I'm getting into music production using an all-digital FOSS toolchain with only a Suno subscription and some second-hand Midi Controller hardware as the proprietary stuff. I use Suno as a source of inspiration and foundations for own tracks. What newest 5.5 model of Suno puts out, even in written and sung lyrics, is absolutely impressive. Media production is a field that's being turned on its head by generative AI and the most impressive case for that is about 80% of stuff Suno has put out for me in the last 10 weeks. If there is anything sustainable about how Suno is doing its thing, entire production pipelines in the music industry can basically get ready to shut down. I've seen sound engineers turn speechless listening to what Suno does with their raw material in less than 5 minutes for a process that would take some pro an entire week and even then not quite reach the level of quality.

Given that every cord and cadence has been played and (re)discovered probably hundreds or even thousands of times I wonder if anyone has a case against their AI or could argue that Suno is not original in the same way humans are. But other than that, as of today modern digital music production has basically ceased to be a job IMHO.

EVERYONE "just use their mental skills to justify whatever conclusions they arrived at NOT using these skills".

You can't reason without starting from axioms accepted for some other reason. And nobody really knows what their axioms are. This is all a matter of degrees. Some people's conscious thoughts are more consistent than others...and that's about as far as you can justify. (But I tend to think more highly of those that agree with me.)

Based on what you've written, your PayPal experience is largely as a payor, and not a payee. That's certainly the most common case.

The other side of the transaction is very different. PayPal is heavily biased toward the former. That's a problem, because PayPal is quite unforgiving for payees. A big part of the problem is that payees are often ignorant, reckless or outright criminal, and their heads are often filled with small-business-person shit. People think they're clever or take things for granted with PayPal and get caught: accounts get frozen or shut down when people fuck around, and people do a lot of fucking around.

They frequently don't see it as fucking around. But that's a chronic condition, especially for business folks. You'll notice the lack of details seen from PayPal haters. When they do share, you'll learn all about how fast PayPal picks up on all the screwball things people try to pull, and how little patience PayPal has for the nonsense in the heads of these people.

PayPal isn't perfect. Handling money is complicated, and PayPal has made mistakes. But you can safely chalk up about 99% of the PayPal hate you see to payees that learned the hard way that their bullshit won't fly with PayPal.

I think a better answer would be for everyone to use the same time number, and adjust their hours of operation to fit local standards. For this I pick Zulu time for purely historic reasons, though it's really no better than any other arbitrary choice. And scrap leap seconds. Every once in awhile you might have a leap minute...either that or use leap microseconds as needed once/year...say at the spring equinox.

Yeah, let 6:00 AM be defined as the local sunrise time! (I live shaded by a hill at astronomic sunrise.)

Well, I really think running everything on Zulu (Greenwich) time makes more sense. The number you put on the time is arbitrary. It's not like schools consider the schedules of the parents anyway, and everything that's automated runs 24 hours/day.

Well, time zones make sense unless you want to run everything on Zulu (Greenwich) time...which would have some advantages.

You're being silly. If the time is stable, then you'll set your hours to what it is. There's nothing special about the time number "10:00 AM". Businesses could have summer and winter hours if they chose to...at one time that wasn't uncommon.

Is that a problem? It feels uncomfortable, sure. But what's the legal take here?

... to begin with. Why I don't quite get is that many people seem to be unaware of how quickly LLMs will be optimized to run on quasi-regular hardware, not needing the insane datacenters primarly used for training. AI _is_ a revolutionary tech, no doubt, but there also is a bubble that likely is about to pop.

Well, I can think of some uses if it were actually up to the job. I'd often like to have it read something to me, but it would need to be able to understand the emotional background.
E.g.:
Strange thing are done neath the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold,
The arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold,
(etc.)

Or possibly have it read me The Lord of the Rings. And I have some fond memories of the radio program "X minus one".

But I *really* doubt that current AIs are up to that.

You don't have to like the forecast to track it against the news reports. (Of course, the news reports are often just PR, and you need to weigh that in.)

This.

Culturally it would have been a big shift, even given the talent they have, but they just don't have the courage of leadership it would have taken to do this. It's been 60+ years since IBM had that, when they bet the company on the 360. The PC doesn't count; that was essentially a side project for IBM. They didn't create the hardware or software for it, and the companies future wasn't riding on it.

It's a part of their business, but not a majority of it, even before AI. They've added AI coprocessors to their Telum CPUs for their Z series platform, but it's not a significant player in the world of AI money. More of a checkbox me-too thing that probably will be of use for legacy customer applications, but no one is building data centers full of Telums to compete with OpenAIAnthropticGoogleEtc.

The brainstem is probably rather invariant between people. That's an area where differences are likely to be fatal.