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One weird factor of modernity to me is that a lot of teens are depressed because AI has made them feel they can never compete or become skilled enough at something they love for it to matter--

--while most of the artists I know in my age group, we were the best at art in our dumb little towns where we grew up and didn't realize until we went out into the wider world and met other artists that we weren't special and that being "the best" is a sham and an illusion created by markets.

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I have 2 idea nuggets stuck in my craw for life, one from an awful high school debate class, you gotta define your terms or youre talking about nothing, and from a job in standardized tests, someone asked "how do you know youre measuring anything?" and answer was "you dont!"

Combined with the IP-brained corporate cheerleader masses who love talking about how one game is "better" than another in unquantifiable nonsense metrics or whatever... its a tough spot and as usual nobody is interested in nuance