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Michael Gingras (lilfrog)

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Great question I’m curious to know the answer to it too. This feels like such a common “crypto solves this” take but isn’t specific about how
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thinkin about this from @4156 I can't remember a time when the revenue was ever saved are we doomed to be stuck at the scale of skateparks? Is this bad?
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Depends what you mean by relevant. If all of knowledge work gets automated away and the labor has to flow elsewhere, it's probably easier to upskill into plumbing than it is to upskill into medical field, at a minimum because the medical field loves to create artifical scarcity and refuses to admit more people to school despite constant high demand. So, I think both medical and plumbing feel "safer" than design or programming, but plumbing feels more prone to being saturated quickly if KW labor needs to reskill
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It was this photo
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maybe I'm dense but I'm someone who say this? haha I don't get how it's not true .... hasn't it always been about the quality of your ideas? But now there is less "friction" with executing on the ideas, so there's less room for say someone with lukewarm ideas but the ability to execute on them to succeed https://benn.substack.com/p/the-end-of-yc
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I don't hate this, but fear the day that you can say "make LOTR in studio ghibli style" The nuance for me is that this still took 9 hours and genuine effort. To reference the substack you shared, maybe the "context" here is that this person is clearly a big fan of these two works and is combining them. Whereas the mass ghibli on the TL yesterday didn't really feel the same
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Yes the point of nuance here is that using an AI to make a ghibli thing in 5 seconds is not elaborate fan art
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Perhaps temporarily, superficially. I’d be happy to be wrong. I fear that for many “studio ghibli” is just a word you type in to get a certain art style without even acknowledging that there’s an entire actual studio behind it
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I'd agree to disagree and say that most people who are finding fun in the studio ghibli style transfer probably dgaf about going any deeper than "nice image, I like it"
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https://x.com/cpaik/status/1905234084642640004
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https://x.com/cpaik/status/1905234084642640004
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Spending dozens of hours recreating a SG fan art would be an endearing gesture of fandom. Spending 5 seconds to have the model spit something out is devoid of work and doesn't feel like a genuine act of appreciation for the OG. Reminds me of what it would feel like to get a letter from Theo's letter writing service in the movie Her. If you believe that just getting a nice love letter from someone regardless of how it was created is equal to someone spending hours crafting their own personal love letter to you, then yes I can see how the ghibli-ification feels fine
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good take that summarizes how I've been feeling better than I can. I agree it's been fun and genuinely shocking how great the model is now. But some part of it doesn't sit right for me still and the "everyone's just having fun" feels off even though I agree everyone is having fun (myself included) https://x.com/HipCityReg/status/1905245869609197773
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Is this true? Or if you come up with a genuinely unique new art style, will the machine not have internalized it, thus making it impossible for others to recreate quickly? OTOH if you mean inventing some novel AI style that others can replicate with a prompt, can you tell me again who "invented" the chessboard aesthetic that was trending about a year ago? I think this is more like "15 minutes of fame-ification" for creatives
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https://x.com/cpaik/status/1905019121328177189 I don't think it's so simple
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https://x.com/cpaik/status/1905019117326729546 thoughts?
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Appreciate what you’ve done and your earnestness for nouns!
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Was this one of the fc x nouns recipients? My bad, I remember vividly at the end of the 3 months nounspace was the only one that was really active. Gabriels thing was live but didn't amount to much, and I had no idea of the status of the third recipient.
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I agree, definitely. Maybe we just need to vet people more. I’m ok with a genuine effort that’s a miss, but not very happy when we fund 3 fc clients and 2 legitimately do not do any work whatsoever.
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Definitely some balance between wanting to give people opportunities and paying them well with being frustrated by outcomes and not feeling like ROI has been there fully. Tech is probably the domain I can speak best to, I think the 300k FC round is a good example. $for$ that probably wasn’t “worth it”. Only 1/3 actually got built so immediately that’s 200k pissed away. The last client nounspace is a genuine effort and I love to see that but I don’t think it became the beacon of nouns x fc that folks hoped for when funding that prop. As a result, people become jaded about tech props, and leads to things like base paint team offering to explore a few ideas in nouns for a modest amount (50k) and they get laughed out of the room. Huge miss imo to fund work class talent with proven track record. So we should fund great talent fairly but also be okay with more accountability and scrutiny
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