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A friend of mine built a snowman today. It was beautiful. No photo real or generated can do it justice. The act was in the building and being there. That is the
by injidup 3y ago
A friend of mine built a snowman today. It was beautiful. No photo real or generated can do it justice. The act was in the building and being there. That is the key takeaway from all this. Choose real life. Go out and build a snowman. Interact with the world and with people and materials. It doesn't matter if a master photographer or an AI generates a picture of a snowman. In the end if it motivates you to go out and build one yourself then it is good. Otherwise it is just porn.
- epivosism 3y agoMy ggggg*1000 grandfather, a eukaryote, really knew how to live. He didn't have hands - he had to DREAM and use his MIND to make snowmen. Kids today with their "hands" are desensitized to the needed mental work of imagining how a snowman would look. I'm not saying this argument automatically wins. But I think the two sides need to define terms. What's "real" and "authentic" for one generation was a huge stretch for another, and will be rote/boring for another. Is there a coherent dividing point? I personally don't think so; I would like to hear an attempted definition, though. Real = Struggling to manage your horse to plow the fields so you and your family doesn't starve? Being a master horseman and ploughman? Breeding sturdier horses and selling them so you're rich, and everyone can easily plow? Replacing horses with engines+plows, with heated cabins, which activates way more land, to grow more food for the world? Running a retro amish-style farm on the weekend where you go back to using real horses to plow again? ^^^^ Where does "real/genuine" come in and then leave in that sequence? And who are you to say where other people should spend their time within it?