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ALSO ALSO!!!

The METALAYERS of these movies telling audiences "This is what we think of you. This is what you must be like, if these stories appeal to you" fits in with the fact that Cybertronians themselves are inherently alien mimics in all continuities!

anyways metalayers ammiright

"How many metalayers removed this story can we get??"

I am forever stuck inbetween the metalayers of existence and the simulation, do you think that's nice?

I suspect this is true even in non-computer-science domains just as much, if not moreso, because, as you say, it's about recreating details from an inherently imperfect encoding, and LLMs can't _solve_ for that. It'd be turtles all the way up, metalayers atop metalayers, still incomplete.

Yeah, the game part being very good (and thematically intertwined with the metalayers) is why I'm such a fan of the game

i agree with that, but also, like - do you *want* people coming back over and over? will that make the experience better?

with a lot of these games, the experience ends not when people reach a satisfying ending, but when people lose patience with the metalayers, or feel overwhelmed. is that good?

take upwards of 30 minutes to an hour. That obviously makes space for cross-cutting between characters, but idk man, scenes in a film last around ~15 minutes because you're seeing the final product in edited time. TTRPGs involve metalayers of player and character as ludonarrative negotiation.

I can't get over the TC show tonight. They may be my favorite band right now? Their deep knowledge of jamband lore utilized to create their own jamband lore, adding metalayers to the already most postmodern of music genres, kind of blows my mind. If you believe that the band is aware of and […]

tryna think of more terms in this space

processors
observers
agents
watchers
daemons
3rd parties
metalayers
meta software
over the top / OTT
method swizzling
middleware
injections
dll
inspector
index
JIT
lisp macros
effect handlers

i think the three examples you gave were better though haha

this is my lesson on metalayers

I feel like the way they work by copy pasting pixels inherently biases against being able to do iterative improvement, but I also assume with the right incentives there could be vector alternatives or metalayers to handle it or *something*

Lol. I'm disregarding my own advice. There are metalayers of sarcasm here. Definitely not earnest, but Bob's fictional universe is pretty funny.

Definitely some banger lines in there.

A particular one about horses late in the game I found particularly delightful.

Overall though I found myself outside the movie, seemingly by design, a lot of the time. Wondering what it would have been if they ditched one of the three (four?) metalayers…

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