…And if you’re a cynic who thinks true creativity can only ever be accomplished through a human brain, who views AI art as mere copies or imitations of other people’s art, let me ask you this: where do you think artistic inspiration comes from? To imagine a nonexistent object, say, a mountain made entirely of gold, you need to already have the concepts of gold and mountains floating around in your brain. Inspiration does not come from thin air - it comes from experience and observations. My entire podcast is an amalgamation of the things I’ve learned over the course of my brief existence, combined in an idiosyncratic way to represent the things I want to represent. There is a good example in the concept of the muse - such as Calliope from Greek mythology, who supposedly inspired Homer. How is artificial intelligence trained on data sets any different from a human drawing inspiration from a muse?…

…We now stand at the crossroads of yet another fork in our history: artificial intelligence and the general direction or discontinuance of our future. If we make it just a little bit farther, we may reach a new golden age for all of humanity.

But to get there is the challenge. Future-minded people can’t afford to lose pragmatism or realism on the path to a more civilized age. It’s important that we know where we want to go, and also that we don’t speed to get there without checking for existential-threat-level landmines…

Hello world. The news is, uh, dramatic, at this point in time. The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to be horrific. It seems we are still not over the genocide phase of humanity, as the soviets genocided Ukrainians through the hunger famine of the 30s and in ways large and small through the years. Uh, what else. There’s a still ongoing global pandemic, food, gas, and energy crises, and humanitarian and human rights issues across the world.

And what a time to be a law student in America. We’ll see if Roe v Wade is for sure overturned in a few weeks, but if it is…well, for better or worse this will essentially become my generation’s fight for civil rights - specifically, the civil rights of women to bodily autonomy in America…

Life is a weird thing. It’s so very hard to predict how things will change moment to moment and year to year. In the past couple years I’ve gone through transformations of my own. Um, I’m now back in school, I’m pursuing a law degree. This podcast started as a side project of mine experimenting with search algorithms and neat programs. I like it overall. I’ll continue to do whatever I want with it pretty much. My own little microphone to broadcast my thoughts.

There’s a lot that’s been on my mind. A world in lockdown. Geopolitical tensions are possibly the highest since the cold war. It feels like world history is about to converge on a new paradigm. I can’t predict what will shift the balance of power. A technology may do it, or outright war…