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  1. This is a belief. I wholeheartedly agress with you in the short and medium term. I even tend to agree in the longterm projecting out to many lifetimes. But I'm increasingly doubting this is the case for the eternal the more I learn and the more we learn about our universe.
  2. I thought this was going to be the cooking the food over cow dung.
  3. I appreciate and respect your opinion as a musician and technologist. I think our impressions and opinions are going to be colored by our beliefs to a degree. What is it we believe to be true about humans, art, music-- heck, the universe even. That said, you mentioned Kendrick Lamar and what made his music interesting, I thought it was an interesting application of AI when in the midst of that rap battle Drake used AI to diss Kendrick Lamar by having AI create a Tupac diss:
  4. That hand is gnarly. If it were Biden, we'd never hear the end of it.
  5. I think you are just explaining the rise of a new genre. I don't see why a very well thought out prompt would not be able to create the genre of music we know as "rap", given the contexts and inputs that you say were the reasons the genre emerged. I watch a ton of DJ shorts because while I would never go a club or rave (clutches pearls), I find the highlight transition clips they share to be a) short b) impressive and c) creative. But it just reminds me that all DJ/Electric music is, is inputs that have been manipulated and changed and massaged to create some new great sounds and music. The moving parts already exist. To get philosophical: everything that's ever going to be created is already created, just deconstructed. You cannot create anything new, just re-arrange the recipe. IMHO, at least.
  6. Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement
  7. Also, I'd like to crosspost here a gripe: On a serious note, the things that sucks the worst about the commodization of LLMs and GPT's is that those of us who actually are extremely well read and with an extensive and arrayed vocabulary (and who have horrible writing crutches like the em dash, which are organically and well earned from years of trying to write in at least a semi-serious manner)-- we are the babies who are thrown out with the bath water when it comes to automatically disqualifying our original writing as cheap ChatGPT output.
  8. I must be a rube because I actually read Rick Rubin's "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" where he talks about all this, and I found it to be mostly intelligible. To this point above, I think we have to strip back to the extreme-- the most pure and first question of art: Is it possible to create something new? or is everything already all created and depending on the combinations of parts you can create something that appears new, but utlimately all art is derivative (just different sophistications)? I believe the latter, and if you have a corpus of data in LLM's that is expansive enough, which I think we are going to have int he near term, why could you not prompt AI with a unique POV to create art?
  9. From CHIEF: When you are talking about a commuter school with zero campus life (sports, parties, greek-- do they even have dorms?) it feels like a very weird option. Your kid has to be super focused on a STEM education and career I woudl think and only care about getting that internship at TI or some other semiconductor fab (not a bad idea in this era we are in), but it's pretty pricey. That said, UTD is clearly a step above UTA, UTEP, UT-Tyler, SA, etc. while being a clear step below UT-Austin.
  10. Watched Adam Sandler's Water Boy again for the first time in at least 20 years. Not nearly as funny as when you are 20 years old.
  11. DHL is Chinese German right? UPS & FEDEX protectionists should like this.
  12. Agree, plus, Israel is not some developing nation anymore. There is no reason to trust-fund baby a 35 year old. In this environment and geopolitical reality, Israel can more than defend their own interests with their own funding. Now, if anything materially changes in that reality (e.g. The Arab Nations band together to wipe out Israel or something) then that sentiment of economic support can be revisited. Odds are very unlikely moving forward, however.
  13. All the talk of UTD-- wasn't there a parent here who disclosed how much UTD was and it was obsence for an in state tuition, commuter school experience? I'll try and find it.
  14. 100% in agreement. Dropping anything more than $100k for a bachelors degree IMO, outside of S-tier, truly transformational opportunities (e.g. Ivy League, Target schools with a plan).
  15. JDVancetownhorn?
  16. I was supposed to be at the relase party today at the Wingstop on 75 and Skillman supporting some friends of friends (music management), but because he was arrested in deep ellum last night it was cancelled.
  17. So does BigXthePlug doing country fusion!
  18. He's actually a pretty good vocalist and singer I was shocked to learn, in intuitively picking up pitch and harmony. See this:
  19. The biggest problem (for those of us who post on surly, at least) if that the HHI is usually really low to qualify for free tuition. I joke, but also don't joke, about being poor, but it's really just being solidly middle class. Solidly middle class has never been a great place to take advantage of social programs, such as free tuition, etc.
  20. Understood and honestly super relatable. I wasn't really directing that last post your direction. I was thinking and processing it more as, well this is what I actually thought: "What if, in 10-15 years, we have a generation of adults of are saddled with $200k of college debt and loans. Not because they didn't learn from the previous generation who can't afford anything due to the crushing debt, but because it was their ticket out of a red state" And that's kinda sad. It's almost like looking at going to college like becoming a refugee or looking for asylum.
  21. The problem with a re-brand is they suck. Their menu is poorly constructed. CB is the epitome of the restaurant you haven't eaten in a long time and you think, "you know what, that might be good, sure let's go" and then 10 minutes into the drive, the tchotsky store and the menu and you remember why exactly you don't go. It sucks. THAT SAID You know it's a good year when you limit out dove hunting by 10am and the whole lobby is full of old, gray men in camo with our big ol bellies.
  22. Great last few pages, especially the empathy for the homeless. My key takeaway is that the Democratic Party is singing "Well holy moly, me oh my / you are the apple of my eye" in 2025 and nobody is here for it.
  23. That cat was awesome.
  24. There is certainly a fair amount of privilege to be able to spend $50k a year to be educated in California (or New York or Seattle, etc.) and accelerate the move out of Texas for an education that is average-to-above-average (e.g. Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, San Diego St., Cal Poly, etc.) Like I said, I'm old and poor-- my kids had to do for in-state tuition and if you can't get into the affordable good schools, we have McDonald's cheap second-tier schools at home
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