Jonathan Graves

Robots run my life, I mostly just swear at them. Creator of Hexatron, an indie alternative to Muse and Dot. Also make motion graphics + lush synth pads.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

All humans deserve empathy. Calling someone stupid won't change their mind. There's a middle ground between "AI is evil" and "AI is the best thing ever." The Left's biggest weakness is intolerance of different opinions within its own ranks. Disagreement ≠ inherently evil.

[kaylee ⏩ ˚✧ ﾟ. @xereeto]

Please dear god don’t let this become the left-wing position. The last thing we need is to fully polarize the AI issue with the MAGA-right taking ownership of it.

ASI will be the most transformative technology we’ve ever developed.

We desperately need a left-wing vision for it.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@mpatti What about using the coding agents to assist in varying ways with the process of making art and music? The whole discourse is so uneducated and black and white.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@frazzledmax @caffeinexher 30s are infinitely better.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@IAMOdon @allie__voss I do wonder if that's a short-term window, though. There is a line where going over feelings is appropriate - if someone dies, distracting yourself from the thoughts can help for a time. Thinking may feel worse. But I wonder whose mood looks better in 3 months.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@The_Zizer And get used to having almost no one agree with you, and develop an inner compass you can trust in the absence of any outside cheerleading.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@hthieblot SSX Tricky. Joy.

[Astrid Wilde 🌞 @astridwilde]

You cannot find your people if you don't show them who you are in public!!

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

The most annoying part of REA and video games is people saying "Oh it was only useful for slop before this, now it's a tool!" No, it was like this the whole time, you never listened to us, and now it gave you something you like. Nothing changed.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@realwesmyers I don't hate the people I work with one bit. Me and my work are just bigger than my job. My job fits into a smaller slice of my life and my work than it would if I was non-remote, and that makes me happy.

[ッ @WhosMental]

You've gotta be more afraid of wasting ur life than embarrassing yourself.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@IJoukov @realwesmyers I'm fully remote and I have a coworking space where I see people I know every day. You can have both. It's just that at the coworking space, I can come and go as I please and go to the gym on my lunch break.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@MaxsBigMove affordable robots in 4 years or so

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

Pro-AI but Suno music is just so, so bad. It's like the glossiest mall-ad-pop. It was trained on the most inoffensive Target commercial scored by Maroon 5.

[Odd ☆☆ @nemui_nekoooo]

Hollywood uses CGI crowds, de-aging and digital doubles and wins Oscars. an indie dev uses AI for a tree and gets a callout thread

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@thefinnmckenty Being a musician helps. Doesn't matter how talented you are, mountain is still impossibly high and filled with traps. You learn to out-work anything.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@xereeto Why can't we engineer a future where we co-exist peacefully and work together for everyone's benefit?

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@nemui_nekoooo That is what is so annoying about everything right now. If I talk about using it in music, not even to write music but to code a plugin that will speed up my workflow, my account will get drowned in hate and noise. But none of this will matter in 2 years.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@h3xum_ @vividvoid Your life changes. You change. The people around you change. Psychedelics give you a different set of eyes with which to see your current self, your life, your loved ones. A different perspective. That is information. It can show you your blind spots.

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@nemui_nekoooo @gibarilla the /s means i'm being sarcastic

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@LuizaJarovsky These takes are insane to me. You REALLY can't find meaning outside of making money for someone else? Really? Nothing you can think of?

[Jonathan Graves @gravvvves]

@JustMicrock Spent a week in Montreal among artists and felt none of this. It's an American thing.