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Sure. I worked in the game industry and sometimes AI can mean ‘pick a random number if X occurs’ or something equally simple, so I’m just used to the term used a few different ways.

Yeah, Eno actually has made a variety of albums and art installations using generative simple AI for musical decisions, although I don’t think he does any advanced programming himself. That’s why it’s really odd to see comments in an article that imply he is really uninformed about AI…he was pioneering generative music 20-30 years ago.

I’ve come to realize that there is a huge amount of misinformation about AI these days, and the issue is compounded by there being lots of clumsy, bad early AI works in various art fields, web journalism etc. I’m trying to cut back on discussing AI for these reasons, although as an AI enthusiast, it’s hard to keep quiet about it sometimes.

Either the article editing was horrible, or Eno is wildly uniformed about the world. Creation of AIs is NOT the same as social media. You can’t blame a hammer for some evil person using it to hit someone in the head, and there is more to ‘hammers’ than just assaulting people.

Totally right that there are already very impressive open source AI projects.

But Eno doesn’t control diddly, and it’s odd that you think he does. And I assume he is decently well off, but I doubt he is super rich by most people’s standards.

Unless you have specific, Jason Momoa-type goals in mind

Lets just call it what it is. Aquaman. If you goal is become Aquaman, you should focus on largely aquatic gym tasks, such as lifting extra heavy weights deep underwater, swimming (lots) of laps, and defeating gigantic sea monsters. This is the quickest path to eventually become Aquaman (well, at least in some ways. There can be only one True Aquaman, but you can strive for it).

But isn’t doing laundry totally optional? Or maybe my Imaginary Friend is giving me bad suggestions again.

'I’ve heard a few people just throw them into baggies and sell/give to crafty folks, which I might do in the end. ’

Yeah. Seems like they could be put to good use by assemblage artists, e.g. Kris Kuksi types.

Massive ongoing improvements in AI, and hopefully less massive but still impressive improvements in humanoid robots. Both of these will actually happen, unlike a lot of stuff that I and many others would LIKE to have happen.

Similar to the early Blizzard approach in some ways. A focus on delivering a vibe done to a very high level of quality and visual coolness, while leaving risky innovation in game mechanics to others.

Badass ‘got my freaky outfit on, took my drugs, and I’m ready to go to the RAVE’ Garuda. In a good way.

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Agreed. History is full of unintended consequences, partially because so many things were more complicated than individuals and societies realized. There are not tons of really simple tradeoffs along the lines of ‘freedom vs safety’. I don’t think people could have imagined the future world they would bring about when they started planting crops instead of just hunting and gathering, for example.

Unfortunately, I don’t see this changing in time to prepare for a huge upcoming change in the form of AI + humanoid robots putting hundreds of millions or billions of people out of work. AI+bots will be a gigantic tech improvement and could improve things by a huge amount very rapidly, but by essentially doing NOTHING to prepare for the unemployment, it will likely be a disaster that certainly does not HAVE to occur.

How politicians just ignore this worst case scenario is super frustrating. It’s hard to imagine most countries being able to pivot their entire approach to keeping their citizens alive, not to mention just ‘not miserable’ fast enough, if they keep on doing nothing for a few more years. It’s mind boggling that somehow they don’t realize how fast this change will occur compared to previous seismic shifts. They must have advisors who are supposed to bring up important issues, I would think.

I guess politicians simply don’t want massive rapid change to happen, to such an extent that it always seems best to them to just pay attention to the short term gratification. I wish they would accept that it’s not up them whether massive changes occur or not.

Mud Pies incoming!

Lovely! Plenty amount of attractive detail, but overall a nice and simple stylized form.

Right around the year 2000, pretty much as soon as the internet was developed and early internet porn influenced lots of people.

I’ve been re watching this show in the last week or two, and it’s kind of hard for me to enjoy, because to me EVERYONE seems fairly horrible. I guess the audience is supposed to try to feel some compassion for the characters, but it mostly seems like a guilty pleasure viewing experience, and I’m supposed to be entertained by how messed up everyone is.

The production quality is just amazing though. Like the OP mentions, stuff just looks great…it’s a nicely stylized take on what the early 60’s were kind of like.

Well, that’s neat looking and cool and weird.

I’m getting strong Yellow Submarine movie vibes (which is good).

When they pass you in the hall at work, it’s like you are invisible to them. Never any eye contact or acknowledgement that you exist, except for them not actually walking right into you.

I had a coworker who did this to me (and a fair amount of other people at work). She was young and pretty and had this approach to any guys a fair amount older than her. I wasn’t trying to date her or even interact with her in any personal way…she just seemed to preemptively turn on her ‘you are invisible’ field to the many people she was not interested in. It was a bit odd, but effective.

Climate change really be kicking in rapidly at this point