Some people may believe that 100ms latency is acceptable for a CLI tool, but what if it could be 3ms? On some aesthetic level, it also feels good to be able to eliminate excess. Finally, you should learn it because you won't necessarily have that job forever.

I'm generally a supporter of capitalism, but I think present conditions could be improved to facilitate that competition. Workers need to be able to use public transit in peace, which means getting homeless people out. We need to be able to offer shelter so that forceful removal is justifiable. Children need unequivocal access to nutrition so that malnourishment doesn't impair their ability to compete in the arena of idea-generation and in the knowledge economy. I think if the government were in the business of offering floors on quality of life that people could spend their time more productively instead of solving the same hunter-gatherer types of problems individually over and over again. Food insecurity may have been the impetus for work in the past, but I believe that status insecurity can replace it going forward. Nobody needs to starve for the West to prosper.

People of all backgrounds will find that non-painful survival is still profoundly unfulfilling and will continue to innovate, create, work. I think the fear of succumbing to the elements in America is too real and that that fear is a massive drain on the economy and the spirit of our people.

The machine is clearly good at realizing novel combinations, but I think that has more to do with the lack of interest of human artists in rendering these combinations, rather than the lack of ability.

I am also of the opinion that a human realization would produce better art. A machine might literally depict the bear in a pool, but a human could imagine a logically consistent context for that to be happening and decorate the pool with details like the leaderboard of the Teddy Bear Olympics and have reporters and spectators that are other stuffed animals. There might be a rivalry in progress. The distinguishing feature for me so far has been that human art is a snapshot of a much more sophisticated simulation that draws from the experience of having lived, felt things like fear, tension, joy directly, rather than having to approximate the aspects that give new art its electric nature indirectly as the machines do.

I'm sure a machine will be able to do that someday, but most of my experience with Dall-E 2 has been for the background to be vague, blurry, and weirdly unintentionally surreal. The prompt itself is maybe rendered accurately 95% of the time.