Carl

@carljavier.bsky.social

AI Ethicist, writer, comics creator, author, dabbler in film, book editor, sometime podcaster, and creative writing teacher. Also a big music and guitar nerd.

Thinking of starting a little game design blog where I post short thoughts on game design and narrative. Like cool things a game is doing, dev tips from my experience, creative exercises, things like that. Not long-form. Short and sweet. Would anyone be into that? 🤔 #gamedev #gamedesign

If the Trump admin hates wokeness so much, why does the “Department of War” want to use Anthropic’s “woke AI” so much? Like bro, why don’t you just use grok? I mean that sounds like a sensible argument until I realize damn if we gave Grok the ability to surveil and launch autonomous attacks…

No matter how much you think the UN failed at maintaining a rules based order, right now we should really be trying to re-establish rules based order and institutions that support it. Unfortunately we are going down a very dark path. There’s a reason we had this, to prevent world war. Now what?

The United States grabbing the leader of a foreign state should be viewed globally as an unacceptable act of aggression (war?). We should all be worried because if they can do this, what won’t they do?

I’ve been involved in discussions on AI and often I’m asserting humanist and human-centered approach. People get distracted by the hype and the promises of ASI/AGI. But we need to move from humanist principles. Humanities people need to be at the table ever more!

I’ve watched lectures and listened/watched to material to familiarize myself with the ideas of Surveillance Capitalism. But finally having a book in my hands, on top of the ideas I can’t help but admire how magnificent Shoshana Zuboff’s prose is. Amazing thinker, beautiful prose stylist.

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I never played Pokémon. Felt I was too old for it when it came out. But I’ve been curious. Asked a friend, if I’m a fan of stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and GTA, what’s a good entry point. I picked up Arceus and… I GET IT NOW. Having so much fun and happy to have a new fandom to get into.

Been looking at the possibility of video games costing 80USD. Honestly, we are paying very little for games vis-a-vis the dev costs of most games, especially AAA. And for the enjoyment and value we get, the cost we pay is pretty fair and a price increase is understandable. HOWEVER

When people call a TV show or movie “slow” does it actually have a problem with pacing, or are they judging it based on TikTok-speed/attention and cuts?

I normally don’t read my own work. But a story I wrote 20 years ago was re-published so I thought to try. I cringed at myself and how I thought “that was good.” At the end of it though I stepped away kinda proud of my young self. Like good job for doing that you were pretty good at that age.

I made a 90s playlist for a young friend (in her mid-20s). I realize the time gap would be the same as someone handing me a Beatles tape in the 90s. Oh my back and knees.

I quit as podcast CEO October last year. But I’ve missed talking, interviewing, connecting in that way. I’ve had the immense pleasure of guesting on pods (thanks to Stanley Chi, Elbert Or, and Myrza Sison). And I guess this is a green light. Invite me on! I’ll talk AI, pop culture, bball, anything!

Avoiding other social platforms because people keep posting spoilers from TLOU. I think if it were airing on Sunday nights I could catch it, but Monday mornings in the Philippines, man, I gots work

Needing to be online to play certain games is frustrating. 1) sometimes net dies and you lose progress 2) sometimes you want to bring the device out and just play —ahem switch— 3) it’s these forced cloud saves and other features you don’t necessarily need. I might be old gamer yelling at clouds

Just picked up NBA 2K25 because it’s got a crazy price drop on Switch. I used to play every 2K and Live, but haven’t had a copy in maybe 3-4 years. Looking forward to designing an athletic center to get drafted to the Lakers hehe