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90% of people have similar tastes, so statistics will make the majority's lives much easier, in my opinion.


I don't want anything your statistics generate


Statistically, yeah, you do. Is it that there's numbers and forethought involved that turns you off, or the meta of it all?


My best guess is that there might be a group of people who fear the fact that their behaviour can be modelled using straightforward formula, because that threatens their beliefs that there is some sort of cosmic protection.


I guess you are missing the point. Every great work is an outlier.

Now, the GP is hyperbolic, of course, but statistically safe content isn't great content.


(Sorry, it was meant to satirize the silly title, and in retrospect I should've added an "/s".)


Wait until you learn how JPEGs work


JPEG lossy compression isn't generating new (non-fringe) art, it's a just a compression mechanism.


I love this comment


pick 10 things important to you. Chances are you don't get at least one of them because you don't matter being in that 700m person group. Screw competition we have stats?


thanks, i added a subtitle after your feedback :)


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