moonlight

I read the first article, and I recommended you do as well, as it’s the best take I have seen on image generation.

It sounds like you and your friend both have your minds made up already, but reality is more nuanced, and the truth is somewhere inbetween.

“AI art” isn’t copyright infringement, or “stealing”, but it’s also not art. It’s a neutral technology.

I agree it is being used unethically (and overused) by corporations, but it’s fundamentally a problem with how our society uses and reacts to it. Like so many other new technologies, the true issue is with capitalism, not the tech itself.

That’s true for flying, but taking a bus or train really isn’t so bad.

Though I suppose ‘travel’ often means flying, especially for people in the US.

Okay I’ll bite… why do you think travel is a sin??

Very interesting, although I’d like to see how different threadiverse software like mbin fits into this.

What’s wrong with wanting to share the same values, and to live in the same reality as your partner?

Very good, but there is so little food and so much packaging that I stopped eating them. It just feels too wasteful.

When someone is inevitably executed for proprietary software, are you put to death for making that rule? Or does the executioner get executed (creating a feedback loop of executioners who must die)?

Wow, care to tell more about what that was like? I’m aphantasic, and the idea of suddenly unlocking the ability to visualize is fascinating to me.

I’m between 4 and 5, and no, I don’t need to. I can conceptualize things pretty well, I just can’t do it visually.

I think you might really enjoy using a tiling window manager on linux.

“Sober as a cat” is a funny expression, because they’re the only type of pet I can think of that gets drugs (catnip) for fun.

I agree about presidential drug testing though.