There's this wild Lovecraftian horror to a grown adult talking about how great it'll be when AI can make full-length movies and books based on a few prompts, because you suddenly realize they've only ever seen shadows dancing on the cave wall for their whole life. Nothing has meant anything to them.
they're paperclip optimizers, all of them
they know nothing except "more thing = more points"
they talk about "we need a trillion humans so we can have thousands of Mozarts" but they know nothing about Mozart except that he's a cultural trophy they can claim, a thing to score points with
"We need a trillion humans so we can have a thousand Mozarts."
Then you tell them we already have a thousand Mozarts, most of whom are being bombed, starving to death, working minimum wage jobs and the very few who ARE being Mozart reincarnated, aren't acknowledged at all by these clowns.
This was a point @adapalmer.bsky.social made on her podcast: that the untapped computing power currently in the world is overwhelmingly in the brains of poor people, who have to spend it surviving rather than being Mozart. (I’m simplifying, but that’s the essence)
It was the main talking point in a kürzgesagt video too. That being altruism can be made into a selfish trait, because trying to ensure poor people get what they need can lead to benefits down the line like scientific breakthroughs and cultural leaps.
Same type of guys who assert that men are more likely to be exceptional, asking why there wasn't a female Mozart. When Nannerl is right there the historical record.
Both probably. Idk it reeks of "anything short of classical music is the same as mumble rap and mumble rap is bad music that gangsters listen to."
Maybe I'm reading too far into this.
the thing about these people is that they're stupid and incurious but also OBSESSED with looking smart and cultured, and even worse, they have no concept of the difference between LOOKING smart and cultured and actually BEING smart and cultured
semblance and substance are indistinguishable to them
When Bezos and Musk say they want a trillion humans (aside: why not people?) it’s not because they want a thousand Mozarts. It’s because they’re burning through employees so fast they can actually calculate when the planet’s going to be fed up with them. Poverty is incomprehensible to them.
They have zero interest in art, shared experience, or being surprised. Movies and books are nothing but a distraction to them. It sounds very, very sad.
The average movie-goer isn't interested in nuance or anything deep and rarely cares about the love behind a project. They just want something to do for 2 hours. To them whether a movie was years in the making or was made in minutes by AI doesn't matter.
I don’t know if it was you, but someone said about six months ago that clearly they’re just all watching porn all the time and think that’s the world—and it felt like half the world came together at once. So obvious but I was oblivious.
Aristotle would tell you people have at least three souls (vegetable, animal, rational) but apparently a lot of us were bluffing about the third one :)
I relate to that. To me, I think the process of church service itself is soulless. Just fill-in week-by-week prompt, songs/books, say these phrases, and boom, you got a service! The only thing that possibly makes church unique is the homily, and even that can be phoned in depending on the preacher.
this is like, the charitable conclusion too. an alternative take is that theyre so cravenly profit-minded theyre willing to upend the entirety of the creative sphere and lock us all in individual cubes of useless, make-your-own-slop AI "content" purely to make money
Remember when a lot of people were running around saying "My WIFE?" I keep thinking about a hypothetical future where people keep quoting THEIR Borat and it's all different quotes.
You have to believe other people are real before art can matter to you. If everyone else is a NPC, why bother trying to understand their inner lives?
There are a lot of people running around today who've never met another actual human being, whose life is just as real as theirs.
