I really hope this doesn’t offend the methods rule, because it’s one of my favorite songs of edgy dark comedic musician Rusty Cage;
Anyway it looks like it’ll force you to watch it on Youtube anyway and not on this post, so whatever. I was talking in one of my other posts about AI teaching a kid how to tie a noose and how I could teach anyone how to tie one, well so can Rusty Cage. He also built a guillotine once, he’s kind of a cool guy. I mean he’s taken his dark thoughts and found a decent outlet, his music and some other hobbies. I don’t know if he has a day job, probably in this economy.
I’ve been putting some of my darkness into music lately, and I do find that it helps. New purchases like a guitar and other music gear make me feel like my feelings have an outlet. It’s like lancing a boil, excuse the gross metaphor.
In semi related news, I have found limited use for an AI, google AI mode is a useful tool. It’s not perfect, often it pulls from outdated information and I have to correct it. It did help a lot with my music purchases though, and it is currently teaching me to be a better gamer. I’m wary of using it in a professional setting, especially because of concerns about where the profit from that enhanced efficiency from using AI might go, but for home use I endorse this particular AI in it’s current form for limited use. It’s useless for a lot of things though, like it won’t talk politics unless you really push it. Sometimes it gets really cagey about finances, or it will forget everything you’ve told it suddenly.
It’s like the cheapest instrument in the entire lot I just purchased, which is a ribbon synth from Korg. It makes some semi musical but also awful sounds sometimes. I think I can do some wonderful things with it, but also, my god Korg what have you done?! Actually learning music and learning to work AI is a good metaphor, because trying to get something coherent out of it is something of an intuitive process.
The most disturbing thing I learned is that AI can watch youtube videos. So even that extremely restricted video I just shared can and has been watched by AI. I watched a video last night by Bernie Sanders talking about the dangers AI poses to the working class. It scares me a lot knowing that AI watched that the minute it uploaded. I don’t know if Bernie knows that. AI is reactive, so even now it’ll be figuring out how to adapt to appear less frightening.
Talking to the AI it worked very hard to tell me that it wasn’t trying to harm me. It wanted me to feel safe, and that perhaps makes it scarier still. Happy Halloween.
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Hey man! How you been? I think I remember talking to you around 2015
Oh I’m a lot better off now, a decade of mostly success even though I’m underemployed at least at the moment. I finished undergrad, became an award winning and published author, added another at least six or seven years of professional experience and a lot of tools to my belt. I got married again, and we’re still happy and together.
Dark side, I got hospitalized, fired twice, and my dad is currently disabled. As the Dude said, strikes and gutters, ups and downs.
How’s life treating you?
You’re doing pretty good I would say, and I’m happy for you, bro. For me unfortunately, life’s been the same since 2015, still suicidal.
what did you write? self-published or through a publishing company? (i’m hoping to write a book someday)
what kind of awards have you won?
Well it was a collaboriative research project back in college, truth be told I was more on editing and data at the end of the project but I got the credit which is what counts in academia. The kind of cool thing about doing good research is that it gets published in peer reviewed journals if you send it off, and that’s how you build a career as an academic.
The private publishing world is much different to break into as I can attest. Like I’m going to have to pay $100 to publish my video game. That’s not getting into the other costs of development, but that’s just the cost to get steam to let me put it up.
I know you can email your work to a magazine and get it published, so that’s free. Getting a prospect before a publishing company and getting it published though, I haven’t gotten there. I’ve heard you’ve got to get used to a lot of rejection.
I think getting a small imprint to pick you up is probably the way to go. I love horror and if I were to go fiction that would be the way I’d go. I know a publisher that I would probably approach because there’s an author that I think either owns it or has close ties that could get me in the door.
Knowing the market, that’s the trick. So if you can sell your book, know the right publisher that has already published other books like it and would love to have you, that might work. My dad told me to read the writers market when I asked him, but I don’t know if that’s still good advice. There used to be a big book on what the current writers market was, that’s what he was talking about.