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it's like what @k00b said in SNL: "I'd prefer the lifestyle of the fascists"
both are bad but i think living in a planned dystopia might be a better life than living in an unplanned dystopia?
if the state is destroying the free world (bitcoin), it isn't attempting to do it through martial law and overt warfare, but rather through sneaky, roundabout means
The way I see it is that everything exists on a spectrum including the state's ability to exercise control, and the people's ability to escape it.
There are limits to what the state can actually do, and martial law in western societies may be one of those things that they're unable to carry out successfully, at least in such a way that it helps their objectives.
It was always Huxley's dystopia we should fear more than Orwell's
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I'd argue we're already living in Huxley's dystopia... but it's even worse because in Huxley, the social control via entertainments was planned with a purpose, including reproductive purpose.
Buy in our dystopia, the social control via entertainments is a mostly decentralized phenomenon driven by economic interests and the frailty of the human mind
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For team abbrevations you should use the standard abbreviations used by the league. I think for the Suns it's PHO and for Warriors it's GSW
This you on Reddit, @Scoresby ?
All knowledge-producing professions are experiencing some similar angst. But just like the coders are finding out, AI-produced work has the feature of "looking good" while not always actually being good.... and it sometimes takes the human more time to check all that AI-generated work than if they had just done it themselves (or with AI-assisted tools) in the first place.
I am not sure what I would do. I'd find a way to tell the other kids' parents what happened. Second, i'd assess the degree to which my child "is their own person" and understands that this person's advice is not to be listened to. Third, I'd try to limit the amount of time they have alone together.
Heavy handed prohibitions of spending time together, like at school, I don't think would work.
How are we going to get past this? I do think there is something to an idea where creators who are earnest should pay people to read their stuff.
Personally I want to see the market play out some more before making any judgments on what "should be done". I'm not convinced that the people putting AI slop out are necessarily getting the rewards they want from it. It might die down, or people may find better ways to filter those out.
The site says "Imagined by _____", which to me is pretty much an admission that it was AI-generated, or at least heavily AI-assisted.
This reminds me of a time at a college-wide faculty meeting where one professor proudly declared that they had written a whole textbook simply by feeding their notes to a LLM. "I saved so much time," she proudly beamed.
I don't know how the rest of the room felt, but I was heavily cringing inside. I wondered whether she had even proofread any of the chapters. I wondered how her students were going to feel slogging through all that slop.
I really don't know what motivates people to want to produce something if their own hands didn't make it.
Fair, imo. I get tons of phishing emails saying that I won an award for a paper, and stuff like that. Not sure who they're from though
yes most political discourse of any kind needs a healthy dose of spectrum thinking.
I tend to think in terms of "which side of the hill are we on" rather than "who's right"