That final section still makes me teary eyed just thinking about it.

Survivalists like to boast of their skills to start a fire from scratch with no modern tool. But that wasn’t the main skill in ancient times. Most societies found it easier to start a fire once and then keep the flame going through several mediums. It was a practical, mundane but vital activity that everyone participated in. The calories gains from eating cooked food was our cheat code for unlocking brain power.

The irony is that they are too stupid to realize the satire.

Disclaimer, I’m stopping any reply since I think you’re either arguing in bad faith, or will never understand my point.

But if you can’t see the massive amount of effort, artistry and intentionality that comes from artists before they even get to the point of hitting play. Then you don’t deserve having gen AI. It’s too much for you. You will never ever be an artist with that attitude, and no one will ever want your art. You seem unable to relate on an emotional level with other human beings and their art. I suggest you further limit your chats to bots and LLMs, as you obviously lack basic human empathy. Please don’t reply anymore.

Flossing is healthier than brushing in this scenario, without risk of wearing out enamel.

Dear lord:

actually you know what, you know what fun thing I kind of do take a little bit of pride in. I only play my own music like, for a Deadmau5, show like every, every track that I’ve ever played in like the, maybe the last like 100 sets of mine have been Productions of my own.

— Deadmau5

You don’t even pay attention to anything you say.

Also:

I think the mistake a lot of people tend to make is saying Joel is a DJ. He’s not, hes said it multiple times. People have pointed out in this comment section and every where he’s a producer. And while he definitely enjoys the technical aspects of things for a performance, you don’t have to look far to see that yeah, most of his sets are the same. Go look at footage from all the We Are Friends shows he did, and you will see the same set over and over. He even says in this livestream he really prepares deadmau5 shows well ahead of time, meanwhile his Testpilot shows are “free wheeled” which is him doing actual mixing. (Although lets be clear, if you watch him DJ as Testpilot and know anything about Ableton, you know hes just launching clips and applying effects to put on a musical show).

Nothing inherently wrong with this. You’ll see the same people who complain about the Sync Button complaining about this. Bunch of old heads yelling about vinyl DJs, which I also love watching. People like Andy C are the bomb and watching him is just such a sight to behold. But at the end of the day, I don’t see the people complaining getting their names on the line up. Sorry not sorry.

— T.E.I. from the video’s comment section. (emphasis is mine)

All of those people involved in your reply. Real artist.

You, inputting a prompt into a genAI, not an artist.

If you showed me an image of an AI generated image of your making, it would not communicate anything about you, your history, context, values, meaning or anything remotely human to relate to. Going to an EDM show where a DJ just pushes the play button involves far more artistry than any amount of data centers burning tons of fossil fuels to make one shitty picture.

And this kind of disdain for other people’s art is why everyone hates AI bros.

Read about what DJing is, it’s more about playing the crowd, and less about playing the music. Really, do you never pay attention to anything beyond the superficial level. And DJs don’t say they are the musician, they are the DJ. Even though most DJs are also musicians.

See, that’s how I know you know nothing about art. You mention mona lisa because it is widely popular. But don’t know that RX of the painting show that davinci painted other two portraits underneath before the final result. Or the fact that it became famous because it was stolen for a while and when restored, the Louvre placed a security glass which, along with the burglary story, piked the interest of audiences for a painting that was thus far mostly ignored.

Art is more than the product, it’s its history, context and the value humans place of them. Without realizing this, art will never be more than a product to you. In which case I would suggest to stick your art criticism to marketing and ads.

Because using GenAI to call yourself an artist is like hitting play on Spotify to call yourself a musician. You’re not doing the thing, thus you are not the thing doer. A kid making turd shaped dogs with play-doh is closer to being an artist than you inputting prompt into a generator.

Art is not about the product. And your lack of artistic literacy displays this attitude. Art is about meaning and process. Here, try to use your empathy to learn something for a change.

Then why aren’t you doing it?

I want food but I am not cooky, doesn’t mean that ordering pizza makes you a chef.

I want to go but I am not a car person, doesn’t mean that calling a uber makes you the driver.

It is rather interesting that the kind of people that puts a punisher sticker in their car would be the firsts in line to eat a bullet by the punisher if he existed. Which is why marvel recently changed the logo. Though that doesn’t change anything IRL. At least the creators do show audiences that if a militia adopted punisher’s logo, and tried to associate it ideologically with their way of thinking. It would only target them as the punisher’s next victims.

I thought my use of capitalized Discord would be subtle but noticeable that it was a joke. I guess I was too subtle.

Here, I was keeping it in a drawer because I thought I wouldn’t need it, but obviously I did.

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The problem mister Alexander here makes is to assume geniuses exist, or that original ideas are rare. They don’t and they are not. Spend more than 15 minutes with any toddler and you’ll easily reach those 100 new original ideas. Humans are new ideas machines, it’s what we do. It is spontaneous, not extraneous, to us. To assume otherwise is very cynical and disingenuous. Every person has the capability to be a genius, because genius is just a social label granted to extremely narrow interpretations and projections of an individuals abilities in an extremely concrete set of skills or topic. For example, re-contextualize with a diagnosis of autism and now suddenly they are not a genius, they have an hyper-fixation.

Also, the premise that every idea, specially brand new, can be judged and ruled as good or bad in a vacuum, right out of the gate, is also very stupid. The category of genius is a very recent concoction, stemming from the halls of Victorian moral presumptions and the newly developed habit of nobility of worshiping the writings they didn’t understand of people they had never met. This is what motivates the myth that genius whatever is always positive, in the popular mind. But, Goebbels was a genius at propaganda, everything that we do today in publishing is based on stuff he invented. That doesn’t mean all his ideas were worth listening to, and were he alive and you followed him on Twitter (lets be honest, he would have a Twitter), that would shed a rather poor light on you.

Because, and this is the important part, humans are not a loose collection of isolated ideas. We are not modular, freely separable and reconfigurable beings. We are holistic, evolutive and integral. Sure, we might be different things to different people (privately) and audiences (publicly) at different points in time, but our own sense of identity and being is not divisible. Steven Pinker is perfectly capable of simultaneously being a liberal, atheist and intelligent linguist; a mediocre intrusionists psychologist who forgot how history works; and a stupid mysoginist and racist. All at the same time, and never stop being a single integral person. It doesn’t require an imaginary score of good to bad takes ratio. That’s a stupid premise. You don’t keep a broken clock around in the off chance it might be right twice a day. Use a more holistic sense.

Remember, what’s behind the user name is (still more often than not) a full person, not a black box (except if it is a bot, of course).

I understand and see why he didn’t touched the moral aspect of his own argument. It is because any moral analysis completely dismantles his premises. Morality is the most important thing separating humans from animals and machines. Of course if someone is an evil POS it you should block and cancel their ass. It’s Karl Popper all over again, if we don’t rule out bad takes in the off chance there will be a good take, we end up with a Nazi bar.

if you want to learn, you search discord.

Searching Discord is precisely the opposite of learning. You lose knowledge every second spent on Discord.

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No, you are harassing and bullying poor Stenzek.

Typical Linux user, using Linux and stuff.

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Not actively, they stopped trying to make money long ago. Since 2018 you can’t buy anything from them and artists are leaving. No new releases since then, of course.

Please don’t propagate the myth that all gays are ultra horny and promiscuous all the time. It is not true. Gay men deal with a shit ton of toxic standards as well.