antonim

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[–] antonim 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks. It's a part of history I know very little about.

[–] antonim 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I meant the "for over a hundred years" part specifically, I bolded it but it's not as noticeable as it should be.

[–] antonim 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

the US a terrorist nation for couping democratically elected leader in favour of dictators for over a hundred years

Is this really true?

[–] antonim 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And that's more or less what I was aiming for, so we're back at square one. What you wrote is in line with my first comment:

it is a weak compliment for AI, and more of a criticism of the current web search engines

The point is that there isn't something that makes AI inherently superior to ordinary search engines. (Personally I haven't found AI to be superior at all, but that's a different topic.) The difference in quality is mainly a consequence of some corporate fuckery to wring out more money from the investors and/or advertisers and/or users at the given moment. AI is good (according to you) just because search engines suck.

[–] antonim 2 points 10 months ago

Reminds me of the "help me budget this" meme.

"Have fewer genocides."

"No."

[–] antonim 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Germans excused Holocaust by... saying that it would prevent trans genocide?

This is too stupid even for a troll.

[–] antonim 4 points 10 months ago

Then, you end up finishing the game

I.e. you do win...

[–] antonim 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

AI LLMs simply are better at surfacing it

Ok, but how exactly? Is there some magical emergent property of LLMs that guides them to filter out the garbage from the quality content?

[–] antonim 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Christianity developed in the Roman Empire?

I'm pretty sure we're talking about the pictorial representation of Jesus, not when Christianity itself developed. Christian figurative art in Rome was rare and undeveloped, I highly doubt you have on your mind some examples of Roman portrayal of Jesus that actually support your idea. That's why I described what I have found to be the situation in the middle ages, when the typical iconography zook shape - to the best of my knowledge, but maybe I'm talking with an actual art historian in which case you should have no problem with proving me wrong with examples.

I'm also confused about how you actually imagine the development of the supposedly racist Roman images of Jesus went about. At which stage did that happen, before or after Christianity became the state religion? Were Romans racist against the Middle East populations before Christianity too? Were Romans from the Apennine peninsula racist against them based on their darker skin colour, while themselves certainly being darker-skinned than e.g. Gauls?

[–] antonim 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

If you don't feel like discussing this and won't do anything more than deliberately miss the point, you don't have to reply to me at all.

[–] antonim 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Frankly this comes off almost as a conspiracy theory. Christian art in Europe developed its typical imagery when the vast majority of Europeans could have no direct contact with non-Europeans, before colonialism or coherent ideas about racial identities, when far-off lands were thought to be occupied by one-legged giants...

[–] antonim 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The comparison with your own childish vs adult drawings is simply off the mark. A more similar comparison could be provided by how artists depict the Vikings. It is well known today that the helmet with bull horns is made-up, and was probably never used by actual Vikings. Yet tons of people still portray them with such helmets, and most non-artists still have that same association in their minds. Why? Because a child growing up and developing their observational and artistic skills is not the same as a culture with its century-old symbols and images.

Admittedly the depictions of Jesus in art today are frequently done by more or less amateurish artists and are meant to be traditional in their style, which additionally makes them less likely to move away from the inherited imagery.

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