“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
- Brian Eno, 1996
There’s a nostalgic aspect to lots of music. The errors we grew up with do become nostalgic. (And other sounds—what kind of a dead-hearted monster doesn’t get a little happy to hear the first couple seconds of GSM interference noise? It’s so jaunty, how has nobody worked that into some techno?). It reminds us of how things were when we were so cool that we could only afford junk.
Nostalgia is cheap of course, but some times cheap things make us happy and that’s fine.
>This work was partly supported by using OpenAI’s GPT for drafting and editing assistance, and Grammarly for grammar and style suggestions.
these things should be disclaimed at the top, not the bottom.
moreover, HN should have some kind of a tag for [AI-generated content], ideally. otherwise, the opportunities for wasting the readers' time are endless
the works of fiction should inflame the imagination through originality and the workings on the reader's inner sense. it is the exact realm where I don't want AI to be present.
the article itself is only an analysis of an already present fictional world, created by humans. such content is secondary- or third-rate in nature.
also, the focus on being simply 'entertained' sounds rather depressing to me
Yeah it matters. Tom7 is entertaining because he acts like he isn't struggling but we know he does. Ross Scott's game dungeon is entertaining because of his struggle with dragging old shit into the present.
Shining a laser through a silicon crystal faceted by innumerable human experience is interesting, but that laser does not engage with the human experience of endeavor / struggle.
This is an important point.
It can be used to target civilian population (e.g. large groups), something that r*ssian military already does specifically
The translation is correct, but it says “[a] protest against the war”. If you want to imply a call to protest, it should be “протестуйте против войны».
