look at this rabbit>>154654946
Bumping this thread because I’ll be damned if you fags ruin neutral milk hotel
>dude the internet sure is one crazy digital circus, but give women what they want and pretend to be one yourself and become a masochistic slave of your audience and you’ll be ‘happy’ and ‘succeed’What a moral!
>>154658992>Jax falls in love with Pomni because she reminds him of Anne Frank
>>154659061No the moral is chill the fuck out or you’ll miss out on the amazing digital orgy
>>154658939Kill this evil rabbit, throw him in the fiery pit.
>>154659127Sorry but a genius loves to get smarter at an exponential rate and excrete his genius as part of thisWhy else would I be making a series about AI disaster even before the singularity hits?
>>154658609Best guess? The scanning, the avatar program, the characters themselves, it's all much more akin to how you would setup a character card for an AI chatbot than creating a true duplicate of someone's mind.Remember Kinger's comments about the sizes of the brain scan files being impossibly small: Duplicating someone's entire personality and memories? That's a crazy amount of data. But scanning enough to generate a tokenized *summary* of their personality and important memories? Way more reasonable. And if the avatar program is hooked into that pipeline it makes sense why, rather than just getting a physical duplication of their original body (which would also require too much data) they get some AI-generated avatar that takes their tokenized scan into consideration. This concept would also explain why the Circus members had such a hard time getting over their issues than their real-life counterparts. If you're generating a tokenized summary of someone's personality, memories, relationships, etc. it's gonna paint broad strokes and miss out on a lot of the little subtleties that made the difference for Leroy, Abby, Suzie, Riley, and the others being able to turn their lives around.So why is abstraction a problem? Well, AI characters aren't, strictly speaking, persistent. If you've got sufficient RAM you can keep a record of their responses and actions and feed that back into them to impact how they react to new encounters; and if you're really clever you can put systems in place to cycle all that information into summaries and supplemental prompts to save context space. But that memory usage isn't persistent, and if, for whatever reason, you were to corrupt or damage that memory and reset everything, the character you're going to get isn't going to be the same. It'll be a new character based on a different interpretation of the same tokens. It won't remember the previous interactions and it won't necessarily behave the same way as the previous iteration.
>>154658939So….what’s there to talk about now after a month of the finale
>>154658992>ruin neutral milk hotelHoney that ship has sailed
Sexy Zooble is sexy
>>154659310There's still fanworks being drawn and written, still interpretations to discuss. Things will gradually wind down, but we're still hitting 4-6 bump limit threads a day. That's not nothing.
>>154659310How to mindrape trannies and tranny fetishists still trying to keep their lifestyle cool online through the finale
>>154659209The only thing AI here is you clearly
>>154659499Ah yes you feel the only real people is a tranny yipping like a dog, and his friends
Hates trans people yet watches a show made by one
>>154659657As someone educated in the craft of cartooning with unique prowess that is in demand (but unreimbursed) it’s simply a life obligation to become very acquainted with transgender artists, etcI like to have fun with how industry folks didn’t anticipate just how much understanding I have
>>154658939...ithink everyone's said everything aboot this show alreadyit's the gaslight district's time t'shine now
>>154658939Question for this thread - Supposing things in the Circus post-finale stay relatively stable. Based on everyone's current level of emotional health and support, who of the surviving members is most likely to still abstract and why?
>>154659683People won't like the answer but it's probably gonna be Pomni. Before entering the circus, she had nothing traumatic happen to her so her survivors guilt would be her first experience. With Jax, there was 2 points where she thinks she could had done something different that would eat her up. Lucky for her she got a group of people that could help but the lingering feeling will always be there, especially when she's gonna be reminded of it everyday
Can't stop busting to THAT image.
>>154659794I know the one you mean
>>154659216> files impossibly small> summary of their memoriesThat explains why they couldn't remember their names. Caine was never suppressing them.
>>154659310We saw the tutorial. Now we work on AU's and fanart and more stories because the series ended and it feels so unfinished we have to figure out and theorize whats missing as well and headcanon what the Kinger and Caine relationship was actually like
>>154659683Ragatha. She's now the second oldest human member of the circus after Kinger, but unlike Kinger she actually remembers most of her time her and all the losses she put up with and failed to prevent. She spent years with Ribbit, Kaufmo, Jax, and lost all of them. Gangle and Zooble I'm less worried about, they've got each other for support, and Pomni's still relatively fresh despite the stress she's dealt with in her short time here. But Ragatha, I dunno man.>>154659727>but the lingering feeling will always be there, especially when she's gonna be reminded of it everydayFuck that sucks. You think they'd ever consider covering up the X'd out doors? Or would that be considered disrespectful. I dunno, man, it's like if you had to walk passed the headstones of all your dead friends every time you leave for and come home from work.
>>154659892covering it up makes it worse in some ways, it implies avoidance or even denial.
>>154659967These kinds of shorts and comics where they imply part of Jax is still aware in there are always so depressing. I prefer the idea of your conscience just sort of dissipating like the finale seems to imply with Jax's memories and other selves gradually disappearing.The alternative is that all the abstracted members of the Circus are just constantly trapped in their own little existential hellscapes.
>>154660005i always like the idea of abstrsctions being curable only with the right enviroment and a long time (something that Caine never allowed). I also see the abstrscted as someone who succumbed to their personal demons, depending on their issues they are at worst trapped in their own hell like you said and at best it's something similar to purgatory. It's very depressing but also very salvagable
>>154659892>I dunno, man, it's like if you had to walk passed the headstones of all your dead friends every time you leave for and come home from work.I think it's good for maintaining their memory. But then again tombstones are kind of solemn and a symbol of respect and rememberance, while a crossed out door is much more morbid and also literally leads to the room they used to live in rather than a dedicated resting place.
