There used to be this guy who would always do these really unique remixes and mashups of different songs that you would never think would work, but they were always really amazing.

He would upload them to his YouTube account during the 2010s, but he seems to have disappeared. I’m pretty sure he went by Tae-K and his account was something like TKRmx?

The most memorable ones for me were a mashup of Wale with the 90’s X-men theme song and Ella Fitzgerald with Wiz Khalifa.

Edit: Oh shit NVM, found it!: X-men+Wale

There was this other guy who made an 8-bit remix of Danger Mouse’s Grey album, but I can’t remember his name. It also seems to have disappeared.

Ramones version of California Sun is also better than the original

Reminds me of Kyle Kinane’s joke about people who dangle truck nuts from a curvy pick up, then feel the need to assign a gender to their truck, typically referring to the truck as a “her” or “she,” but insist pronouns are too confusing.

The puppy who lost its way.

The world was changing. And the puppy was getting bigger…

Maybe? Are you sure you’re not weirdly defensive about AI because you prefer interactions where you control the narrative and every opinion you have is validated?

Honestly, I really only know one person who uses AI so much I would even consider it an issue, and until recently, he was my best friend since 2007. He was always really smart and rational because he was the kind of person who would do a lot of research, and look into things before rushing into any decision or forming an opinion.

Originally he just used AI for automation ~2 years ago, then he started using it for quickly researching things related to work, but eventually he started using “AI research” for everything, and once he reads an AI summary there’s no changing his opinion.

A lot of times he will send me links that AI cites in the summary to prove he’s correct, but when you actually read the information in the links, it doesn’t actually say what he thinks it says. But once he’s formed an opinion and it’s been validated by AI, there is seems to be no evidence that can convince him otherwise.

He actually went down a quantum physics/new understanding of math rabbit hole pretty early on, but luckily he eventually realized all the information chatGPT was telling him was correct was misinterpreted, but it was still giving him positive feedback and telling him he was a genius, just like it always seems to do to people who don’t realize it’s giving them bad information and end up ruining their own lives.

He didn’t stop using AI though, he just stopped using chatGPT and switched to other models. He also gets defensive if you try to tell him that he should dial back his AI use even though he can no longer hold a conversation with anybody if it’s not related to whatever he’s interested in at the moment, he comes off as very rude bc he doesn’t seem to remember just shutting down conversations bc he doesn’t feel like hearing them, like he’s closing out a tab he’s done using, isn’t appropriate, and when I tell other people about his opinions and arguments/how he’s citing information to support those arguments now, they say “no offense, but he sounds really dumb.”

Which is definitely not true. He’s very smart and he always has been. He’s got some really impressive degrees he earned prior to becoming dependent on AI, that prove it. He also didn’t just suddenly lose the social skills and empathy he had for 18 years. He’s just become way too dependent on technology that’s designed to make him believe he’s always correct and being super productive and efficient, so he will get a little dopamine bump and want to keep using it, instead of just taking the time to actually read new information, or listen to what people are saying and how they’re saying it, and then use his own very impressive logic and reasoning skills to interpret that information.

Idk, it is an n=1 and I could definitely be wrong. That’s why I asked this question. Bc I wanted to hear other opinions outside of my own personal experience and the ones I’ve already read or seen online.

•The rise of the personal AI advisors

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a front-row view of this phenomenon. He notes stark generational differences in ChatGPT usage: “Older people . . . use [ChatGPT] as a Google replacement,” Altman recently observed, whereas many in their 20s and 30s “use it like a life adviser.” In other words, younger users aren’t just asking AI for trivia or weather updates, they’re confiding in it, seeking guidance on college decisions, career moves, and personal dilemmas. Altman says some college students have ChatGPT so deeply integrated into their daily lives that “they don’t make life decisions without asking ChatGPT what they should do. It has the full context on every person in their life and what they’ve talked about.” The chatbot has effectively become a confidant—a kind of always-available sounding board and adviser in one.

•80% of Gen Z and millennials are turning to AI for financial advice—but more than half say they’ve made a poor decision or mistake as a result

•AI chatbots and digital companions are reshaping emotional connection

Synthetic relationships are filling the void to satisfy the fundamental human need for social connection. Research shows excessive use of these tools may worsen loneliness and erode social skills. Experts and advocates are highlighting the need for guardrails and regulations to ensure user safety and well-being.

Yeah but now it’s like the people who weren’t on social media are repeating this behavior using AI.

Honestly, doesn’t seem too coincidental to me that the same broligarchs who wanted to get everybody dependent on social media echo chambers to receive and exchange information, are now trying to push everybody to embrace AI.

I feel like it’s fine(ish) for work, and I agree, as long as you can show some evidence it’s either easing your work flow vs causing you more issues, it’s serving it’s purpose.

My concern is people who seem to get hooked on it like a drug, and refuse to acknowledge any evidence it’s causing more issues than actually helping them. Like they get really anxious/can’t function without it, and start trusting AI more than they trust their own ability to reason through a problem.

It’s especially concerning to me when people use it like this outside of work, like a life guide. It’s almost like the AI starts doing the living for them.

For example, when it comes to navigating relationships, AI can give some really bad advice because it’s lacking human connection and feeling/intuition. Those are pretty essential ingredients for decision making. If you decide to always default to AI to help you make decisions or solve problems, you’re forgoing the entire experience of having a human relationship.

That connection and the way you feel are kind of the whole point. Human relationships aren’t easy, sometimes they hurt, and people usually don’t respond well to only being acknowledged when the other person feels like interacting with them. But feelings and being able to understand the other person’s perspective even if you don’t agree with them, are kind of the entire experience of being human. Without that experience you might as well just not have human relationships, and some people seem to be ok making that sacrifice.

I’ve definitely noticed an increase in previously rational people now getting offended/defensive if you disagree with them. Then just refusing to have a conversation.

That’s always kind of been a universal human flaw, but it seems like AI has turned up the volume. It also seems like that kind of behavior usually was reserved for political disagreements. People avoid talking about politics bc people tend to have a sort of tribalistic/in-group vs out-group response.

Now it’s like the in-group is just one person and their self affirming mirror. Wtf can you even talk about with somebody who believes the all knowing mirror they carry around in their pocket could never steer them wrong?

It definitely seems like it’s making people less open to the possibility their opinion is incorrect.

Not that people haven’t always had a difficult time being wrong, but now AI can cite “research” to answer a question by summarizing information in a way the user wants to hear.

So if somebody is normally very rational, but starts relying on AI to summarize information and research for them to save time, the summary generated might be phrased in a way that ultimately misinterprets the information it’s using in an attempt to make the summary more appealing to the user.

So somebody might believe based on the summary’s misinterpretation of information that an opinion seems to be backed up by AI, and this is irrefutable evidence they’re correct.

There’s an even more fucked up joke in there somewhere about the shared bathwater still belonging to the same people

New Theory of Mind just dropped

His attitude towards women really makes me wonder why he now has to have his mommy-wife accompany him to Pentagon meetings?

Is it that he needs her to do his job for him and/or keep him from accidentally drunk texting classified military plans to the wrong journalists again?

Or is it like a control thing? Like a paranoia the hostage might try to escape or signal they’re in danger if he doesn’t keep an eye on her? Not to try and make any excuse for her for deciding to marry this guy, but he does have a history of domestic abuse and I really cannot comprehend wtf the logic is?

“Women are too emotional and incompetent to serve in the military,” but also, “I need to bring my wife to classified work meetings so that I can (supposedly) do my job leading the military”…?

Maybe I’m just too emotional to see the flawless logic? Or for expecting there to be logic in anything he does.

Booker T and the M.G.'s Universal Language

The album was dedicated to M.G.'s drummer Al Jackson, Jr., who was murdered in 1975;[2] the remaining members recruited Willie Hall to replace him on this album.[3] The group would not record another album for seventeen years, returning in 1994 with That’s the Way It Should Be.

There’s something so deep and unique about this album. Last Tango in Memphis is my favorite track, but this is one of the few albums of any genre I enjoy just putting on and listening to all the way through.

I went on a road trip through the mountains in central Colorado during the summer ~7ish years ago. I still don’t know what the smell actually was but every once in a while we would drive through certain parts of the mountains that had slightly sweet and clean/crisp smelling air. Never forgotten it.

The closest I can think to describe it would be something floral like freesia+ a woodsy Sequoia/evergreen combination.

⬅️Head like a hole

I am not totally opposed to AI. I think it has its uses.

However, AI generated art and especially music is not my thing. I kinda see how even that can have its uses but in general, there’s just something so hollow and ick about it when it’s meant to be the primary form of communication.

For example, if somebody used AI generated art on a slide in a presentation they were giving to help with audience communication, I would consider that like using clipart. Nobody’s going to judge you too hard for not creating your own art on every slide, but nobody’s going to be overly impressed with you using it either. It serves its purpose and nobody really thinks twice about it.

When corporations (who could easily afford to hire artists to generate much better art) use it to cut corners, maximize profit and sell a product, that deserves pretty harsh judgement imo and usually signals that’s a product/business I want to avoid.

When people use AI to make music as a joke, I don’t really care. When people use AI to make music and pretend they’re creating art it kind of makes me sick.

Listening to it feels so hollow and emotionless and I know people who rely on AI to generate that music for them, usually think it sounds great. To me it always gives me the same vibes as listening to that version of All I want for Christmas where it’s Maria Carey’s vocals played back through a midi.

It’s funny and it serves a purpose for that reason, but it’s truly uncomfortable to listen to it, and I definitely would never willingly listen to it in an attempt to enjoy music.

And tbh it’s pretty scary to watch people who develop a dependence on AI really have their creativity and talent sucked away so quickly. Hoping my own experience seeing it happen isn’t generalizable to the rest of humanity but it’s been like watching somebody become a pod person and a shadow of who they used to be.

I think it really comes down to asking yourself why do you enjoy music or art? Either creating it or listening/viewing something created by somebody else. Why does it exist in the first place?

Is it to serve a purpose and communicate messages for things like factual information and products? Or is it supposed to make you feel something?

I guess that’s a big part of it for me. I associate the uncomfortable feeling I get from AI music and art with an emptiness. Like if I was really sad, and I tried to listen to music I enjoy but found myself feeling the way I do when I listen to AI, I would worry I’m developing clinical depression.

Like AI generated art and music has figured out how to capture the feeling of a neurochemical imbalance in a bottle, and tried to gift it to the world.

I remember being ~17 and talking to a friend of mine about how we both agreed neither one of us would probably reach 25. Luckily we were wrong, but a lot of the people we grew up with unfortunately did end up dying really young.

The only other part Incan remember was her bringing up this one friend of ours in particular she also thought would die young, but only because he was too ridiculous for her to picture as an old man. He was still alive the last time I checked, but I remember her saying she predicted it would be some bizarre way that would end up in the news like ‘man bites carrot, carrot bites back.’

Yes

My ex-husband’s dad had Alzheimer’s and lost pretty much any kind of filter to say things the nice way. It was definitely sad in many ways, but in some ways it seemed to make him really easy going and kind of hilarious. I didn’t know him before he got sick, but he had been in the military and apparently he had always been kind of a hard ass no nonsense type on the surface.

He never remembered us when we would visit, and one of the last times we went to visit him before he passed away, we were all sitting together at a table in a fairly comfortable silence.

Out of nowhere about half way through the visit he kind of looked at me for a second but didn’t say anything. Then he turned to look at my ex and did the thing where you point with your thumb over the your shoulder without looking at whatever you’re talking about and just said “She’s got big tits.” in the most matter of fact way. Like he was pointing out a feature on a car he had noticed while walking by.

In any other situation that would have been highly offensive and awkward, but in that situation it became one of the funniest moments of my life.

I knew somebody who kept a can of pig brains on their ephys rig bc their mentor had always done the same to get their rig working and passed the tradition on to several mentees.

Idk how it worked for the other mentees but it didn’t seem to bring much luck to that rig.