oscarmoralde.com
Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis. I study embodied aesthetics and ideology in video games and digital media. Steam tells me I have 2,710 hours played in Time Clickers
👤 Joined on 21 December 2023
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@oscarmoralde.bsky.social@oscarmoralde.bsky.social → @oscarmoralde.comAt the last minute, I was invited to see the Chrono Trigger concert happening tonight in LA, and uh, is this a safe space to admit that I've never played the game before 😅 I somehow know some of the music though, so I'm still looking forward to the performance!
Show PostMore generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>
Show PostThinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >>
Show PostI watched @doublefine.com AF documentary videos on loop while writing my undergraduate thesis. I'm absolutely thrilled to get to watch this AF progress while writing my PhD Dissertation (in game studies no less).
Show PostThere's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>
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