Michael Lucas Monterey: Creative Evolutionary

Still in final homework phase of prepping for my first NFT releases, of my portrait of James Dean. I will make several different sizes of the high quality copy (of the original painting); and, for the best appearance, issue each size in different ppi resolutions. Also, the various sizes will be issued as limited edition series, with varying numbers of copies:

Edition 1: There will be 11 NFTs in the series of the largest (20″ x 25.5″ image) copies of the portrait (“JD Concentrating”), at 1250 ppi resolution.

Edition 2: 101 NFTs of the 17″ x 21.5″ images, at 1250 ppi res.

Edition 3: 201 NFTs of the 12″ x 15″ images at 900 ppi res.

Edition 4: 301 NFTs of the 10″ x 13″ images at 900 ppi res.

Edition 5: 501 NFTs of the 12″ x 15″ images at 600 ppi res.

Edition 6: 601 NFTs of the 8.5″ x 10.6″ images at 600 ppi res.

Edition 7: 701 NFTs of the 6″ x 7.7″ images at 600 ppi res.

Edition 8: 801 NFTs of the 5″ x 6.3″ images at 300 ppi res.

Edition 9: 901 NFTs of the 2.3″ x 3″ images at 300 ppi res.

Note: The actual sizes will vary slightly from those shown above; and starting prices will vary per series, in inverse proportion to the number of NFTs per series.

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It is a pleasure and an honor to announce that I am helping my dear friend Miss T. Harriette “Honey” Paine produce and publish her forthcoming “Paine Report” blog. She’s planning to start it with a satirical piece of critical political humor. I think you will agree it will rapidly make her a globally respected commentator on all the bad news that too few of us know about and understand. I will also be helping with discussion of remedies. So, when the Paine Report is up and running, I will post a link. Stay tuned ~

I just tried to post the following text to a subreddit group that seems to be sincerely interested in discussing all potential uses of OpenAI’s GPT systems. However, as soon as I clicked to post, I got a rejection notice. I did not get any good reason, no explanation at all. So, see for yourself, and see if you can find a really good reason for anyone rejecting the possibility of using a totally ethical AI IT ecosystem for the good of all generations, ASAP (not for mainly profit, despite global consequences).

Here’s my post, re: the case for a StarTrek-gen AI-IT ecosystem:

“We are no closer to equaling the AI-enhanced IT ecosystem of Star Trek’s first season’s (etc.) than we were back then. Why not? Well, that may be open to debate, but I say it’s the for-profit pirate paradigm that came to dominate all strata of modern civilization’s sociocultural infrastructure, including academia & the IT industry.

“Would the best possible AI-enhanced supercomputer ecosystem design a global telecomputing swamp like what we put up with today? No, that would clearly be a totally illogical impossibility, unless that AI-enhanced supercomputer ecosystem was designed to enrich anti-ethical entrepreneurs at the expense of all others (of all generations & species).

“So, does anyone out there want to explore the potentials for draining the for-profit telecomputing swamp, with the help of an appropriately ethical AI-sys-dev-logic-analyst? BTW, I suggest starting with analysis of the a.) basics, b.) inefficiencies, c.) vulnerabilities, d.) mushrooming complications, and e.) the whole-world-system real-world costs of existing CLangs + bloatware + “fixes”/patches of the “Legacy” IT ecosystem that fail to cure it.

“Note: Please, recall that the original StarTrek AI-enhanced IT ecosystem was not-for-profit, nor was it a monstrous fake-super-human “singularity” that had a fake-personality that competed with anybody, for dominance, etc. Why (& why not)? It seems to me (and Gary Kasporov, among others) that the most profitable use of AI-enhanced automation will always be augmentation of human capabilities. In fact, we already see that most of us (even coding nerds) are highly resistant to being replaced by superior machines. In other words, thanks to the market dynamics of late-stage consumerist capitalism (and pandemic normalized neurosis), the vast majority of us won’t buy into being replaced by a.) fake people, or b.) a fake god. Of course, despite nearly 60 years of observation & contemplation of civilized insanities, I could be wrong about some or all of the above. So, your feedback is very welcome. Thanks & may you live long & prosper ~ M”