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by haswell 3y ago
And for the first time in the history of those stories, reality is extremely close to that fiction. The reasons those stories are told over and over is because we're highly susceptible to things that use our pleasure centers in ways th
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by haswell 3y ago
Regarding "Is that trend really viral?", I also think some people have stopped assigning value to things that go viral. It's not just a question of whether or not something went viral, but whether or not I should care even if
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by haswell 3y ago
It's all good. It's one of the harder facts of life to swallow: I didn't choose the factors that lead to this, but I still have to deal with them, and I'm the only person who can. True of many things in life. I'd p
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by haswell 3y ago
Yeah, I agree it will hold a different kind of value. I don’t think people should be screeching about this either. I do think people are screeching because they enjoy traditional art and they think traditional art is threatened. I’m startin
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by haswell 3y ago
Intrinsic was a poor word choice on my part. My point was that some of the most valued aspects of most art up to this point - the investment of human talent/skill and the uniqueness brought by the individual - is either not present, or
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by haswell 3y ago
I don’t see how the two are related. Different situations, different ethical considerations and expectations.
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by haswell 3y ago
I don’t agree agree that any of this denigrates AI related art.
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by haswell 3y ago
Art is a word that humans made up to categorize a form of human expression. Whatever art is, it is because of the value that humans have chosen to ascribe to it, which they do for countless reasons. Many of those reasons are simply not pres
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by haswell 3y ago
I agree that there are plenty of unhelpful ideas about addiction. I'm not aware of any available sources where I can prove to you "here's her success rate", but again, I found her work directly applicable to my own addic
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by haswell 3y ago
One could say many things about the difference between photography and painting of course, but I don't think the things said about these differences are "much the same". In the abstract, they appear superficially similar. Whe
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by haswell 3y ago
The two legal factors discussed during the first round of reporting were: - The explicit carve-out of reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability in the DMCA - The European Digital Markets Act, which will require chat networks t
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by haswell 3y ago
> Why do those things not apply to someone using AI? I hate making this kind of argument, but: I'm glad you made this argument, because I think it helps illustrate the point. When we talk about photography vs. AI vs. other forms o
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by haswell 3y ago
> A user is choosing what they want to capture and making a choice, much like I, as a photographer, look for a particular scene (or happen across one!) and choose how I want to capture it. The only similarities between these is the fac
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by haswell 3y ago
> This belief is baseless and unhelpful, and needs to be discarded. Based on what? I’m not saying that every addicted person is a helpless automaton, but people are often subject to factors over which they have no control, and some ins
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by haswell 3y ago
> Do you know if Lembke has had much success in treating addiction? She is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, and her writing is based on her clinical experience. I became aware of he
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by haswell 3y ago
This is an extremely simplistic assessment of addiction, and the factors that drive it. Setting aside the likelihood and tangent that we probably don’t have free will the way we like to think of it, it’s incredibly reductionist to summarize
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by haswell 3y ago
I’m not assuming there’s no agency. I’m saying that they are operating in a compromised state. As a former addict, you should know well the steep hill to climb to exert any kind of control. My point is that people get stuck in very unfortun
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by haswell 3y ago
> But when people decide to behave indecently in public places, then I don’t think those sorts of norms should apply. Why should they not apply? The more unfortunate aspects of the human condition haven't changed very much through
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by haswell 3y ago
I think act of asking for permission here is the problem, regardless of whether or not it’s been given. In other words, even if someone says yes (to say nothing of their capacity to consent, to your point), the act of asking in the first pl
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by haswell 3y ago
The same questions have been explored at length by photographers for decades. To me, it boils down to the intent of the person holding the camera. If the intent is to get views and grow the channel, it’s awful behavior. Documentary photos&#
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by haswell 3y ago
Yeah, documentary work is still really important and that’s one of the few exceptions that makes sense to me. Since I’m not doing that kind of work, I steer clear.
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by haswell 3y ago
In the photography community, taking street photos of people without their permission is a source of controversy. Some people on the extremes feel it’s never acceptable, but most photographers agree that being respectful is the key, as well
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by haswell 3y ago
> it is an application of Chesterton's fence That's why I closed with: > Maybe this is just a more complex way of removing the fence, but I think it’s more like moving away from the ground the fence is built on. In other
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by haswell 3y ago
I think that's fair as well with the "sometimes", and I fully agree re: the oversimplification. I think CBT is ultimately labeling the most recognizable stages of certain mental phenomena and providing a framework for interac
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by haswell 3y ago
The benefit of rearchitecting the code would have been high. As it stood, the status quo was blocking progress on other initiatives and making it difficult to meet the needs of customers. If we had ignored the fence and nothing broke, we co
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by haswell 3y ago
Not OP, but I’ve encountered this in situations where legacy code involved in mission critical business functionality was nearly impossible to remove due to the potential risk of unforeseen impact. In other words, if the potential impact of
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by haswell 3y ago
It is both a thought terminating cliche and a reminder to think more deeply. Clearly the original intent was the latter. But many people who invoke Chesterson’s fence do so with the intent to lobby against changing something. It’s raised no
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by haswell 3y ago
On the subject of habit change, I think the author makes some interesting points, but there’s a failure mode lurking here. Sometimes unhealthy habits did form for a reason, but trying to understand those reasons isn’t always necessary or ev
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by haswell 3y ago
I fully agree about the potential for bad faith interpretations of Chesterson’s fence, and I’ve encountered them a lot. But regarding edge cases, I’ve come to see that type of person in a different light. The way I see it, edge cases pressu
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by haswell 3y ago
That’s a really good point about creative work. This has been a big part of my progress as well, but has been a bit on-again off-again. I’m glad you mentioned this, because I think I need to make it a more consistent outlet, and the self-lo

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