you will piece together from info from the main series.

but yeah, just pick Eye of the world and the next 13 books are just the sequels. It's not a revolutionary piece of work but it's damn well one of the most enjoyable reads I've ever had, helped me through tough times on multiple occasions.

I genuinely cannot recommend the series enough, the first book is heavy on the fellowship of the ring inspiration and is more or less a homage, but unique enough and very fun to read through, the second and third books are unique enough and more or less set the basic plotlines for all the characters for the rest of the series. The prose is honestly one of the better parts, it isn't overtly flowery (I personally prefer more flowery prose but wot is an exception) but it just flows, there are flowery and verbose bits and he uses them really well throughout, makes the scenes hit harder when the prose gets flowery.

The world is heavily gendered and imo, there are parts that anyone can point out and say that's misogynistic and they would be fair but i think that is just because of how gendered the world is and some cultures are going to be misogynistic, and i always felt that its just a reflection of jordan being really thorough. Though it does feel needlessly sexualizing at times, but might just be me nitpicking. The character work is genuinely the best in any piece of media i have seen, especially for most of the main cast.

The pacing from Books 1-3 is excellent, books 4-6 just fly while 7 and 8 are good, 9 and 10 are undeniably a slog, a problem with an author getting too enamoured with the world they created imo. one thing i cannot stress enough is how well jordan researched the cultures he is inspired by, the world building is just amazing and also the story itself is very realistic in the way how the politics revolve around everyone's material interests.

I am re reading Wheel of Time right now and my veins are filled with hate for rafe judkins.

Pierce Brown is a vocal zionist.... Just figured thats something you might want to know about comrade

Don't think the troglodytes who usually read it will care either way.

Reading brain dead fantasy is a guilty pleasure of mine, so i have been reading this series called sun eater for the last week, but omg had to put it down because the author (fuck me for being into shit predominantly populated by white men) legit wrote about this society of socialists who dont have names and only use state approved phrases and where the communist government's evil plan to replace the entire population with hermophrodite clones to remove gender inequality from society is discovered and spoiled by the hero. pretty fucking shite.

I am taking my time reading the first article you have sent. First even before anything else needs to be said i do not see how other MLs can engage with LLM generated images and videos and do not see how this is going to worsen AI induced psychosis that is already bad and how them openly embracing it and trying to normalize it doesn't worsen the situation, if not i do not see how any of you can explain some other solution than rejecting Generative models for shit it has no practical purpose in like writing or any other art. And regarding everything else, i do not see the cost of developing LLMs worth it almost every scenario but well, what do i know.

I do not understand what the author even implies by the first argument, the one about hating the work done by the machine equals hating the work done by the lowly peasant, what work dude, what is the artist even expressing here/ its the machine expressing and the artist giving guidelines, outsourcing the expression onto it, it isn't procreate or something that makes the process easier or more efficient it removes the entire expression itself. I do not understand the multiple analogies you and others have given regarding how it is the lack of effort that makes something by AI deemed less, no, its the fact its not an expression or human expression, this is more akin to buying an IKEA bed stand and claiming it is the same as something sculpted by the wood worker. If your ideas of human expression and art are so bleak that you think a machine does the same thing as a human, what sort of people am i calling comrades?

The thing the artist is actually expressing is the fucking prompt and nothing else. God, the entire thing pisses me off so much, you are outsourcing your ability to express? what's the point of even living at that point. If you think the most any human can express is by writing a bunch of prompts, whats even the point of living?

disregarding everything else already discussed in the thread, not having an AI tag would be a weird and impractical line to draw, it is something that's being increasingly pushed forward for in most social media apps, i for one wouldn't want to engage with anything tainted by AI, and with how heated this thread is, I don't see how its not controversial, it would be a simple thing to implement and would help not alienate people.

If i am not wrong Facebook's current model does the opposite of this (so did most of the other LLMs) convert images to text to feed them to the model.

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