Life is as kind as you let it be

People are saying that now AI is getting good, going forward culture will be no more than previous culture recycled There's an argument that this has been going on ever since the birth of the internet, after which, they say, "everything became a remix" Jaron Lanier wrote about it at length decades ago Part of the argument goes, that after the pre-mass-internet mid 90s there was No discernible change in fashion No truly new music genres (hip-hop could be the last one in this argument) No new TV styles (reality being the final one) Etc After the internet what we had was recontextualization of the previous forms, made to fit the new Medium (The content of the new medium is always that of the previous medium, as Marshall McLuhan notes.) Prior to mass internet, culture was visibly, and rapidly changing at all times - just think of the stylistic difference between the mid to late 70s and the early 80s, going from glam to punk to new wave and so on Now, the culture feels static, while it's technology that zooms ahead so fast that one human mind can't keep track of it When he was a young lad, my dad would go to the pub with his new David Bowie LP under his arm Perhaps the modern equivalent would be showing off a new AI capability with a memeified version of your avi or something I made a song a few decades ago sampling Alan Moore, talking about Steam Theory The idea that human invitation keeps doubling, and the time for it to occur keeps plummeting. There's 50,000 years between the invention of the stone axe and the baths of Rome. The next doubling takes around 1500 years, roughly by the Renaissance. Faster it goes - by the 18th or 19th century, it takes just a couple hundred years, and between 1960 and 1970, human information doubles in a mere decade. Extrapolating this forward, Moore predicted that by around 2015AD information doubles every thousandth of a second. At any moment something could pop into being that changes everything forever It's like water heating up. We go from a fluid, observable flow of invention, to steam The odds that everything going forward will be no more than a remix is only true in that everything we have ever done was, in it's own way, a remix of what went before But as for what's coming, we can't even imagine THIS IS THE STEAM AGE

It’s a beautiful day to be alive Here at the peak of recorded civilization We give thanks to the ancestors For the miracle they bequeathed us We vow not to squander This hitherto unimaginable Opportunity

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