Dreamlog babbling
Whoa, another “future” dream. Two civilizations have put brakes on expansion before they find solution to, basically, finiteness of resources.
One of them is running (which I inhabit there) a simulation of a Babylon 5 character which is doing research, having guests from outside and forks.
Despite expansion being forbidden (they have immense resources available in their borders already) one of the civs have found some glitches which it exploits to sneak out their borders and slowly tilt the balance in their favor. Maybe the others doing the same, but the economics readouts say that they’re slowly decaying, not just falling behind.
And then the simulated dude found killed in it’s home by a feral intruder.
(Here I was catapulted back into RL with a pang of sadness)
Dreamlog babbling
The previous one was more close and more nasty, in a blackmirroresque way.
It was about proliferation of generative models and commercial companies eager to fullfil any request for text, images, music, games etc regardless of the theme.
No editor in the loop to guide the generation according to their own tastes in art. It all feels like a median mishmash of the source material without any integration, interpretation, and/or “reimagining”. Which it really is, being an high dimensional interpolation of source material.
It’s like watching an endless stream of clumsily targeted banners/commercials, or browsing a mobile games catalogue infested by 1.47 dollar match3 clones from match3 sweatshop.
I’ve read/seen a fair amount of generated stuff, and this incident seems to cement in the nausea associated with this kind of “content”