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1. dzink · 1789752442 · focus · HN ↗

   You are a photographer from the olden age. Taking a photo back then took forever. You are standing on a hill trying to get the perfect picture of a sunset. You measure and sort and calculate angles and light. A tourist stands next to you with an high-speed iphone auto-settings camera. They spin around and get thousands of photos from different angles while you are thinking and measuring your one shot. That’s what AI does. It gives you many shots at the same problem. The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more. Make and filter now may be a better approach than overthink and try only once.

   1. 0c3ca83 · 1789755214 · focus · HN ↗

      You are a god. You step on the puny human and create a thousand sunsets. Maybe the photographer wasn't needed in the first place.

      1. pixl97 · 1789755493 · focus · HN ↗

         Hell yea, I want this power.

         1. 0c3ca83 · 1789765170 · focus · HN ↗

            Sorry, we're not working to make people better, we're busy trying to build a god to stand over us.

            1. pixl97 · 1789770997 · focus · HN ↗

               Who is this "we're" you're talking about, because I see shitloads of powerseeking people that would build a god in a heartbeat if they could stand on its right-hand side.

               Humanity is a rather fragmented bunch.

               1. 0c3ca83 · 1789831115 · focus · HN ↗

                  gestures outside

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