I honestly feel rich. You're think it would change when I compare. And when I talk to a friend from college and I hear how much they're making I still feel rich, I just am amazed that I have friends that are amongst the top .01% (they're making six figures and I'm not)
AI lowers the marginal cost of creative skill to zero. This has the downside of giving billions of people with no creative taste the ability to create whatever they want (AI slop) but the upside that those who have taste but lack skill the ability to produce great art, and those who have taste and skill the ability to produce great art 10X faster than before.
My readings about sailor culture in the 18th century only leads me to conclude that spaceship crews in the far future would be equally deeply religious (if not more so). The common linkage of sheer vastness and being on a razor's edge of danger forces intense introspection.
X's algorithm thinks that when I pause on an image/tweet for a moment, I want to see exactly the same image/collection of words 20 seconds later. No, I just paused to read for a second.
Watch as Darializa Avila Chevalier, prison abolitionist, is asked *four times* how she would handle a murderer, and each time refuses to answer. https://t.co/NFXYotaFx0
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.