God, got to the end of the article and I wouldn’t even call it that, it’s an excerpt from this man’s $30 “moral ambition” spiritual wellness book that no doubt will grace people’s holiday gift lists to inspire even more faux change.
For the little things I think this adage is useful: “you can never say the wrong thing to the right person.” Tiny awkwardnesses should just be ignored, we’re all doing our best.
This does not apply in situations where you are being an asshole.
To be clear, I think the news is great! But the image and title make it seem like their arms were removed so they could have robot fights?
Agree. It’s a horrible act to draw attention to a horrible act millions of magnitudes larger. I don’t get how one could be angry at this and not angry at its more widespread equivalent.
Agree on foot-in-mouth after watching the video. He stumbles immediately following this sentence having lost his argument. Not sure of Mayor Harrell’s politics since I don’t live in Seattle right now (just an admirer) but headlines like these do make the experience of reading the news so difficult. No one should be calling those grifters innovators though… he needs to remove that lexicon from his mouth.
Who the author calls progressives would better be labeled as liberals. And it is laughable that he would write this article lamenting NIMBYism as the sole cause of the housing crisis compared to the tight-fisted greed of the landlord class and corporations. He continues to valorize “growth” and “prosperity” without addressing the Ponzi scheme that is real estate, which, according to his very own growth doctrine, requires infinite growth in value, lest it symbolize a decline in the economy.
I hope both
I think it’s an acquired taste, my mom loves it, but my partner had some and said it tasted like someone farted in his mouth. I’m sure if he kept having it he’d grow to like it.
That is only if one assumes the purpose of art is its effect on the viewer which is only one purpose. Think of your favorite work of art, fiction, music, did it make you feel connected to something, another person? Imagine a lonely individual who connected with the loneliness in a musical artist’s lyrics, what would be the purpose of that artist turned out to be an algorithm?
Banksy, maybe Rutkowski, and other artists have created a distinct language (in this case visual) that an algorithm can only replicate. Consider the fact that generative AI cannot successfully generate an image of a full glass of wine, since they’re not commonly photographed.
I do think that the technology itself is interesting for those that use it in original works that are intended to be about algorithms themselves like those surreal videos, I find those really interesting. But in the case of passing off algorithmic output as original art, like that guy who won that competition with an AI generated image, or when Spotify creates algorithmically generated music, to me that’s not art.
To win a competition isn’t speaking to the purpose of art really, whose purpose is for communication. AI has nothing to communicate and approximates a mish mash of its dataset to mimic to great success the things it’s seen, but is ultimately meaningless in intention. It would be a disservice to muddy the art and writing out in the world created by and for human beings with a desire to communicate with algorithmic outputs with no discernible purpose.
Is this bad? I thought cameras would help reduce people running red lights etc