If they could throw just a little harder and reach my mouth while I lie on the couch, this would be fine.
You have to remember a lot of investors are explicitly looking for human sacrifice believing it will help them get wealthier.
It helps put this post in context.
Eh, when they're updating the teaching materials for art in the late 20th and early 21st centuries then. Whatever your flavor is.
It took less time than you think for exactly the reason you might guess. I guess I just see a different 'brush'.
I'm glad you disagree. I'm fortunately old enough to remember being told that digital art wasn't real art, and do be alive today where nobody cares, oil painting is cool, brushing up your oil painting in GIMP is also cool, using GIMP alone, still cool.
Just take your same argument and fast forward 30 years and you'll get ahead.
There are undiscovered art forms and new/reset expectations just around the corner. The first real artist (with real artistic genius) to adopt the tools is going to be in every MOMA around the world.
I spent a little bit but not too much time on this, I hope you enjoy it.
Every generation that decides a new image machine is rotten thinks it noticed first. It didn't, and there are receipts.
Grant Taylor's essay "The Soulless Usurper" walks through how the art world greeted early computer art, and the complaints are the same ones being made about generative images right now: mechanically sterile, nobody actually decided anything, a machine getting slipped into a chair reserved for the artist. This you?
Taylor documents sabotaged machines and physical attacks on artists in the late '60s and early '70s, plus a long tail of milder stuff — eye-rolling, flat refusal to call it art at all — running from the medium's start in the 1960s to the early '90s. His verdict: computer art was "possibly the most maligned art form of the twentieth century."
Two dates worth holding together. That period is half a century behind us, and the takes aged badly — the plotter drawings critics wouldn't call art hang in museums now. And the essay came out in 2012, a decade before Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. That's what makes it useful: Taylor isn't arguing about AI. He's describing the previous fight, written before anyone had a stake in how the comparison would land.
Source: Grant Taylor, "The Soulless Usurper: Reception and Criticism of Early Computer Art," in Mainframe Experimentalism, ed. Higgins & Kahn (UC Press, 2012), p. 18.
There are detailed in-world explanations for precisely where the magic comes from, who gets it, why, and how it relates to other physical systems.
It's as much sci-fi as warp drives, planet cities, telecommunications aliens, ancient AIs, and space pirates...
Anyways, enjoy this quote:
There really is nothing to fear in fantasy unless you are afraid of the freedom of uncertainty. This is why it’s hard for me to imagine that anyone who likes science can dislike fantasy. Both are based so profoundly on the admission of uncertainty, the welcoming acceptance of unanswered questions. Of course the scientist seeks to ask how things are the way they are, not to imagine how they might be otherwise. But are the two operations opposed, or related?
Ursula K. Le Guin, "It Doesn't Have To Be the Way It Is," June 2011; collected in No Time to Spare (2017)
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog/28-it-doesnt-have-to-be-the-way-it-is
I have solar panels on my roof, why don't you?
And the lucky (not smart) among them get wealth, real power, and nobody to point out the problems with their reckless ideas.
I'm looking at a copy of Newton's principia and it's pretty obvious from the first chapter that y'all are fucking idiots. (Except OP, OP is cool).
Try reading it sometime. Imagine leveling this kind of critique at any other book you've never read.
Souls is just a polished version of kings field, so having played them all, I'm qualified to say it's a major step up in the series
Yes, it's easily the best of the three.
I have some news for you, here is a real story.
I'm a programmer, a pretty good one, I have built real products worth millions of dollars and I'm doing alright. I'm no rockstar, I'm no pundit.
I have a raspberry pi connected to a touchscreen I use for home automation, it's a nice little home IT project, I don't really spend a lot of time on it. It's a hobby and something to walkthrough/demo/make available for the kids to hack on.
I wanted to tighten up the install, get automatic updates running, get it in full kiosk mode and add a couple features. Nice little Saturday project, figured it take a couple hours on the outside, hardest part would be mapping the touchscreen again.
Claude did it for me in 20 minutes. So I got to spend an hour and a half thinking of features I wanted to include, pretty great for me! Pretty great for IT! Need doesn't enter into it.
Maybe not great if your boss is a pinhead.
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