If they’re questioning your model then just provide a good empirical reference to support it. Works for science.

Some of that ai art is pretty awsome actually.

Plaigerism isn’t the problem. This society that makes living so hard that you need to snatch every crumb, that’s the problem.

Great artists have been stealing and sampling since forever. It really isn’t a big deal unless you’re broke.

Popular scifi, written to appeal to the majority, for tv and movies, is actually only one special kind of scifi. And the majority isn’t known for its depth or taste.

I’m not saying that there aren’t exceptions, but ya, that’s how it is.

There’s a whole world of written scifi where the point is basically to show you something strange. Ideas so weird that scifi is the only way to convey them.

Here’s some free, online scifi by good authors. Your mind will be blown.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

https://qntm.org/structure

https://library.gift/fiction/9F6810564C853BD3EA7223E4AB1FA575

Is science fiction enough for talking about politics?

My fave is shrooms. Real friendly and powerful.

I have never done DMT. Apparently it’s like shrooms, a tryptamine. But that isn’t saying much I guess.

These days I meditate.

Konami? Like, the videogame company?

Raising ethical issues in this culture is like handing out speeding tickets at a racetrack.

Also, we’ve married technology. We couldn’t stop its progress even if we wanted to.

Psychedelics is nice but meditation is better.

Gentle, manual, comprehensive, ceilingless.

Neo rises from his coffin.

I’ve had some delightful times on LSD.

Also, it (and some other things) led me to meditation. And that’s real magic.

Dune. Mentats. Those guys did LSD, obviously. Thoughts acquire speed and clarity.

Well he did think different. That includes his thinking about medicine.

So there are pros and cons to thinking different.

I think that if we made humans more moral then democracy would work better and knock over any ruling class. Maybe some kind of mental therapy. Hallucinogens? Shamanic journeying? Something to make people better.

Humans are magic. Capable of volition. Machines can only react. AI will be something like a really good wish-granting machine. Much like it is now but better. Want it? I dunno, don’t feel much about it. It’s inevitable tho.

Well it is just a story to you. I mean seriously, unless you experience it firsthand it’s just a story. No matter how convincing, or what respected authority is telling you about it, or how moving the video is. It’s still just a story, a bunch of words and pictures. And that’s always way less compelling than your actual first-hand-experience life.

To be fair, all the stuff in your life, that you are experiencing firsthand, is always going to be way stronger than a story you read about in the news.

mmm

It could rule tho. It just needs more development. We didn’t put men on the moon in a day.

Splitting the obedient underclass from the disobedient underclass.

Maybe it’s a staged event. The latest consensus-splitter / distraction.

Look how it has split us. Reddit deleting posts. Unironic discussion of guillotines.