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Why is it that we still enjoy music despite not knowing how it was created? Why is it that we still enjoy visual art despite not knowing how it was created? We can keep throwing co…

I guess since we're not talking about art anymore, and are instead talking about the veracity of information, we can safely agree. If I read a news story, I do value that informati…

Your entire argument hinges on being able to tell the extent to which generative AI was used in the creation of any given piece of art, which capability you will not have. You ther…

I'd question your assumption that the software would be "great". I think we're seeing the volume of software increase faster than before. The average quality of the total volume of…

Well, yeah. I like getting computers to automate things and solve problems. Typing in boilerplate and syntax is just a means to that end, and not even remotely the most interesting…

I don't think this is why. I listened to a recent podcast with Michael Truell and he made clear they think the TUI is an inferior form factor. This feels more like a reactionary mo…

I can't tell whether I'm supposed to be the technical type or the artist type in this analogy. In my music making hobby, I'd like a good AI to help me mix, master, or any number of…

I don't acquire skills and apply them just to be able to apply them. I use them to solve problems and create things. My learned skills for processing audio are for the purpose of g…

I'm constantly disappointed by how little I'm able to delegate to AI after the unending promises that I'll be able to delegate nearly 100% of what I do now "in the not too distant …

Exactly how broke do you think this guy is that taking a career break is a sign of instability?

You can get burned real bad by this if the specific product SKU gets discontinued and the price spikes 10x because now they're called Tide Pods Original.

I mostly agree with you, or at least I think you're providing important pushback that needs to be considered. Porn is largely a weird religious boogeyman, and scary stranger kidnap…

Exactly. Actually funny jokes from amateurs tend to have risen out of an order of magnitude more failed attempts. You can't encourage the funny one without inviting a ton of bad on…

The idea that politics in academia are so fierce because the stakes are so low is a meme that has been around for many years, so perhaps it's just the first time you heard it? I'm …

How about: I'd like to know what's happening during an active shooter event at my son's school. Is there a loudspeaker for that? This actually happened to me, and guess where all o…

So the tradeoffs are proven, but not necessary?

Do you think the tradeoffs discussed in that article are unproven?

If I see someone with a little shrine to kids movies, I think, "I have different tastes than this person." If I see someone write a comment like this, extrapolating that to some so…

I don't think anyone actually does counting like that, or at least if they did I agree it would be silly. If I have my eye on a character I'd like to get to, I usually just 'f' + c…

There's no evidence for that whatsoever, it's just bullshit conjecture stemming from hope and a tenuous idea that third party app users are "power users" and therefore must be emin…

Being a good moderator is a lot of work. There will be no lack of people that would line up to have moderating powers in a large enough subreddit.

Would you demand the same amount of reverence if the people who were murdered by their fellow citizens were not "devout, pious Christians" and were instead "people who are serious …

> Almost nobody is against LGBT characters or show that have woke politics in them. I’m not sure why you would think this. There is a huge segment of society that is very much agai…

I think it's because most of the time the "politics" that are objected to tend to be things like having an LGBT character in a show. While it's probably not true that everyone who …

It's also not necessarily competing with meatspace. It's competing with other technologies that connect remote people together where there is no meatspace option. And it's all goin…