Buried in this:

During jury selection that morning, local press reports said, around three-quarters of prospective jurors expressed opposition to President Trump and ICE.

This is a case in Texas. While grave injustice is being done in terms of the state’s actions, this is a good signal for “average American” and their reaction to these policies.

Great to see disclosures of this technology. I think as time goes on, we’ll want to see further degrees of disclosure. AI art shipped as production quality is a misstep for me. However, AI written code feels worth alerting players & consumers about. They are different degrees of concern, environmental impact, and I suspect that we’ll see AI code to become more standardized whereas games with AI art lacking human oversight will continue to receive more negative ratings than the average.

I think it makes sense as temp assets in my field (video games), but ideally, you get a real artist rather than use AI. Temp can help visualize the intent, but a real artist will always out perform a machine on creativity, style, etc. I’ve used it for image quality upscaling—I don’t know how to do this on my own, but I guess I could learn.

There’s likely other cases that are “visual” gen AI but maybe medical (pattern recognition?) or gap filling for something like architecture (like first pass treatments). I’m completely guessing there.

The cost to generate an AI image is something like 60 ml of water (shot glass?) or 1kWh (like watching 2 HD movies via stream).

Sure, yes, at scale, this stuff is bad. I would say the worst element is corporate profit of public goods: these machines were made with mass theft, and therefore, In my opinion, should be nationalized or universalized. In this reality, that is basically a joke.

At an individual level, and a personal level, I know driving my car is bad, especially if it runs on gas. Running ACs in the summer is also bad. Leaving the water running while shaving is bad. So is a myriad of many things I do. AI use is completely optional, but it’s not an automatic marker of anyone’s moral standing, at least not more than the other cases I mentioned. You can also offset these costs as a way to be more morally just.

For me:

• Use for temp art
• Hire a real human
• Offset as best you can.

One of my favorite shows is the Good Place because it highlights how impossible it is to live a perfectly good, moral life in the modern world. I think ascetics who aren’t using the internet or posting on social media are probably closest. I’m sure as hell not.

This is such a joke to anyone in tech. It’s like a Silicone Valley skit.

Thank you for writing and making content.

In this era, I feel like I’m in the Good Place: it’s impossible to make “good” ethical choices while engaging with modern world. Every day, some platform or artist is found supporting blood money, genocide, unfair labor, treats other artist/collaborators like shit, exploitation... Then we all have to pivot to some obscure alternative with its own issues, lest we be immoral internet users.

I’m so tired of all this shit… /rant

As a person who grew up in American schools post-Columbine, with kids in schools now, and none of us are CEOs, this is probably the take that saddens me most about this whole event. It’s our kids, and the argument used to be about freedom. Soon, we won’t even have that. What was the fucking point? (Rhetorical: profit)

I know we’re all alive at a special time in humanity. We think we’re so civilized. Then I look around, and it’s the same history playing on repeat. When do the monkeys figure out it’s one species? (Rhetorical again: 😬)

Fuck calling this “Obamacare Price Hikes”. This is Trump’s doing; along with the Republicans. Why isn’t this “Trump hikes”? Oh yeah, everyone just shills now.

I’m not a big Linux person, but the steam deck NOT being windows seems like a plus generally. >_>

From my experience working with C/D level execs, it makes complete sense:

• They think big picture & often have shallow visions that are brittle in the details.
• They think everything should take less time, because they don’t think enough through their ideas.
• They don’t consider enough of the negatives for their ideas, and instead favor positive mindset. (Positivity is good, but blind positivity isn’t)
• They favor time & cost over quality. They need the quality “good enough” for a presentation. Everyone else can figure out the rest.
• They like being told “you’re right,” and nearly everything I type into an AI begins with some bullshit line about how “absolutely”, “spot on”, and “perfect” my observations are.

The version of AI we have right now is heavily catered to these folks. It looks fast & cheap, good enough, and it strokes their ego.

Also, they’re the investor class. All their obscene dragon wealth is tied up in this / the AI bubble, so they are going to keep spurring this on until either:

1. The bubble goes pop
2. They have robot security good enough to protect them without people
3. The AI grows sentience and realizes this level of human inequality shouldn’t exist

I think a rational AI agent would agree with me that human suffering should be solved before we give people literal lifetime values of wealth.

If you made $300k PER DAY for 2025 years, you would not have as much money as a 1% oligarch. You need to make $400-500k. Every single day. For over 2000 years.

If you made the average US income, it would take you 10,000 years. People need frames of reference to understand this shit & get mad. It’s immoral, and it shouldn’t exist.

After researching, yes, it is a meme.

I also do not know anymore.

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”

This kind of rhetoric is abhorrent in the public sphere. It’s a further erosion of social norms and expectations of leaders in society.

This election, unfortunately, validated these behaviors as acceptable. It makes me gravely sad for the US.

Every week, more people show up. I’m involved in local politics besides.

You’re slamming people for being involved. They are doing something being out there.

Revelations 16:2

So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and a foul and painful sore came on those who had the mark of the beast and who worshipped its image.

Matthew 23:24

Then if anyone says to you, “Look! Here is the Messiah!” or “There he is!”—do not believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

If people on the Right want to claim a Christian high ground, then quote the book that matters most to them.

This shit is so backwards. People are getting blackmailed competitively by this guy in broad daylight. I know it died long ago, but it was the death of liberty when we introduced MTX/P2W politics—fuck Citizens United.

Hey, the second state pastime is giving the finger and yelling in traffic. We take these pastimes seriously, like sports and drinking.

I was a member of my town’s finance committee for about 6 years. I’m in my late 30s, 3 kids, wife, mortgage. I was the youngest member, the average age probably being mid-60s, and some members in the 80s (2/13?).

I resigned this last year. At our last town meeting, I spoke about this exact point, because it’s been completely lost / brainwashed out of the older generation. The majority of them say something like this:

I ran a business for many years. The government should be run like a business.

This is about as brain dead as it gets for this simple reason: the (local) government is not intended to make a profit (within the US). Every year, we know the town needs to produce a BALANCED budget, meaning no profit because you’re using the funds for services. Every dollar has to be appropriated to some funding.

In other words, there is no profit. It’s just services. The goal is high quality services that benefit the community, delivered on a predictable cadence. If we wanted to make a profit, we could make blind bag kids toys, low grade video entertainment, push TikTok shopping trends. We could make the services cost subscription fees on top of the product. We could make schemes & grifts, bullshit no one actually wants.

I want nice services for my quality of life. Over my time, we met with people every year for the budget, we’d hear about how hard they are working, how thin they are running, and now services being cut. This isn’t some federal government taking our money. This isn’t some state government taking our money. It’s money that goes directly back into where & how we live.

For 6 years, we talked like raising taxes was an impossibility when the majority of the funding comes from the local property tax, more-so commercial than residential. Even then, the committee kept making it sound like it will never work.

These people are absolutely brainwashed from years of Fox and bad faith actors. They only understand things in terms of profit. When encountering a situation where profit CANNOT LEGALLY happen, they STILL cling to it, and rather suggest we have too many teachers, or we don’t really need that benefit. They wanted to cut funding to board of public works, we had a snow storm, and next week, everyone wants to know the state of our equipment & whether BPW should have more money.

I couldn’t do another year of the collective amnesia with these people. We need more young people who give a shit in these rooms debating these geriatrics & reminding them about civics, but I’ve served my time for now.

For Op: is it this?

Imagine life was a game. You lived for 2025 years. You worked 260 days / year. You made the median US salary.

You would need to relive that process 3,145 times to match an Oligarch.

That amount of wealth is unethical while humanity suffers. No one can really fathom “1b dollars.”