"You heard of musician's dystonia?" OffVermilion - a handle his friends shorten to Vermi - once said to me, as we admired our avatars in a virtual mirror, one of the great amusements in VRChat.
He was wearing an anime fox-girl avatar, female anime avatars being pretty standard in VRChat regardless of gender or orientation, his voice modulated by a neural net he had trained himself after mainlining Jeremy Howard's ML MOOCs - now the distilled essence of anime-girl voice with only the slightest twang of artificiality. Despite the significant technical effort expended in his mimicry, he insists he is a "he" and refers to himself as a "femboy."
"Vaguely," I said.
"So how it works," he said, "is a musician tries to reach a note on their cello or violin or piano or whatever with their index finger, and their middle finger moves too. They find they can't [...]
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First published:
September 6th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JMqHvLCRsChvq6x4m/offvermilion
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.