I think it’s revolutionary. My use case has been creating visuals for use in various VDMX workflows. One cool trick I’ve found has been generating starter images with green screens and then putting those into my local LTX video creation workflow, then using VDMX built a chroma layer with the green screen video and go from there, lots and lots of creative fun. So no not useless AI art.
I've qualified with "useless" for a reason. It's cool if you've got a novel use case, but so far I think most uses of AI art are either uncanny filler for blogs and slides; or a driver for the deprofessionalization and commoditization of artworks, with AI art producers flooding art sites to fight regular artists for attention, and industry forcing artists to paint over AI generated works (already common in mobile games) until their cheaper substitutes can replace them, and their next job forces them to set art aside.
But… you have discrepancies like the town of Middlesbrough , a small North Yorkshire town with crime rates on par with large European cities and rampant poverty and drug abuse with no clear way out because no one seems willing to invest in the once infant Hercules.
I hear about the North turning into a kind of rust belt as the population concentrates around London. I'm not sure how you solve that in a finance centered economy with no local industry - small towns are struggling across the developed world for similar reasons.
If you find a good strategy for Reindustrialization especially in developed countries that have gotten used to high wage white collar work please share it around. Are there any good countries to look at for this?
Maybe a little cynical, but genuinely if any country has got some good strategies for building industry back up after a decline I think we should be stealing their notes. Right now arguably China seems like the only one to me? And I'd definitely favor trying their massive state investment, but I'm not sure if the UK can do that one.
> Right now arguably China seems like the only one to me?
They didn't build it up on their own. They saw opportunity in western businesses who wanted lower wages and less strict environmental laws, and lured them in. The western businesses then moved all their manufacturing to China who then spied on these factories to out-compete the western businesses with "home grown" products they copied.
It’s kind of the opposite. The North is underfunded and often ignored by central government, but it’s also cheap.
There have been an influx of Londoners who have discovered that they can actually afford a house in the North and enroll their kids in decent schools and maintain a good standard of living, especially those who are able to move while maintaining a London salary.
Also second hand from British friends but the current leadership seems really weird to me. Went back on their election pledges, tacking this way and that for something to do to raise poll numbers.
It doesn't fit together as a strategy to me and I don't see it fixing the economy, but I guess they can talk about it as a success?
The British political class has been collapsing for decades. The population just flip-flops between completely awful unpalatable options, Starmer is just reheated third way Blairism. Brits aren't this stupid and they want optimistic view of future not go on the war path or austerity.
They will slowly cycle out this historical group of parties resulting in painful economic results and poor social cohesion nationally.
Even if it may be a meme, those eureka moments are exactly the thing these threads are describing; learning knowledge about a thing. I’d rather have a thousand hours of eureka moments than a 1000 hours with a textbook of theory
That isn’t the choice. You only need maybe 20-50 hours of theory and anyone learning music will accumulate at least a few thousand hours of playtime if they stick with it. The order in which you do those matters a lot though. It differs depending on the age you start playing. Most adults should learn theory early, but not before they’ve done enough beginner to be able to practice theory as they learn it.
(Obviously you can study music more than 50 hours. I’m just talking about the applied theory most expert musicians know.)
Pink Floyd’s man who recently passed away may be an example. Brian Wilson another, I heard him say his one regret was psychedelics as they scrambled his brain… I’m all for them when used with respect and correct (mind)set and setting. Lots of human progress has came off the back of psychedelics but they not for the common people. It takes a brave and worthy (shaman) to guide someone through the collective conscious
Wilson was taking a lot of different sorts of drugs iirc. Part of the problem is people take psychedelics in youth, when schizophrenia, bipolar and other mental disorders tend to arise making it hard to quantify true risk.
Those folks had serious psychiatric mental issues to begin with. Then they threw tens of truckloads of hard drugs in various mixes on top of that, often for decades.
This could break even the most healthy person and tells nothing about therapeutic potential of these substances with right approach. Its like judging how healthy salt is to humans by watching some maniac consume 200g of it daily.
Ironically, many in this thread are advocating for that! Take someone with mental problems, throw a truckload of psychedelics on top. That’ll fix em gud! And, if that doesn’t work, up the dosage, or maybe do the 3000 dollar ketamine sessions twice a week to really really fix the problem.
Those guys were using a shit ton of drugs of all forms, so I'm not sure a single hit of LSD (which I'm sure was many) was the culprit.
For me, I've used LSD a few times, both alone, and with a few trusted people. It's an incredibly intense drug, and if administered correctly, can really help.
Of course it has the potential to really fuck with someone permanently, but so does alcohol, Ozempic, etc, yet we say nothing of those.
A year ago for fun I gave a friend a Carl Rogers therapy audiobook, for fun I made an Attenbrough esque reading and it was pretty good over a year ago so should be better now.
Been working on a agentic system of Jungian opposites, thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, just for fun and to learn rust and LLM combinations, system prompts etc, it’s been fun and I think that’s all for now.
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