If it can’t be mad, sad, or horny, it can’t make art.

Same for comedy. I think a bit of trauma is required to be a good comedian.

I don’t believe all art comes from pain, some comes from pleasure — as in, it pleases the eye and such.

I was going to say food, but then I remembered every long-time cook can handle hot things barehanded because they've burned themselves so many times they've lost sensation in their fingertips.

What if you use AI to make childhood trauma?

That’s probably most of the billionaires here.

How do you think we got AI in the first place? Do you really think a bunch of happy people were like “I’m so happy, how can I be happier?”

Happy people are complacent. Every single thing you see, every innovation, every advancement by mankind… It’s all the product of someone’s misery that finally hit the tipping point into action, eventually producing results.

I’m sure that’s her son, wrapping their head around the entire concept of “all human advancement is driven by pain” can be a bit depressing, but I choose to look at it as “per adversitatem, sustinemus“ or “Through adversity, we endure”

Hating AI has become a meme.

I think the exchange ratio is posted somewhere on the fed. More trauma = better art. Where you actually trade it in at, I’m not entirely sure. I think it just sorta appears, like direct deposit.