2min chapter

S3E13: Heat Tech and Dating Updates with Delia Cai ("Central Places")

Asian Not Asian

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Happy on Instagram

I haven't been on Instagram that much this year and it's been great. Once you stop being on it, it's very easy to not be on it. I find that I go on Instagram almost like when something triggers me. And I can tell I can like tell that I'm like reaching for my phone. But yeah, I do understand also the feeling that you actually, when you have the downtime is when you're on it. You're both vulnerable to like what's out there. Exactly.

00:00

Transcript

Episode notes

Speaker 3

I tin to say it might imagine van go's suffering, looking at this awesome thing that was generated by the prompt of, giveme a bowl of soup. Hand s a portal to another dimension. As digitale art like this looks amazing. And i i this is, this fits that perfectly, and it's thought provoking, and it's fun to look at this. This, i don't know, thisis art, as far as i can tell. What's funny is, like we've, we've

Speaker 2

all converged on a conversation that we that we should be shocked that we're having in the first ace, which is, basically, is this better than the best living human artist or not? Which is not, like, like, i i've enjoyed sketching my entire life. I've practised sketching my entire life, all my sketches look like trash compared to, like, the worst thing that you see this thing put out right? Like, it's better. It's like, top point zero, one % human artist in terms of speed. Not even a contest, cause even the best human artist is going to take hours to make something that nice. So, likya, isn't it? You know, i whatd whatit it clearly gets what we want from it. Nnes in a superhuman way, by any definition of that word a.

Speaker 1

Do you remember, i think it was alazy eliizy that said a the whole, like, triangular lie thing. Yes, a sign of sepret lik. I just y again, it's like pointing out how the goald posts have moved. What is the light bulb thing? I believe, i believe he, yes, it's funny, as idon't emember the context, but i believe he was making some point about, like,

Speaker 2

am you know what a light bulb is? You know what a triangle is. And if i say triangular light bulb to you, then you kind of immediately imagine something. And t was interesting, as everybody sitting in this room might be imagining something slightly different, a or very different, even. Like, like, maybe you have a florescent bulb going in a triangle shape, or maybe you just have an incandescent bulb thatat is itself a pyramidal shape, et cetera. And it's like, well, you did that unconsciouslykike. Your brain just threw something up, and you didn't even think about the fact that it could have been otherwise, right? And it's that sort of like adlibing, am automatic generation of mental content that we do all the time. Honestly, was funny, as i think that was more and like a human rationality context, where he was talking about how our brain is populated with thoughts, and we don't actually think the fact that we have no idea where they came from a

Speaker 6

but

Speaker 1

also is at example of something tat was hard for an any existing agrits. Wo. And now, for some reason combine these things in my mind is like, if we could do that, then that would be impressive. Ike, well,

Speaker 5

it is oppressive. It is. I mean, that was, i

Speaker 4

think, the point i was tred to say before, and i was not articulating very well. It can do creativity as well, because there's an which creativity is randomness.