I think at the point AI can “replace” artists, the individual becomes the artist. A much less exclusionary field if you don’t have the drawing ability. It becomes just another advanced paint brush.

The true creatives will still find a way to stick out. The definition of “art” will change.

I recently commissioned a logo because AI is terrible at it. Once that becomes good enough, I don’t see myself paying another $100 when I can generate it for nearly free. I had submissions for the logo that were clearly AI generated. It’s the same problem with search, you won’t know what’s human unless you dig. It harms artists, but technology improvement always leaves a trail of industries obsoleted. The technology is here, it makes some work more efficient. If you cripple it now to save jobs, you’ll limit the investment and any future gains due to fear of repeat. I think the key is to look at it as a tool, not a replacement. It can certainly help you flush out your ideas and write a better book.

I need a cover for my novel. Hold on real quick while I get this 4 year degree and spend $80k to send an fu to the AI overlords and design it myself.

After that I’ll throw my shovels away and use spoons instead.

After decades of user interfaces and internet access, we’re making things worse rather than better.

Someone at Microsoft realized that hardware will speed up, hiding the fact that the OS is getting bloated and riddled with code that doesn’t directly benefit the user.

The value Windows provides isn’t great enough to deal with this state any longer. In fact, my experience shows it’s slower and just as buggy.

We have technology available to improve experiences, let’s not mix it with profit incentives for once.

They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.

That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.

If your antenna is strong enough, you can pick up a lot of lower power devices from a long ways off.

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I blame developers who use discord. The interface is a mess, the company is enshitifying, and you can’t archive the past.

It maybe easier, but I question why anyone would willingly choose it over most anything else.

Note that this is different from being a dick about it and harassing people.

I think it’s more the strangers with candy scenario. Even toddlers go through a phase of stranger danger. It’s human nature to some extent.

Information is competition if it can change the world. Information is informative if it is widely known and simply repeated. Choose what innovative thoughts you share carefully. They spread timelessly to open minds once they’re out.

If that were the case, the scientific method would not exist.

I create a projector and sensor in one lens to view the world in my image. I then grant my projectors the ability to run film reels I create. I keep the ability to punch holes to myself so that I don’t lose track of the reels I’ve made myself. I then allow my projectors to generate film off my original template, but they can’t make punched film. I then use attention and inattention to measure trustworthiness and use it to understand why parts of me misbehave when turned into projectors.

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BitCoin was the progenitor of those projects and rapidly gained value after strong usage (aka utility) and the ensuing scarcity. So you like BTC?

Then you like Bitcoin too, since it pegs them.

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We need a security competition. Pick the winners and standardize them and solidify their versions a little once verified. Rerun every 2yrs

Lay lie, ffs why differentiate Who whom, it serves no great purpose Words like recie||eive, do I need to explain? Must not should be must’n

I think you need to stop looking at yourself.