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Even if the process isn't particularly pleasant, the result often is. Unlike with AI, whose output is often bland. In my experience making music, specially the more experimental ki…

This is no ingenious feat by any standard, except probably for someone in the Dunning–Kruger dip. https://gwern.net/creative-benchmark I can't wait to see if AI can get past its ce…

You need not. It's evident to any reader that some models can take more into account without overloading, including the "access" variable you introduced ex post facto. What I sugge…

Unless you are studying an a priori science, textbook examples are pedagogical simplifications. Yes, the cost of environmental pollution is paid neither by factories nor their cust…

None, but that's exactly the point. _Everyone_ would like to have more of it. This is a unifaceted way of posing problems, often also done with monopolization.

How is the environment, which is directly of concern to the primary economic sector, and to the entire economic enterprise in the long run, an externality?

It is not as simple as "my profit" vs. "others' expense". The elegance of the invisible hand theory is that it also accounts for the cases where others' expense is my expense and o…

I agree with the author that questions of ethics are social optimization problems. > We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for others Yet if each person would opti…

Another one of his notable—and slightly more accessible for the uninitiated—pieces is the composition Symphonie pour un homme seul (with Pierre Henry): https://youtube.com/watch?v=…

I was searching recently for a photograph of Arthur Rimbaud in his later years, and noticed that already Google Images was flooded with AI-generated stuff from websites that do not…

They're mostly intended for online publication, so Google will have them sooner or later. Yet with personal stuff I'm more discreet, of course.

Whenever I want to put something down, I open the browser on my phone, type in the address bar, then hit . Later I synch them along with the other tabs when I have access to the de…

I wondered this too. I think twelve minutes after submission it went from 1 point to 37 points.