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  • Watching some objectively bad shows makes you realize how braindead a lot of reviewers are. Especially with modern shows that have 40+ minute filler episodes that exist just because the streaming service wanted to stretch the season out to 10+ episodes.

    There will be an episode that advances nothing except a cringey forced romance sideplot, and then all the imdb reviews will be like “5 stars, best thing I ever watched”

    There are plenty of exceptions though! Breaking Bad was really good. Poker Face (not on the list, but it should be) is also good. Brooklyn 99 and Parks & Rec were good. WWDitS was good until right after the house flipping episode in season 3.





  • I agree with the other comments, but wanted to add how deepfakes work to show how simple they are, and how much less information they need than LLMs.

    Step 1: Basically you take a bunch of photos and videos of a specific person, and blur their faces out.

    Step 2: This is the hardest step, but still totally feasable for a decent home computer. You train a neural network to un-blur all the faces for that person. Now you have a neural net that’s really good at turning blurry faces into that particular person’s face.

    Step 3: Blur the faces in photos/videos of other people and apply your special neural network. It will turn all the blurry faces into the only face it knows how, often with shockingly realistic results.