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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

204 points · 156 comments · robin_reala

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. willy_k · 1789752597 · focus · HN ↗
  This ignores the reality that many people are, unfortunately, taking that one iPhone picture, sending it to everyone in their contacts list as if it’s art, and then moving on to the next slop shoot.
  1. anon84873628 · 1789760812 · focus · HN ↗
    And like, that's transformed human interaction? I like following my friends' stories and receiving quotidian snaps of my nephews.
    That's the point of the analogy, not that people are passing it off "as if it's art."

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