Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
when the ai companies take from the small artists
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. — Epictetus
Collaboration Cookbook
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The thing that A.I. can’t do, truly, is improvise. A.I. will never have subconsciousness, and in that way can’t be truly creative. Creativity ultimately springs from human drives, and that’ll be the last thing that differentiates us from machines.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
AI can’t do improv
Without getting too deep in the weeds, Elon is basically saying that control of and the ability to contribute to public narratives has shifted from traditional media (i.e., broadcasters, newspapers, and the people they employ) to everyone else; creators, especially on X.
He’s not wrong. Neither is he precisely right. He is certainly the media. And a... See more
He’s not wrong. Neither is he precisely right. He is certainly the media. And a... See more
🔴 How liquid is your content capital?
Considering these factors, it’s not hard to see why most people aren’t enthusiastic about going to a communal space to watch slow, sad stories about human pain and suffering. These days, we digest sadness alone with our phones. This is so thoroughly the case that sometimes even speaking out loud to your spouse or your mother or your close friend ab... See more
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
or you get upset that they dont want to talk about it even though you also dont want to talk about it but you want people to think that you are the type of people who do indeed talk about it
"All AI art can really do is add more voiceless noise to the world of relentlessly churning cheap content. If you're a part of that machine then yes AI will inevitably steamroll you, but if you're not it will accentuate your value as a singular voice a person who has something worth saying."
— Mango Street vid on YT h/t to Justin Mather in the Subst
... See morePolinsski: recently, about a concept called question-path, which captures a feeling that guides me while writing. It is about asking questions and giving them time to unfold. A feeling of focused curiosity. i got curious what happens if i collect some of the questions in a form of an interview.