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by cwkoss 5y ago
Why is a human-painting of an astronaut on a horse valuable now? I view this as detangling composition from the mechanical skills of art production. Perhaps this will make a new type of art job - AI wrangler - whose job is collaborating wit
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by cwkoss 5y ago
It will be better! Giving every human the tools to make expressive works of art without having to train for years will be awesome for society! I'm playing with some of the neanderthal-relatives of dall-e 2 and already have several tha
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I don't think it's impossible for humans to provide a reasonable quality of life at this population, but I think it might be impossible to sustain the current growth rate without ever-increasing environmental destruction.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Google has figured out a "legal" way to monetize one company's trademark to that company's competitors. Really makes a mockery of the trademark system. I'd imagine if google didn't have such well financed lobby
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by cwkoss 5y ago
People talk about how the Haber process of fixing nitrogen has averted starvation, but I wonder if in a century we'll be talking about how the Haber process created a plague of overpopulation.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
What are the most common sources of microplastics that are retained in the human body? (Excreted microplastics concern me less) I would expect it is mostly synthetic fiber from clothing, followed by processed food, but seems like we probabl
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Put an exponent in the property tax calculation based on number of properties owned (by individual or business) within a jurisdiction. ex. taxes are [rate * appraisedValue * 1.1 ^ numPropertiesOwned] Needs some sort of mechanism to prevent
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Google ads, at scale, gradually transform into a protection racket.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
When you notice a product being advertised, it means that part of the price of that product/service is being redirected from focusing on quality to manipulation. The amount something advertised is inversely correlated with value.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I disagree. I think it will be a lot like how technology has effected music production. 40+ years ago, it was hard to access the equipment necessary to learn music production, so only a small slice of the population was able to learn these
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Japanese 80s City Pop is one of my favorite musical genres - an outgrowth of the huge economic growth happening in Japanese cities. Big funky happy instrumentals and lyrics often alluding to glamorous lifestyles, social isolation and an un
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I wonder what Gibson thinks of solarpunk. I think its a very compelling aesthetic, and much more rejecting of societal norms (particularly around consumptive consumerism)
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by cwkoss 5y ago
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Ah, yeah the social aspect probably can't be replaced by pseudoephedrine. However, meth can be functional enough that I would guess it's used for wakefulness/focus among a significant proportion of users (especially in early
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Yep, and that's only using the rough metric of bodyweight. There are a number of other major factors like size and health of liver, whether the patient has any under/over expression of metabolic enzymes, etc that can further comp
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Note that metabolism of drugs is roughly proportional to bodyweight. A petite 100 lb person may only need 200mg for an effective dose. An obese 400 lb person may require ~4x that dosage for the equivalent effect. The one-size-fits-all dru
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I had a friend who would keep pseudoephedrine in his glovebox to be used for alertness in case he became drowsy driving. He was a chem nerd, so was not particularly remarkable to me. I have to wonder if the restrictions on pseudoephedrine
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by cwkoss 5y ago
When a Waymo car negligently kills someone, can the family sue Waymo? Or have their lobbyists carved out some sort of liability exemption?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
The average police officer doesn't even know the law very well. I'd be shocked if the average police dept had someone technically competent enough to speak to network security concerns: that's not their job.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I've always wondered how many fake national security letters have been sent to companies, and what the success rate on them is. Cant LEO get things in front of judges in hours? Is bypassing courts ever actually necessary?
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by cwkoss 5y ago
This is happening to all IP industries and leaking into other ones. You no longer buy a song, movie, ebook, or game and truly own it. You get a non-transferrable license that only last as long as you don't do anything to anger the fi
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Our food system is a mess. We need to transition our agricultural systems to use biology rather than chemistry to nourish our food crops. The technology is there, we just haven't figured out how to industrialize it at scale. I pers
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Very cool! I asked some bakers whether something like this would be possible a few years ago, and all of them thought it wouldn't work! (To be fair, I thought the dough would have required kneading under pressure) Awesome to see a w
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Sounds like an interesting essay :D
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by cwkoss 5y ago
The economic impact payments totaled $3200 over the whole year. Is there anywhere in America where that is enough to live on? Calling it a failed experiment is ridiculous - it was infrequent and an order of magnitude too small.
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by cwkoss 5y ago
I find this comment very classist and detached from reality. Most minimum wage earners are not in poverty because they are taking too many vacations and buying too many luxury items: they are in poverty because rents are consuming 40-60% of
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by cwkoss 5y ago
How does that counter my point? If anything, I'd say that supports the cap, as the cap is unlikely to hurt artists - it would mostly hurt industry predators. And less money in predators pockets reduces the funds they have available f
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by cwkoss 5y ago
"that means more hours employees will need to work to maintain their current level of living." Wayne really should have had someone who isn't siloed in an upper class bubble proofread this, because 'maintain their curren
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by cwkoss 5y ago
We should pass a law to cap the maximum earnings from a single work of art to destroy the incentive for lawyers to strangle culture with predatory lawsuits. Ex. Once a work of song makes $10M it should just go into the public domain. Wan
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by cwkoss 5y ago
Very cool project! In the attached video, was that crushing only or was lignin binder being mixed in as well? The output looks dark but kind of powdery, I would guess that's soil being mixed in, because I don't see a fluid tank o

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