1. I feel like we’re at the edge of the cliff, entering into a artistic renaissance. Already the world is seeing so many hand-drawn and “imperfect” aesthetics popping up as all other kinds of traditional ones seem to have been mastered and the market flooded.

Though this aesthetic centers around rejecting this new-found mastery of craft by a non-human, there will be another enabled by the now-lifted ceiling of limitation. The one that sticks will be one that cannot be one-shotted, or have enough variance in minor prompt variation that makes it a unique expression.

2. The power you wield with AI can even be utilized for original creations, but that power is gradually diminished as you approach originality. All original creations have elements of the been-done, some more, some less, and it is that % of the been-done that determines how capable AI will be at helping you.

3. There is immense mastery in the craft of communication. Not just the conventional way we view it through speech but through all our senses and branched into all the ways those senses are interpreted by our intelligence: through music that evokes emotion, switches of association with culture we trip in people’s minds, and the mirror neurons fired when we see a performance.

I have a very surface-level understanding of what each of those are, but that is what I am a student of when I seek to understand the “overton window” and culture. It is delusional perhaps, even in a way that I consider it to be so, to expect myself to master each of those crafts when many incredible humans made it the purpose of their entire lives to master just one. But I think there’s a certain magic to be found in the interspersion of those, or optimistically, a common symphony I might find that lets me understand, express and judge those crafts comparable to those with a much-higher mastery of the individuals.

[final note: various versions of this jotbook have been lying in my drafts for a while, this is but a short clip from those as I’ve rushed to post in an effort to prevent myself from further procrastination-perfection. god hopes they come out soon.]