u/a5roseb

If I were to offer one suggestion to anyone who wants to be heard at a City Council meeting, it would be this: come prepared with a specific issue, explain the relevant concern, and, most importantly, tell the council what you would like them to consider doing about it.

You only have 5 minutes. If those minutes are spent jumping between several grievances, personal accusations, and unrelated issues, council members may walk away without knowing what you actually wanted from them.

You don't necessarily need to have the perfect solution. But something as simple as, "Here is the problem I see, here is why I think it matters, and here are one or two options I'd like you to consider," gives them something concrete to hear, discuss, and potentially act on.

I don’t consider Lisa Salgado to be a serious person when it comes to issues with city government.

Her attempt to force a referendum on TID limits has apparently failed, and now she’s making what appear to be unfounded claims about TID 27.

I’d love to engage with those claims in detail, but there’s a practical problem: she has me, along with many others, blocked on social media. That makes meaningful discussion or even basic scrutiny of what she’s saying rather difficult.

People are entitled to strong opinions. They’re entitled to be angry with city government. They’re entitled to advocate for major changes. But if you’re going to make public claims about something as complicated as TIDs, those claims should be able to withstand casual, neutral examination.

Blocking people who question you doesn’t make your argument stronger. If anything, I think an unwillingness to allow your views to be examined or challenged is telling.

If the claims about TID 27 are solid, they should hold up to scrutiny. So let’s scrutinize them.

Every novel ever written was plagiarized from a dictionary. Turns out having the same words isn't the same thing as telling the same story.

Every symphony was plagiarized from twelve musical notes.

Every painting was plagiarized from the color wheel.

Tell me again how AI "stole" from you?

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The Pillars of Creation image is based on observational data from instruments that extend human perception far beyond what our eyes can see, processed computationally, assigned colors, combined, calibrated, and transformed into an image humans can comprehend.

No unaided human artist could have accurately imagined those exact structures. There is simply no way to know they existed in that form.

Does anyone claim the image is less meaningful because a human didn't personally calculate every pixel?

Astronomers cheated because computers processed the data.

The colors aren't literally what a human eye would see; therefore, the image is fake

The really fascinating irony is that if we had applied today's anti-AI rhetoric about generative AI, we might have rejected one of humanity's most extraordinary images because the computer did too much of the work.

Department: Human Meaning & Significance Division

Reports To: Future Generations

Position Summary

As creation approaches infinite scale, the Cultural Curator serves as a critical human filter between abundance and meaning. Responsible for identifying, preserving, and elevating works of enduring significance from an archive containing trillions of images, stories, videos, songs, and artifacts.

The Curator does not evaluate works solely on technical quality, production method, popularity metrics, or commercial success. Instead, they seek rare works capable of shaping culture, provoking thought, inspiring action, or revealing truths about the human experience.

Essential Duties

• Review large volumes of creative works generated by humans, artificial intelligence systems, or collaborative processes.
• Identify artifacts possessing unusual emotional, cultural, historical, philosophical, or aesthetic significance.
• Distinguish novelty from importance.
• Distinguish popularity from value.
• Distinguish beauty from meaning.
• Preserve works likely to remain relevant beyond current trends.
• Develop narratives and context that help future audiences understand why a work matters.
• Challenge prevailing assumptions regarding artistic merit and cultural importance.
• Maintain awareness that historically significant works are often initially overlooked.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated curiosity.
• Ability to remain uncertain.
• Willingness to question consensus.
• Capacity to recognize excellence outside personal taste.
• Ability to engage with works regardless of production method.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with human history.
• Understanding of symbolism, storytelling, and cultural evolution.
• Comfort operating within environments where over 99.999999% of content will be forgotten.
• Resistance to algorithmic popularity signals.
• Ability to explain why something matters.

Performance Metrics

The following metrics shall not be used:

• Likes
• Shares
• Views
• Virality
• Production cost
• Time required to create
• Whether AI was involved

Instead, success shall be measured by:

• Number of works preserved that remain culturally relevant 50+ years later.
• Ability to identify significance before consensus emerges.
• Number of future historians saying, "How did they know this would matter?"

Core Competency

The successful candidate understands that in an age where everyone can create, creation is no longer the scarce resource.

Attention is scarce.

Meaning is scarce.

Significance is scarce.

The Curator's responsibility is to discover which signals within the noise deserve to survive.

Company Motto:

>When everything can be created, someone must decide what is worth remembering.

How do we use increasing productivity due to AI and other technical advances to restore a sense of security and opportunity for ordinary people? To restore a solid middle class? If we solve that, public acceptance becomes much easier. If we don't, resistance will likely grow regardless of how useful the technology becomes.