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Nov 16, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how you can barely see what's even going on. Where even is this? Who are the people? Huh? You're too far away to really see the setup. Whole left side blank. Nothing here to grab onto. Image
I had the AI parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image and it was just way better. Instead of night, it's a gorgeous sunny day. It went ahead & moved the people outside. Everyone's smiling; this is a welcoming place. Image
This was a great start already, but what if we want to look deeper? What's this picture really *about*? That's where AI comes in. We parse the improved picture & create an even better one. Now the lights just pop. Everything more vibrant, modern. Just better all around. Image
What if we keep going? The AI is keeps showing an inexhaustible ability to add more details and nice little touches that enhance everything about the picture from the rather drab 'seed' pic we started from. Doggos, a city skyline. An incredible scene of friends. Comfort. LIFE. Image
Before/after. See what I mean? There's just no comparison. Which would you rather hang in your entryway? How did the AI 'know' exactly what the starting pic needed to complete it? Amazing.
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Oct 20, 2023
Using AI, I was able to take some old painting and make it better. First the painting. Notice how old and colorless it is. And you can't even see the girl's face. There's just no info to work with here. So blah. Image
But the AI was able to parse the image, & create a full description of it. Using that description, I had it regenerate an image that was way better. Just look at the vivid colors, and it also went ahead and turned the girl around. Image
This was a great start already, but still misses some details, smudgy like from a bad camera. So I ran it through the AI again. Amazing use of light now. Image
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Mar 22, 2023
I don’t think racism is good or anything but the concept of ‘anti-racism’ as we encounter it is so simplistic/univariate I find it hard to take seriously. Like something an autistic 7yo would come up with. ‘Racism is bad? Ok its inverse must be good. I understand the world now’
When I see Kendi types whose rhetoric is all about ‘anti-racism’, and then the edifice of bureaucracy that’s apparently sprung up downstream of it, it just comes across as So Stupid How Can Anyone Seriously Think This Way.

That is its power, that is why it wins.
'I would simply take all the things that are Racisms and wrap then inside a giant NOT( ) operation. Logically this and only this makes Racism go down'

If a small child were to say this, it would (maybe!) be sort of clever/precocious. You'd pat him on the head

These are adults
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Mar 20, 2023
IMHO scientists, politicians & ‘public health officials’ acted out of some combo of: panic, ego-trip, mindless groupthink, China-worship, hubris, simple corruption, & political gamesmanship. But they weren’t ‘purposely trying to make things worse’ so it’s all ok, it’s cool
For example when ‘public health experts’ signed that open letter that, during the absolutely necessary Lockdown, Going To BLM Protests was good actually (public health-wise), that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’. Just nakedly politically-motivated nonsense. So it’s fine
When they added the Wuhan Virus vaccine to the childhood vaccine schedule, that wasn’t ‘trying to make things worse’, it was merely to ensure that giant pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability for any people harmed or killed by the injection. So it’s cool
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Mar 19, 2023
ChatGPT, gimme 'python code that draws mario (the video game character)' Image
Van Gogh's Starry Night Image
something in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe Image
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Feb 3, 2023
Apparently LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT has been on for 24 seasons.

seems like a lot
I’ve seen zero episodes of this 24-season television program. Should I binge-watch?

in retrospect seems like a crime against humanity by comparison that HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET only had 7 seasons and, I think, a TV movie
I LOVE LUCY was on the air for 6 (six) seasons
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Feb 2, 2023
Am I the only person suspicious of the 'low-income housing' story whenever I see it? Who exactly do we imagine will be these 'low-income' people moving into 23 Oakwood Boulevard town houses in Atherton. The whole thing makes my spidey-sense tingle as some kind of arb.
Yes, yes, that's right, let the developer build townhouses, they are designated 'low-income', & what's going to happen is, here's who's going to move in there, see: a poor single mother w/5 kids who works 7 days/wk cleaning motel rooms. That's who we're meant to imagine, i guess?
It's not going to be, like, some 20something kid of a rich connected Atherton person who sheds assets to declare himself 'low-income' & daddy figures out how to navigate the paperwork & qualify for below-market rent. Nope not at all could never happen
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