Over the last few days with fable I've found it at times incomprehensible, terse word salad. It also invents phrases assuming I'll understand (but that could be because it's reusing terms in the codebase I no longer remember).
I've often had to paste its output back in to ask it what it actually means. Weird.
I think the main thing is just fatigue. There's so little variety. Each model has its preferred idiolect which everyone becomes tired of due to ubiquity. That's the worst part. It's like always eating fast food.
If I see AI content online I bounce because I can ask AI myself. All the AI slop has zero benefit to companies doing it to me if they want to target me. But then some people watch tiktoks, so as usual we're in an echo chamber.
> I'm not fully convinced that consciousness isn't built out of words
I know you're trolling, but when you watch a movie do you constantly narrate "A man in a dark coat has just entered the scene and just said '...'"? Of course not. You just watch it and you're obviously conscious (although your statement demonstrates shocking lack of self-awareness).
God knows what other nonsensical bullshit you believe.
Obvs the first thing is that everyone interprets the word "God" differently. But for myself I'd say I believe that there is
1. a universal consciousness,
2. an energy that works through everything, and
3. that we can tap into both.
Been a slow journey from atheism to this, but mainly based on reading countless first-hand descriptions of enlightenment, mostly related to Kundalini experiences and psychedelic-induced. Reported experiences often fall into such similar categories, sometimes with the same symbology it's either something weirdly evolved in us (for no evolutionary advantage I can see), or some people gain access to deeper levels of reality.
Personal experiences for me that tipped it were:
1. My own Kundalini experiences (not the full-blown transcendental kind yet, but energy surges, meditation phenomena)
2. Receiving remote shaktipat, where energy was projected into me. One of the most surprising was when I was just lying down and a woman 10 miles away sent energy to me for half an hour. It was unmistakable, and wasn't possible she had subconsciously influenced me as she barely spoke to me until after the practice apart from telling me to lie down and relax.
Also, I recently worked out how to 'drop my mind' like Zen practioners talk about. Realised that's the core of concentration-style meditation. Good feelings start to arise on their own.
It's a personal journey (and ultimately the only one that counts), and the mind gets in the way, but each to their own.
Lots of video courses fail to actually teach you the fundamentals. I wasn't super impressed with sonic academy for this reason. It was basically "watch me do stuff". Groove3 was ok but tbh most dance production teachers on there seemed meh.
The absolute king is dancemusicproduction.com [1]. The guy who teaches has literally written the manual on dance music production (Snoman). He says he's been a ghost producer for Guetta and worked on Kylie Minogue, etc.
By all accounts if you want to learn from an actual pro who can actually teach all the fundamentals, it's this guy. Was so pleased when I finally found it.
Yeah it's corporate subprime. Bundle a load of overpriced "assets" with made up valuations into something that's actually valuable, then shove it on the public markets so everyone has to buy it in their index trackers.
OMG, some of those are legit good. That said the AI seems minimally guidable. It seems to ignore three majority of instructions in https://suno.com/song/25b16ab7-bfea-451d-abb3-8b52cdd783d0?s... so I guess like most tools, it's fine if you want to get what you're given but not really control it.
It really is painful watching.