
diskrot///what is it?
[Monologue] Alright, it's a beautiful day. I've got my donuts. Uh, I got a little bit of time before I gotta go do some work. Let's talk Discrat. Um, so yeah, there's always new people coming into Suno, Refusion. Uh, I guess Studio. I don't know about that anymore. Um, and yeah, uh, Discrat, you know, we have a number of people who have the Discrat superlative on their name. Uh, that's a relatively new thing. But Discrat has been around for a little while in some form or fashion. Uh, and so I want to talk about what it is and some recent changes to the Discrat community. Um, you know, for those who are interested in that kind of thing. So, number one, Discrat is basically an art collective. It's essentially or an art movement. Um, it's a relatively small group. Um, that basically fundamentally believes in, um, the qualitative ceiling, right? The trying to get their art to be as good as it possibly can be over essentially anything else. Now, that doesn't mean that, you know, if you're an artist, you know that, um, you know, promoting your stuff, etcetera, is still important. It's an important part. It has no place in Discrat. Um, and that's by design. Discrat is meant to be basically have a separation of concerns where inside Discrat, the sole focus is entirely on improving the quality of the work you have. And so, everything about Discrat is essentially in service to that. Um, including the community itself being, uh, by design, small and selective. Um, so we have a very, very curated list of people who are in Discrat, which means that the conversations that happen in Discrat are essentially designed or a result of that careful curation. Um, what I mean by this is like, you don't have people just like constantly spamming their own stuff promoted and then sticking a bunch of emojis on it. You don't have people who are like pretending to like everybody, um, everybody's stuff with the hope that they'll get something in return essentially. The idea here is, you know, most of the time what people are actually doing is sharing methods, asking questions about methods. And then on top of that, you have this sort of side effect of having a community like this where since the quality of the work, um, increases, uh, you know, over time, everybody's improving whatever, and people were already baseline quite good. It motivates people to again, further, I guess, dig deep in essence. It's the difference between like, if you're a professional basketball player, um, you, you know, playing in the NBA, or you take that same basketball player, um, and they never made it to the NBA. Instead, they're still playing on a, you know, more amateur team or just for fun. That same basketball player is going to be way better when they're in the NBA, not just because of the training, not just because of, um, the access to better equipment. A huge portion of it is going to be just simply because they are surrounded by players who are also very, very, very good. Um, and so that is the essential idea. Second part of that is, you know, we have that phrase consensus is dead. That's attached to all of our stuff. It's essentially a reference to the fact that consensus mechanics, upvotes, downvotes, views, are so easy to game nowadays that the internet itself has become a cesspool. It's very, very hard to find good quality content that you legitimately want to watch. And I think a lot of people think they're kind of imagining it because there's sort of, you know, the back in my day. In this case, I actually think people are correct. Um, for the most part, the internet has degraded due to a bunch of headwinds that are related to how easy it is to manipulate those various factors in order to artificially inflate content,

