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Jun 13, 2022Liked by glass delusions

Another excellent piece with eloquent writing, and it made me wonder if someone should write a short story about God having an identity crisis when humans start inventing and creating things on their own. Or does God take joy in seeing humanity create? Is the commandment against “graven images” something that needs to be taken into account on this point? Might have to think on that…Anyway, always great work Bethany!

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"We should turn our attention to what the robots are writing, though, because that's what is going to be shaping our minds, and maybe even without our knowledge of it".

One idea I've seen is AI could be a good way to soft block people. So say you have a toxic person in your replies. Say you know they'll create a new account just to harass you. That's where AI comes in. You train an AI on your posts and every time they reply to you, they get a response written by an AI. What would be even better is if the AI was trained to de-escalate and sooth the toxic person.

As to why we care more about visual art: about a third of the brain is dedicated to visual processing. We can take in an image all at once.

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