skepticlysm

Tag: creativity

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    • I look like an escaped lobotomy patient right now.
    • Mwhahahahaha
    • Sup.
    • I’m sitting here on the couch listening to “Planet Caravan” by Black Sabbath.
    • The original, not that Pantera cover.
    • Not that the cover is bad, but …
    • I’m touchy, philosophically, about using things created by other people attached to whatever it is I’m doing.
    • Like the Oatmeal comic, or that cross-stitched thing.
    • I’ll attach that stuff because I love it, and I want other people to see it and follow whoever created it.
    • Here’s where I’d go on another AI rant.
    • I don’t want shit created by AI.
    • I don’t want AI writing or art or music.
    • If you’re a creative who uses it as a tool to help you with your end product, fine.
    • If you’re using it to think for you, you’re hastening the downfall of humanity, and making some rich tech fuck richer.
    • I’m sure you can use it to create dumb shit like bad action flicks and soap operas.
    • I’m sure they will.
    • But you get what you … pay for?
    • This is where I’d get into my movie critic argument.
    • The one where I say “just because you like something doesn’t mean it’s good.”
    • I have a lot of guilty pleasures, too.
    • I just know they suck.
    • And Knowing Is Half the Battle.
    • I guess the end game I’m struggling with.
    • If they have AI takeover creative endeavors, humanity will flounder.
    • We’re not meant to produce things for consumption other than food.
    • Not meant to spend our lives on assembly lines or in factories.
    • We’re meant to think and create.
    • Creativity is where our species advances.
    • You don’t solve problems without creativity.
    • Asking AI to do it for you makes you reliant on it for your thinking.
    • At some point, you’ll ask shittier questions.
    • And get shittier results.
    • Doesn’t anyone think about this?
    • Then again, I’m fed up with humanity’s continued inability to come up with a system to benefit everyone.
    • We don’t need to have poverty.
    • Or hunger.
    • Or homelessness.
    • They fling the word socialism at anything that can benefit the many these days.
    • And people believe it.
    • It’s bullshit.
    • It’s protecting the rich and greedy.
    • Hard to get away from it when they’re throwing “productivity” hacks at you every day.
    • This one’s a rant.
    • I guess.
    • I just work here, man.
    • We finished White Lotus season three yesterday.
    • Good stuff.
    • By far the prettiest show I have ever watched.
    • Started Andor season two.
    • Excellent.
    • I should’ve watched the finale of season one first, but I remembered as we tripped along.
    • For those of you new to the List, Mondays often end up as weekend recaps.
    • I started this one yesterday, so part of it isn’t.
    • I have been waking up at 4ish and unable to go back to sleep because the brain is flipping to ON mode.
    • I can brain.
    • Last night, I lay there doing FMLA math on how long I had to make progress on my book, among other things.
    • Kinda.
    • Brains update:
    • My left temple has been swollen and numb since the surgery.
    • I’d been wondering exactly where they’d opened the skull.
    • Figured that out Saturday trying to unload the dryer.
    • That repeated bending over stuff …
    • Oh, hey, there’s the crack.
    • Lol.
    • Still.
    • Not bad.
    • Still taking nothing for pain.
    • And I looked up without double vision for the first time since April 2022.
    • I never thought that would happen again.
    • It was in and out, but it happened.
    • The miracles of modern medicine.
    • Wish everyone had access to them.
    • And with that, I’m going to go take my IV meds and go for a walk.
    • You have the Monday you deserve.