I look forward, should this prove correct, to the explainers from Quanta, Numberphile, etc.

The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place

You're right, you just can't make memories without injecting ink into your skin.

Right, which tells us that what was fun about it was feeling cool for doing something unusual.

> Progress in AI is happening faster than ever before

Is it happening faster than it was six months ago? a year ago?

That's interesting, but how many people are actually going to just scroll and watch these (thereby generating ad revenue)?

They don't have ads, it's paid members only. You can see other people's images, including the prompts, so it's an interesting way to learn what works, and to mutate prompts and images. There are many ways of recombining or breeding images.

They have an onboarding flow where you rate images and it tunes into your aesthetic preferences. You can create mood boards for specific projects.

So I would say it's more community than social media.

Yeah, and definitely not AITok

If it's ad-supported or I'm seeking donations, I only want people reading it on my website. Why would I want people to access it through an LLM?

His notes, of course, were assembled by his producers, based on the notes & writing of those academics (and others, I'm sure, thus the weekly reading list). He sometimes made reference to this, saying things like "Well you said it in your notes; what did you mean?"

A nontrivial plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" (1993)

Wow, why don't I remember that. Guess it's time to pull that down off the shelf again.