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Something I have trouble explaining about space travel. Like, if you've read my book, you know I think human space faring is probably not economically valuable. It's not a good use of science dollars compared to other areas. I'm even skeptical of the case for inspiration (it doesn't seem to causally related to more aerospace degrees).
But it's also just really cool. Why don't I feel this way about Antarctica or Seabed exploration?
Guess we get an uptick in sales of A City on Mars (a) when Elon Musk runs his mouth, and (b) when inspirational astronaut crews go on daring voyages to deep space.
Nice to have variety!
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@unlofl See, this is wise investment advice.
It'd be like saying "the rapture is coming and the worthy dead will soon return to the bosom of Christ, so make sure to keep eating fiber"
One of the weirdest things to me about the tech scene for AI is you regularly hear variants on "Super-human intelligence is coming next year and will permanently alter life as we know it. Prepare your business and finances accordingly." Setting aside what you think about the first half, how does the second half make any sense? Like... what would you do differently, other than move to the woods?
I see this will be my most quote-tweeted post ever.
Ohmygod, is quote-tweeting forbidden on Mastodon. This is Shangri-La.
@mdiluz Same, though I was reading a book recently that said people under age 20 or so don't make the same distinction, or not as strongly. Could be more about age than generation, though.
@mdiluz Like at least so far, I don't see AI media as doing worse stuff than humans do. It's just lowered the cost to basically nothing.
@mdiluz I see it as taking all the vices of SEO slop and making them automatic!
@b_age For me the AI voice tech is still not there. Like it really sticks out. But maybe if I didn't know it was AI and it just came on spotify I wouldn't notice?
@b_age I dunno, like, some of these are really popular as far as I can tell. And, in my experience, people who aren't into this stuff can't tell AI from real. Or, just aren't trying to.
And with this sort of thing I always wonder whether it's that they're (a) gaming the system, or (b) discovered something humans actually wanted all along, in some sense, but which artists would've never produced.
I mean maybe we really just want Oasis to play 83 slight variations on Wonderwall, but they wouldn't.
Or there was another popular one called Breaking Rust, I believe, who was a sort of modern hardcore country singer. Nearly every song began with him humming, in the same cadence, followed by the same bluesy percussion. And all were some variation on the theme of being a tough guy who doesn't care about other people's opinions. Like, dozens of these songs.
Now and then there's a headline about an AI musician going huge on some platform. For me the most fascinating thing is that when this happens, and I look up their album or singles, their songs are almost identical. Not like when you say "all of ACDC's songs are the same." Like, they're just tons of tiny variations. Check e.g. the singles by the AI named Eddie Dalton.
@Legit_Spaghetti I am trying to write 4 books at once and never been so stressed in my life, but they are good books!
@mschfr Has to be passive and not actively judgmental.
OK, this convinced me I should be here more: https://bsky.app/profile/dubikan.bsky.social/post/3mi5ncilczk23
How's it going?
