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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  True that. But I think it’s valuable that there are people trying to find ways to make it ethical, since there’s no way to put it back in the box either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is the digital equivalent of an atom bomb. You can refuse it but you can't prevent others from using it... and there may be dire consequences if only the worst people have it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news is that there are people out there who are trying to make an ethical AIs. It’s still an atom bomb (and as ethical) as you say, but at least it could be in the hands of those that actually value human well-being, not just their profit margin.

  This podcast had an interesting conversation on it: …acast.com/…/new-horizons-ai-neuroscience-awakeni…

  And the research paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15125

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The last thing people want is to stop wanting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a good podcast on the political activism part recently: …acast.com/…/finding-freedom-in-troubled-times-wi…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I took antidepressants for my Weltschmerz (world-weariness)... would I become a worse artist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, ‘everyone can be artist’. But wouldn’t the lack of the dramatic lead to a lesser chance of ‘making it big’?

  Depends, because you’re not going to be conveying your experience perfectly anyway. It first goes through your own interpretative lens to the art, and then the art goes through the viewer’s lens. Big and dramatic emotions are easier… yes and as such may be more predictably marketable. But it’s a fickle business. Of course this is a concern only if marketability is how you measure “making it big”. We have a lot of art these days that’s easy to get into… and easy to drop. If you want world to remember you (Gogh wasn’t appreciated until after his death), you can try to convey something deeper and more complex.

  I am having a hard time recalling positive experiences right now, especially ones that are “vibrant” in any way.

  There’s vibrancy in deepest depression and the most boring line in the grocery store. That’s for an artist to discover. But I’m not saying you should or should not take meds. But depression tends to lead to bad outcomes, and the world is full of depressed artists who didn’t make it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I took antidepressants for my Weltschmerz (world-weariness)... would I become a worse artist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking antidepressants does not have to reduce your creativity. Artists express their experience with their art. Sometimes it does it so well that people observing the art (through the lens of their conditioning) get moved. More damatic emotions get noticed more. But art can capture subtler experiences too. Antidepressants won’t remove your capacity to experience, it just changes the quality of the experience. Pay attention to all the qualities of your experience and you’ll notice it’s not just the intense ones that have vibrancy. You can convey that in art beautifully as well.

  The suffering artist is a known trope but don’t think it’s a prophecy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People don't really know their own motivation for their actions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reasons vary between people. It’s not important. If you want to know, ask the people in question.

  Don’t think everyone SHOULD be doing it like you. If you feel like being upbeat, be upbeat. ACCEPT not everyone is but they don’t get to force their view on you either.