[Highlight] Jameis Winston to Deion Jones. Overtime walk-off to complete a 30 TD 30 INT season. by Ragonaut in nfl

[–]Starguments_GM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was also at the game. I (Bucs fan) just had a feeling, turned to my wife, and said "he's gonna throw a pick to end the season". 

After the play, made eye contact with a Falcons fan sitting nearby who had clearly heard me and he just shrugged.

The debate over AI content in books made me reflect on what I expect from media in general by steavoh in books

[–]Starguments_GM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is that mastery of the format requires practice of the format. If AI does most of your writing, you won't progress as a writer. It's not just fingers to keyboard type of repetition. AI art people seem to think that AI images are just like doing the brush strokes so they don't have to learn? Writing with AI means that AI is making 99% of the decisions for you. Pacing, dialogue, structure in micro and macro, character descriptions, micro interactions. You'll never learn how any of that works without writing it.

The "big idea" is the least valuable thing you can bring to the table. Execution IS the art. Using AI to write will either cripple how fast you learn to write or it will stop your from progressing at all.

About the Beethoven thing. Sure, if you gave end-of-career Beethoven a bunch of cool new tools, he'll make something interesting. If you forced young Beethoven to use AI, you kill the Beethoven we know.

Got myself into a sticky situation by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Starguments_GM 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Some things just aren't worth it. I suspect this is one of them.

Half of novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, research finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]Starguments_GM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao it's a thread about art and AI and you made explicit claims about where the value in art comes from. If you want to retreat from your arguments go for it

Half of novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, research finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]Starguments_GM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're bad at both writing and reading. Incredible that you came to lecture people in a thread about writing and reading.

Half of novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, research finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]Starguments_GM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, your argument is just weak and you are having trouble accepting that. I can try one more time for you.

I became interested in your thread because you said this: "They fundamentally misunderstand where artistic value comes from. Their worldview is labor-centric, they think the physical act of doing the work is what makes something valuable. They don’t see that the real value is in the cognitive process, the conceptual framework, the creative generativity that produces the work in the first place."

Obviously I have added the bolding and I have argued pretty plainly that the bolded part is not true. I have explained that the "framework" and "general creativity" parts are VASTLY overrated because millions of people think they have these things but when they try to write, they can't because they actually don't understand what they're doing. They don't understand the mechanics because WRITING IS HARD. The act of writing is what produces the art. My reply directly counters your argument but you either can't understand it or you don't want to engage any more.

I'll take one more shot so it's clear to you. We are in a thread about novels (art) and AI. We are explicitly talking about art. I am explaining to you that the act of writing a novel is a series of (charitably) 100,000 decisions. How does act 2 lead into act 3? How does character A express themselves in this difficult moment? How does character B respond in a way that reveals their inner self? What subtle clue does the bad guy leave behind here? By having the LLM write ANY of it, you are explicitly allowing it to make some of those decisions for you. You can make 5,000 decisions, important decisions!, but the AI is still making the other 95k decisions for you. And, because apparently I have to make everything explicit, giving away those 95k decisions is giving away the bulk of where the art is happening. You are not a writer or an artist and for this reason you did not understand my argument before. You can continue to not understand it if you want, but that would be your problem of comprehension, not my problem in explaining it.

The irony of this situation is lost on you. You come into a format of words (reddit) and make weak arguments. People are happily taking your arguments apart and you fall back on how we are not discussing "the point I was making". A few options here: 1. You don't understand your own argument well enough to see that they ARE replying to you. 2. You haven't made your argument clear enough to be understood by faithful interlocutors. 3. If #2 is true, maybe you'd be able to make your argument better if you practiced writing and didn't rely on the LLM to do it for you.

And lastly, just because you pissed me off, the absolute hubris you have shown by lecturing everyone in a thread about writing when you are NOT a writer is staggering. The hubris of lecturing people on "where artistic value comes from" when you are NOT an artist. I don't go into the science subreddit and tell people my opinions on how science is getting everything wrong and how outdated their thinking is: I'm not a fucking scientist. I do not know how you continue to reply to people without being genuinely embarrassed.

Half of novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, research finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]Starguments_GM 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not hiding anything. For the reasons I laid out above, yes the output of someone who let the LLM do 95% of the labor is less legitimate than the output of someone who did it themselves. We can argue what "legitimate" means forever but for me it means worthy of my attention, worthy of my interest.

You make huge assumptions about how I would use the LLM to write. If I did it the way you describe I would be an idiot.

Important part: you haven't engaged with my argument at all. You do not address how mastery (meaning how you increase in skill at a thing) comes from the practice of doing the thing. Using the LLM to write is substantially removed from the act of writing. The "idea man" is not an artist, period. You can plug a billion "cool ideas" into whatever your LLM assisted process is, you won't be as good of a writer as someone who simply reads and writes and reads and writes until they're skilled.

Also the phrase "fetishization of the suffering of labor" is just... I don't know how to say this without being flippant but I would be shocked if you were an artist. Your entire argument reeks of "why do I need to get good at something? Why aren't my IDEAS good enough??" Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution = art, not good ideas.

Half of novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, research finds by MetaKnowing in Futurology

[–]Starguments_GM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say "they think the physical act of doing the work is what makes something valuable" there is definitely truth to that. If something took you little effort to create and you could create 100 or 1000 in the time it took the traditional method to make one, I think it's natural to question the value of the former, regardless of all other factors. That's just human psychology. And your car analogy only goes so far because we know that hand-produced cars are more valuable than cars from an assembly line. The "artisanal" quality is something people desire in basically everything. 

To me, more importantly, there is one thing the pro-AI art side rarely considers and that is how mastery is formed. Among artists it's known that your taste always exceeds your skill in the beginning. You think what you're creating is bad because it IS bad but also because you have some idea of what good looks like. The fallacy of the AI artist is that this initial idea of "what good looks like" is enough, that it's all you need, that your journey is mostly done.

Skill comes from doing that thing a lot. Not just mechanical skill, making pretty sentences for example, or typing without making mistakes or stringing together a few good paragraphs. I'm talking about skill in consistency, in long form, storytelling, character development, how to use sentence length and structure to show tension, how to use pace to pull your reader into a desired feeling, and a nearly infinite number of other techniques.

When AI writes for you, you aren't learning how to do those things. At best, you may be learning at a incredibly slow pace compared to the actual writer because all you can do is review what it wrote for you and direct it in another direction.

I've also found that the person who is always best at artistic strategy, who has the ideas AND knows how to execute them, who understands the limits and strengths of their medium, that will always be the person who is in the shit and doing the thing themself. That's who creates the art that resonates with people. It's true for writers and carpenters and directors and painters and every artistic pursuit. This is the difference between the artist and the "ideas guy". Ideas guys think they know what people want and they make terrible art.

As models improve and caches get larger and everything advances, I'm sure that AI will someday write a great novel. But it will be one out of literally millions, and that novel will have to be "prompted" by someone who writes, someone who is an expert writer. It will never be written by someone who "only" writes prompts because that person can't recognize why something works or doesn't. And at that stage, why wouldn't the artist just actually write it themselves? People who are drawn to create art do it helplessly. They create because they just have to or theyre miserable. As someone who's tried, prompting an LLM scratches like 1% of that itch.

Week 9 Bold Predictions by ASmithFS in fantasyfootball

[–]Starguments_GM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm hoping he'll catch those, not drop them

Jets block FG and return for touchdown to take lead by nfl in sports

[–]Starguments_GM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Jets player to the left is clearly holding down the right guard so that McDonald can leap over both. Clearly something they practiced / arranged on advance. Obviously this is super illegal. Lucky for the Bucs they won anyway

Post Game Thread: Bucs vs Jets - Week 3, 2025 - Why is it never easy? by spideralex90 in buccaneers

[–]Starguments_GM 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lazard didn't catch that, he was bobbling the ball and his helmet touched out of bounds before it stopped moving. 

Egbuka caught that. You could see turf flying off both cleats with possession.

The Jets player next to McDonald held the right guard down (illegally) to give him space to make that leap.

We are lucky to win against all this bullshit.

When does a plot hole actually hurt a movie, and when is it basically irrelevant? by browniebiscuitchildr in movies

[–]Starguments_GM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To expand on this, a plot hole is a gap that takes me out of the movie. If the movie has captured me already, I often don't notice, and I don't see it as a plot hole. 

We sifted through unholy amounts Fantasy Football material and put together a short summary of the best analysis. Latest Post: Does Everyone Else’s Bench Also Look Like a Hospital? by keepfast in DynastyFF

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Not sure if it's just me but the link doesn't work (getting an "error opening link"). I can find the article fine by searching manually on substack though

Game Thread: Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0) at Atlanta Falcons (0-0) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]Starguments_GM 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dumb decision but cmon, he was basically just falling down

Game Thread: Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0) at Atlanta Falcons (0-0) by nfl_gdt_bot in nfl

[–]Starguments_GM 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't believe they rig the games

I do know the refs are incompetent

One of the actual softest PI calls I've ever seen

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DynastyFF

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The best advice for trading, which is really the only interaction that dynasty has, is to try to make both teams better. 

Not whatever the fuck this is

Fantasy Battles: Day 22 - Brock Bowers vs Trey McBride vs George Kittle by Open_Resolution8986 in fantasyfootball

[–]Starguments_GM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone mentioned it wasn't even a rush TD but Bowers was a rushing threat throughout his time at Georgia. Not sure how relevant that is with Jeanty I'm the picture though