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The best rain smell is in the southwestern US like New Mexico and Arizona. The creosote bushes all release their scent into the air and it's the most refreshing thing ever. It's worth visiting the area for a few weeks during Monsoon season just to get a chance at experiencing this. You have to be near the desert though, not in an urban area.
So you mean our simulation doesn't bother calculating the state of empty areas on which there are few or no other dependent states which depend in a statistically significant way upon that empty state?
My method was to close my eyes then open them somewhere "random" on my screen and the first letter my eyes focused on, I checked whether it was a low (left) or high (right) letter. I'm aware that the distribution isn't this simple but that's what I used. This worked okay for a while and the machine was only predicting me at 43%, then I tried using just my brain and it started winning.
A person good at mental arithmetic could memorize a small-state PRNG and get good results but I couldn't personally do this. I wonder if this has any strategic advantages in any areas of life. Maybe poker?
Randomly generated AI art is just a layer of abstraction on top of generative art. A more human form of AI created art is AI-assisted art. Art created by a human using AI tools to sculpt the art into their image which they couldn't otherwise manifest.
-People used to barter raw goods
-Then people used placeholders instead of goods to barter, like precious gems or sea shells
-Then people used gold coins
-Then people used government approved gold coins
-Then people used government approved fiat currency backed by gold
-Then people used government approved fiat currency backed by nothing
-> Now comes the fancy technology
-Then people don't even use paper anymore they use credit cards, essentially moving numbers around in files or computers
-Then people don't even use credit cards anymore they use accounts like PayPal
...but all of these are fundamentally transferring around fiat USD currency
Well the next iteration is for them to skip fiat and transfer around digital currency so no governments control you at all. Cryptocurrencies are truly global currencies, the only ones that will ever matter. There have been proposals in the past to introduce global fiat currencies, but that's an age long gone - it's too late for anyone to bother with anything but cryptocurrencies
They are decentralized, non-censorable (just make a new wallet, buy crypto in person, then use Tor), deflationary (fixed supply = rising in price over time, the opposite of fiat)
The list of benefits goes on and on. It's a foregone conclusion that cryprocurrencies are the future, it's only a matter of time. The technology is not yet mature but once someone makes a venmo-like app that the normies can use to easily utilize crypto, it's game over for every other system, period
Swiss bank account on your flash drive, swiss bank account in your BRAIN if you memorize your wallet seed phrase. The utility is indescribably large and we will have to fundamentally change our entire government and taxation system to be consumption based (sales taxes not income taxes) once this becomes mainstream, there is no stopping it
Academia is significantly behind the times in this area
Artists like Autechre and related links in this thread have been doing this for years using Max/MSP, to a much greater effect (albeit it's apparently a hybrid where the humans are at the "control panel" of the generative engine guiding it in the direction they want)
That's a cool observation. You could then forget about this whole event and remember it again at the age of 90 and write another comment saying "I remember back when this was discovered"
Human bodies are very chaotic in their responses to stimuli due to the ability to react to old old memories...