Getting seriously involved in changing someone else's life will incur major loss to your own. I'm speaking from several rounds of experience.
It's not to be taken lightly and it's not an automatic moral duty. I would strongly argue that your duty is to make a full bodied effort to convince their family that their own is in mortal immediate crisis. If they don't respond to that after it's clearly and emphatically communicate then it's on them. Sadly your friend is almost certainly not going to seek out professional help unless someone intimately intervenes.
Readit Newsttjjtt commented on Ask HN: How to deal with a serious mental health breakdown? · Posted by u/_qjno
ttjjtt commented on The decline of the working musician newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
This is a technology problem. Media technology (radio, recordings, television, and movies) has essentially killed live performance of all kind compared to what it was once like. Bars and hotels that used to rely on gig musicians can now play a Spotify playlist over the speakers. Repertory theatres once existed in every small and medium sized city in the country, each supporting several actors earning salaries sufficient to raise a family—all wiped out by television.
It would have once been unthinkable for even a small city of <=100,000 people to lack multiple live entertainment options 7 days a week. No more—we’re all at home, watching our particular chosen thing, listening to our particular chosen album, playing our own chosen game.
Some will claim this has been an advancement. “How lame,” they say, “it must have been to have to go to the Local Entertainment Venue and just listen to whatever act was on that night. Nowadays I can listen to Acid Techno Super Hop, my particular chosen favorite, as much as I want.” But the losses in communal behavior have been significant. Most critical is the disappearance of dance. Dance is a fundamental human behavior, stretching back to Paleolithic times. It is nowhere to be seen in many cities today, because no one has any occasion to do it except weddings, at which it is very common now to stand around awkwardly after the bride and groom have fumbled through some rehearsed step.
In particular, intergenerational dance events have died from our society.
I think you're on to something vitally important with this. I think about it often.
ttjjtt commented on Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize lithub.com/ted-chiang-has... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
I feel like the only person in scifi who doesn't LOVE Ted Chiang. Don't get me wrong -- I like his writing a lot. But, I often feel like it's a little 'light' -- not sure how to describe this exactly.
I guess I'm saying he's not Philip K Dick or Stanislaw Lem, or even William Gibson, but he's awarded/discussed as much.
I will, of course, buy his next book, short or long-form. But I'd love it if he went a little higher/deeper conceptually. I think he has it in him.
I just want to counter balanced this by sharing love ted chiang but cannot happily get through any p k dick and little Gibson either. I find Chiangs work hits me deeper on a conceptual level and perhaps it's that exact lightness of tone. I find Dick and Gibson too affected with gravitas and a vision of stylistic coolness that I do not share for me to enjoy them. But that is all purely subjective preference, they're both objectively fine writers
Less straight forward but game engines can be used as VJ software.
Unity, Godot, Unreal
can you share any pointers on where to get started with this, ie using game engine for artistic video generation?
i've seen it accomplished but never found any resources on how to achieve it.
ttjjtt commented on Among the A.I. doomsayers newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/preetamjinka
That too, but the people in charge of the military are strongly incentivized both to consider the possibility that subordinate machines will try to kill them and to figure out how to not let that happen. I tend to suspect they will figure it out. Companies, however? Markets? They will absolutely start handing over control the millisecond it becomes profitable to do so. No rationalization will be too steep and no political opposition will be too strong when the prospect of rich people getting paid for being rich goes on the table. The people who enable the takeover will make out like bandits and those who oppose will lose everything. Until, of course, the "winners" become unnecessary and are cast aside.
A military-origin takeover requires a human fuckup. Economic/political takeover just requires capitalism.
thanks you for this. The entire concept of AI alignment rests upon alignment of markets with social good, ie market regulation, a situation which is antithetical to neoliberalism. There is no alignment within neoliberal economies. As stated elsewhere, venture capitalism escaped the sandbox already.
I am watching this with pretty intense interest. I've long been alarmed at the potential for this to happen to any artist who speaks out against a streaming platform.
ttjjtt commented on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus? · Posted by u/actinium226
Yes. Noise induced from club soundsystems, started in 2006 with multiple flare ups every few years after an exposure, even one last year. The reality is that my hearing loss is minimal, my hearing is significantly better than most people my age, when measured. It’s a psychological phenomenon, and I’ve learned, and relearned again, to completely ignore it. I live and sleep in silence, except when I read discussions like this, and “remember” my tinnitus for a moment. But I’ve proved to myself, time and time again, that i can happily live with it, and that belief becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
If you perceive it as dangerous threat, the brain amplifies it. If you perceive it as a neutral presence, the brain ignores it. Ive used pretty ridiculous imaginative tricks to convince my brain that it’s a benign presence, and it’s worked. Noise masking is vital for me in the early stages.
At it’s very worst it was loud enough to hear during a jet flight taking off and would mask normal conversation. Now I can meditate in a silent room and barely notice it. I don’t notice it when I lie down to sleep.
Not all tinnitus is psychological: I’ve also had somatic tinnitus, a very low throbbing hum in one ear. That was extremely challenging , and the tinnitus talk forum provided a theory and solution that worked. It was caused by jaw tension, solved by sleeping with a dental guard.
Was Gilbert O’Sullivan really that much better than Kenrick Lamar?
Not much to chew on there tbh
I have a lot of friends in the music industry since I used to work there until recently, both back end eg A&Rs and agents as well as artists. The common sentiment is that nothing new has happened in the last decade, everyone’s wondering why, and increasingly exasperated.
So okay, hip hop.. US trap has been largely in stasis since 2008/2010 (lex lugar era). Uk drill has been in stasis since 2017. Does 2023 Kendrick really sound much different to 2012 kendrick? Compare 2002 rap to 1992 rap.
What you describe is pretty common - a segement of younger people preferring older music, typically the music of their parents generation. This is nothing new either, not every young person liked Elvis either.
I know. but what’s atypical is the tame-ness, the lack of energy and lack of community participation and shared experience in new music, and its sharp decline of perceived cultural value by the younger generation. I think the changing valuation and changing qualities are not wholly unrelated.
> the quality has absolutely cratered
You just got old. It happens to everyone, and every generation says the same thing: The music I enjoyed when I was young and impressionable was great, but all the stuff they make nowadays is crap.
People were whining about how Beatles destroyed music, how rock’n’roll was just monkey noise, how crooners like Sinatra wasn’t real singing.
Honestly this popular rebuttal actually appears more inaccurate and quaint to me than the opinion it’s dismissing.
My teenage kid strongly feels that modern pop music is trash quality compared to previous decades, thinks that new “underground” music is poorly mimicking previous decades, and bemoans the lack of current scenes that she can participate in. It’s a bit sad watching her sift through 90s/00s music rather than dig into new music of her generation, but I can hear the problem when she plays me both the underground and pop stuff her friends are listening to. It’s tame.
There have been profound infrastructural changes to cultural production and distribution, lead by SV and VCs. These have served to massively boost stock valuations of centralising digital platforms. The music they produce is affected by these changes. The faux meta genre “hyperpop” even exploits this (boringly imo). It’s reassuring to believe the kids are alright but the problem is not the kids.