Leo Gura

@aurum This one's for you: The death of Socrates. "Friends, followers, and students encouraged Socrates to flee Athens, an action which the citizens expected; yet, on principle, Socrates refused to flout the law and escape his legal responsibility to Athens. Therefore, faithful to his teaching of civic obedience to the law, the 70-year-old Socrates executed his death sentence and drank the hemlock, as condemned at trial." Socrates last words as the poison moved through is body? "Crito, we owe a cock to Asklepios. Pay it and do not neglect it."

One of my friends moved to Warsaw just for the girls. He lives in the city center in the best condo for $3k/mo and just approaches girls outside his building all week long. He says it's like paradise if you're into Eastern European girls. Just an example of what's possible.

Teal Swan events for sure

Just let it go and move on. Do not enter into confrontations with upset girls. Just talk to new ones. Some girls will be in bad moods and arguing with them never leads to anything good. I've had girls punch me or claw me. It happens.

If this is true, then what are you worried about? In reality, even the world's best and most unique artists got their inspiration and style from somewhere. These AI show that creativity requires lots of input and recombination. Artists develop their styles and craft through imitating other artists. This is well known. All art copies itself. Picasso famously developed his unique style by taking motifs from African masks and elsewhere. Now I can take Picasso's style and throw it into an AI, blend it with something else, and get some cool new art. In the future these AI tools will become much more flexible, powerful, and diverse. Right now they are still far too limited. Really Adobe needs to buy out these AI start-ups and create a professional AI tool for artists which has infinite flexibility and power. Such a tool would be worth billions.

This development is actually very similar to Youtube. YT made video broadcast accessible to all, not just a few. Is YT bad for traditional broadcasters who had exclusive positions? Yeah. Now they have to compete harder. And think about interpreters. What has Google Translate done to their decades of learning languages?

Illustrators will still be needed for a decade to come and beyond. In the meantime you can also learn to leverage AI.

There is nothing new about this. Monks and mystics have been turning towards asceticism and the hermit life since the dawn of civilization because the grind of daily surviving in a society is extremely distracting for spiritual consciousness. You are not going to be massively awake by living a normal social lifestyle with a 9-5 job.

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.

@DrugsBunny Here's the ultimate guide for generating prompts: https://rexwang8.github.io/resource/ai/teapot

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