there's a great zizek type joke somewhere in here: "the AI may be able to replace all the so called productive activities you do, but it will never be able to replace one thing: your wastefulness. and that is why you need not worry about AI coming for your job"
i'm not existentially concerned about ai art. i'm (maybe too) confident in the human ability to create alt, where alt is definitionally Not Yet Captured into corpora
for those whom art or curiosity is any reason to strive, i'm assured in their viability
Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec, Dear Data (My Past / A Week of My Past Selves). 2015.
Lupi in NYC and Posavec in London spent a year sending each other weekly postcards, each one a hand-drawn “data drawing” capturing patterns and moments from daily life.
communication is a non-zero-sum way to share and scale value! conversations should equilibrate towards being pertinent for at least one party or interesting for all parties
strategizing with others tends to be a very high roi portion of time spent strategizing, due to how much of strategizing is just investigation done through narrative construction and deconstruction