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Forum: VideoBox 02-23-2024
Replies: 3
Views: 590
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Pooky Park

The new AIs feel like a strange new form of the puppet mind concept in Thomas' writing. Has anyone here had a philosophical discussion about consciousness and the self with GPT4?

I find it very...
Forum: VideoBox 02-22-2024
Replies: 3
Views: 590
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Pooky Park

Pooky Park (AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park) - YouTube
Forum: VideoBox 01-30-2024
Replies: 2
Views: 483
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: A Meaningless Infinity

A related video by another author: The Shape of Infinity - YouTube (https://youtu.be/Zm5Ogh_c0Ig?si=8k7fM_9dw-Gdk1Kw)
Forum: VideoBox 01-28-2024
Replies: 2
Views: 483
Posted By Steve Dekorte
A Meaningless Infinity

A Meaningless Infinity - YouTube
Forum: Questions & Answers 06-21-2023
Replies: 26
Views: 16,696
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: How bad is your anxiety and do you treat it?

FWIW, I’ve found Lithium Orotate 2.5mg (available over the counter in the US) once a week to be very helpful with anxiety.
Forum: Art 05-25-2022
Replies: 3
Views: 2,063
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Dalle2

A few more. The prompts were "a great grinding fear" and "talking in their sleep, of elegant mutations and cunning annihilations"
Forum: Art 05-23-2022
Replies: 3
Views: 2,063
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Dalle2

IIRC, I got on their waiting list a few weeks ago:
https://www.midjourney.com/
Forum: Art 05-23-2022
Replies: 3
Views: 2,063
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Dalle2

There's a new text-to-image system like Dalle2 that can generate impressive art images using text prompts. I recently got access to it, and tried some Ligotti related prompts. What do you think? Any...
Forum: Off Topic 11-13-2021
Replies: 26
Views: 23,702
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Horror Curios

I feel the movie didn't quite convey the metaphor of the book: the box as the mind and the cenobites as anxieties surrounding our desires that create suffering (a Buddhist horror story). For example,...
Forum: Website News 09-14-2020
Replies: 8
Views: 10,184
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Thomas Ligotti Online T-Shirts and More

Good idea.


Here you go: Thomas Ligotti Online Unisex Heavy Cotton Tee Blank Back | Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/listing/765891294/thomas-ligotti-online-unisex-heavy?ref=listing_published_alert)...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 07-31-2020
Replies: 0
Views: 2,821
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Using GTP3 AI to generate Ligottian poetry

INPUT:

"One needs to have a plan, someone said who was turned away into the shadows
And who I had believed was sleeping or dead
Imagine, he said, all the flesh that is eaten
The teeth tearing...
Forum: Art 08-26-2019
Replies: 66
Views: 67,084
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Our Art inspired by Thomas Ligotti

I'd be interested in a black t-shirt with the Ligotti swallowing the Cosmos print (in white, gray, dark gray). I'd happily pay more for good quality t-shirt to put the print on, like a Gap crew neck...
Forum: Questions & Answers 02-28-2019
Replies: 26
Views: 16,696
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: How bad is your anxiety and do you treat it?

Micro-dosing psilocybin mushrooms is said to (over time) significantly improve both anxiety and depression, and without the side effects of medications.

The ketosis carnivore diet (eating only...
Forum: YouTube Selections 10-01-2018
Replies: 3
Views: 6,880
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Skeleton Jelly

Another version:

Skeleton Jelly, Part 1

Skeleton Jelly, Part 2
Forum: Philosophy 06-26-2018
Replies: 246
Views: 109,362
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Anti-Natalism, Can It Really Exist?

Has anyone written a story (not a philosophical treatise) about global voluntary anti-natalism that ends in species extinction? Seems like it would be interesting to explore what plausible scenario...
Forum: General Discussion 06-03-2018
Replies: 5
Views: 4,427
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/C7D8/production/_101606115_norman-2-nc.png

Are you scared yet? Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44040008)
Forum: YouTube Selections 08-28-2017
Replies: 0
Views: 4,479
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Time phased candy. Taste the totality.

HUMANS TRY TIME-PHASED SWEETS - YouTube
Forum: YouTube Selections 08-28-2017
Replies: 8
Views: 6,130
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Are you still afraid of clowns?

Kramer is afraid of clowns - Seinfeld - YouTube
Forum: General Discussion 05-05-2017
Replies: 35
Views: 28,064
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Which Ligotti Stories Should be Filmed?

An animated adaptation of "In a Foreign Town, in a Foreign Land" with each short story in a different animation style (maybe one in the style of the book cover) might work well. Sort of a Ligotti...
Forum: YouTube Selections 03-18-2017
Replies: 1
Views: 5,526
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Resonance by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

If I had the means, I'd like to buy a grocery store on a remote highway, install flickering florescent lighting, replace the clerks with mannequins and use this for muzak.
Forum: YouTube Selections 03-09-2017
Replies: 1
Views: 5,526
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Resonance by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe | Resonance | Performance | Exploratorium - YouTube
Forum: General Discussion 03-09-2017
Replies: 75
Views: 58,164
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Clark Ashton Smith

I enjoyed that one too. Felt a bit like Philip K Dick. And his "The Treader of the Dust" feels almost Ligottian:

"Then he was no longer John Sebastian, but a universe of dead stars and worlds that...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 03-08-2017
Replies: 11
Views: 8,598
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals?

I've come to think of Lovecraft's monsters as various lesser forms of Azathoth, and Azathoth itself as an unconscious metaphor for the deep sleep phase of sleeping where the semi-coherence of REM...
Forum: YouTube Selections 03-07-2017
Replies: 4
Views: 9,910
Posted By Steve Dekorte
Re: Erik Sanko 'The Fortune Teller'- complete puppet show

That song and dance man really cracked me up. Santo and Elfman, wow. Thanks for sharing this.
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 03-07-2017
Replies: 11
Views: 8,598
Posted By Steve Dekorte
How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals?

communication - How can a Horror from Beyond Reason reliably communicate with mortals? - Worldbuilding Stack Exchange...
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