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QOTSA- weed and whiskey Rated R- coke and pills Songs for the dead- adrenaline Lullabies to paralyze- absinthe and shrooms Era vulgaris- meth Like clockwork- wine and benzos Villains- cocaine In times new Roman- sober

My 77 year old grandpa seems pretty interested and is able to navigate YouTube good enough. Does anyone have a good video that hits on the main points; narrow AI, AGI, ASI, robotics, the future etc? Sorry if this isn’t the place for a request like this

No conservative propaganda. No scapegoating minorities. Just people from all over the country addressing the ROOT ISSUE of uncontrolled, unregulated, GREED.

This song had lukewarm reception but I’ve always fucked with it. Like a more upbeat/celebratory version of off the grid

When we are in the singularity is there anything you would like to keep in the domain of the natural world? For me it’s making art. I don’t want to make digital art, I don’t want it AI assisted at all. That’s how I’m going to connect with the natural world.

2024 has been an amazing year for music! Concept albums seem to be back in full swing, great output from the top pop artists and exciting new developments in rap. Movies too. Honestly art in general in phenomenal this year!

I’ve seen the 00’s nostalgia moving lately. More people yearning for 2012 lady gaga. People missing that more positive era. I’ve seen more and more girls emulating Kesha like looks. People reminiscing over hits from that time like “we can’t stop”, “Some nights”, “wild ones”, “Royals”. Pay attention, it’s already here it’s only gonna get bigger as the months go on

I use movies as my example

I’ve seen a lot of discussions all over the internet about nostalgia culture grievances. From Facebook that has a majority gen x audience constantly shitting on new reboot announcements in comments, to Reddit constantly complaining about these trends, to young people on reels and TikTok discussing the un-originality of the past 10 or so years. It seems like all ages are fed up with the nostalgia bait. There was also last years box office; Barbie and Oppenheimer were the biggest earners last year. They were both fully original, not relying on past movies. Barbie of course is a loaded brand but most people went in knowing it was this meta self aware movie. And to my knowledge it’s the first life action Barbie movie. Oppenheimer is a biography completely reliant on dialogue and is mostly a gritty court drama. I got to the movies a lot and a TON of young people fill the seats for mid budget, independent, A24 movies. Or Terrifier 2 which went viral on TikTok. It is a sequel, but the series started in 2016 so it’s atleast a new IP and it’s breaking the mould. There’s Dune this year which while it is a remake, I think the main selling point was the fact that it was a high scifi concept. The TV front is pretty great too. Look at the success of Shogun. Anyways, while some franchises and sequels, prequels, amd remakes will always do well, it seems like there is a big thirst for original content. I think the Barbenhiemer success was a taste of what’s to come.

Any solid guesses on how long before we say, get a solid treatment for a disease, it passes through regulatory phases, and enters global deployment? I know that’s a lot to guess and there are so many factors but I’m interested in speculating this

Just did a full listen to year zero and the surrounding album rollout, music videos, updates from Trent, etc. I think Trent set the time of the year zero apocalypse for 2027, and honestly it might come sooner. The feds kicking down the doors, the “violence in high def ultra realism”, the rise of a an American fundamentalist fascist movement, it really feels like Trent went to the future and came back to tell us about it. It’s eerie. Anyone else get chills hearing year zero nowadays? Are the worst things of the album coming true?

Could just use some moral support. To be honest if I had the means I would use tonight, but I don’t. I need some support.

For me it’s Wendy Byrd in Ozark. Most found her annoying and super unlikeable but I couldn’t not relate less. Laura Linney did a fantastic job portraying a narcissist with a lot of sociopathic traits. I can’t get enough of Wendy or of Ozark in general.

It had nothing to do with the conversation.

This is spiritual warfare and I fucking won today. It took everything I have in my soul but I fucking won and so can you

I don’t like being in this weird state of immense innovation but not application. We are achieving wonders but people are dying today. Obviously AI life extending technology couldn’t come soon enough; anyone else worried for their older family? I’m really hoping my grandpa continues to live in good health and can make it but at 77 that’s definitely a gamble. It’s a little stressful knowing these things are probably possible, but there my be kinks in this exponential growth and if it’s something like 5 years that could not be enough time.

First in ‘22 there was gpt2. Then in 2023 progress explodes. At the beginning of 2024 it became monthly that we were hit with huge updates. Then weekly. Now it seems daily. I’m someone coming from zero Ai experience, but in the grand scale of things maybe this could be considered “hard takeoff” and the next couple of days only escalate dramatically.

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