I'm not sure if I just thought this up sitting on the tiles in my shower room or if I dreamt it, but still.

Edit: I'm being cynical and I hate our blind faith in and reliance on LLMs.

Like we have "largest city" lists,

• most people would think largest city means most populous,
• but some people interpret it as city area,
• so in the former case Mexico City would be the "Largest" city in North america
• in the latter case, LA would be (i haven't fact checked these, just roll with it)

Some cities are really populous, like Hong Kong, and it means people settle for very little living space just to have access to the opportunities there. Cities grow big largely on the basis of this principle - how many people are willing to slum it in one place together? And historically, the rich have done the opposite; when peasants are cramming themselves into as small a space as possible, the rich are building homes larger than entire villages.

So, to contrast a city of commoners and a city of wealthy people, one effective metric would be to look at the average footage (floor area) of peoples' homes. Ideally divided by how many people there are, to have it on a per person basis.

I bet the results would be interesting. We'd find loads of places we didn't know the names of, little hideaway towns which serve as getaways for the wealthy

@showerthoughts #showerthoughts

just sayin'

From the perspective of knowledge equals power, intentional misinformation, no matter by whom, could be regarded as abuse of power.

More people should educate those knowing less instead of ridiculing their ignorance. (Given the "knowing" really "know", but that's another topic.)

Edit: Intentional misinformation meaning posting and spreading "fake news", willfully publishing or sharing false information through media of any kind, as organization or individual, not merely everyday lyingy which is sth different.

Edit 2: Apparently it's "misinformation" not "disinformation" sorry.

If they could draw or make music, they wouldn't need a robot to do it, and they clearly want to but don't have the skills.

Does that make an air conditioned gym a human meat locker?

Secondary shower thought, an image of Captain Caveman should be the image representing humans on the Wikipedia page.

Tertiary shower thought, we probably started wearing clothes because our own hair used to be our clothes, and we wanted to replace the hair we cut off when we started grooming.

On the one hand, you have low effort jackasses that take "the machine" and just use it to churn out trash.

On the other hand, you have zealots insisting that anything that is made by a person is made of 100% divine treasure that they did not give a shit about 2 years ago.

On the other hand, you have boardrooms full of assholes that preyed on artists to exploit their humble backgrounds and use them as faces to push trends for money, with 0 interest in any expression what so ever. They ruined the entire concept of art long before AI came along.

In the middle, you have a machine that answers the previously philosophical question : what would come out if you combined every artwork a human being made and let people use it to create their dreams?

On the other hand you have assholes using said artwork machine as an excuse to fire everyone, ruin the environment even faster, and overthrow political systems.

Like fuck all of this.

EDIT : Oh, and how could I forget the pre-AI prompt artists, "installation artists" whose job it is to know museum curators and rich people and write instructions about how to assemble boxes or tape bananas to walls. Good job assholes.

You have to wade past a ton shit you'd never purposely look at, get side tracked along the way, and still never see everything you originally set out to see. It's a never ending loot box for content.

THIS POST IS NOT PRO-AI. EDITED TITLE TO CLEAR CONFUSION

Think about it. LA teachers everywhere are probably choosing from a whole basket of topics like

"Should AI-generated imagery be regulated? Why or why not?"

"Should police departments use AI camera systems? Why or why not?"

"Do AI-generated chatbots improve customer service? Why or why not?"

It is such a philosophical controversy, that the questions about it that you could answer with an essay are endless

pigs are maybe cow-dogs

Does anyone else feel like the more they learn about fucked up history and current events the more we have to worry about? The older I get, and as I learn about history, the more things I have to think about that keep me up at night. Maybe ignorance is bliss after all?

EDIT: I should have mentioned originally that I'm a person that is hyper vigilant (on the spectrum) and can't not notice things. I notice every little detail of everything I see. Why is the guy at the grocery store blocking the entire aisle and is completely oblivious that people can't get by? Why did that person turn without a turn signal? I notice people's body language. I meticulously pick apart things that people say and extract meaning that I'm sure they never intended. I originally thought it was OCD, but I don't have any of those traditional trappings. I wish I could just turn it off, as it's exhausting.

This essentially sums up how I go through my day. I wish I could not know/notice things: https://youtu.be/dmbtt3iGXzg

I just want to be clear: I don't watch WWE, and I have zero insight to back this up. This just popped into my head and sounded strangely salient. This is probably stupid as fuck to anyone who knows WWE, and I'm okay with that; roast the shit out of me.

I'm also not referring to the Cold War stuff, but the specific type of sleeper agent brainwashing, hallucinating another person while acting as them.

My wallet certainly doesn't appreciate them.

Or is it just me?