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First, it's a beautiful site. Second, a rant. Look, if you are a photographer or artist or writer, your individual contributions to civilization are zero. I'm
by breck 4y ago
First, it's a beautiful site.
Second, a rant.
Look, if you are a photographer or artist or writer, your individual contributions to civilization are zero. I'm sorry I have to be the one to break the bad news to you. It's just the mathematical truth.
We are still in the childish (c)opywrong era of civilization where people born in privilege were brainwashed into thinking they were special snowflakes and their creative contributions to humanity are far more valuable than they actually are.
Your contributions, I don't care if you are a modern day Da Vinci, are but a grain of sand on a Mount Everest of human creation.
That photo you took? Far far far easier than the immense amount of effort it took to build that camera and get it into your hands. That book you wrote? Far far far easier than the thousands of years it took to evolve the letters and words you used to write it. That song you sang? Trivial compared to the collective efforts of hundreds of millions of people who pioneered music theory and instruments.
People who clamor for attribution ironically spend relatively little time digging into the details of all histories of all the ideas they are building upon.
I'm not saying go out and plagiarize. I'm not saying stop creating. I am saying to wake up and think from root principles about ideas and the absolute stupidity of the (c)opywrong regime. All these big AI models are ignoring (c)opywrong law, and you should too. Even better, contribute to the fight to pass and amendment to abolish (c)opywrong once and for all.
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