I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
If I aired a highlight reel of your most selfish life moments and most shameful thoughts, you'd seem like an awful person. If I aired a reel of your best, kindest moments, you'd seem like a saint. But people aren't highlight reels, and the unedited cut is always a messy mix!
Politics encourages us to see the world as monolithic groups of people in conflict with one another. But empathy comes from remembering the top and bottom of this tower—that there's a lot we all have in common, and a lot about every other person we can never fully understand.
Who you are in your head—your thoughts, desires, motivations, emotions, biases—none of it means you’re a good or bad person. All that matters is your behavior. If you have to override your natural inclinations to be a good outward person, that makes you especially admirable.
Creativity is the Enemy - Secret to Survival as an Avant Garde Artist - Build on existing ideas and innovate incrementally - so you build on the last structure.
@tweetsauce "nonexistance" is a relative term. A nonexistant object is both nonexistant (relative to existance) and existant (relative to nonexistant objects). Similarly I can be inside my house while being outside the materials my house is made of, so I am both inside and outside my house.