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Cake day: August 13th, 2023

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  • First a correction (people keep saying this and it is a weird mistake) Grimes was his girlfriend, never his wife.

    whoops! edited

    on my part I think it’s because I keep seeing Elon described as having “divorced energy”

    (I recall a story of a university with a beloved, genius but somewhat odd professor to which the students looked up, they wanted to be like him. So eventually the students started to touch the walls when walking through the halls, as the professor also did that while walking, the cargo cult).

    side side note I was friends with a former military intelligence guy and he told me the mathematicians in his facility were nicknamed the “finger draggers” or something like that because some of them had that habit

















  • superb sneer in the YouTube comments

    @monx 36:10 Mikey hints at the central contradiction of his vision. love that he sees music as more than background noise. But this kind of “interchangeable commodity” is exactly what generative Al produces. It’s similar to a fantasy where you’ll type 'painting of a beautiful sunset" into a machine and then have the output hung in the Guggenheim, as if you made any meaningful contribution, as if the interpolation of training data (infinite in supply) would be special and meaningful to people. We will not escape the tautology that generative art is cheap. This can only be resolved by adding more and more degrees of creative control to the input - controls that demand more skill from the operator - until, finally, we arrive back where we started.

    would love to read more from this person