Like trash-producing? Not “wasteful”, but “trash-ful”?

Beyond strong:

“Y’all small minded niggas is Napoleon”. – Kanye

Strongman

Stronger is better:

Anybody on 100% carnivore beef and lamb diet, with daily weight training and physical exercise will get fit.

Nuances:

1. No sugars, fake or real.
2. No alcohol, no beer, no wine no spirits etc.
3. No weed
4. Sleep 8-12 hours a night.
5. No vegetables, fruits, starches carbs etc.
6. No sauces — eventually they all have sugar, starch, or some sort of weird sweeteners.

Simple fitness ideas

Buy a very heavy sandbag, the 400 pounder either on rogue fitness or titan.fitness

You can just fill up the sandbags at the local park, the local playground with the playground sand. Have fun picking it up, throwing it around etc.

Perhaps there is wisdom in this hardheaded, insane stubbornness!

My life is fitness! So is Seneca’s.

For example, it seems that Seneca loves going to new parks! It always awakens a new type of genius within him. Perhaps we adults should also be the same.

All athletes — steroid users?

Simple — 400 pound sandbag training, walking it out lifting it carrying and throwing it, and aiming to eat at least 5-6 pounds of beef a day!

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Garage is good:

Played around with ChatGPT 4 this morning, and was very impressed. DALL-E 3 is also a great addition.
AI THOUGHTS >

Why Photographers Still Matter

I’ve observed that ChatGPT as well as DALL-E is very fascinating, and also great for creativity.

However, an interesting nuance I have discovered:

The images that they could produce however, is still limited to illustrations, vector images, drawings and paintings etc. It cannot yet make a realistic looking photograph.

I think there is something very very beautiful about the photographs, why? Capturing a moment in time I think is our great joy. Also some simple pragmatics include the ease of printing out photos, and being able to mount them on your wall or inside a frame, something that does not require batteries, charging, LCD screens etc.

The best way to think about AI is that it is essentially like Siri

All of this nonsensical talk of artificial intelligence going to take our jobs in our creativity is silly. Why? The reason people like to do art is because it is fun!

A simple thought is I don’t really think that artist should chase making money, instead, we should do it for autotelic purposes, fulfilling some sort of inner joy in ourselves!

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The best way to think about AI, open AI, ChatGPT etc. is that it is a complement to us, and an augmentation of us, rather than a replacement.

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Automate the boring stuff

This is very very popular online course by udemy titled “automate the boring stuff”. The basic idea is that perhaps the reason of technology is that it helps us eliminate tedious, time-consuming tasks in our everyday life.

Example, my insane joy with the instant pot as well as the air fryer (chefman). Why? It is like having a cooking slave; to be able to instant pot food insanely quickly and effectively is such a great joy, instead of having to tediously cook it myself and monitor it. Do you remember that old commercial, “set it and forget it?” Yeah that’s good.

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What are the tedious things we could cut out of photography?

Photography is great, but I have observed that there are certain tedious things. For example, having to trudge through all of our photographs in order to choose the best one. This is a huge issue, because let us say that you shoot 1000 photos a day. Technically photography is my profession, and even I don’t have enough time to go through and review all my photos in a single day! My simple vision for the next generation of arsbeta.com is simple:

Dragon drop, or from your iPhone or iPad, quickly dragon drop or select 1000 photos, and ARS BETA AI can help you cool down to your best photo or three photos or 10 photos etc.

Essentially there would be some sort of slider, which would actually enable this to be possible. For example, the slider filter could allow you to cull down to 100 photos, 50 photos, 25 photos etc.

If you can help me code this shoot me an email at eric@erickim.com

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Why AI?

I think by far, the most useful use case of AI would definitely be in regards to tedious driving in stop and go traffic. For example, I think the only reason to get a Tesla is in for all of that electric car stuff, but rather, the promise of a car that can use the noise of driving on the 405 or the 10 during rush-hour traffic. Or even tedious stopping go traffic when driving around Los Angeles local.

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It seems at the end of the day, irregardless of how advanced AI becomes, everyone is going to want human feedback. Why?

It seems in our human nature to desire recognition from other human beings. For example, let us consider the Academy Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio etc.; what is it that they all want? Recognition from their peers. Inter pares.

I think the best way to market ChatGPT is to brand it like it will be your centaur. That is, certain things which are interesting include:

1. ChatGPT 4 can actually write code!!!
2. ChatGPT 4 can give you feedback on your photos or your artwork

Essentially the basic idea is that ChatGPT is not going to us it, rather, augment us, make us more creative, and also, cutting out the advertisements.

I think ChatGPT should really focus on this; and also open AI: that we are sick and tired of all these annoying ads. That if you subscribe to ChatGPT premium, you can live a beautiful ad-free existence.

For example, one insanely annoying thing is that it seems that whenever I’m just trying to find a simple recipe to cook something in the instant pot etc., I have to scroll through all this annoying “content marketing“, about the history of the food blah blah blah. This is insanely annoying. I want you to just cut to the chase!

This is where CHAT GPT is great, it cuts to the chase in a nice numbered bullet form list rather than all of this unnecessary filler on top.

A very simple way we could optimize our lives is this: optimize that which is conducive to walking.

For example, your clothes. I’ve discovered that even wearing the standard shorts is not conducive to walking. Why? All the fabric gets in your way.

Reduce.

The more dense, condense, condensed, the better!

arsbeta.com — the next generation incoming!

Pretty cool.

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Zen Dojo. Tatami mat it up baby!

Also spacing. And white space, buffer.

400 pound sandbag baby!

The last interesting thinker alive?

Garage thoughts, garage band, garage photos, garage entrepreneurship, garage gym?

wer— to protect, to defend, to cover.

I think the most critical thing to consider is that Apple, iOS is probably the best photo integration on the planet. Yet, it seems that the critical issue here is that there is no more innovation.

I have some ideas:

First, build and bake in some sort of automatic photo rating app and filter within the Apple Photos app. For example, everyone has a quadrillion photos in their iPhone camera roll, and no effective way to filter their best photos.

The next idea is in regards to the iPhone camera: no no no, people don’t care for video. And nobody finna use their iPhone or iPhone Pro to shoot cinema. The future for the iPhone camera is still photos.

My suggestion for the iPhone camera is create some sort of AI assisted compositional tool. People want to make better photos, but need some sort of guidance. Throw in some gridlines, the golden rectangle, Fibonacci spirals etc.

Also something interesting from ChatGPT 4; it can automatically give you feedback on your photos! Thus, in the Apple Photos app, create some sort of swipe up mechanism that can automatically give you a text based response on the composition of your photos.

Also, the ability to add grit and grain to your photos, especially in the “noir” mode. There should just be a simple slider under the styles portion in which you could adjust and add a percentage of simulated film grain to your photos.

1. First and foremost, no no no no — AI ain’t gonna take our jobs or whatever nor destroy the planet.
2. Centaur approach; get chat gpt to write your code and guide you, and you do the supervising!

No more Google

I hate ads. Everyone does. Now I don’t gotta Google nothing— just ask chat gpt! More beautiful, simpler interface. Even questions about the typeface for Apple!

Even though all these people like to complain how Apple such don’t they realize that from a simple and user experience, Apple and iOS is phenomenal because it makes signing up for digital money-based subscriptions so easy and also, seamless? Also, easy to cancel monthly subscriptions!!

What truly motivates people to upgrade their iPhone? The camera!!

Reduce.

Just pay for the new chatGPT4!!

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Pretty cool:

No more B.S. “content marketing” or hyperlinks I gotta trudge through when studying stuff like this!

Money ain’t the issue— it is time, having to wait, and dealing with other people?

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