Kalin Ringkvist

Web developer, amateur author, space enthusiast
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Kalin's Twitter Code of Conduct:

I want my personal brand to be about kindness, empathy, healthy communication, and building a better world through technology and science.

My ultimate reason for being on Twitter is to promote Custom Data Organizer at https://t.co/50Biaaitr3, and to get started as an entrepreneur. But my values come first.

I will...

treat everyone with respect and compassion regardless of how wrong or harmful they may be.

craft tweets to genuinely communicate, not to elicit guilt, shame or other negative emotions.

only engage in honest, good faith arguments.

be open to changing my mind based on new information, and admitting my mistakes.

not engage in saracasm or other language designed to hurt rather than communicate.

remember that it's often the best choice to ignore angry people until they calm down.

prioritize my own behavior and personal growth over winning arguments.

keep this account safe for work.

not discuss but also will not deny my not safe for work side.

not tweet while angry.

only post content if I believe it will add value for someone.

do my best to support the community.

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@icreatelife @MLFA69 What kind of possibilities?

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@thmaist It's like YouTube or so many other technologies: it can either rot your brain or expand it depending on how you use it.

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I feel like very few people truly take charge of their own lives. We look toward religion to tell us how to be spiritual, to the YouTube algorithm to tell us what to be interested in, and to therapists and drugs to tell us how to deal with emotions.

We need to teach people how to truly look inwards to solve their problems. We should still use therapists, religion etc, but it should be collaborative. We should not allow those things to hold our hands through everything. We need to be our own guides.

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@Sierra_rak I became a millionaire on a lot less than 174k a year, and that's with a couple really stupid real estate purchases. It's not that hard. You just need to be careful with your money.
Having said that though, your point still remains valid.

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By walking outside I consent to people looking at me and judging me, security cameras recording me, people telling stories about me etc.
I have no problem with AI training off all the books and articles I've written because ultimately I want what's best for society, not what's best for my pocketbook or personal ego.
I think maybe you misunderstand what AI is actually doing behind the scenes. It's not blindly copying the way you describe. It's learning style and patterns in similar ways human artists do.

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@blur_vibe @MakingAndStuff @samuelhyravy @DJSnM Once you put artwork out into the world, you are inherently consenting to anyone or anything in the world looking at it and learning from it.

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@KerrWard90708 @megha_lilly That makes a lot of sense. As a writer, I don't use AI to write for me, not because I'm opposed to it, but just because it doesn't come close enough to what I want so it's easier to just write it myself and use AI to clean it up afterward.

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@KerrWard90708 @megha_lilly Sure, I can do my best. I've never worked with Grok actually, other than once or twice where I just compared it to chatGpt and found it lacking. I was using Warp and Claude at my last job to write code.

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@JM_speakss Maybe he was fishing too? :)

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So I wrote this story a few years ago and used Midjourney to illustrate it: https://t.co/a6BFvWter5

As I was generating those images, refining and experimenting with countless prompts, sorting through hundreds of variations, I felt like a visual artist for the first time, and the actual emotion of art creation was far more profound than it ever was when I practice photography. Obviously I can't claim I have the same "skill" as a real painter, and it would be very unethical to hide the fact that I used AI, but it still feels like art, and when it comes to art the feelings are what matter.

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@KerrWard90708 @megha_lilly There can be just as much intent with AI images as with any other. If your comment here were true, then you'd have to say the same thing about someone like Bob Ross, and the people who use his formulas. Just because it comes from a formula, doesn't mean it's not art.

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@Sierra_rak They should be taxing luxuries like yachts and private islands, not blindly attacking wealth without understanding the context of how that wealth is being used.

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@jchybow https://t.co/nvCQ3UePPB

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@KerrWard90708 @megha_lilly Art is in they eye of the beholder. If people want to take joy from AI creations, that is their right and shouldn't be treated like their emotions aren't valid.

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@craigstolarczyk @PeterDiamandis But this has been happening since we invented writing. The same argument was made against that.

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@OldRichGamer He does say a lot of pretty nasty things about poor people, liberals, and particularly trans and queer people. A lot of his tweets are more designed to hurt people's feelings than to really communicate.