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by chasing 3y ago
This anecdote is not about white space. It sounds like some junior designer was allowed to go nuts and do whatever they wanted with zero regard for the actual users. The designer just found a bunch of stuff they liked online and just did wh
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by chasing 3y ago
As with all things, it’s great having extra time. As long as you can afford it.
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by chasing 3y ago
Not really my concern; I don’t listen to mindless garbage. I’m aware there’s a lot of it. (And about to be a lot more!)
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by chasing 3y ago
I made no comment on whether talented people should explore AI tools. I’m a musician and they’re pretty interesting. But they’re not a shortcut to talent, which is what I think some people treat them as.
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by chasing 3y ago
Being a musical artist isn't about knowing how to use tools to make a sound, it's about having the taste to know which sounds out of many are the right ones to express what you're trying to say. It's about having an idea
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by chasing 3y ago
See also: “The stars at night are big and bright…”
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by chasing 3y ago
comes from
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by chasing 3y ago
Where do you think the training data comes from?
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by chasing 3y ago
It's weird that a call for generative AI to be more equitable towards the people whose creative work powers it is being interpreted as somehow being against tech, against AI, or that I think technological advancement should never make
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by chasing 3y ago
> ...there is no moral responsibility AI creators should feel... Yeah, this is why "AI creators" shouldn't be the ones unilaterally deciding how this all plays out.
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by chasing 3y ago
You recognize the difference, right? Modern freezers don’t rely on people shipping ice from the Arctic. Generative AI does rely on people continuing to create media.
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by chasing 3y ago
> Things that can be easily reproduced already have little value... Nonsense. Also, my point is that it shouldn't be up to tech companies to unilaterally decide what has value.
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by chasing 3y ago
Yup! Technology is powerful. It impacts people's lives. I love tech, but if you take the stance that it's okay to hurt people for the sake of technical progress, you get into some very dark and terrible places...
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by chasing 3y ago
Yeah, you just can't let all media, all the cost and hard work of millions of photographers, animators, filmmakers, etc be completely consumed and devalued by one company just because it's a very cool technical trick. The more pow
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by chasing 3y ago
Yes, it’s true that open source projects that cannot pay to license content owned by other people are at a disadvantage versus those who can. Open source projects cannot, for example, wholly copy code owned by other people. Also, beware of
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by chasing 3y ago
> If you require licensing fees for training data, you kill open source ML. This is another one of those “well if you treat the people fairly it causes problems” sort of arguments. And: Sorry. If you want to do this you have to figure ou
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by chasing 3y ago
The quietest place in NYC is in lower Manhattan? Find that hard to believe. At a minimum, if we’re just talking Manhattan there’s a rather large and, um, centrally-located park that has to have least one or two quiet corners.
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by chasing 3y ago
But what about that ragebait headline I read the other day? Clearly the entire system must be burnt to the ground.
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by chasing 3y ago
What won? There are different scenarios that work best for different people and organizations. Maybe remote work won as an option on the table, but it’s like saying “hamburgers won.” They’re a dinner option, one of a variety of solutions to
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by chasing 3y ago
NBA players work at extremely desirable jobs and make a minimum of, like, $1m per year. And yet they're unionized and have the right to advocate for themselves collectively. There's no "but their job is cool and they could do
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by chasing 3y ago
> All of it is driven by demand and supply, always, except when regulations or external factors somehow break things. This is very much not true for worker salaries. For one thing, workers can not easily hop from area of expertise to ar
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by chasing 3y ago
They do have free will, but large groups of people are at an extreme negotiating disadvantage versus individuals or small groups that can more easily plan and coordinate -- and who happen to control the resources. This is why we need things
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by chasing 3y ago
The "if we paid people fairly things would be prohibitively expensive" argument is a terrible one, just to note. First, it rarely seems to actually be the case since the requirement that employees be paid fairly mostly just drives
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by chasing 3y ago
Some people are capable of thinking with a level of nuance deeper than "unions bad."
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by chasing 3y ago
Crimes that happen in my area are, as far as I can tell, exclusively handled after-the-fact. The cops appear and take a report. I'm sure they occasionally use force to intervene in a crime, but it must be extremely rare versus just s
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by chasing 3y ago
For the most part, police officers need to be replaced with case workers. People who can take records of crimes, provide counseling, and give actual legal advice to people affected. Occasionally we need dudes with guns to bust something up,
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by chasing 3y ago
> ...they often become corrupt... Unions are what protect significant chunks of the middle class and it's because they're so important that these flagrant abuses must be corrected.
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by chasing 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
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by chasing 3y ago
A rabbit hole into poking around a whole mess of Wikipedia pages about specific numbers, which was pretty entertaining. That said, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers is woefully incomplete.
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by chasing 3y ago
It's cool that capital gains taxes are so low versus income taxes. /s

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