Off-topic; but the nerd in me complained: In GURPS, stealing is two skills: filch and pickpocket.
Whoa, I just mentioned GURPS in a completely different context in this very comment thread. :explodinghead:
Stealing Is a Skill
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#132My favorite quote that expresses this idea is from Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47: “Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.”
(It feels very grumpy-old-man to complain about "low effort", but I think it's more culturally relevant than ever before...)
... not investigating your field is a massive low effort failure mode. You don't have to know your field, but you have to investigate it, appreciate it, draw upon it... even, or perhaps especially, if you're standing in opposition to it.
(This is also why "first principles" twits like Elon are so annoying...)
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#133This is only 3% originality and 97% theft. That's 3% unrealized profits.
Look into Yellowism: one signature and its 100% yours.
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#134Would've been pretty dire if the original firestarter accused other humans of theft.
Copyright and it's huge industry of lawyers = an enforcer caste of the American empire.
I just struggle to care about people complaining about 'ideas being stolen'. Make it, or don't, it really doesn't bother me.
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#135I spent way too much time trying to figure out if this is satire. I'm pretty sure it's not.
This is what we've come to as a society? Completely given up on creativity and skill for literally while talking up the joys of stealing.
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#136Well, I have level 99 Thieving on RuneScape
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#137Summing up the first line with 3 advices: increase your vulnerability, or increase: transparency, creativity, and reflection. My first thought is this guy lives in a healthy non-toxic environment. Here he comes up with "stealing is a skillset" because skillfully determining what to change is huge, and a major effort of the focused change.
But that ain't stealing. That is copying. And then twisting it per your desires. Real stealing steals just one or two elements.
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#138I'm a fan of stealing as well, but I normally try to steal from a variety of sources. If you just copy a painting or novel and barely change anything, you're not an artist. But if you copy dozens of works from a variety of your favorite inspirations, at the end you are left with something recognizable, yet wholly new, and your own.
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#139And we wonder why everything is so unbearably boring & bland...
That comparison is quite the stretch imo, this feels more like copying homework. And if we are honest about what is being sold here: normalization of stealing other peoples work with AI and pretending you are a smarter, better person for it.
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#140This isn't stealing in the "good artists copy, great artists steal" sense. This is just straight copying/plagiarism. To "steal" effectively (in the Steve Jobs sense) means to pull details into your own work that are invisible to the naked eye. E.g., I'm going to "steal" the concept for DuckDB's new quack protocol as inspiration for handling a similar issue in my own embedded DB. It will exist as its own implementatio…
Isn't the cost of this mimicry originality? Also, there may be a "cover up" and a weight to the conscience in that non-attribution too.
It's sort of like the whole idea of "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" but I've always thought, "why would you want your enemies close?" Would that involve deception? Do the enemies start off as friends until they become close and then there's a switch to loving the devil?
I saw a t-shirt once: "they can steal your style but not your originality." Gemini agreed. https://share.gemini.google/gA5aqbmA9AwO Gemini would know all about that. Gemini isn't the only one - the "creative fields" can be anything but. Checkout my page '2X' for ex_samples : https://future-secured.com/39599