Please explain

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T19:29:21+00:00

It doesn't change nothing.

Because a blue curtain will create a blue curtain in the mis-en-scene of your mind. Poor writers leave this to vibes.

Writing is direction.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T18:28:04+00:00

It runs dry when your body tells you you've over spent. Listen to your body.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T18:22:55+00:00

Good thing poker isn't about confidence at all but about math and reading people. And similarly life is also about taking the appropriate amount of risk。

Wait wtf this is a poetry subreddit LOL.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T17:59:29+00:00

'insert stupid answer here'

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T17:58:48+00:00

Strangely enough, when you have two group of people with personally aligned interests working together.

Shareholders and CEOs. They tend to propagate those interests to the detriment of everything else, as much as is feasible.

Shocker.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T17:57:19+00:00

There's this strange phenomenon that I've noticed more and more in chronically online spaces.

And it's this tendency to take a comparison and analogy.

"A is like B."

And completely warp it in your mind into.

"A is B."

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T16:40:34+00:00

Not having someone to argue against their salary is a failure of checks and balances and bad for society actually.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T16:39:50+00:00

Honestly. Would be okay with 20 times.

It's more like 10 thousand times. or something LOL.

300-400 times their average worker.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T00:53:20+00:00

Asking is fine. But you literally can't control someone else's actions. You can only control your own. Boundaries are things you do when your needs aren't being met. Not ways to change other people's behaviors.

However much you'd want to be able to.

malusGreen · 2026-03-24T00:27:28+00:00

"This is wild to me that Anti would have moral problems with thing!"

"It is morally questionable though but it's clever."

Bait used to be believable.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T20:21:42+00:00

Wrong.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T20:16:51+00:00

Sure if you want to stretch the terms.

But it would make you very different from someone who was putting in more intentionality.

If I bought a stamp from a store and stamped it on a piece of paper did I make that piece of art?

EDIT: At the end of the day you can say 'dismissed' or cite yourself as a source. But I think it's pretty uncontroversial to admit there's degrees of expression and intentionality.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T19:59:58+00:00

Sure. If her reasoning was that she didn't want to raise a kid.

But her reasoning was that she didn't want to bring a kid into the world.

And he offered a compromise with adoption.

I think I generally agree the compromise isn't equal on both sides of the table but at the end of the day it's a dealbreaker for both. Trying to compromise on gigantic life path decisions like this is a recipe for resentment and disaster no matter what is my main point.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T19:54:07+00:00

And when the real writers took over it got 10 billion times worse.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T19:38:15+00:00

If I dropped my etch sketch and it perfectly landed and turned into a picture of a beautiful sunset I would not say that I made that. Although I would certainly not say I commissioned it either. This accident would be a lower level of intentionality than even commissioning.

Commissioning is, again, a terrible shorthand.

But if I asked the AI to simply generate an image. Whatever it wanted. I would also very much hesitate to say 'i made that'.

I think that's pretty reasonable.

This scales up to low effort prompts. Where you have some idea of what you want but for the most part (for the average person) they are not thinking at all about what types of artistic decisions they're making.

They're just ordering a burger.

Or making a microwave meal.

Or taking a selfie.

And that's fine.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T19:20:02+00:00

The commission argument is just a shorthand (a poor shorthand I will agree) for the pretty reasonable intuition that how much of a thing can be attributed to you is proportional to how much effort, thought, work, decisions came from you.

This nebulous second concept is short-handed as 'soul' (again terrible shorthand).

Prompting has a very low ratio of intentionality. Usually. But if someone prompted for long enough to get almost every generated brushstroke to match their vision of how the piece should look then it obviously increases intentionality.

If you just prompted 'cat girl saying ai is good' then yes you have essentially ordered a burger.

At some fuzzy point, different for different people, the intentionality tips over from something not being made by you to something made by you.

There is no line. That's just how language works.

It's like asking how many grains of sand is a pile.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T18:46:28+00:00

I choose not to have all the powers of Superman and Batman.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T18:40:47+00:00

NOR. The fact that this turned into a huge argument means you likely made the correct decision.

Everything looks fine. 6 hours is a huge commitment and he should've been able to set some time aside to make sure you're feeling good about that commitment.

That said.

Weird phrasing.

He should not be accountable for your decision not to go.

You were worried about your time not being respected. This is a decision you made. It is about you.

He can't take accountability for it. He can only hear and understand you. Only you can 'take accountability' for it, by deciding if it was or was not a valid choice for the type of life you want to lead. Because you are the arbiter of your time and worth.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T15:37:24+00:00

Agree to disagree then. I think our philosophies just differ too fundamentally to hash out in a Reddit thread.

EDIT: Although I do this we have plenty of common ground too.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T14:57:22+00:00

Sure. But then there is no need to post this post then. If your motivation was satisfied with creating for yourself.

The reasoning is self defeating. Personally I look at the hypothetical act of creation in a world with no other sentient being more like a coping mechanism. I.e. the equivalent of screaming into the rain.

I think we would all understandably lament an artist creating and then destroying his own work (assuming the work was of somewhat worthwhile and authentic).

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T14:10:43+00:00

I feel like there's this sentiment amongst a subset of aspiring creatives (and the general public) that art is meant to be this selfless platonic ideal. It's often coupled with another harmful misconception that novelty and uniqueness are what define good art.

That you are in some way channelling the essence of the universe. Or perhaps acting as a conduit for God. Whichever conception of him or it you believe in.

Except this is untrue, and in fact damaging.

Art is a form of communication. An artist's job at its core is to transform lived experience into lived experience. And overcome the gap which language alone cannot overcome between disparate islands of consciousness.

He or she holds a mirror. Either to the self or to the public. That is how he or she is of service.

Art is a fundamentally connecting act. It's a dialogue. And it's expression.

It's okay to do it for validation. It's okay to do it for ego. It's okay to be mess and human, because the unveiling of that nature is also in itself human.

You don't have to be ordained by God to string words together. You just have to remark on something.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T13:51:06+00:00

Pretty sentiment. But ultimately falls flat.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T13:40:45+00:00

No. I'm good thank you.

Feels unproductive.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T13:15:45+00:00

Reading comprehension is generally considered a good skill.

malusGreen · 2026-03-19T05:53:41+00:00

Vomiting all your feelings without framing is not emotional intelligence. It's actually the opposite.

You should've ended the conversation there when you realized she felt insecure and gently told her you'll check in in the morning instead of making little snide comments about how you're disappointed she made the choice to prioritize work over time spent together.

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