u/thuer

My grandad died from ALS when I was 14. I still think about it a lot. To see such a powerful man succumb to the disease and turn into a vegetable in 2-3 years. It was formative for me, but not in a good way. 

In which direction? 

That they're not related, because Grusch says so?  That they're related and Grusch is lying about it?  That they might be related and Grusch doesn't know a thing about it? 

Thank you for an interesting story.

Would love to hear more from your parents, as specific as possible. 

This bit, I found very interesting. 

​Bizarrely, he could see the being both in front of the car and in the rearview mirror at the same time.

It reminds me of the physics of black holes, where the strength of the gravity basically shows you the backside of the black hole as its distorted towards your view. Often, experiences talk about time and space distortion. This sounds excactly like that. 

Here's a few tips:

-Work more on understanding, what your character is doing and work less on HOW you should say the words. 

-Every time you practice your lines, say them aloud and say them in a new way. Keep challenging the material without choosing how you're gonna say them. Stay fluid. 

-When you it's time to do the work, instead of thinking "I have to do something, otherwise it's boring", start thinking about HIDING YOUR INTENTIONS.  Most of the time, we're not interested in people seeing right through us, so we try to hide our true intentions.  This is not the same as "Do less" or "Keep it down", which are really bad directions as they're passive and forces you into a headspace of expression.  Instead, think a lot, question everything your coactor is doing, but keep it a secret. 

Hello friend.

Thank you for sharing. 

First off, A for effort. You've picked a very difficult piece of text and you're going for it. That's courageous. 

But the text IS very difficult, perhaps too difficult to work with for you right now. Not that you can't learn a lot from working with it anyways. Parenthetical sentences, playing "at speed", analysis etc. Those are important lessons and a big part of the toolbox needed to play Shakespeare.  But empathy wise, right now I'm not feeling it. You're proclaiming the text, but not really turning it into a believable performance. 

If I was you, I'd start working with easier Shalespeare monologues first, that are closer to where you are. Romeo & Juliet has a few great ones, that are more on-the-nose. Hamlet. 

It'd also be great, if you could get a better mic (perhaps even a lav mic). Right now the audio is not helping to sell the performance. 

Well, I'm with you there. I'm doing promo for a show I shot last year next week, and I can't bring myself to watch it. Not because I hate it or hate myself, but because I don't really enjoy the show and can't be bothered. I guess that's sort of what you're describing. 

OP asked whether all actors hate looking at themselves, whether they're as judgmental of their own performance as OP is. 

For me, that judgemental view faded with time. 

And it didn't improve for you?

For me, after about 10-15 years, it got much better. I'm much less judgemental of my performance. I might not enjoy the movie it's a part of or the show, but I can isolate my performance and watch it to learn from my performance, rather than judge it. 

You'll grow past it, if you work enough. Sometimes, you might even enjoy your own performance. Give it time. 

Me too. Would LOVE if we could all come together to make a class action lawsuit. I don't think they delivered a single board to Europe. 

Filing for it and receiving it are two VERY different things.

Coming from someone who went through that process, waited for 5 years(!!!!) before receiving 190€ and none of my expenses paid. 

Well, from my perspective there are a few routes.

First, do the analysis. What you can with the text you've got. Is the character enjoying the tormenting or are they trying to achieve something? What is the connection to the victim? Etc

Then: What tools are they using? Weaonized empathy? Making fun? Normalising a fucked up situation? What are they doing and why? Find reasons for the lines, that YOU know and understand, but don't show it. Keep those secrets. 

Then: Learn from the greats. Watch a few great films about serial killers. No country for old men. Chaser. Silence of the lambs. Whatever you like. Look at what the antagonist is doing and why it works. Copy it. Don't worry, it won't be the same anyway, because YOU'RE doing it and because it's done in a different setting. 

These are very general pieces of advice. It's hard to be specific without the text. You can send it to me in a pm, if you want specifics. 

Give me some more and I'll try. 

Is it for a movie, TV or theatre? 

Does he goat the victims before killing them? 

How many scenes does he appear in? 

Are any of them as his "alter ego"? 

Yeah, I enjoyed reading your writeups and I will enjoy what you're gonna write when you're ready.  I didn't invest, but learned a bunch. I might invest next time, even if your track record took a hit. 

Get well, Tweedle, that's most important. 

I saw that.  Usually, I wouldn't have interacted with your account because of it. 

I understand, that some users have reasons for wanting to hide their history, but to my mind, the only thing proving you're human is your comment history so I try to steer clear of conversations with users with hidden post and comment history. 

Half the accounts of reddit are bots, I think. 

Everyday I notice accounts posting provocative, aggressive posts on so many forums and if I check their account it's almost always hidden comments, 2 years old, 38000 karma. On most subreddits, though, you'll be banned for calling someone a bot long before the bot is banned. 

Yes. For me, specifically DMT and mushrooms gave a deep understanding of why I am who I am and a forgiveness for why I'm not always who I to be.

Post the original pictures, then. The ones that can be found across the Internet. 

If protecting democracy is so important to you, don't post AI generated pictures. 

I've made a rule for myself: I never reply to or interact with accounts with comment history hidden.

I doesn't solve the problem, but it helps me not be rage baited a little bit. 

... which was possibly borrowed from a Danish scientist.

I haven't read it, but understood it stood on the shoulders of Diego Cordoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroas work.

The novel approach came from their work as well as Buckmaster and Alpöge using their technique to solve a question by Erdos, which they stored on OpenAI Codex. The engineers from OpenAI then lifted that technique from the Codex to use it on Navier-Stokes. 

Maybe I'm missing something, but to my understanding the novel idea used to solve Navier-Stokes was made by a human. 

Good point again.  A lot of human research is like that too, probably a big part of it.  But not all. And the exceptions are what moves maths ahead.  Erdos's probabilistic method. Perelman's Ricci flow. Maynard's sieves.   

Fair point. Didn't mean literal exhaustive search, though.  I meant brute force in the looser sense: grinding through known techniques, cases and existing machinery until the problem is solved, without any new ideas anyone else can reuse.

I wonder, whether they'll all be brute force solutions, semi-stolen work from mathematicians who've collaborated with OpenAI or if there's actually anything added to the general knowledge pool of maths (like Maynard's Sieves). 

I generally find him believable, but also possibly gullible.

In "UFO of God" he laid out his prediction:

When the red star of Regulus aligns just before dawn in the gaze of the Sphinx, a new knowledge shall come into the world

He was told, that this matched a celestial position, that was around easter 2026. That fits, if you regard the red star as mars and Regulus together with it.  If you read it as Regulus being red on the sky, it actually fits the timing now. It also fits the midterms and Trump threatening to nuke Iran. 

Whether or not it's true, I find it entertaining. 

Check out ai-2027.com

It's a prediction made three years ago, that the singularity hits in 2027. 85% of the predictions have been accurate. 

They also have a short story fleshing out how the AI apocalypse could happen.