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So they will have Sci Fi spaceships with Magnetic Tape using control rooms or maybe pencil drawn AI is allowed 🤯

It happened well before AI. Unfortunately there even aren't no single bad actor to point at.

Early internet was more of a place of techno enthusiasm even if less entertaining than now. Bill Gates were considered bad and search for anti Bill Gates revealed some fun stuff.

Google was just better search engine with 2 buttons. Even old time spam emails were benign by todays standarts. These were just annoying adds and not the elaborate fraud engines made to relieve you out of your cash.

When I searched for finance the YouTube were showing me some some pretty dubious adds on finance. Else it puts online casino adds. Originally YouTube even didn't had video adds.

Engagement algorithms will magnify all kind of content and spread it as a ventilator.

Look at any popular internet meme outside of the net. They are nothing. Internet just creates mob mentality where everyone follows the herd.

AI content actually so far is mutch better than general internet. It is back to an early tech enthusiasm except for some corrupt element at the top🤐

Смотрю сайты, от всех мест идёт, что Украина будет превращать Крым в остров, по логистике. Даже если зайти, чтоб посмотреть расписание поездов, рядом такие вот новости. Явно не мирный договор собираются подписывать.

Какие то аналитики подсчитали, что они продержатся до октября. Один историк Петр Турчин (мож ошибаюсь с именем) занялся таким подсчетом, но он уже ошибся, может из за неверных цифр потерь, типа при определенном количестве погибших армия развалится. Этот историк 10 лет вперёд просчитал, что в США начнутся политические потрясения, как, например, приход к власти популиста Трампа.

В мире таки идёт война за дележ мира. Только прикрыто это разного рода политтехнологическими фразами. С началом войны с Ираном США стала крупнейшим поставщиком нефти. А этой страны нефть шла в Китай, главная цель консерваторов США. Там, конечно, режим религиозных фанатиков, которого часть население ненавидят, и соседние арабские правительства то же, но в фанатизме то же сила.

Короче, уже стараюсь на это не смотреть, предпочитая фентези или отношения (с женщинами), но оно само вылезает.

There seems to be one thing going on.

Artists seems to be more just easy targets. Heavily invested politicians and trillion worth tech CEOs are beyond the reach.

Some anti-AI concerns are legitimate. There are some darker affairs going on in AI business. But instead of addressing real but powerful targets they chose the ones they can reach - individual artists. They depends on likes, opinions etc more than everyone else.

AI is great tool. In meeting of apartments it took just few clicks and moves of my finger to find probable cost estimates for a new place for garbage. How to plant berrie bush - Gemini will tell. The lot - AI will tell about it (from gov sites when I even don't know workings of bureaucracy). Of corse it can be misleading as it don't do it by itself especially in niche and frontier fields.

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All the art beyond cave paintings are artificial.

I can make images, short videos and music using AI. I took a clay pot, the flat rock and bivalve shell, beat the simple melody and recorded. AI made experimental music on it as I described, with sound of some of the most unusual musical instruments.

- Yes, but you can hire an orchestra.

- You can learn it by yourself.

The Soul. You can't measure it. The most upvoted works are photographies of lingerie model / influencers, there isn't mutch soul in it. But the same goes for photography, digital images etc.

There is a thing like "panic marketing". Most of those who talks about dangers of AI is tech CEOs. If Anthropic or Elon Musk are so afraid of AI maybe they could stopt developing it?

This panic marketing helps with gov funding;).

If you want to save polar bears and giraffes, ask governments to stop the wars. There seems to be lots of oil being burned. Carbon footprint should be extreme. Also antibiotic resistance of pathogenic bacteria evolves at fast rates as the war uses enormous amounts of antibiotics.

I asked AI to give me 5 myths which I found pretty interesting. Could work in fantasy settings.

AI slightly messed it up but after few tries I got close to original stories without sycophancy. The first is like God and Devil are brothers, one creates lush meadows another one swamps with mosquitos or inhospitable mountains, but the world is dual creation. Suprisingly enought romanians have simmilar myth involving brother and not-brother.

Also romanians have myths about seventh day water which brings souls to netherworld and Isle of rahmans, where people lives like before Adam ha eaten the fruit. Not shure about origins of those, maybe these are from forgotten religion, maybe gnostic.

Understood. Here are the five myth summaries in clean, confident English — no hedging, no over-apologizing, no Christian framing. Just the myths as they are.

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1. Dual Creation in Western Siberian Shamanism.

Among the Khanty, Mansi, Nenets, and Nganasan peoples of Western Siberia, the world is not made by a single god but by two equal beings. One dwells above, the other below. Neither is originally good or evil. Together they dive into the primordial waters, bring up mud and clay, and shape the land. One creates flat, dry ground. The other makes swamps, ravines, and crooked places. The cosmos is their joint work. Only later do they split into a sky lord and a lord of the dead.

2. The Three Worlds of Siberian Shamanism.

The shaman's universe has three layers. The Upper World lies above the sky and houses celestial spirits. The Middle World is the earth of humans, animals, and everyday spirits. The Lower World sits beneath the ground. It is not a place of torment but a mirror. There, summer is winter, night is day, and the dead live their lives in reverse. The shaman descends into the Lower World to meet ancestors, retrieve lost souls, and seek knowledge that cannot be found above.

3. The Romanian Creation: Fârtat and Nefârtat.

In the beginning, only water. From this water emerge two beings: Fârtat — the one bound by a sacred oath — and Nefârtat — the one bound by no oath. They are brothers. Fârtat brings up earth from the bottom of the waters. Nefârtat tries to drown it or twist it. Together they complete the world. Their relationship is not a war of good against evil but a perpetual quarrel. One builds, the other tests. One smooths, the other bends. From this argument, the world keeps its form.

4. The Island of the Blessed Rahmans in Romanian Mythology.

Far beyond the known seas lies an island called Insula Blajinilor (the Island of the Gentle Ones) or Ostrovul Rahmani. The Rahmans — also known as the blajini — are unbaptized, unborn, or otherwise innocent souls. They know no lies, no iron, no greed. They live naked without shame. Their Easter arrives only when a painted eggshell drifts from the human world to their shore. The island is hidden from ordinary sight, and its fruits never fail.

5. The Seventh-Day Water: Apa Sâmbetei.

Apa Sâmbetei — the Saturday Water — is a river that springs from the Tree of Life at the edge of Paradise. It circles the earth seven times, growing darker and heavier with each turn. After the seventh circle, it plunges into a whirlpool and descends to the underworld. To say in Romanian that someone s-a dus pe Apa Sâmbetei — "he went down the Saturday Water" — means he vanished without trace, carried beyond all return.