Tuesday, February 24, 2026

On the complete lack of coolness in real life


They've been making fascinating AI videos recently, starting with fake movie trailers, followed by "actual" scenes from fake movies.
Characters are seen in highly dramatic situations acting super cool.
The thing is, I myself haven't acted one thousandth as cool as that for even one second. These scenes have nothing to do with whatever can be considered real life, but are cultural epiphenomena like hieroglyphics or something.

Reality has always been fundamentally boring.
There are no anomalies in reality, not a single one. Nothing supernatural has ever happened - or even something too advanced, like alien civilizations existing within our light cone in the observable universe, or Illuminati conspiracies secretly ruling our society, etc.
Well there may be some weird things in there being no weird things; like how the most important things can't be talked about. Human society uses ruthless conceptual pruning to simplify its interactions.

AI is super impressive, but chess software was already totally invincible back in 1987 on my Commodore 128. I could also get a 64 bit 2-color sprite to slide across the screen, but had to draw the pixels myself.
OK, so those flying dragon videos are something else though. But is it original?
Yes, but only in the way that communism could sometimes be called original, back in the twentieth century.
The originality comes from quantity having a quality all its own.

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