Mastodawn

The deliberate conscious effort that we humans require to do anything, like make art or write an academic paper, has been belittled and glossed over.

Instead results are glamorously prized as the product of success, and the amount of effort that it took to get there is hidden away in shame.

AI is the obscene extreme to that mentality: not more thinking, effort, work, anything— get the result now. While it was that exact effort that made us human in the first place.

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SomeVeganCheeseIsOk

@Ameboid

There's a great Kipling poem about not letting pain *or* pleasure control you. (He only aims it at men, but you can ignore that if you like.)

I see the AI development in that light: you can't let the sweat of work deter you from art and you can't let the ease of AI deter you from the sweat of effort.