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At some point I simply decided I was going to give away 10K llamas. Well, it's now 10000 llamas later and I've noticed a few things.
- Yes, a person who has a track record of giving llamas is more likely to reciprocate when I give that person a llama. Some folks aren't into the llama trading business, so if you're into giving away llamas as a way to increase your own herd then that's you're best bet. Overall I've had a return rate of about 74% which isn't too bad, really. It isn't necessary to join one of the trading groups, either. Simply being on the look out when you roam the pages of DA works.
- I've come across a number of pages where people are expressing irritation if not outrage at other folks posting "thank you" on the first person's home page when the first person gave the second person a llama. Perhaps mores have changed, but when I was growing up I was taught that saying "thank you" when someone gives you something is an appropriate response. I would agree that the nicest way of saying thanks is to give a llama in return, but it seems weird to get pissy about someone acknowledging your gift in a conventional way. If you're one of the folks who feels the need to post a nasty message on your home page that's intended to discourage written "thank you"s, maybe you should consider doing something else with your time besides giving llamas. Preferably something constructive.
- There are an incredible number of folks out there who are into bronies. I simply had no idea they were so popular. Llama trading has been for me an occasion to roam in parts of DA I ordinarily wouldn't think of visiting and it's been a bit of an education in pop culture.
More AI doodling...
Continuing my experiments to see what comes of asking an AI engine to make an image in the style of someone else... Mona Lisa in the style of Piet Mondrian. Not quite what I was expecting; I was thinking it would render the general portrait in a bunch of squares/oblongs, sort of like a mosaic. Even this: falls rather short of what I was hoping would result. It's not nearly as abstract as it should be, IMO. But asking AI to make the Mona Lisa over in the style of Jackson Pollock was even more disappointing: the background may well resemble some of Pollock's work, but, again, the result was not nearly as abstract as it should be to actually fulfill the request. The synthesis between the original portrait and the requested style is, at best, incomplete. But then, maybe that's kinda the point. AI image generators don't really do abstractions, and they really don't "understand" the request; they synthesize an image based on whatever training set they had.
A question
Here's a piece of weirdness for you: a guy seems to think it's appropriate to go up to a stranger from behind, put his hand on her shoulder, and then say "thank you, ma'am, for wearing your hair the way it should be". WTF?? Do I really have to shave my head again just so I can buy groceries in peace?
random musing of the day
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the attitude toward medicinal herbs is that they are strong food and that food is weak/mild medicine. Which got me to thinking of the relationship between clothes and armor. Does it make sense to think of clothes as a form of armor? Relatively lightweight armor, to be sure, and designed more as a protection against sun/cold/heat/rain/wind than against arrows and bullets.
M3GAN
After having the trailer for the movie M3GAN pushed in front of my face countless times and after watching a few clips of it online it has occurred to me that the whole problem with creating an AI to protect someone from feeling lonely is the premise that being alone is such a catastrophe. Yes, feeling lonely sucks. But it's not a catastrophe. And there are far worse possibilities.
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I once got harshly reprimanded for saying thank you which surprised me a great deal. I was new at DA then and I was just happy that someone had visited my page and given me a llama. Little did I know about the llama trade and how they were just doing it for selfish reasons. Since then I just send them back without saying anything.