Rigel

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    2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Some people, particularly older people, are unaware of picture-generating AI. People also sell soda and fruit at the beach for profit. People pay for convenience and immediacy. Although in this case, many people would probably just pay because of pity (or to escape the situation if you're really predatory).

    Yeah I can get that people buy a fruit out of convenience even though it’s a bit pricey but how does that apply to AI art? On the beach, selling a soda provides value. It’s hot & people want to cool down & they don’t care about 2$. Is there any context where AI art provides that kind of value? I don’t know.

     

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    Because most humans are doing the exact same you are doing. Namely, they are being selfish & thinking of themselves. Just walk down the street & notice most people have their head down lost in thought. Probably about their life story & how they are the hero of it.

    The real question is why aren’t you the one doing the praising & the loving to others?

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    You need to cuddle your dirt & make sure no nasty bugs ruin the transformation. But that’s loooow maintenance cuddling of your dirt. Not a huge dirt commitment.


    Thank god even trash becomes psychedelic at some point. Trash turns to compost turns to dirt turns to psychedelic.

    I really don’t want to say this but if you wanted to, you could totally turn your own literal, moisture adjusted, sterilized poop into psychedelics. There are better ways to go about this.

  7. Posted · Edited by Rigel

    Coming at this from the perspective of teaching normal people.


    This is only true to an extent. I have thought guitar & piano to many people & what you are suggesting is not realistic to a beginner. At the point where I am I can learn anything at speed but that is only possible because my mind & ear can keep up & know exactly what’s happening even when it’s fast.

    To play fast you need to imagine the music fast in your mind & then train your body to execute what your mind tells it to. So from high level perspective you are right. Newbies go at it completely backwards though. They see the fretboard, play something & then hear it. I agree that in theory it makes more sense to just go for fast because when you know fast it just comes out. When I think fast I speak fast.

    But how do you get a beginner to that state when they don’t know fast AND don’t have muscle memory isn’t straightforward at all. And even if they know fast! They could have been listening to bebop for 20 years & intimately know the syntax already but even then it doesn’t mean that their hand is able to execute at all.

    I think playing fast straight away is just the natural conclusion of learning slow & then speeding up. It’s like you are building your capacity for hearing & reacting fast. That shit’s not innate. But over time it’s easier to learn hard & harder things. You really can’t expect a beginner to play fast first. Remember where YOU started?

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    Malmsteen just has a nice story that reframes all the practicing he did as playing. Which is very innocent & sweet & I want to agree but the truth is no one is born with the capacity for playing what he plays & I don’t believe that his mind was limited to what his hand could immediately execute. You hear a line in your head & you want to play it but your hand just won’t be able cause you haven’t burned that in muscle memory yet. So you play it a few times until you can do it effortlessly & you move on with your playing. That’s how technique is built & that’s called practice. I guess we are just shuffling definitions for the word practicing but I think what he says is just a nice story for the camera. It’s a great story. It sounds cool.

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    There’s a book called “your body, your voice” by Theodore Dimon if I recall & it’s about the voice but there’s a good portion on breathing.

    Here’s the basic idea of the breathing with the voice aspect removed: Normal inhales & absurdly slow exhales. Pretty simple eh.

    I couldn’t tell you the first thing about the physiological observables but it’s a kind of breathing that I practice habitually all the time now not just for singing. It calms you down & grounds you. I don’t know there’s something about increasing your tolerance to co2 & having your default posture be a fully expanded rib cage & diaphragm. 

    Doing “sss” or whispered “aaaah” during exhales is optional but helps to get the mechanics down. Most of the effort is in holding the exhales & letting them out slow. The inhales should be effortless & swift.

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    I like to train less, more often. At least everyday. I don’t feel right if I don’t get my heart rate up each day.

    That being said I couldn’t care less about putting on muscles so don’t take your advice from me.
    I want ninja body & ability. Skill based training is most fun to me.

    I’m not huge but  I am ripped. I don’t know how this shit works. For god’s sake please take your advice from someone else.

  19. Posted

    On 2025-05-05 at 6:12 PM, UnbornTao said:

    "I do all my work to escape myself. I don't believe in looking into yourself. If you do this, you just discover a lot of shit. The truth is not deep in ourselves. The truth is outside." -- From his Substack newsletter.

    How does he adjudicate whether his own take is the shit he’s talking about or not?

    If his opinion is shit than he’s wrong & truth can be found inside oneself.

    If his opinion his not shit than that makes it shit cause his reasoning & argument came out of inside his own mind.

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    Never thought of myself as particularly funny but I was having a course about stage presence last year & I was asked if I think I have a good sens of humour. I said « well I do laugh a lot » & that made the room laugh.
    What I am getting at is to find things funny & to laugh at things. Do you laugh at yourself when you’re alone? 
    For instance, the other day I made a protein shake & started shaking it with the lid cracked. It made a gigantic mess all over my kitchen for the 10th time at least(I always do this). I couldn’t do anything but to roll around on the floor suffocating from laughter.

    Those things wouldn’t win a comedy award but that’s my point. Comedy is how you look at things & what’s in your heart when you look at them.

    If you wanna make others laugh now is a different story. You gotta cater to your public somehow. Humour works based off shared cultural expectations & the subversion of them. Just like musical meaning.

     

     

  24. Posted

    5 hours ago, Ramanujan said:

    can you elaborate on it

    so living with 1 book is bad ?

    one should need to live from a lot of perspectives ?

    Hi my name is not Leo .
    Think of it like your diet. Eating an apple is not bad for you. It’s actually good for you. But it’s a bad idea to start eating only apples.
    No one has it 100% figured out on their own. No one method or way of doing things works all the time in all contexts & circumstances(that’s silly, life has nuance).
    If your goal is to be smarter than yeah of course reading & synthesizing 100+ books/perspectives is better than 1.