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May. 23rd, 2025 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavhonestly have a pretty fun laid back and fun long weekend ahead ~
* lots of drawing! there's a few smaller fire emblem related pieces i'm trying to get my artistic pipes cleaned out with before making the final push on some collaboration work (anthology, another short nsfw FE comic, some background work with a bud). back half of this year's already lined up with said straight-up dream jobs so i'm quite excited to get to them after i print this one gunter/corrin comic.
* going to meet up with a doujin circle broski tomorrow for lunch again ~! <3 likewise slept in for ages today and managed to rescue a skink (common lizard around here) that was trapped inside the house. he lost his tail but was quite excited and wriggly to be outside again, and didn't seem all that worse for the wear.
* accidentally read up on Jane Jacobs via a book review - she's so interesting as a lady economist/urban planner way back when that was predominantly a male-dominated business, and wasn't afraid to say thoughts that threw all kinds of groups in a tizzy. that line doesn't do her justice but i deeply enjoyed reading the book review and that she pushed back against both the whole McCarthy censorious era of the US government and the dudebros in her industry.
* on a more melancholic note i was reading a different article about an AI researcher/ethicist gaming out what was going to happen in the next decade and just, deeply bothered at a (paraphrased) quote of his when he was responding to a question about what he'd teach his children now that the world's changed by AI, and it was something falteringly along the lines of teaching virtues now for the sake of them versus having always taught virtues because they were for work. and i just. ??????? record scratch. i had to reread that line a few times to make sure i didn't read it wrong. just feels ... sad that the point of virtues is missed that much?
honestly i was telling my mom yesterday that the point i'll really start getting concerned about ai on a physical level is when it's starting to seamlessly work with biotechnology as implants and do what it's supposed to do there. genuinely enhanced hearing/eyesight/motor skills. to me, then it's a threat for control reasons in a level that's hard to throw a killswitch or disentangle. i mean, i'm biased about this since i have (and have had) a pretty cutting-edge hearing implant since i was two, lol - but it just ain't there on a reliable level and right now still consistently feels like it's a chatbot hooked up to a suite of apps versus pure text-based chatbots a few decades ago like omegle. the computer is still ultimately in a box and this might be a very american/southern way of looking at it, but you can still ultimately shoot the computer in a box with a gun XD
* lots of drawing! there's a few smaller fire emblem related pieces i'm trying to get my artistic pipes cleaned out with before making the final push on some collaboration work (anthology, another short nsfw FE comic, some background work with a bud). back half of this year's already lined up with said straight-up dream jobs so i'm quite excited to get to them after i print this one gunter/corrin comic.
* going to meet up with a doujin circle broski tomorrow for lunch again ~! <3 likewise slept in for ages today and managed to rescue a skink (common lizard around here) that was trapped inside the house. he lost his tail but was quite excited and wriggly to be outside again, and didn't seem all that worse for the wear.
* accidentally read up on Jane Jacobs via a book review - she's so interesting as a lady economist/urban planner way back when that was predominantly a male-dominated business, and wasn't afraid to say thoughts that threw all kinds of groups in a tizzy. that line doesn't do her justice but i deeply enjoyed reading the book review and that she pushed back against both the whole McCarthy censorious era of the US government and the dudebros in her industry.
* on a more melancholic note i was reading a different article about an AI researcher/ethicist gaming out what was going to happen in the next decade and just, deeply bothered at a (paraphrased) quote of his when he was responding to a question about what he'd teach his children now that the world's changed by AI, and it was something falteringly along the lines of teaching virtues now for the sake of them versus having always taught virtues because they were for work. and i just. ??????? record scratch. i had to reread that line a few times to make sure i didn't read it wrong. just feels ... sad that the point of virtues is missed that much?
honestly i was telling my mom yesterday that the point i'll really start getting concerned about ai on a physical level is when it's starting to seamlessly work with biotechnology as implants and do what it's supposed to do there. genuinely enhanced hearing/eyesight/motor skills. to me, then it's a threat for control reasons in a level that's hard to throw a killswitch or disentangle. i mean, i'm biased about this since i have (and have had) a pretty cutting-edge hearing implant since i was two, lol - but it just ain't there on a reliable level and right now still consistently feels like it's a chatbot hooked up to a suite of apps versus pure text-based chatbots a few decades ago like omegle. the computer is still ultimately in a box and this might be a very american/southern way of looking at it, but you can still ultimately shoot the computer in a box with a gun XD
