I remember the naming contest. I must have been in 6th grade
I liked "Toronto Towers" for the alliteration (and reference to a tall thing), but as soon as I heard "Toronto Raptors", I was like "Well that's the one that's gonna win."
Raptors were unstoppably cool.

The war on protein is over, Will.

The soothing continues
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Sf...

It's okay. You WANT it to go up, so that it's an attractive payout for your bullies to bet AGAINST it and then not do it in order to collect. If I were you, I'd start stacking your dough on that car-flip (I'd even throw in that it catches on fire). See? Feel a little silly for being against this?

A creative person can produce unexpected / not-the-most-likely pieces of text, and know they're good, because they mean something to the artist.

Poetry, stories, jokes...

But an LLM wandering against "expected" is necessarily also wandering into "unconfident", mathematically to the same degree

I'm no expert, but I imagine that post-training / fine-tuning provides an opportunity to reward little "creative flourishes", like colourful descriptions and mild whimsy,

but it still can't *both* surprise you *and also* reward itself for doing so, since "novel" and "best fit" are directly at odds.

But does an uncreative person see the AI-generated bedtime story, and truly lack the ability to distinguish it from an actually good human-written story? Human-illustrated story?

I consider myself a creative person, and I'm not strongly anti-AI generally, but I think it's woefully bad at creativity

When an uncreative person sees AI generate a bedtime story for their child, I could see why they might think "this is better than what I could do."

(Is that really true? I'm sure they could improve quickly (take an improv class!), but I could see why they might think it)

And ALL 3 of those films got children's cartoon show treatments. There were 3 different Jim Carrey's in animated form on TV at once. Unprecedented.

It's got everything. I made this mashup a long time ago because that song and the Elton John song my dad was listening to around the same time sounded the same to me (complimentary)
youtu.be/V-SfBfbnPmc?...

Are you using Blender in VR? How's the experience?