someone in my family has that picture of me from after fishing, and I had caught a fish, and I was a small child, and they got the reaction shot after showing me the fish, and the pic shows I was horrified. Once I'm dead, I hope that pic makes it online. Possibly my youngest pic.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Unless you’re a time traveler
"Shall we compare the diaries?"
Ah, Jim the Fish!
True. And the way it's said/written causes a soft perplexity that feels nice.
Now you got me thinking. In my mother tongue, this is not at all perplexing. In order to find out why, I tried a more direct translation from my language to English. Here's my try:
The picture of me youngest is also my oldest picture.
True until AI pictures become a thing!
An AI's approximation of someone isn't a picture of them. And even if we were to accept that incorrect idea as true, a new AI production of someone when they were younger isn't an old picture.
oddly disturbing as that prospect may be, AI can't time travel