If society isn't built around competition and exploitation, the usage of AI can be limited to renewable energy. Whereas now, every gram of hydrocarbon and uranium will be burned to win the race for global domination.

Hate this dumbass meme. All of the worlds datacenters only use like 3% of our energy. You can do more by skipping one shopping weekend than entire lifetime of AI use.

What market structure is a good model for decentralization? Socialism generally involves a central authority deciding on resource allocation, and most other approaches also have an emphasis on centralization.

There are some really good quotes from famous painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saying that photography is devoid of all artistic merit, and that it should never and will never be taken seriously as an art form. Every time a new tool comes along, the art community freaks out. It happened with the invention of the camera, it happened with the invention of digital art software, and we are currently watching it happen with AI. Eventually, it'll just be another tool in an artists toolbox.

To avoid panting with black is a common truism for traditional painters that will save your saturation in the lower values of your painting. When painting a naturalistic scene in a traditional medium, you are in a loosing war against the cost of saturation. (saturated pigments tend to be more expensive.) Ivory black and lamp black are very cheap pigments, hence the mixture of black paints tends to have more pigment vs medium. Also, Pigments lose saturation over time. so vibrant paintings you made 10 years ago can start to become grey.

The area of your painting where the saturation loss will become more daunting is the shadows. They tend to be a cool temperature and have a lower value and saturation. This is one of the reasons why it's dangerous , especially for a student to use black; And this is the reason why a lot of traditional painters plot their shadows with washes of earth pigments: Burnt sienna, burn umber etc.

The other reason is convenience: Leaving you some space at the bottom and top of the value structure for final touches. Once you reach the floor value of pure black it's hard to go back up, especially if the rest of the values are down with that black. Same for white. If the key of your painting is too high, it's hard to add any detail without just burning the rest of your picture. So keeping some floor and headspace for the final details can save you a lot of headaches! And this is especially true for black paints since they tend to have so much pigment in their mixtures

In digital media it can also be beneficial to avoid blacks, or at least clip-mask them into a black with a little temperature in them at a early stage of coloring. I can't really explain the reason for this exactly, but neutrals and especially black and white have a lot of visual pull in a monitor that displays thousands or millions of colors. Just adding a hint of temperature to your blacks and whites can make them gentler on the eye and keep the colors from becoming muddy*.

(*Muddy colors are a result from disorganized value and temperature structure between your lights and shadows.)

So your teacher was right, he was just either too lazy of busy to explain all that shit!

Edit: I remember my very cruel first semester painting teacher gave us an assignment of making value swatches for 15 hue-degrees of the color wheel. We had to make 10 swatches of low saturation greys (grey mixed with a hint of color pigment) From the lightest we could manage to the blackest. He would make us repeat the whole set if one swatch was "too saturated" or if a value scale was off. IT WAS HELL. I am not sure if that exercise was intended to make us despise black and white tubes or give us an idea of how different the proportion of pigment and value is between painting tubes. I developed an irrational fear of adding black to lower values.

My art teacher in middle school would rant for hours about how awful Photoshop was for the industry, as "Photoshop effects" in movies are so noticeable. She was part of the group who wanted to ban CGI and Pixar because it wasn't real art.

Yes, let’s

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Whatever problems capitalism doesn't cause, it exacerbates. Unless that problem is "I don't have enough useless crap I don't need to buy yet!"