Leo Gura

I would feel sorry for the girl.

Childishly impractical.

I would be deeply disturbed if this forum had a bunch of Fuentes fans. Destiny and Vaush are intelligent guys. Fuentes is a boarderline fascist.

Practically, such women are quite rare, so you will have to approach a lot of women to find this "one". Spiritual gatherings like yoga is probably your best bet.

We have more quality photos than ever. Ratio of good and bad as fallen, yes. But so what? Same logic could be applied to computers. Used to be that only PhD scientists could use computers. Now computers are mostly used by morons. I disagree. And it doesn't have to be this false choice. Humans and AI will work beautifully together. Soon the best art will be a hybrid of human+AI. Increasing accessibilty to art-making is a good thing.

1) Photographers still make lots of money and do important work. 2) The advent of phone cameras was a huge net positive. It's good even for photographers. You need an abundance mindset here.

The introduction of AI is analogous to the introduction of photography. Yes, if you were a photorealistic painter your lost your job. But new kinds of art were also possible thanks to photography. This includes all of filmmaking. So the solution is: adapt, evolve, become a filmmaker, make millions in the process.

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Of course they can disagree, but that means that Yellow can support the death penalty. No one said Yellow MUST support the death penalty.

Deranged people have been studied a lot. It's not like we don't know what causes derangement. It's usually a combination of bad genetic factors, bad environment, bad family, abuse, neglect, poverty, ideological brainwashing, history of mental illness in the family, etc. The problem is that you can't fix all those things consistently for 350 million people. You can't really prevent a kid's parents from raping him if they are inclined to do so. We can reduce all the bad conditions, but in the end a certain percentage of people will just be violent psychopaths.

"Devastated artist staring at computer screen in horror as AI annihilates the obsolete artist's marketability --ar 16:9 --uplight --stop 90 --seed 2"

They just have to adjust how they go about doing art. That's evolution.

Of course I understand this line of logic. But it's a bad way to think about work and life. We want life to get easier and more efficient so we can operate on ever higher levels of abstraction. Yes, for truck drivers AI is bad, but for mankind as a whole eliminating truck drivers is good because AI will driver safer and you can do other things like work or player while the AI drives you. So lamenting the loss of truck driving is not intelligent. Rather, position yourself in life such that you are operating on higher levels of abstraction. This is all about how you position yourself. And your life purpose should not be something like truck driving, bricklaying, or line drawing. That would be like saying that my life purpose is to carry rocks up a hill. And then you want to kill every donkey that comes along just because you want to keep your job. This is a silly approach to life. It is a failure of positioning.

Yes, and this is good for art. It's like you're complaining that a truck is bad because now a human doesn't need to push rocks up a hill by hand. Yes, all work is become less manual and more high-level. You need to see that operating at a higher level of abstraction which machines enable is a net good for mankind. Drawing every line by hand slows down your art and creativity. If you are a true artist you don't care about drawing every line by hand, you care about outputting great compositions. If you care about creating beautiful buildings, you shouldn't care about laying every brick by hand. Yes, being a bricklayer is not a good career choice in the age of machines.

Of course it's going to get better and better. And that's a good thing. Ultimately this AI will enable lots of really cool new art. That's what matters. And if you want to do old art, you still can. Midjourney

You can work in tandem with the AI to make your work much more creative and interesting. The AI can serve as an idea generation tool. You can still hand-draw stuff base off what the AI gives you. AI will not replace hand-drawn precision. It's a really powerful concepting tool. It saves a lot time. Many artists waste time drawing concepts to show to some client who rejects it anyway. The final piece can still all be hand-made. I can generate concepts and then hand them over to an illustrator to the finishing work.

Of course there would have to be safeguards and a process. The nice thing about prisons is that you got 100% cameras everywhere and you could record audio too. Also, keep in mind that I'm talking about how to create the ideal system. I'm not so much focused on what the system is currently. To me the key question here is how do we want our ideal prison system to be? What should be we build towards? Yes, there is corruption in the current system, but that will be ironed out as we develop it. Think of it this way: if our whole society was at Stage Yellow, how would our prison system look? And what I'm saying is that we could still have a death penalty in that Yellow system. But in a Yellow system corruption would be far far less.

Well, then you know that I'm Tier 1.

I think caretaking and housing extremely deranged people is an unfair burden on decent, hard-working, honest people. Do you really want to design a system when the caretakers are as nasty as the criminals? No, you want a humane prison system. But for a humane prison system you need to weed out the worst of the worst. I would even be in favor of the death penalty for criminals who did not commit murder, but are so violent and abusive in prison that they are a nightmare to handle. Some kind of 3 strikes policy where if you act abusively towards the staff or inmates, you get axed. The issue here is really one of concern for the staff who have to deal with these monsters. And yes, some of them are monsters. So what I'm for is minimizing the harm and danger towards the staff and creating a non-abusive prison environment where the good criminals can be rehabilitated. You need some process of sorting the redeemable from the irredeemable criminals.

You guys are missing the point of this thread. The issue was whether Yellow can support the death penalty. I think that has been answered. I'm really not attached to the position itself. If you want to hug a psychopath, go ahead.

I honestly don't care about retribution.

I agree that is a problem. But also consider why the gaurds become assholes in first place: because they have to in order to successfully deal with assholes and survive at that job. Cops are tough because they deal with a lot of shit every day.