I don't believe for one second that they want to use AI to do something decent. If they do they would have been doing it already. They want AI to tell them how to be Gods. /
My favorite binge is several pounds of bananas in one sitting /
The economics of bananas is the most amazing thing, whenever I go - bananas are always there.
Manhattan curbside walk should be an olympic sport /
Manhattan curbside walk - which is avoiding bushes in cement vases, handlebars of bikes, actual bikes, people waiting for curbside taxis, mailboxes, street signs and other furniture and people.
I'm obsessed with the large Sarens crane on Starbase /
3 and a half months after losing my dad and my mom is unwell currently awaiting very risky surgery and in pain, I'm consoling myself with starship videos watching the catching dampers installed /
I love watching the starships in sped up videos moving like little sharks swimming. It is so amazing to see somebody's doing something right in the world. While all politicians and especially my Democratic senators from New York doing very little work for the betterment of this country. The pretend work my Democratic politicians send me emails about is actually worse than nothing. My brother told me that phrase when something is so bad it's actually worse than nothing.
Of course binge watching all kinds of updates on starbase and starship that I missed out on, it's currently my only little happiness in the world. The starship factory is so amazing, cute and awe inspiring at the same time. And the Two Towers? Breathtaking.
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We need statesmen and not lawyers to run our country
Every time I had a job that was pure evil it was a union job, you have to be brain dead to do a union job /
The power to feel /
Painting is an active language. Pollock once told De Kooning "You know more, but I feel more". To feel and to observe are the two most powerful weapons an artist uses.. on himself. When you are out in the world you really see, you dissect the world down to the particles and reverse back through to the whole to construct a mental image, however distorted. You later bring these images to the canvas. In front of the canvas, you feel. To observe and to feel are somehow in a quantum entanglement, the better you observe, the better your ability to feel. You see a brick for what it is and then you really see it for what it isn't, a sort of stereo vision which overcomes the senses. That's why if someone feels one, an artist feels ten. You need that feeling powers ten in order to get the feeling flick through the brush ( or whatever tool is there ) and via the paint - onto canvas and from there to the viewer. The feeling needs to have that power in order to travel.
The confusion is that art is about learning how to draw or paint, that ability to render some ( or even strange ) reality. I think art is about learning how to feel. To feel is a powerful narcotic and immensely seductive. It is the blue pill, and the red pill simultaneously.
I have always loved geometry and have a strange relationship with math, I like the latter when other people do it /
I went to mathematical high school and participated in a few Mathematical Olympiads, although I am the worst student of math as I relied mostly on my pattern recognition ability rather than study. When I moved to the States I did some of the comprehensive IQ tests and scored pretty high; but my pattern recognition was the highest at 147. I have my own definition of pattern recognition and it's the ability to predict an outcome based on two or three reference points. As in life and math, trouble is if you think you have two or three reference points but in fact only one is a solid ground and the rest.. simply conjectures.
I actually can't stand watching the Olympics because I've always believed that athletes are generally dumb, which is not a crime but it is a crime watching dumb people do things /
Unless of course it's a final of some kind where the best of the best compete.
Media in the US is so evil, they stoop low enough to flame the fights between parents and their children, like between Elon Musk and his daughter /
Effective altruism is like effective bullshit, it only advances the cause of the giver /
It's called charity for a reason, it gives agency to the receiver.
Go fuck yourselves with all your AI, you're going to be dead for billions of years so you have a very narrow window to be a human being.
Things worth having - courage youth health love friendship /
Things not worth having - couches, televisions, kitchen cabinets, bathroom renovations, diamonds, weddings.
A lot of people die on their kitchen counters, inside their kitchen cabinets and on their couches.
