Anything I write myself is a great deal better than anything that AI can generate.
However, anything AI synthesizes is better than what 99.5% of people can put together. And that’s why it’s taking over the world. AI does not have to be good; it just has to be good enough.
I hate how books in a series don’t show which number of the series they are anymore.
This has long been the case. My mom was reading some book when I was a kid that she said was really hard to understand. Later on, she realized it was the third book in a trilogy. Nowhere was this even alluded to anywhere on the book itself.
I believe it’s a deliberately-deceptive practice that just continues to this day. The above incident would’ve been around 1984-1986.
I’ve never used TikTok. Never will. Too large a cognitohazard. I’ve seen vids from it re-posted on Reddit and watched a mid-20s friend of mine scroll through it over her shoulder. I said, “This seems like absolute hell.”
She said, “Yes, but it’s a very addictive hell.”
No thank you. Not for me.
If I had a daughter, I would not care if she was in an age gap relationship. Even a large one (15+ years). But I’d be worried if she were to date someone much smarter or much dumber than she was.
(I wrote “daughter” since everyone seems to think it’s fine if a 52-year-old woman is with a 20-year-old man, etc.)
Wisdom and intelligence have shockingly little to do with one another. Sometimes, I think they might be inversely correlated.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
At this point, it doesn’t even matter who the Dems run. Trump has this election in the bag. Even Taylor Swift cannot save us now.
Something I appreciate about the Star Wars world is there are not screens everywhere, nor ubiquitous surveillance despite having extremely high tech. Used to, I objected to this. But I was wrong — how we use technology (and even what tech we create) is highly dependent on culture. In our own world, we could’ve made other decisions, chosen other paths. But we did not.
That does not mean another culture would do the stupid just because we did.