Dylan Hendricks

@cwjones89 @DanFriedman81 But human written novels, they’re just flying off the shelf

@DanFriedman81 They're canceling it because no one wants to read an AI novel.

I am not outraged by writers using AI to write their novels for them. I understand the argument for being outraged: Books were used to train the LLMs, and therefore using LLM produced text in your novel is akin to plagiarism. I don’t think using AI is akin to plagiarism and I don’t think it should be punished in the same way plagiarism would be — by having the book recalled and pulped. If the editors who acquired this slop thought it was good enough to publish, and the readers who bought the self-published version thought it was good enough to read, then this slop book I won’t read is probably as good as most of the human-produced slop I also won’t read. I think using AI is more like paying a “developmental editor” or a ghostwriter to rework your manuscript and then not giving them credit. Which, frankly, is a thing writers do all the time. (With the caveat that if AI inserts text directly lifted from another book into an author’s manuscript, the author is strictly responsible, just as they would be if an uncredited human ghostwriter committed plagiarism in their manuscript). I think AI writing sucks, but a lot of human writers are worse than AI. Bad human writers can potentially use AI to make their bad writing into bad AI writing, instead of whatever cursed thing it was before, and that raises the floor of how bad a novel can be. This is a threat to the existence of a lot of working writers who are better than most humans but worse than AI. It means that writers who are worse than them can be better than them if they use AI to glow up their prose. I don’t care about this because I think I am better than AI. So, for the next week or until I get bored, every time I post, I am going to prompt Grok to write a post on the same topic with the same general substance in my voice and then I will post a screenshot of Grok’s take on my prompt as a reply under my post, and you can tell me if I have anything to worry about.

@daveisageneric @Mephistoau @ImKingGinger When a director hires a group of artists to help them build a project that one person couldn’t build themselves, would you say they don’t care about the craft or result? It’s mind-boggling to me how many self-professed “artists” lack any curiosity or imagination whatsoever.

@Mephistoau @dylanhendricks @ImKingGinger Yes. If the creator doesn't think they're worth putting any effort into, why should anyone else care?

Every creative person I know that has embraced AI as a tool for their art has produced more content this month than all of last year. A true creative individual sees AI and feels completely empowered. They feel like the entire world has opened up to them. But a lot of self professed creative people, who have been grifting as creatives for decades, are about to be exposed as frauds who and pretenders who only know how to work within the politics of the current system. They will sit down before the greatest tool for creativity the world has ever known and not have a single idea how to use it or what story to tell. Pay attention to what is happening and who rejects the gift, and who embraces it.

@unclearirony Uh…the revolutionaries would wash out and obsess over meaningless purity tests and accomplish nothing while the non-ideological immigrant class got all the real shit done? I think you might just be extraordinarily bad at watching movies and understanding what they’re about

Imagining what one battle after another would look like if pta was trying to say "see how leftism is bad" like some reverse starship troopers.

@minordissent @dmytroomelian It’s not hard to look for on-ramps to things if you’re curious about them

@dmytroomelian requiring an onramp is an IQ issue

Hating AI is a skill issue. Liking or hating it is a function of your agency and intelligence. High agency high IQ people who treat it like an employee, providing it taste, direction, and judgement and then just have it do the work, love it. It makes them 10x more productive. Low agency people who treat it like a service, expecting it to replace the need to pay high agency and intelligent experts, hate it because with now no one in the chain providing taste, judgement, and direction, it only drowns them in hallucinations and slop.

@AcCargill @ImKingGinger Your principles are stolen from others, that’s even worse. You’re following a herd to a conclusion without having expended any effort on forming your own opinion through experience with the medium. This is the stance that will age most poorly, moral panics never age well.

@ImKingGinger B. frigging S. It says I'm a person of integrity and don't resort to using work stolen from others.

@daveisageneric @Mephistoau @ImKingGinger No but they might say “now I can produce the video game I’ve been dreaming about instead of just doodling concept art about it” that’s what my brain does anyway 🤷‍♂️

@Mephistoau @ImKingGinger They lost credibility earlier than that. No artist or anyone with a sincere interest in art says "yay I am now producing more content".

@Mephistoau @boneherguy @ImKingGinger With the same amount of effort, a better tool allows a real artist to create a garden of statues instead of a single one. You are just revealing yourself to be the other type of person the OP is talking about. Real artists crave beauty, not an arbitrary grind.

@boneherguy @ImKingGinger Because "true creatives" work their fuckin asses off to be able to... You know... Create. Because they have to, because it's a drive. The struggle makes the artist. Not type some shit and have AI do it for them.

@KeyTryer Also Zuck lacks that deep philosophical/creative intensity that leaders like Jobs, Miyamoto and Disney had, the need to manifest some unrealized potential in order to to make life more beautiful. He’s just really ambitious, like Gates, and likewise leaves a legacy of mosly junk

The metaverse is indeed inevitable in the sense that all augmented and virtual reality hardware will become essential to normal life and eventually be joined into a massive unified protocol, but Meta's mistake was hoping that the Metaverse would be something they could force.

@m_bohaichuk Except probably none of this. If you guys weren’t so black pilled into believing everyone is against you, you’d recognize this is the most pragmatic economy-minded PM we’ve likely ever had. Stop rooting against your country for petty partisan wins.

Get ready for the following if Carney gets a majority: - stacked senate - controlled committees - media censorship - anti-government censorship - GST increase to 7% - Carbon Tax increase - fuel excise tax increase - energy use tax - capital gains taxes increase - inheritance taxation - lottery wins taxation - gun confiscation - movement control - Brookfield assets increase - palm greasing (Idlout style) So, get ready. Carney craves money and power and when it comes to Canada: who cares?

@BecomingCritter I suspect maybe a lot of people just can’t learn through verbal communication, they need to experience things directly. So AI is like school, it just bounces off, pisses them off that it thinks it’s better than them. I dunno

It seems low-IQ people would get the best returns from AI because it can do a lot of thinking for them, and yet at the same time they seem to be the most resistant to using it

@RomanFisher__ It really sounds like you care more about sabotaging your political opponents than working towards making Canada better for everyone. In which case I strongly recommend you move to the US, that’s like their whole thing

If we’re going to lose to Carney again, I’d rather get it over with so a purpose-built political machine can be constructed to take on the Liberals. Poilievre was the obvious foil to Trudeau and he ended his career. It’s much less obvious that Poilievre can do the same to Carney and if he can’t, someone else should get a shot. I’m tired of losing. Rebuild and lock in.

@MacFrazier Although at this point using ChatGPT/Gemini to search the web for me and distill the answer to a question often saves me some undesired detective work I find more and more often (ie "where in the UI for X app is the cancel button?", "help me remember what book this is from")

the two tools (google and gpt) are really for two separate purposes people who use LLMs to “retrieve information” are doing it wrong; search is the tool for that what LLM’s are good at is processing info that YOU give IT, as well as generation new presentations of existing data

@tishray This is true, but also places and people change over time, so places can you hit you differently at different times in life, and there can be better and worse places for different seasons. Getting to move around enough to discern those differences is a huge blessing, most can't.

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

@Prominent_Bryan We have a PC government right now in Nova Scotia, and we had Liberals before. What's your point?

Amazing. People who don't know what a PC government is like think Carney's gov feels like a PC one

@CarsonJerema You think the public wants an election? You think you'd do better if we had one? The public expects the prime minister to figure out how to make the country stronger during turbulent times, this is in line with that. Quibbling over partisan differences isn't war-time appropriate.

Its allowed, its legal, but that doesn't make it defensible. It is also not what the public expects.

@KenBoessenkool You're doing a bit, right?

Harper was judged as competent because of his government’s management of the global financial crisis. It was a consequence laden competence. Carney is being judged as competent because of his resume. It is a consequence free competence. +1

@CarmenVialf @bcbluecon Which is more likely: that Pierre wins majorities but only in the prairies because nobody in the prairies watches CBC and everyone else does, or maybe for the same reason that nobody in Halifax is voting for the Bloc Quebecois?

@CarmenVialf @bcbluecon I have also lived in other countries, including the U.S., where the media landscape is entirely profit driven, and is so bad that it's radicalized their entire country into hating each other, and electing reality show hosts to ruin the global economy. You suspect poorly.

CBC has now been exposed to have banned Pierre Poilievre from appearing on air. Tell me that didn’t cost the Conservatives the election. I’ll wait.

@Rianstone @GurvSC Keep going though, I'm sure if you keep complaining enough eventually your outcomes will get better 🙄

@Rianstone @GurvSC If only you guys were half as good at coming up with broadly popular messaging and policies as you are at coming up with endless excuses for losing every election

Now that Mark Carney has his majority once he wins two by-elections, we can confidently say that democracy is dead. The media will just manufacture a narrative, silence opposing facts, and the MP you vote for will cross the floor and collect paycheques for 4 years instead.