Yeah, exposing a film to DLP is a little different than to a rounded, bezel-masked CRT

Thanks for your questions, Freenet caches data but it isn’t meant to be a long-term storage network. It’s better to think of it as a communication system. Data persists as long as at least one node remains subscribed to it. If nobody subscribes (including the author), it will eventually disappear from the network. So yes, if only your node subscribes then the data will only exist there and won’t be available when your machine is offline. But if other nodes subscribe it will be replicated automatically and remain available even if your node goes offline.

Not from 2023, the linked video is from last month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The media format is 16mm film. Here's the irony. Unlike U.S. television shows, BBC was an early adopter of video tape. (Recall that video tape was invented really late, available in 1956; everything before then had to be either live or telecined from film live.) But when shipping shows to far-flung international destinations, BBC "transferred" the video tape to film by filming a TV! That's what was found in the collector's cardboard box. That BBC used video tape is what allowed them to erase said video tapes.

Prosecution must have argued she deceived customers into thinking they were getting something they could legitimately used.

18 U.S. Code 2320 defines "counterfeit mark" rather broadly. Included in the definition in (f)(1) is a "spurious ... label ... likely to ... deceive".

Why would a website containing "tech" in its domain name feel a need to put "requirements" inside scare quotes and refer to it as "parlance"?

> You can't fix it by "not letting stupid people breed", you have to fix it through not letting people become stupid

This sentence seems to be somewhat self contradictory. Despite decades of trying to make it not so, it seems that intelligence remains primarily inherited from parents/ancestors.

Socioeconomic status, education, opportunities, etc all have no ability to improve iq. Nutrition only matters in the sense of malnutrition. So environmental factors can reduce IQ, but they cant do anything to raise it.

Attempting to "fix" it, which we have been doing in the first world for a while now, seems to be causing average intelligence to drop precipitously. the peak IQ in most nations is now firmly in the past 30-70 years back. I think we just have to give up on the idea that this is something to "fix" per se, and let people make their own choices as individuals.

> The most important part which is wrong however is the idea that people who never contributed much would easily find economically equivalent work.

There is a name for that opinion: luddism.

Every single new technology shifts jobs and work, and every single time people fantasize about permanent structural unemployment, and every single time people just move into new types of work and there is no such thing as structural unemployment. Luddites back then could never imagine a world where less than 95% of people worked in agriculture, and today's neo luddites cant imagine a world without hordes of graphic artists, paralegal functionaries, music techs, and such, but its coming regardless.

Fundamentally, what people are willing to pay for always comes down to work done by others. Things that are automated, at best, shape how people work, and what work attracts more or less pay. Just as a shovel helps you to dig, a DNN helps you slop out boilerplate text with errors, so you dont need to pay as many people to do it.

These two fundamentals never change when a new tool or technology is used

* some people get more productive to some degree using the new tools
* That frees up labor to do new things, and the economy as a whole grows, because the new things have value

Its possible there will be a growing field of content curation; The DNN's & LLM's basically explode when their outputs are fed back their inputs. So instead of making tons of derivative works de novo, many creative types will instead become art critics; helping to curate an input set to train the machines that synthesize generated works.

paying taxes is also negative growth, so that part doesnt even matter.

The reason for "AI" causing zero gain is because its not "AI"; its not people, its not independent economic actors with agencies.

The name "AI" is nothing but a marketing gimmick, a lie.

What we have are just tools; helpers. And like any tool, the best they can be is productivity enhancers for people. But what these tools excel at is mostly economically unimportant work; shoddy art, boilerplate text, remixed music. So they make something with nearly no impact require fewer people.

Even if every single B-grade graphic artist, musician, and every contract and legal functionary gets put out of work by these babble generators, no real economic impact would be felt because those fields never contributed much, so the people freed from such work would quickly find economically equivalent work of any kind.

If there is to be any gain from the whole overinvestment bubble, it will be improved search engine answers. Like today, they will still be questionable, full of random errors, and politically slanted by the local jurisdiction. But they will be slightly better for what they are.Just like with search engines, people who are adept at prompting queries and filtering through the results will be slightly more productive than people who are not.

But it will take an awful long time for their meagre gain to measurably exceed the insane overinvestment lost in "AI".

Based on 5-10 minute videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZP1uzp_YQ, I look forward to feature-length fan replacements for Episodes VII, VIII, IX. Perhaps within a year?

Grocery stores and Wal-Mart trimmed their hours for COVID and never restored them. We are definitely no longer on the 24-hour society trajectory we were on in decades past.

If hardware doesnt run linux super well, the hardware is garbage. Simple as.

> There is no specific need for bitcoin in the world, it's a solution looking for a problem.

lol, it literally solves 100% of everything that is mechanically wrong with modern society.

Bitcoin, or something much like it, is the standing Great Filter test of our species.

We either progress into the next level of economic organization with a sound money network of some kind, or we devolve into an eternal stagnation and death.

We cannot have an anti-merit civilization, that is contrary to the basic precepts of evolutionary survival of the fittest.

Disconnecting the motivational network which organizes behavior from actual human performance will only ensure anti-survival behavior dominates until we are all dead.

We can hope its bitcoin, so that it can happen in our lifetimes. Perhaps some future innovation will be much the same, and restore the social value network to a semblance of order in some distant future.

Until then, we are doomed to repeat cycles of war, civil unrest, boom and bust cycles, and ever increasing wealth inequality. Pollution and waste will increase astronomically with no correction. Things we used to do easily, such as building bridges or other infrastructure, will become increasingly untenable, and our environment will decay around us. The oceans will be full of the decaying monuments of wind turbines, lush valleys will be full of heavy metals from broken solar cells, the ocean will be a soup of plastics and garbage, and the land will be a version of "idocracy" with a species seemingly evolving back into an apelike existence.