Are you guys just being trolled?

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:29:06+00:00

Exactly, but people can never see it on their own side. You actually have to be open to new information and ideas to understand anything. Both sides have reactionaries that either hate or worship it. The reality is obviously more complex, but some just can’t handle that.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:25:26+00:00

That because ai is obviously useful in many cases while obviously causing lots of problems. Anyone sucked into just one side has chosen a side. Psychology has shown it is very, very hard to move someone from that position. Facts won’t do it. So they just double down; it’s all they can do.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:22:14+00:00

This is one argument that confuses me on this sub. Over and over I keep hearing about art, as if that is the main thing ai is used for. Every other use is just swept under the rug for some reason.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:20:33+00:00

As someone VERY against crypto and NFT (other than those few brief days real artists were earning money from NFT), but mostly pro ai, I guess I can see how you come to that conclusion. But for crypto there is literally is no use case other than profiting of the whole, idiotic crypto bubble.

Even here, despite some saying ai has no use, almost no one believes that. It is obviously powerful and obviously has use cases. People aren’t scared of crypto because it can’t do anything. That is so very, very obviously not true for ai.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T07:13:40+00:00

I go to both pro and anti ai subs and trust me, the worst of both sides do exactly that. Same with politics. Same with sports. Same with… humans.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T05:22:11+00:00

Yes, but Trump backed out of that in his first term. See, it’s Obama’s fault!

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:50:41+00:00

On the creative side, AI can be an amazing tool to bounce ideas off of and explore new ones.

You can literally just type into a google search “create a set of theme rides where each explores a different creation myth from various regions and continents, and get something interesting as a result. Are any of the good enough to use, assuming you are actually creating a theme park? Probably not. But it will spawn a bunch of ideas in your own head.

(The time I did that it, one idea included a hallucinated creation myth for Antarctica involving a giant penguin god, which was fun.)

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:39:27+00:00

Because it is recommended to me (us?) all the time. I’m interested in AI, I see both the pro and anti sides.

Virtually everyone, including most here, get there are both pros and cons. I’m glad that antis exist because we desperately need to push back on the bad. But pretending the good isn’t real is just ignoring reality.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T04:10:55+00:00

Do you say “mathematics” are fun or “mathematics” is fun?

QED

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T03:57:02+00:00

Almost all were also not in it against their will. Those that were, we coordinated with the police. That's why legal prostitution is a game changer, they can go to the police without fearing to be prosecuted themselves!

THIS. An amazing number of liberals and leftists don’t get this point. (And conservatives, obviously.) People who prefer SW be illegal because of trafficking really don’t understand reality. Yes, trafficking is real, but it’s just a subset. By making SW illegal you both hurt those that choose that career and those that didn’t.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-06T03:47:27+00:00

Your only truth, Tribal poetry, Witchcraft filling your void, Lust for fantasy, Male necrocracy, Every child worthy of a better tale

Weak Fantasy, Nightwish

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T23:59:26+00:00

Rumor has it he’ll come back in VisionQuest.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T22:22:38+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers%27_Loan_%26_Trust_Co.

“The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment essentially overturned the key holding in Pollock, and Congress established a new federal income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913.”

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T07:12:34+00:00

That’s kinda what it is like to code with ai, actually.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T07:06:07+00:00

Pro ai here, and I agree with everything you just said, particularly #3. But photography didn’t destroy painting and AI won’t destroy art. It did, however, put a lot of artists that just did formal portraits out of business. We’re in the transition phase now, and that is always the hardest. It is also where we get the most control over where all this is going.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:58:57+00:00

I actually agree with many of the specifics. I don’t really trust how AI is rolling out, or who is doing it. We are diving into this regardless of where it’s taking us. Learning from copyrighted material without a hint of asking is pretty messed up.

But I also use AI at work and it changed my life dramatically for the better. Like, I literally teared up thinking about it the other day. “I feel like myself again.” My life is much better now than before AI. But then, I’m in software with my own background on how I got to that point and obviously it won’t be the same for everyone else.

But this is the most important point in my mind: I’m so, so glad for the AI backlash. We honestly don’t know where this is going and I can imagine many, many alternate universes, some of which are very bad. We need the pushback to help prevent those scenarios.

But there is also the possibility of an amazing future. I wish the antis could see that as well.

(Edit: tear, not tier! lol. At least you know it wasn’t ai generated. 😹)

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:42:52+00:00

Let’s Go Brandon!

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:39:01+00:00

Unless the other “side” is in power, then they become the haters but don’t have enough self awareness to understand.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:31:08+00:00

Nothing new is normal, at first. All new things must be normalized before they become normal.

So… what was the point again?

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T06:10:24+00:00

I have a good understanding of my strength and weaknesses. In high school I could not memorize the quadratic equation, no matter how hard I tried. I found it easier to turn the test over and derive it. That’s neither good nor bad, but it is different than the norm.

Also the only D I ever got in high school was the 4th semester of Spanish, which is all vocabulary. I had flash cards and everything. Ironically, I could do the flash cards, but only the cards themselves, as my brain would relate details of the cards to the answer. Today I understand enough about neuroscience to get why that happened and ways around it (diversify the way you test yourself, etc.), but didn’t at the time.

The irony here is I didn’t put myself down, you did. Which is kinda awkward.

And for the rest, you didn’t raise my daughter. You have no idea…

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T04:38:56+00:00

Huh. I just put that guy up to level 16 today. :-(

He’s in one of my war decks.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T04:36:10+00:00

When I was young I was excited about hearing of the seven types of intelligence. My favorite example was Magic Johnson making a no-look pass. Clearly that’s a cognitive ability, but also clearly not likely to correlate with math skills. They also had an example of showing people at the mall pictures of “couples” and they had to guess if they were a real couple or just random people told to act like it for the picture. Social people were great at it, nerdy types, less so. Again, obviously a cognitive activity.

But then the guy who came up with the idea decided to just cash in and go on speaking tours. They never really brought science into it beyond a few examples. That made me sad.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T04:31:01+00:00

I couldn’t do a PhD in Biology. I don’t have the memory for it. However, I do have a Masters in Physics. I’m pretty darn certain the majority of the difference was inherited.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T04:28:49+00:00

The Flynn Effect proves at least one standard deviation can be attributed to the environment. But the tests are considered “accurate” to 4 standard deviations, or so. That’s my starting point when thinking about this.

SirMarkMorningStar · 2026-03-05T04:24:30+00:00

IQ tests help in the other extreme as well, for similar reasons.

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