Alex Gopoian

Was getting tired of Tasks and To-Do. They didn't work with my ADHD. Have vibecoded with ChatGPT and AI Studio before, but just downloaded Codex for the first time, and this is wonderful. Swipable up & down arrows for going up and down sub-chunks not shown. 3 short prompts in.

Producers can be artists, and the line is blurry, and subjective. "...and the distinction is often more about ego, billing, marketing, and cultural gatekeeping than any pure artistic reality."

Second half of my little informal experiment, seeing what I can maybe find different while comparing and constrasting the way people are reacting on the two sides (and more balanced nuanced takes in between), relative to what I already understand about the dynamics.

I think this question is the heart of the legitimacy of minimal effort "AI-arts" debate. And not just movies, but producers who sit back and influence the music, writing or multiple person visual art projects while others do the work.

Not just to be more appreciative, but what else can we rewire our brains for in the intellectual-turned-somatic senses?

Not just to be more appreciative, but what else can we rewire our brains for in the intellectual-turned-somatic senses?

DID YOU KNOW🚨: Whenever you express gratitude, your brain physically rewires itself, making you naturally more positive and resilient

Indiana University researchers asked people in therapy for depression and anxiety to write a thank-you letter for 20 minutes a week, for three weeks. Three months later, their brain scans looked different from those who got therapy alone. The change showed up in one specific spot in the front of your brain: the medial prefrontal cortex. This is the part that helps you regulate emotion. The study came out in the journal NeuroImage in 2016. The same Indiana team ran a bigger version. They took 293 adults starting therapy and split them into three groups: therapy alone, therapy plus writing about stressful experiences, and therapy plus writing thank-you letters. Four weeks after the writing ended, the thank-you letter group reported significantly better mental health than the other two groups. Twelve weeks later, they were still doing better. The stress-writing group was no different from the therapy-only group. Brain scientists call this neuroplasticity. Your brain physically reshapes itself based on what you spend most of your time doing. Worry a lot, and the worry circuits get faster. Look for things to appreciate, and the brain pathways that notice them get faster instead. Human brains are also wired with what psychologists call negativity bias. Our ancestors who paid more attention to threats than to rewards survived; the ones who didn't got eaten. The same wiring runs in your head right now, which is why one rude email at work feels louder than four nice ones the same day. Gratitude practice fights that bias. It forces your brain to register the good stuff, and the more you do it, the easier it gets. The cleanest behavioral study on this is still from 2003, by Robert Emmons at UC Davis and Michael McCullough at the University of Miami. They had college students do one of three weekly journals for ten weeks: things they were grateful for, things that annoyed them, or just regular events from their week. By the end, the gratitude group reported feeling more positive overall. They also exercised more hours per week and complained about fewer physical aches and pains. So the claim that gratitude rewires your brain is broadly true. The dose was small. Three twenty-minute writing sessions, in adults already in therapy, produced brain changes still visible three months later. The therapy-only group didn't show this change. A week of casual journaling on its own probably won't replicate it.

A response to one of the two people who came to my "An Experiment" post and assumed I was biased toward pro-AI.