I think that’s the idea pitched by Noah Hawley for a tv series that I believe is still scheduled to start shooting.

Andor was my biggest surprise after not really liking Rogue One. The writing was just on a whole another level. Honorary mention for Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton which I saw this year, I think I just lost it in the There Will be Blood buzz. People need to give Tony Gilroy more money.

Fingers crossed for a Luthen Rael prequel series

The concept needs to be expanded slightly to protect artists. We can already see people feeding in the names of artists to emulate their styles effectively forcing artists to compete with themselves. The models have an infinite capacity to scale and undercut any artist at any cost. Any new styles will be incorporated…

Essentially, with just a thin bit of abstraction. It’s plagiarism, not inspiration.

I have been using this technology for the last six years in industrial and academic research settings. You and your 8 minute Medium article need to sit this this one out. 

It absolutely is and the sleight of hand isn’t even good. It’s a thin, threadbare abstraction from direct theft and pretending the technology is something other than is doesn’t change anything.

I really liked the depiction of security organizations. Fascism has that persistent “made the trains run on time” myth, but the reality is far messier with a lot of effort dedicated toward infighting rather than governance

Wasn’t the Ferrix spy the guy Nurchi spoke to in the bar? I read the character being ineffective, because the Empire doesn’t care enough about the local culture to fit in so they have this clean guy hanging out in a bar full time in a town of laborers. Everyone clocks him as spy.

Learning is a very crude approximation, describing the process in terms other than high level statistics isn’t accurate to what’s happening. Also, it’s a product that is 100% dependent on having a massive supply of art used without compensation. That’s stealing.

Los Espookys was such a weird little show, I really adored it. At least it sounded like the creators were going on to bigger things.

I need to watch more remakes? Seriously?

I think I can probably count on one hand how many times remakes produced interesting movies. I think the industry has earned it’s skepticism.

I just like talking about movies, man. I guess I could accuse fans of some hokey psychological flaws, some hyper-defensiveness in order to protect your ego that someone got wrapped up in a mediocre movie, but I’m really just here to talk about movies.

That’s basically what I feared from the moment the sequels were announced. Even a lot of the positive reviews are pretty cold on the story and characters. I really wonder if visuals are going to be enough for most people.

That’s odd. The usual complaint is that it doesn’t “feel cinematic” because other frame rates are typically associated with home videos. And that the extra visual information reveals the artifice; sets look like sets, make up looks like make up, extras are just miming behavior.

Avatar 3 takes place in the desert and the humans are after spice.

Really? You been keeping up with the literature?

That is in fact how the training works.

A distinction without difference. The technology exists here and now in a capitalist society. It does not bring us closer to utopia, it will drive down wages and all the benefits will go to the already wealthy.