he is famously consistent and reasonable.

that’s a great idea Trump will be in power forever!

His character’s a bit annoying in like the first two episodes he’s in, once the writers find their footing he’s fine. He’s not the only character that took a few eps to make sense.

A lady came into a store I was working at, acting like an asshole, because they thought it would get them a better deal, tried to angrily tell me I needed to sell her a $1000+ dollar outdoor furniture set for much less than the display price, this was the last one in the store, the display set itself, and it was already clearance price. it was marked at less than $200 dollars. this was the culmination of all the things I hate most in shitty customers. So I told her I was so sorry it was priced too high and I’d get her a better price if she waited there. then I went and did something else for an hour, came back and told her it was already sold early that day and sorry for the mix up. still feel fine about this.

AI art isn’t competent, anyone with moderate education in art can see this, there’s a lot of copying, and not good understanding, it’s not like a collage, it’s more like a remix but the elements don’t marry or contrast properly, it’s big failure is that it can’t do what humans do, in writing it’s said ‘writing is rewriting’ and writers talk about the first draft being the most important step and the least important version of the work. because you can’t edit nothing, and the first draft only exists to be torn apart and edited to death. This is similar to visual art. but we don’t talk in drafts but in passes. you do a pass for line, for color, for composition, for lighting, for balance, for proportions, not in a strict order or anything, and many artists even untrained artists go through these passes without consciously knowing that’s what they’re doing in every case, but it’s similar to writing, the creative process is about changing a work until it is complete, and that requires a lot of time and thought and intent, AI only takes finished images and remixes them. which is why if you ask it to ape cubism or optical art or any of the forms of art that deconstruct elements of art it can’t do it. it takes the image of those finished pieces and it slaps them on a object your requesting. you want a cubist keytar painting in hot pink? your going to get an image of a realistic keytar with cubist finished artwork painted on top of it, not a cubist painting of a keytar, because deconstruction and intent of that level requires human intellect and understanding of elements, and remixing can’t get you there at all. this isn’t magic, anyone could figure out how to make original art in a cubist style or optional style or dada ist or surrealist if they spent a little time studying art elements and the said styles, it just requires understanding that realism isn’t the point of art, and that elements like line, tone, and color can be separated and made to describe the visible world in a way the visible world doesn’t exist as, but AI can’t grasp elements or deconstruction, or how to make a finished piece of art from base elements, it only sees a finished work and copies the appearance.

it’s not even clear if the current approach can reach actual artifical intelligence from a machine learning approach. this is a randomized regurgitation machine, it hasn’t met the markers of an actual AI, it’s just that the profit motive demands it must be ready and it must be the right path because they need that money.

he’ll die peacefully in bed with zero weight on his conscience.

It’s not a bubble because of guess work, it’s a bubble because AI companies are taking on absurd amounts of debt, are trading that debt very quickly between themselves, and none of them have been able to show a profit and they are cheating every number in their favor and it still isn’t showing any profitably. so it’s not if the bubble bursts, it’s more, will this bullshit keep going if they never find profitably. all their avenues are pretty garbage, tokens are replacing payroll as a cut target for business, and the productivity they provide is not meeting need, AI slop is unpopular, police and military are slowly realizing a language model isn’t a reliable detective/ director of operations, also voters are alarmed they are trying to let AI do literally one of the most dangerous jobs you could trust to what’s effectively a particularly verbose racist toddler

A fool and his money, people really confuse success with cleverness, intelligence, and even foresight, often successful people don’t even know why they’re successful, and statistically it rarely has to do with their personal choices, it’s often dumb luck, people rarely have original ideas and make novel choices, human gonna human.

why couldn’t our puppet flee the country when he lost an election?

I used to be a manager at a smoothie shop. went to like two banks a day with different business needs, guess that’s not allowed… who knew?

I like when they bring up Bill Clinton. They really don’t get that other people don’t worship politicians.

It’s not an issue of prediction, or prophesy, it’s that all the available information right now looks like a classic bubble. could it find profitably? idk. is it profitable? No. is there billions or trillions in debt changing hands too fast for anyone to keep track of? yes. is someone selling somke? most likely these are the situations in which con artists thrive. probably not everyone is intending to sell smoke. but not all of this is going to work out, some may come out on top, but some will fall, and that will be a bubble.

Centrist = I’m not comfortable telling you I’m a fascist.

so… they’re saying just don’t buy their clothes?

instructing donors how to hide donations and scolding them for ‘papering’ her

sometimes I say something dumb then realize it’s dumb.

the bear will kill you, eat your corpse. the man will keep you alive so he can keep raping you or beating you or both for years and years. that was always the point. that was always the entire argument. death is better than torture and rape.