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Comment Re: Some eat it up (Score 1) 83

Yep. The  political consequence is something called LAWS, and the social consequence is called civilization. Tell other folks how they will behave --- that's the essence of civilization. Some people don't like that meme. WE identify  them as savages or Randists or thugs or anarchists or fans of the noble savage.  Long-term successful cultures minimize those group within the general population ... most humanly by education, but other options exist.

Comment Re:Why opposed? (Score 1) 83

Hard not to be tainted if only for a few minutes;  AI-slop videos are rarely marked as such. I know this first hand, from frequently  viewing video-content at my assisted-living facility. About 2/3 fiction/history/biopic/music  vids are clearly AI generated -- there's a cloying , skanky  visual smell to them that's unmistakable --  but only 1/10  are marked as  "synthetic" product. Bet the same is true at hospitals and products of so-called home  "streaming video" services.
In the day, didn't Milli-Vanilli try an analogous lip-sink skank at their live concerts?

Comment Re:So start processing the tailingslike F-35s .. (Score 1) 85

by noshellswill (#65610436) Attached to: US Is Throwing Away the Critical Minerals It Needs, Analysis Shows
Self-provision  of critical raw materials makes America safer, physically and culturally. Those minerals ought to be treated financially like F-35s and aircraft carriers. So basically  extraction/processing price is no object. Of-course that self-sufficiency screws sociopath  mercantile globalists, but they deserve every ounce of pain. Mebby instead of creating trading companies those sharpsters will creative manufacturing companies. BIG difference. 

Comment you're N Korean! (Score 1) 34

Bad mouthing worker validation ? Bloomers ruffled?  Sounds like spew from a North Korean/Chi.com digital infiltrator.  You can "smell"  their slash-dot posts like a leaky septic-tank.   A guild/craft/trade  person working from home appears natural and efficient and robust.  Not so much for employees of a large company.

Comment Re: Imagine (Score 1) 53

by noshellswill (#65605902) Attached to: Meta Freezes AI Hiring
You forget that too much free-floating capital stifles economic  growth. Investors and entrepreneurs get sloppy. Too many un-supportable/unproductive companies take up resources including IP that would do more if better targeted. Financials run on The PETER Principle ...   where every fool has a chance ... do not produce maximum value. Creating value is extraordinarily hard , and few can perform the task. That's why a well-managed financial culture produces so few wealthy people.

Comment tying dry-flies (Score 1) 50

I'm retired from academia. My friend  a dry-fly tying expert was making an excellent living 30 years ago, and tells me he intends to drop dead with a plume of cockatoo feathers  in his right hand. His production calendar is full 3-months in advance. Bet the same true for most craft producers.  Peons buy paring knives at Costco, but I know this old guy in Ohio .....

Comment Re:I remember when.... (Score 1) 156

Surely if you were legally allowed to sell ONLY what you produced, the the unproductive middle-man/scalper gets a well-deserved azz- fucking. Only the performer/team gets proceeds from the sale of their service. About buyers ... if you build it, THEY will come. Don't want to wait in line or visit the "guild office"? Then do without. A production based culture is far more desirable then a consumer based culture.

Comment Re:We passed peak total world IQ a long time ago (Score 1) 243

Yep, for speaking the plain truth about genetic memes , slash-dot woke bastards karma-ed you zero (0). Happens all the time and has happened to me. Eventually an editor needs be contacted to change karma rating, but much evil occurs on Slash-dot before that change happens. Carry on.

Comment overpopulation ending (Score 1) 243

Earth now probably supports 10x as many people as ideal. The lowering birthrate ( among rational people ) will fix that over-population over the course of several centuries or sooner, if the decay-rate goes exponential.  Anyhow good-for-us. That decay time will also allow human intuition &  interactions to evolve more in step with our mechanical tools; admit it, if birth-control drugs exchanged societal status with nuclear weapons  the median human would have a better life ;  I suspect  almost everyone would. The only people  really screwed by  population decay are those sociopath power-mongers  who squeeze value from "surplus" humans ... that is, enslave those who cannot do for themselves by free exchange.

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