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Comment by echelon

11 hours ago

Nothing meets my standards. Nothing.

No film, no music, no game.

There's good, but there is no truly magnificent to the level I burst into tears and see the face of God.

Come on people. Your standards are too low.

The solution to that is not to continue to seek consumption, but starting creation. Your consumption phase is done.

Producing things of value takes a lot of time and effort, you would be too busy to waste time lamenting about things outside of your control.

  • Thank you for this comment. I myself just got into vibe coding a few projects and anecdotally I've never been more excited about the future barring the economic implications of a world more reliant on AI. It feels as if the parent comment should take your recommendation to heart and start creating!!!

People are expecting too much out of sitting in a chair watching a screen, whether or not you're partially in control of what happens or just passively consuming. At some point, if you want to see the face of God, you need to go trek to the south pole, sail around the world, learn to scuba dive and spend time with sperm whales and orcas. I don't think it's the "creators" here who are deficient. No depiction of action can ever beat the real thing. And nobody needs to make the real thing. It's just there and you only have to go find it. At least for now. We're quickly bulldozing and paving the entire world to build more space for computers, so get it while it's still possible.

Listen to Bach, if that doesn’t work then your standards are not high but completely wrong.

Honestly sounds like you’re just depressed. I don’t even mean that in a mean way.

  • I think I've just got a bigger imagination than the kind of people who can sit down to enjoy Netflix.

    Anybody with a big imagination must feel trapped by mediocre content. Daydreams are often more enjoyable.