Mesa

Sounds like a good excuse to get some good food.

I know how to make a piano sound:

• using an LLM
• starting from a piano recording
• subtractively synthesizing with any software
• additively synthesizing with any software
• or, if I wanted to spend a ridiculous amount of time, literally drawing out waveforms

I can take that sound and arrange it:

• with any DAW software
• by painstakingly arranging them by audio clips
• on paper with traditional Western notation

The point is, the tools an artist uses are just tools for efficiency. The product is (effectively) the same. I am not reliant upon any one piece of the process except for my actual mind and body. If I go deaf, I'm in trouble. I'm not Beethoven.

"Created art using AI" and "let AI generate a piece" are pragmatically different. I've used a tool to generate a percussion "sample" by messing with sliders. That tool used AI to form the hits, but there was no LLM attached, and the tool only uses samples it has the rights to (at least so it claims). I've used that as an instrument, but I still compose my music. I consider my art to be the composition. Most of my instruments I pull from samples, although I do synthesize my own sometimes.

There can be a novelty to AI generated work, which is what it was in like 2020-2021. That was fine. For example, it would be interesting to see something like "This is the average song of 202X," where every song of the top 1000 most streamed were combined on several different levels. But now that, in the art world, we have bozos letting it take over the entire creative process save the arduous task of typing out a few words (not to mention very directly stealing other artist's work) and expecting to be taken seriously, it's just exhausting.

What you say is true. However, I think you are undermining the role the audience plays in "completing" a work of art. A piece does not have to, nor does it hardly ever, mean the same thing to the artist as it does an observer.

Yes, because art is always a one-dimensional competition and my appreciation is a scarce and perishable resource.

Do you have any suggestions for a slice-of-life style show focused on a few guys' perspective? I don't know much about it, but I'm thinking something similar to Nichijou? Or Joshiraku?

Something where it's not punishing if I miss or don't understand a few lines.

I used to rotate through the same three episodes of Duel Masters from the video store when I was small. That was technically my first anime, although I wasn't familiar with the concept of anime at the time.

The first anime I watched while being aware of the fact it was anime was Sword Art Online. I was introduced to that when I was in 5th grade, and I guess it made me feel like I was "in." I could never get past the first episode of Gun Gale.

Nowadays, I really don't watch anime. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I find that in most anime I've experienced, there is so much shallow exposition that I'm left with very few questions and without a sense curiosity by the end of it. Two exceptions: psychological horror and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Psychological horror pretty reliably avoids the whole excessive exposition thing, and JoJo is rife with it but gets a pass because it sparks my inner 12 year old.

However, I'm going to start watching more anime. I'm finally picking back up my Japanese studies, and I need a way to hear the language consistently.

Cannot stand Duo and Microsoft Authenticator. Proprietary MFA clients should be ridiculed.

Hyperbolic and lacking nuance? Yes. But I came here to shout into the clouds, not to be fair.

It doesn't have to carry that genderedness into English.

Let's hit "magister" and then work our way down. I swear to god I'd change the shit out of my pronouns to fit mage.

The issue, I guess, is that Mr./Ms. have had centuries to be normalized into common use, whereas "magister" still holds a bit of prestige or honor to it. I'm just spitballin'. I'm definitely going to read more into this when I have some time.

I'll cut you a deal: I'll hold onto your data for you, including data you never even asked me to hold, and you only have to pay me for forever. Good?

It can be whatever you like