Yeah same. Once I visited Niagara falls with my bro and we were kind of into poker at the time so we each took 100$ and went to the casino. Got fleeced by a texan looking old guy with a cowboy hat then we went back to our hotel lol. I have many vices but apparently gambling isn’t one of them.
I find it interesting because it forces lots of people to think at least superficially about how they would define consciousness and its boundaries.
Does it need a substrate? Does the substrate need to be constantly active? Does it need to be organic? Does it need to be able to do high level computation and thinking? Any answer you may give is unfalsifiable so it’s not like it’s a scientific subject anyway. It’s all vibes.
I like that it gives anyone the opportunity to wrestle with some hardcore metaphysics.
I think it’s always fine to use AI stuff as intermediary material, but almost never as finished product unless you specifically need something that feels samey and average.
For world building it’s pretty cool cause you can finally visualize that city that you’ve spent time imagining in detail, and use that to sharpen your description of it or spot incongruities. And for writing in general there’s nothing wrong with story boarding scenes and characters to ground your writing if you have more of a visual mind. Anything that helps you on your specific craft without bogging down the quality of the finished piece.
Also they are addicted to sycophancy. Now that they have a convincing yes man in their pockets they are uniquely vulnerable to AI psychosis.