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This is ironic. If you had to pick a patron god of generative AI, it would definitely be Loki.

shadowgovt 3y ago
That was actually the plot of an old X-Men comic. Loki came to earth and started granting wishes. Basically turning regular people into Forge-style creative mutants. One was a master architect who gained the power to realize anything he dreamed of. But the X-Men later realize the gift is tainted; it's powered by human creativity. The architect discovers that while he can fabricate any structure he ever imagined, he can't imagine any new ones. Confronted with accusations of treachery, Loki is chagrined. He more or less thought he was bringing something to humans they actually wanted, and is infuriated when they reject his gift. He fundamentally cannot understand what it is that people desire.
- jncfhnb 3y ago
  Seems… a little silly. I might be willing to trade my ability to generate new creative ideas for the ability to execute on all the creative ideas i have but cannot possibly implement due to time, resources, and talent constraints. Not being able to think creatively sounds scary but there’s also the alternative which is dying without doing things. Like, you could potentially make it a worse trade that sounds less scary by just making it trade years off your lifespan in exchange for creative execution and I think that’s not crazy. It’s actually fairly banal considering all the things we do to survive today.
  - shadowgovt 3y ago
    That's just what Loki thought! Humans... So impossible to please.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
  If I had this, I would be a billionaire. I don't need to come up with any new ideas. I would just hang out on Hackernews listening to ideas that I would then execute on. We also have all the ideas we need to fix climate change, and world hunger, we just need execution. I would gladly take the trade of executing on existing ideas, versus coming up with new ideas that we cannot execute on.
  - shadowgovt 3y ago
    I left out a detail: the gift was going to be distributed worldwide. Soon, nobody would be able to imagine anything new.

That was actually the plot of an old X-Men comic. Loki came to earth and started granting wishes. Basically turning regular people into Forge-style creative mutants. One was a master architect who gained the power to realize anything he dreamed of. But the X-Men later realize the gift is tainted; it's powered by human creativity. The architect discovers that while he can fabricate any structure he ever imagined, he can't imagine any new ones. Confronted with accusations of treachery, Loki is chagrined. He more or less thought he was bringing something to humans they actually wanted, and is infuriated when they reject his gift. He fundamentally cannot understand what it is that people desire.

jncfhnb 3y ago
Seems… a little silly. I might be willing to trade my ability to generate new creative ideas for the ability to execute on all the creative ideas i have but cannot possibly implement due to time, resources, and talent constraints. Not being able to think creatively sounds scary but there’s also the alternative which is dying without doing things. Like, you could potentially make it a worse trade that sounds less scary by just making it trade years off your lifespan in exchange for creative execution and I think that’s not crazy. It’s actually fairly banal considering all the things we do to survive today.
- shadowgovt 3y ago
  That's just what Loki thought! Humans... So impossible to please.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
If I had this, I would be a billionaire. I don't need to come up with any new ideas. I would just hang out on Hackernews listening to ideas that I would then execute on. We also have all the ideas we need to fix climate change, and world hunger, we just need execution. I would gladly take the trade of executing on existing ideas, versus coming up with new ideas that we cannot execute on.
- shadowgovt 3y ago
  I left out a detail: the gift was going to be distributed worldwide. Soon, nobody would be able to imagine anything new.