I have been cultivating this mindset for 10 years.
I'm into month 6 of semen retention now and finally have zero urges or frustration at this stage. I eat one meal of meat, eggs, butter a day. Have finally been able to isolate and clearly see the effect listening to music has on my dopamine and happiness (its very bad for it). All of my belongings fit into one suitcase and a backpack. I live in an apartment by the beach. My hobbies are simply short walks in the morning, emotional movies in the evening, programming and reading in quietness during the day alone. Eliminated playing videogames for the most part, Hobbies are reverse engineering and decompiliation modding of childhood N64 games, coding my rts game engine from scratch, coding my programmable bot platform im creating. Reading. Finally i reached that peace you know about. Would love to hear a few things about your routine and how you spend your time or be e-friends e___cr___@gmail.com replace the first ___ with nda and the second ___ with aig :)
Artists gaslight everyone else and say their work has soul so that they can gatekeep "art" saying it can't be replicated by a machine or a modern artist (AI Artist).
However it is not soul it is egoism. The artist spent thousands of hours developing a style to make it seem like they are special. To someone with real intelligence and creativity this level of toil is unbearable and there is no motivation to do it simply to satisfy their ego because a real artist has no ego, they hack around for the fun of it.
In reality , the end product is always just paint on a canvas that has specific patterns and style applied to it and this can be replicated and improved upon by an AI Artist. The machine simply automates away the middle man, pointless egoism and the toil.
The only words I'd omit are, 'to make it seem like' :)
You do you, by all means fight for your right to be accepted and loved as the creative person who just randomly does whatever and it's just as good. Be natural! By all means. At the end of the day you've gotta be what you are and the integrity of that matters.
Without the toil, you ain't me.
Ego is a malignant master. As a rule the folks who rise so high accomplishing such elaborate, auteurist things are MISERABLE, just awful humans. They're driven in a way that doesn't exempt them from the consequence: they are as awful to themselves as they are to others and the prizes they produce are some compensation for what they've been through. Of course they'll flip out when you come around, mister natural, and say that you deserve equal cred—more!—for just hacking around and having fun.
They needn't flip out. Neither you nor the AI are going to be them. It's you who are the middle man, in pointless egolessness.
Take heart in this: you're closer to the mainstream. If you add enough ego and toil you can get to where NOBODY 'gets you' and die in weird obscurity. Which is kind of fun too :) but there will always be more people like you, not very special, able to reach the mass appeal more sincerely and easily.
Except now, AI is better at that than you will ever be ;)
Artists gaslight non-artists and say their work has soul and gatekeep "art" saying it can't be replicated. However this is not soul it is egoism and pointless toil. In reality the end product is just paint on a canvas that has specific patterns and style applied to it and this can be replicated and improved upon by an ai artist.
Sure, but I'm not endorsing gatekeeping. I don't see these works as inferior, just different. Once we have ways to distinguish them, they will become a different category of art we can also enjoy.
The problem is when images can be produced effortlessly by anyone to resemble anything else, which current AI tools allow. This makes them capable of posing as something that traditionally took a lot of skill and effort to generate. We need to be able to distinguish between these two, so that we can determine their relative value (both emotional and monetary). Art is tricky in that sense, since it's mostly based on personal enjoyment, but I think we can agree that things like NFTs are scams posing as high value art, while traditional paintings should be valued much more highly in every way.
>We need to be able to distinguish between these two, so that we can determine their relative value (both emotional and monetary).
Why?
Why should the nature of a work of art's creator have any bearing on its emotional impact? If the emotional impact is the same, why should the nature of the creator have any bearing on a piece's monetary value?
I suppose you can argue that part of what you feel when you look at artwork is empathy with the artist, and that empathizing with a human feels better than empathizing with software. I think that argument sucks.
I think if you felt something looking at these photos (fauxtos?) when you thought they were taken by a human, and now they make you feel something different because you know that's not true, that's not a judgement of the artwork, that's a reflection of you. I'd also argue that it's art on that merit alone.
The prompt engineer has to explicitly set each parameter, he cant just press submit like the photographer presses the shoot button so I agree with you.
The tools learned to draw like artists do. By looking at reference images. So no need for anyone to be annoyed, the tools arent using other peoples photos.
Midjourny have admitted they scrape training images and text from the internet. When you say “create a photorealistic image” presumably it will be relying more on the photos it’s scraped.
If you have ever had a sore gut or a known sensitivity to gluten you should try the carnivore diet like Mikhaela Peterson. It has put my RA into remission and I hypotasize gluten causes leaky gut and other plant toxins are entering my blood stream causing the fundamental inflammation. RA does not exist for me if I only eat beef and butter along with supplementing electrolytes. Without carnivore I was on crutches, hospital boot, crippled. If I try to do keto and eat a few nuts or an avocado I immediately reactivate the disease. Semen Retention also had a positive effect before I did carnivore so take what I say with a pinch of salt and investigate for yourself. I'm going to try and take glutamine to heal my gut soon.
This technology one can imagine will be used in the future in books about a digital dictatorship , where the author has computers monitor the workers brains in society who are operating airport scanners and other security/important control jobs .... who might be tempted to not follow the dictatorships increasingly crazy rules or for example allow someone/something through in a critical situation that could lead to an attack by the societies people in the name of freedom.
"The culmination of all the above projects. We will consolidate our findings to ultimately reconstruct images from brain activations in real-time (i.e., reconstruct a seen image in a few seconds following perception, while the patient is still being scanned)."
"I was told that if I wanted to, I could vote with my feet and choose a job that didn't use B2I. The only problem was, they didn't exist anymore. What good is a choice when only one option exists?"
At least it has kept the nice 90s atmosphere too. Generally HN users are high value targets - how little spam or trolling there is to be found here by outsiders is incredible considering the lack of safeguards you mentioned.
