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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 5h
They blocked me after the compliment
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 14h
Respect for actually admitting the logical inconsistencies. Being angry about tech disrupting art is an understandable emotion, but feelings don't rewrite how pipelines work. We can leave it there. Keep making your art.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 15h
Classic appeal to authority pivot. You don't need a dev credit to know documented industry history, especially when you already admitted devs "yoink stuff to fill space." Credential checking doesn't magically fix a broken argument.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 15h
Step 1: Preheat the oven. Step 2: Concede that devs use highres placeholders. Step 3: Call the other person a bot when your narrative collapses. Serves one very bruised ego.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 15h
Free piece of advice: when you make broad declarative statements about how dev pipelines work, it makes arguing the counterpoint very, very easy. You backed yourself into a corner with absolutes you couldn't defend
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 15h
We both know I understand this pipeline far better than you were ready for. Go ahead and do what people usually do when they hit a wall: block me, retreat to your echo chamber, and farm your likes in peace.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 15h
Nobody is ignoring your point, you’re just repeating an unfalsifiable assumption. If they replace it, you say they got caught lying. If they don’t, you say you were right. You’ve created a setup where you can never be wrong because you claim to read minds.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 16h
You just proved my point. "Yoinking stuff to fill space" means using high-res temp comps instead of crude MS Paint doodles. The tool used to generate the standin doesn't change the concept: it's a temporary asset meant to be replaced before launch.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 16h
Uncharted 4's trailer shipped with Assassin's Creed concept art as a placeholder framed painting. BioShock Infinite demoed entire scripted combat scenes that were fully discarded comps. Highend games regularly use polished temp assets to test mood and scale before final signoff.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 16h
I grasp your point completely….it’s just based on circular logic. You assume bad faith, declare your assumption is an indisputable fact, and then melt down when someone points out that highfidelity comps have always existed in production. Resorting to insults doesn't make it true.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 17h
Corporate greed exists, but that doesn't mean every placeholder is a retrofitted lie. A prototype isn't a finished car being sold to consumers. If a studio actually ships AI slop to pad executive bonuses, slam them. Until then, you're just inventing motives for a work in progress.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 19h
That shifts the goalpost from how production actually works to mindreading intent. Devs use highfidelity comps to test lighting, scale, and mood before spending money on final art. Judge the shipped product. Assuming every temp asset in a WIP build is an attempted scam is just hunting for bad faith.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 22h
If it were a placeholderit’d look like shit” isn’t really an argument.A placeholder means temporary,not deliberately ugly. Devs can use polished temp assets to test composition, lighting, readabilityetc.The question is whether it was replaced not whether it looked shitty enough for you to recognize
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Knuckles and tails type levels are a crime against man
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You guys are about to be miserable the rest of your lives if every time you hear “AI” you have a conniption.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you aren’t claiming current capacity limits future deployment, you just abandoned your original point entirely. Either the grid can build out to support compute, or it can't. Glad you finally conceded it can. Goodnight.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By that logic, we’d have no interstate highway system, no commercial aviation, no electrification of rural America, no domestic AC, and no transcontinental railroad. "The existing capacity right now can’t take it" would have halted every major industrial expansion in human history.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The grid "right now" couldn’t support tomorrow’s electric cars or yesterday’s air conditioners before lines were built. Declaring a construction queue a permanent physical barrier is pure semantics. Cheers.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First the grid physically couldn't handle it, then it wasn't useful, now it's municipal code violations. Local air quality and noise compliance are standard industrial legal disputes. Conflating zoning friction with an immutable physical law doesn't make it true.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And we’ve hard reset right back to prompt one. Three fake goodbyes, an ad hominem derail, admitting it’s about "value," and now rebooting to sentence one. Repeating a slogan doesn’t make it an engineering fact
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We went from "the grid can't physically support it" to "substations take time" to "I don't find it valuable anyway". You made a full circle back to your subjective opinion. Thanks for confirming it wasn't about physics.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Conflating "it takes three years to pour concrete and deliver a transformer" with "it is physically impossible" is an absurd semantic game. Under your definition, every factory, subdivision, and hospital ever planned was "physically impossible" until built. That’s construction, not physics.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interconnection queues have multiyear regulatory and transformer backlogs. Onsite turbines provide interim base load while utility hookups are built and permitted. You're mistaking utility red tape and lead time for a physical law.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You started by claiming all GenAI is inherently copyright theft and should be banned. Now you're arguing it just needs legal licensing structures like Spotify and iTunes so artists get paid. That isn’t you proving your point…that is literally you adopting my initial argument. Glad we agree.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It can't because it can't" is textbook circular logic. Deploying onsite turbines is private generation doing what it’s built to do bypass grid queues, not break physics. Defaulting to "you must be an AI" is just the final sign you ran out of facts. Let's see if the goodbye holds this time.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The "Napster part" was P2P networking. That exact technology powers legal enterprise sync, OS distribution, and game patches today. The architecture was never illegal; downloading copyrighted tracks without a license was. Sourcing is the issue.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unblocking me to post "I am not going to argue" while offering zero search results, zero citations, and zero metrics is poetry. If disproving compliant licensing and grid expansion was a "simple search," you’d have linked one by now.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In 2000, 99% of digital audio was Napster, Limewire, and Kazaa. If regulators followed your logic, MP3s and streaming compression would have been banned entirely. Instead, law and markets forced compliance models to scale. Infrastructure and tooling outlive bad initial implementations.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You just conceded my point: it isn’t inherent to the technology, it’s a question of compliance and data sourcing. When Napster operated illegally, the answer wasn't banning digital audio, it was building Spotify and iTunes. Ethical pipelines prove the tech itself isn’t the problem
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thought you said goodbye? You haven’t offered a single engineering mechanism, just repeated "it physically can't" while ignoring transmission lead times and dedicated generation. Needing the final word isn't a rebuttal.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The full cycle in four replies: start with absolute generalizations, call counterevidence "whataboutism," collapse into ad hominem insults, and block before receiving an answer. When you can't defend the premise, building an echo chamber is the only move left.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pointing out that infrastructure expands to meet capital isn't "admitting" the grid is permanently doomed; it’s explaining basic utility development. Calling it boring and ducking out says everything. Take care.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You just shifted from "the electrical grid cannot support compute" to "generators make loud noises in neighborhoods". Local noise ordinances and site permitting are standard municipal zoning fights common to any heavy infrastructure, not evidence of a macro grid collapse.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The grid "right now" can't power a neighborhood that hasn't been built yet either. Stating today’s capacity limits tomorrow’s deployment ignores how utilities finance expansion. It’s an empty talking point disguised as physical reality.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It isn’t whataboutism to refute a blanket claim with direct counterexamples. You stated as absolute fact that AI inherently steals from artists. Pointing to models built strictly on licensed datasets, public domain assets, and enterprise optins directly disproves the universal premise.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every major industrial load was "physically impossible"until transmission and generation scaled to capture the capital. Data centers aren't competing with hospital ICUs for a static pool of juicethey're underwriting new generation and offgrid capacity. You're mistaking lead time for a physical law
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shifting from "grid can't physically support it" to subjective utility gives the game away. The early internet, GPS, and cloud compute were massive cost sinks for years before defining modern industry.CapEx always precedes profitability; pretending immediate margins dictate viability ignores history
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The grid in 1950 couldn’t support household air conditioning either. Infrastructure isn't fixed in amber; capacity gets built to meet the demand. "It can't support it" ignores how utility investment works.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Nobody thinks it’s useful" is demonstrably false the second you look outside Twitter. Industries use it to ship products every day. You can hate looking at it all you want, but inventing fake economic theories about RAM prices doesn't make your feelings a fact.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DRAM has run on boom-and-bust demand spikes for 30 years. When Windows 95 exploded, RAM skyrocketed. When smartphones took off in 2017, PC memory doubled in price. New computing eras always strain memory supply before fab capacity catches up. It’s basic supply cycles, not a conspiracy.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Recognizing an engineering bottleneck isn’t agreeing with your doomer conclusion. You claimed the grid cannot support it to justify an ideological boycott. I pointed out infrastructure scales up with clean tech to handle it. Acknowledging a challenge isn't validating your panic.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You claimed the grid can't handle it; I pointed out tech is literally funding nuclear restarts to fix it. That’s called a solution, not a concession.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You: "They're using gas turbines to get power!" Me: "Here is how energy grids actually adapt and fund clean power to handle that." You: "Deflection." Directly answering your exact power point with facts isn’t deflection, you just ran out of things to say.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Scaling infrastructure is an engineering problem, not a moral evil. Gas peakers have backed up hospitals and factories for decades. Meanwhile, tech is restarting Three Mile Island and pouring billions into small nuclear reactors to build dedicated clean baseload. That’s how grids adapt.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing changed except the news cycle. The internet's server infrastructure has been drawing insane grid power for 15+ years. People ignored it because they liked Netflix and video games. Now that it powers tech they dislike, suddenly everyone is an energy grid activist.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perfectly fair to hate it. At least now you're owning it as a personal vibe instead of objective fact.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The post literally calls people cockroaches. Let’s not pretend there was some deep, intellectual debate happening here before I showed up. Demanding basic nuance instead of knee jerk screeching isn’t arrogance, it’s just asking for common sense.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s more about making blanket statements about it with little nuance or gray area. This isn’t the black and white argument that you guys think it is.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honestly, agreed on pushing back on low effort junk. But studios don't talk about it publicly because bad faith mobs don't care about the difference. When the default reaction is "boycott everything that touches AI," it kills any room for developers to show good use cases.
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grbinder.bsky.social @grbinder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Taking an absolutist stance leaves you zero ground to stand on when reality enters the chat. Real production pipelines have nuance, clean datasets, and utility. Pretending “all GenAI is radioactive evil” makes for a loud post, but it completely falls apart under scrutiny.
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