Was the joke I was looking for...

I didn't think so, though it should be some kind of joke how many of them claim they believe in some form of laissez-faire.

I think there should be a progressive profit tax linked to market share, so the natural path to higher retained earnings would be to split your too-dominant company into competing companies. Various metrics for "too dominant", such as lack of customer choice, blockage of wannabe competitors, and even lack of employee choice.

Such a bad mistake I'd use a delete on it if I could...

s/make you win/make you lose/

Some kind of editorial vacation there?

At least that's the joke I'm looking for. The problem with "asymmetric warfare" is that the enemy can make you win just by spending too much on your responses to their cheap weapons.

Getting out of the area for possible funny, but the attacker's advantage is control over the time and place of battle...

Mostly outside my competence and largely outside my area of interest. However I think your larger point is the use of the AI tools to do the work. Where is the line between creativity and the human artist with better tools? Is that a way to formulate the key question?

A couple of the ideas did remind me of speculations about a measurement tool for one-ear tinnitus. The idea would be to generate the matching sound in the other ear and I imagined an array of sliders that control various aspects of the sound. In general it's hard to describe essentially imaginary phenomena, but the idea is to compare a real thing to the tricky thing and as you slide each control you would be assessing whether they are more or less similar.

(But again with limited time to respond.)

Okay, thanks for clarifying.

Topic seems pretty worn out and Slashdot discussion basically expire in a day, but... Just coincidentally I wound up digging through some old Greg Bear and have a copy of Rogue Planet here. Maybe you know the details there? I think it was intended as a kind of outline for a movie and that some parts of it may have become part of one of the Star Wars movies.

I didn't like Bear's stuff that much, but I seem to be reevaluating some authors these days. I also had a negative view of Orson Scott Card, but I recently discovered that I never read the book that is supposed to have made his reputation, so I'm also reading it now... Much better than I expected.

My recollection of the Heinlein version was that service was a requirement of voting and the government had to bend things for people with limitations... But he may have approached the theme in various ways in various books.

The version I would favor would have involve options, but the length of time would vary to balance things out. If they want more people in the military, then they shorten the time period until they attract more people. However I'm not sure if that approach would lead to mathematical convergence or divergence...

Quoted against the censor mods. On the substance, I won't be surprised if the main result is a bunch of "Your check must be in the mail" lawsuits from companies waiting for the check...

But that may be a side effect of reading Facebook about another CEO who doesn't seem so nice?

You piqued my curiosity, but not enough to do a bunch of reading on the lack of clarity...

However I will say that I think there is a kind of creativity which involves combining older ideas in new ways.

Sorry, but no more time just now, so I guess this should be filed under "mostly an ACK".

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Mostly the ACK, but perhaps my personal problem that I have not been interested in any of those three stories, though I may have read a book version of Jurassic Park... I'm pretty sure I've seen a book called "The Godfather" and that the cover said it was related to the movie, and I can't recall any book version of Fight Club. I'm not sure if it matters, but were these books written before or after the movies? My thesis would be that a seminal book will get squeezed when it becomes a movie, but going the other way it will be hard for the book based on the movie to expand the ideas and stay on script, so to speak.

I don't watch many movies. Never watched many, and far fewer lately. However I am unable to recall an example of a movie that I thought was better than the book. Most often I felt like the movie eliminated many of the imaginative possibilities of the book. Largely a matter of bandwidth? Movies flood the zone, filling both the visual and audio channels and requiring almost all of your mental capacity to keep up. More so as the effects have become more special and dazzling. For books you have to do most of the mental work yourself and I think that's a fundamentally healthy kind of mental exercise.

Do you have some movie in mind that you think was better than the book?

Calculate the size of the required solar panel as you get farther from the sun and notice that AC is brainfarting again.

I sure hoped for some when we all needed it.