Our mutual friend H.D. Miller sent me here. I love the illustration! If only wind farms in real life looked like the above: a few tall, slender, graceful edifices dotting the landscape here and there, turning it into a futuristic postcard-Netherlands--instead of the way wind farms actually look, with the windmills packed together by the thousands in death-phalanxes marching across the landscape killing everything in sight (i.e. birds and the view) and not actually generating much useful power. I can't enter the contest because I am still too shocked at the way things are now compared to 10 years ago. Back in 2012 things didn't look too bad, and it looked as though they'd click along over the next decade with some welcome improvements in technology: safer cars, better versions of the then-nascent iPhone, social media as pleasantly conducive to enhanced free speech and lively interaction instead of the heavily censored corporate-state propaganda apparatus that it is now. No "trans" weirdism in 2012, no CRT in grade school, no universal reign of dreary aesthetic grotesquery and ugliness everywhere you look (Lizzo may rock the flute--but can't she for the love of heaven put on a black concert dress like other female classical performers instead of prancing around in a thong, especially since when you weigh 600 pounds, you are not, I'm sorry, the body beautiful). I couldn't have guessed in the slightest in 2012 that this is what we'd have now--so how can I guess right now what we'll have in 2032? The future is unpredictable, and it may be that AI will transport us into realms of beauty and meaningfulness--or it may not. Virtual reality didn't do much for us over the past ten years. Meanwhile, I've got to say, though, that I love Elon Musk. I have a photo of myself taken in front of his Space-X rocket in Hawthorne. But look at our culture's attempt to destroy him! So I'm eager to see what others do with this contest: should be fun.
Our mutual friend H.D. Miller sent me here. I love the illustration! If only wind farms in real life looked like the above: a few tall, slender, graceful edifices dotting the landscape here and there, turning it into a futuristic postcard-Netherlands--instead of the way wind farms actually look, with the windmills packed together by the thousands in death-phalanxes marching across the landscape killing everything in sight (i.e. birds and the view) and not actually generating much useful power. I can't enter the contest because I am still too shocked at the way things are now compared to 10 years ago. Back in 2012 things didn't look too bad, and it looked as though they'd click along over the next decade with some welcome improvements in technology: safer cars, better versions of the then-nascent iPhone, social media as pleasantly conducive to enhanced free speech and lively interaction instead of the heavily censored corporate-state propaganda apparatus that it is now. No "trans" weirdism in 2012, no CRT in grade school, no universal reign of dreary aesthetic grotesquery and ugliness everywhere you look (Lizzo may rock the flute--but can't she for the love of heaven put on a black concert dress like other female classical performers instead of prancing around in a thong, especially since when you weigh 600 pounds, you are not, I'm sorry, the body beautiful). I couldn't have guessed in the slightest in 2012 that this is what we'd have now--so how can I guess right now what we'll have in 2032? The future is unpredictable, and it may be that AI will transport us into realms of beauty and meaningfulness--or it may not. Virtual reality didn't do much for us over the past ten years. Meanwhile, I've got to say, though, that I love Elon Musk. I have a photo of myself taken in front of his Space-X rocket in Hawthorne. But look at our culture's attempt to destroy him! So I'm eager to see what others do with this contest: should be fun.