Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
Let's say for the sake of argument that all of the people who are not 100% consistent in everything they do all publicly recognize their hypocrisy and failures, no matter how minor, and praise the intelligence, perceptiveness, and mora
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How would you define being left alone? It is currently based on a very specific mixture of laws and customs that foster private property and other such concepts. You're also dependent on the safety and/or infrastructure in your lo
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It's not really performative. Billboards occupy a lot of space, both mental and physical. I've had the privilege to walk through ad-free cities and it's like night and day. Once you return to the rest it suddenly becomes clea
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I don't think this sort of "yet you live in society, curious" argument is particularly helpful Maybe the deeper problem is that living without enriching ad companies is a complex tax requiring research on everything you buy.
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You could say the same of plenty of other nuisances, but that's death by a thousand cuts. It's not just about the ads but resisting the deeper cancer of consumerism. If you are worried about time being wasted, then don't inte
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You don't even need a secondary reason to ban advertising. Just getting rid of advertising is its own justification.
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I think there is too much information in general and it's affecting us in unpredictable ways!
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I don't see how what I am saying is incoherent, and I see we got off on the wrong foot here, so in the spirit of discussion please allow me to rephrase more simply and neutrally: 1. AI art is still extremely new, and it's unclear
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The underlying idea made sense. It just looked incredibly dorky compared to the small unicycle things I see zipping around these days. I remember back in the day people used to joke that only an American would be willing to use those things
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We could argue semantics or find gotchas but at the end of the day getting paid 250K+ means that you can find financial independence very quickly, and that freedom becomes a choice attainable through some modest amount of diligence and plan
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The current type of AI art is less than a year old, so no person can have more than a year of experience, at most. Most artists spend years and years developing their craft, and it involves daily deliberate multi-sensory practice. By compar
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Well it looks as though some actors such as Bruce Willis have already signed away their deepfake likeness and/or style, however you'd want to call it. Maybe additional legal concepts are not far behind? There was a time when copyr
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Yes, by definition the difference is only in the sense that it affects your life negatively. Of course, negatively will be relative but logically if the individual is okay with it (and the people in their life agree) they will not seek trea
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What do you mean by that sentence?
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Disorder is the better word, but it's still a condition defined in relation to how it affects your capacity to function in the target society
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It's not much scarier than encouraging fertility via the religious apparatus or just traditional social norms
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It's a version of the anthropic principle at work. For us to be having this conversation, the Beatles need to be uncanny
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It's not so much hyperfocus as the inability of the executive function to unswitch
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Of course it bothers people. But it's better than losing the last functional decades as well.
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Again, I am aware that legally there's nothing they can do, but the point of copyright law is to facilitate making a living from art (let's ignore the House of Mouse shenanigans for the sake of the argument). A service that is abl
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The law hasn't caught up, and might never do. But surely a generator that even sometimes inputs the artists' signature (or at least a bizarro version of it) in the output meets the spirit if not the letter of what copyright law is
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This does not take into account the years of practice and the natural talent that led to these composers being able to do this. In comparison, any schmuck can learn how to find prompts within a few hours, and can get pretty good at it withi
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It's at the extreme end of the scale and will depend on your personality. Keep in mind that with 35K and no professional obligations you can do all of the following easily without any sacrifice in terms of leisure or family time or eve
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It'll depend on your personal factors, but the median salary at FAANGs is nuts at $220-250k. Let's say you are an average FAANG person in Washington state and are paid a bit less than the median with 200K as your starting point. T
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Inefficient for the company maybe, but if you are not going to be paid more for extra work or diligence, and the work you are doing is not particularly meaningful or helpful to others (could be wrong as I don't know what we're tal
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Who says you need to match 130k? If you no longer have to work, you no longer need to live in the Bay Area. 70k would be luxurious in a less expensive place, if you take into account that you no longer have to work. Heck even 35k would be p
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You really don't have to be at the median mortgage when working (or even on a mortgage), or to live in the Bay Area once you've accumulated enough money, or to need 170k per year outside of the crazy places. If you do have a house
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I'm not talking about the availability of the job, but the difference between poverty tourism and having to do those jobs for 40 years as opposed to 6 weeks.
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Maybe you are right with the idea that more people should at least try these jobs. I agree it would be helpful. However what frustrates me is that they seem to draw all the wrong conclusions about this sort of work, and see it as character
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I didn't mean it at all in the sense that he's stealing those jobs, but that he is seeing it as personal development where most people in this situation have little choice but to bear this sort of profession over the course of the

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