This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

Several issues, although I support further research to overcome them: (1) integrated barttery structure with vehicle structure is a weight savings, worth quite a bit. (2) standardization of any sort is not there (3) a single mishap isn't just an EV fire, its a conflagration of an unpredictable size of battery stacks, more akin to a chemical factory.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

The stories come from prior stories, with new prompts to re-order the words essentially. This is enshitification. It will grow until the LLM's can coin new terms, build analogies, research the principals of a story, and even call people close to the story for their opinion and summarize it. Then LLM's will have to associate good journalism practices with prompt guidelines given by trainer models.

Those missing parts are ultimately solvable by even more LLM API's and trickery, but it's still not intelligent. In fact, the guardrails of most public LLM's are so narrow for divisive issues that most newsworthy issues would be dry-as-a-bone recaps. The arc of time that makes previously non-controversial phrases turn into a dogwhistle to a social agenda would make LLM's just agree with the accusation and move on. They have no agenda, including any to dodge embarrassment.

LLM's that could write in an acerbic, critical form like some great writers of social commentary (Twain, Vonnegut, Hitchens) are a far way off. Those would be able to build a cohesive worldview using a mostly-sensible value system. As it is now, the Transforms don't really have a way of teasing out a contextually-generic moral system, because there isn't one. So we're creating the best savant possible in the field of reading everything, summarizing what's its read. This covers a lot of daily human thought, but it cannot cross over to feeling something, and it seems absurd when a machine tries to fake it.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

Thanks for doing some math, but the point is: Massive human disruption is far easier than geoengineering ocean flood levels.

You may be applying a niave perspective of the scale involved. A scaled-up wall doesn't account for water rising put of the ground. And one cannot pump even a centimeter of an ocean somewhere else. These average sea level effects create massive flood stages during powerful storms, leaving behind a soggy landfill. The only solution is moving to higher ground.

Sea walls stop wave damage, not water levels. The ground is porous. Desalination is not a massive pumping effect for the level of an ocean.

The primates are smart, but gullible and predictable. So, each decacde we should expect to see ever-larger forced movements of people from lowland coastal areas. The early signs would be: flooding, massive erosion, catastrophic pollution events, rising insurance premiums, real estate price drops and ultimately lower valuations then a reduced tax base. I suspect there's a map tracking these events and amounts already. Perhaps there'll be a hand-scrawled sign offshore somewhere saying "we will rebuild!"

This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.