Picasso was a prodigy, when he was 15 years old, he was painting stuff like this. If he'd stayed painting this kind of stuff for the rest of his life, no one would remember him.
PewDiePie in 2025:
– built a 10×4090 rig
– runs Llama 70B, gpt-oss-120B & Qwen 245B locally via vLLM
– built a custom web UI (chat, RAG, search, TTS)
– ran protein-folding simulations for charity
– created an AI “council”, a swarm of 64 models
– now fine-tuning his own model
Another weird example that comes to mind is the Internet concept of "poolrooms." Large, sprawling complexes of underground pools... Which are a complete Internet fiction as far as I'm aware.
PewDiePie just vibe-coded his own Chat UI, built an army of chatbots for majority voting and gave them all RAG, DeepResearch and audio output
naturally, he only uses chinese Qwen models and runs them on his local PC with 8x modded chinese 48GB 4090s and 2x RTX 4000 Ada
his army
Right wingers hate "lectures" because they hate knowledge, but Picasso's intention was to move beyond the limitations of realism. The camera had, much like many other technologies, fucked everyone's plans.
At the time artists were trying all kinds of strange things. They were obsessed with all kinds of high-minded concepts. There were also a ton of breakthroughs in science that influenced them. One of the aims of the cubist movement was to paint the 4th dimension.
Literally a fake city in the middle of a tiny town, pretending to be high class, where randos on cargo shorts enter casinos decorated in fake gold and fake marble statues, with sad gambling addicted old people sitting in front of machines all day.
The idea that this is ugly is kind of insane to me, but also it's all terribly interesting. They were trying to move beyond the forms you could see to find out what art was supposed to be. They invented textures and forms that are now kind of cliche because they're everywhere.
Like some hotels I guess have large pool areas. There are water parks with some pools that are kinda like that. But this idea of the large quiet underground area with clean pools just isn't a real thing. Why?
Btw the Bluesky userbase is currently threatening another "posters' strike" again to get the staff to ban Jesse Singal, who doesn't even use Bluesky, and the CEO is finally starting to lose it with them