OpenAI's roon argues compelling human-made stories harm society, advocating instead for mediocre AI content

@andrewmccalip ‘the gods envy us because we are doomed..’

@tszzl weird inversion coming though. the machines will spend eternity watching us. human life is the only show they can't generate. we're not the consumers, we're the content.

@tszzl entertainment is one of the most fundamentally human things there is. this is just an excuse to try and justify AI ruining everything

“story telling is human” yes obviously but there is very little human about modern entertainment and its sheer capability. don’t argue with me read that whatever dfw book

@tszzl If you read them carefully, most old tales are telling you to do something with your life. They're telling you that immense and brash effort can pay off.

@tszzl Real life is a movie that lasts just long enough for you to realize most of its heroes are caricatures of what they claim to be. Entertainment delays this realization.

@tszzl but isnt telling stories is one of the most human things you can do?

@tszzl This is why I don’t watch tv or movies. They are designed as a substitute for an inner life.

@tszzl id rather talk with ai all day instead of a human

@tszzl *not all movies but the general ritual of sitting in front of a screen for 2-3 hours feels like torture to me most of the time. I like being in my own mind

@tszzl “The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital.

@tszzl stories are a kind of compression necessitated by the inability of any one person to experience everything in the flesh. High quality stories amplify humanism, they don’t diminish it

@tszzl the best books ever written have probably cost civilization a few thousand lives in aggregate. people who disappeared into dostoevsky instead of doing something

@tszzl unslop not going well?

@tszzl I had to think about this one... 🤔

I thought, "What is entertainment?" If he means screens, yeah probably. Coliseums, probably. But... Stories? Art? Music? ....Is it entertainment-singularity that's the problem?

@tszzl Good tweet but horrifically wrong hopefully one day I'm suffeciently motivated to explain why

@tszzl by the same logic we should be thankful for marvel movies, though

@tszzl Something something negative capability.

@tszzl What does this have to do with Iran? Wtf

@tszzl true. this is why i dont allow myself to enjoy things