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by adamc 2y ago
Java went through this too, although there, a lot of it is part of the ecosystem. See https://chrisdone.com/posts/tamagotchi-tooling/
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't know that I'm pessimistic. I think it is hard to forecast. Fusion has been coming in 50 years for at least 60 years. Antibiotics increasingly face problems with resistant strains. Etc.
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by adamc 2y ago
There are lots of competing alternatives for most cases -- not search, but I doubt search would die. If gmail disappears, people could move to another provider. Etc.
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by adamc 2y ago
But web pages were not so sluggish, hence people chose them over using applets.
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by adamc 2y ago
Nah. It will happen gradually and the existence of older housing that is still viable if not work-free will reduce the costs. Older people will for sure be spending some saved wealth on this, and worker wages will go up.
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by adamc 2y ago
Well, that's a separate issue. Even if true, it will make the situation less bad than it otherwise would be. But disasters don't usually make things that bad in the longer term -- the big effect is that it forces us to spend money
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by adamc 2y ago
Labor prices will go up but scarcity will go down. People will end up doing more of their own labor, in all likelihood, but I still think it is likely to help.
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by adamc 2y ago
Also, the start-up time for the JVM made running applets very sluggish. Java quickly became a synonym for "slow".
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by adamc 2y ago
I think the author is right that comparatively few people have really bent their heads around this. But I am reminded of the Club of Rome studies in the 1970s, when a more Malthusian future seemed inevitable. Trends don't necessarily c
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by adamc 2y ago
Not sure that would be a bad thing.
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by adamc 2y ago
This, in a huge way. Especially given all the code that already exists.
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by adamc 2y ago
Languages change. I'm always amused that we get upset by that, but it's going to keep happening.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yep. I use drive but keep waiting for some clear alternative to arrive. My biggest use is just keeping D&D campaign-related materials there. Google is a drag.
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by adamc 2y ago
Just another reason to not deal with Google. Eventually, gravity is going to catch up with them, and they will never recover, because their business culture is shit. Zero interest or focus on the customers.
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by adamc 2y ago
If they know who you are, it's easy. If all they have is the DNA, that database will link it to you. They have caught several serial killers because close relatives were in DNA databases, which allowed honing in on a small number of li
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by adamc 2y ago
I think all art is therapy, and many other things besides.
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by adamc 2y ago
As a lefty who has used right-handed scissors in many situations all my life, it isn't that simple. I can cut with right-handed scissors. It requires changing the way I use them in a way that is a bit weird and unnatural, but it works.
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by adamc 2y ago
But the essay lays out the reality: For WASM to replace JavaScript, it needs to be better (in the sense of easy to adopt, solves a problem right now) every step of the way. That is not, as yet, true.
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by adamc 2y ago
This is just weird. Can the Nobel prize committee not find physics it wants to celebrate?
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by adamc 2y ago
I would bet on the opposite, new rules that prevent automation from gumming up the court system. The judiciary is going to be hostile to such approaches.
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by adamc 2y ago
Thanks for the link. Weirdly, the hardcover (not yet out) costs less than the paperback for the US. https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Road-Ancient-India-Transformed...
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by adamc 2y ago
I will take a look. Good to hear.
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by adamc 2y ago
Those are the examples provided. When they deliver pro tools for generating movie clips, I will be more convinced, but that hasn't remotely happened yet.
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by adamc 2y ago
There are a bunch of videos (e.g., Wings of Pegasus) on youtube that cover pitch-correction, and there are plenty of examples you can hear.
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by adamc 2y ago
Some of it is done that way, but by no means all of it. You can easily see the differences, because, say, Wes Anderson movies are not the same as Martin Scorsese movies. If it were really all just market decisions, directors would have no i
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by adamc 2y ago
No, what makes art are choices (and execution). But the examples given were too general and didn't exercise much control over the choices.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't have a problem with adjusting small elements of the film, but that isn't going to make it a tool for youtubers (or home users off the grid) to tell their own stories.
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by adamc 2y ago
Shades of autotune. But I have faith that people will notice the difference. The current generation may not care about autotune, but that doesn't mean another generation won't. People rediscover differences and decide what matters
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by adamc 2y ago
That I could believe, although... there is quite a bit of commentary from film buffs that lots of the stuff done in post doesn't quite look right, compared to older films. Which doesn't mean it won't keep happening (economics
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by adamc 2y ago
The printing press enabled the artistic visions of single individuals (the writers) to find a wide audience. To do something similar, this has to allow the director (or whomever is prompting the AI) to control all meaningful choices so that

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