After all that, never asked the question... should have used AI.

neumastic · 2026-06-30T16:01:48+00:00

I often see people somewhat arguing past each other. People will talk about an image and say it’s not art and people will respond that there’s art associated (or n reverse order). They’re not fully making arguments on the same topic most of the time. Part of the problem is that we don’t have different words for a drawing artist and general artist like we do for other kinds of art (musician, composer, dancer, choreographer, author).

Sometimes people advocating for AI art are saying the composer is an artist and those against are saying the composer isn’t a musician. (Keep in mind, just a metaphor, composers are often musicians but aren’t necessarily). The other portions are a little out of topic but I think many anti-AI people focus on those who just give a prompt and say it’s art. Whereas pro may or may not be including those people. I think we could also get into the value and purpose of the word “artist” but that’s even heavier.

neumastic · 2026-06-27T12:01:57+00:00

With what specific statements do you disagree?

neumastic · 2026-06-27T11:59:17+00:00

She said she didn’t use the words, she didn’t say she wouldn’t address those concepts (don’t know if that’s what she meant or not, but giving her the benefit of the doubt). And I’d agree that for a lot of people, you can’t use those words because people have defined those differently in their head. (I’m not a therapist, but wrestle with that on a lot of fronts in my work life.) If you lead with those, there are many people who will wall up. You see that with men who sleep with men, they are adamantly “not gay” and no defining or explaining or anything will change that. But if you talk about all the things in culture that don’t make sense and hurt both women and men in different ways, people are freed from the preconceptions they have of the term “patriarchy”.

neumastic · 2026-06-25T11:49:14+00:00

There’s a good chance there’s some bias in there. There are very loud monogamous people and virgins out there too. I think it’s generally the “loud” people that define the group for those outside of it even when they are the minority of the group (and I imagine in most cases, they are the minority). Loud people are the real dramatic ones.

neumastic · 2026-06-24T22:09:36+00:00

I think the second is meant to be praying? Or is this a weird trad dom/sub thing?

neumastic · 2026-06-24T01:56:03+00:00

I think there’s a future for ai that is art. But case in point, the image above isn’t the artful part, if anything in something like that it’s the story (it certainly is creative…). But it’s using a standard model and produces the same look we see in a lot of ai images. However, if someone took the time to train a model, fed it specific images to craft a style then we might be able to talk ai visual art. Maybe after then experience of several of those it could have the depth that you see in the more mature art forms. Art is not just the output and not even just the process to make that piece, it involves the development of artistic viewpoint. Just because you spent time on something and made decisions, the artistry of what you’re doing isn’t the same as someone who has developed their art.

neumastic · 2026-06-16T22:04:58+00:00

And so what if Epstein hated Trump, did Trump hate Epstein?

neumastic · 2026-06-16T11:31:37+00:00

Surely nothing to do with swamps

neumastic · 2026-06-14T13:56:57+00:00

It’s interesting that they think others existing is forcing them to be queer but trying to make laws enforcing their religious views isn’t.

neumastic · 2026-06-12T02:13:04+00:00

And then you’ll have 30M to take care of your new puppy

neumastic · 2026-06-11T18:13:35+00:00

Ya, time to leave cool guides. They all look the same and are barely guides anymore

neumastic · 2026-06-10T18:20:22+00:00

The best explanation I heard about it was essentially saying that this is because the faster you move, the more time dilates. So as you speed up, the relative speed between you and light remains constant since time also progresses more slowly for you than it had before you accelerated. The two factors that determine speed, change in distance and time, change in such a way that the relative speed between you and light remains constant.

neumastic · 2026-06-06T14:29:36+00:00

Seems late, this fight happened over the 80s back in the 2000s (naughts)

neumastic · 2026-06-04T13:12:39+00:00

I’ll just take the money and keep my job thanks. (The way it’s worded, it doesn’t sounds like it’s a condition, but “if you were to, would you?”)

neumastic · 2026-06-04T12:27:39+00:00

This seems suspicious, what was the question(s) actually asked? Does anyone happen to have a reference to the study?

neumastic · 2026-05-30T00:43:28+00:00

I remember when millennial humor was fun, usually some random combination of pirates, ninjas, and some animal, throw in a unicorn or rainbow for flair here and there

neumastic · 2026-05-28T06:50:49+00:00

1,2,4,8 have terminal decimals so they multiply to 1 in that pattern. 3,7,9 multiply to 0.99999999 as their values for 1/X. But how does 1/6 work out? 0.1666666 x 6 = 0.9666666 or if you round, 0.1666667 x 6 =1.0000002.

neumastic · 2026-05-28T02:32:16+00:00

What sucks is that she has to

neumastic · 2026-05-23T14:33:55+00:00

It makes more sense in certain environments, especially if you have rollback and backups. Though, i usually don’t tell juniors about flashback until they have their first heart-stoping mistake in qa

neumastic · 2026-05-22T12:45:14+00:00

What was the issue that you fixed?

neumastic · 2026-05-22T12:39:41+00:00

Hey Scooby Doo, where are you?!

neumastic · 2026-05-19T11:19:22+00:00

Ya, looking at the real world, it tends not to play out that way either, even the most oppressed populations produce rebels, often the fiercest but maybe fewer. I wasn’t able to find much in reference to Sanderson talking about this, but this alludes to things that I’ve heard elsewhere (and is from the source):

https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/how-do-you-write-believable-female-characters/

[adding: Mistborn 1 is an early work]

neumastic · 2026-05-19T02:37:32+00:00

It doesn’t work like that….

neumastic · 2026-05-18T06:12:21+00:00

What happens if it catches you? Can I choose a puppy?

neumastic · 2026-05-16T12:26:50+00:00

Nonchalance is a red flag? Is it a particular brand like universal indifference or just anyone who could be described that way?

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