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@davidgerard our finest minds are truly on LinkedIn

@davidgerard I would go further: Watching a story unfold is very limiting. What if you want to see something from a different angle? How about we make one character selectable and you get to control them with a kind of controlling device? And what if every character you see has a icon above their head that tells you what they are all about? And what if there's a sort of mechanism that records your individual progress in the narrative? You could call it something catchy like Interact Vid!

@davidgerard TBF, there's a lot of fiction which triggers an "I see what you're *trying* to accomplish here, but I'm just not interested" in me (and, trying is quite distinct from accomplishing). So, yeah, I fast-forwarded all scenes in Top Gun: Maverick with that woman who was not connected to the story in any way whatsoever.

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But we can all agree that we should have this option for cutting Strictly Come Dancing down to just the dancing and judges reading out the scores, right?

@davidgerard Those people don't want to experience art, they want to consume content.

@davidgerard watching Netflix like a porn movie

@davidgerard I think we have found a good candidate for being replaced by AI. I mean, a stochastic parrot. And not their *job* being replaced by one; I mean their *brain*. (They're already pretty close to that state.)

@davidgerard I thought they were already working on dynamic storytelling to destroy the last way we make any sense of this world...

@davidgerard More worryingly, can you please automatically censor this website so I don’t see things I don’t like. I can imagine an LLM based filter system being able to do that for text. Is that what she’s shilling?

@davidgerard There are people who make me want to see how the inside of a skull opened with a brick looks like.