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by jowea | 2025-06-03 13:22:26+00:00
The big distinction is that the cheaper AIs will crowd out the humans out of the market, so mass market commercial art will be made by AIs if it is possible to produce that art. But some people will still want non-AI art, which I believe will be focused on less commercial focused art sectors.

> Music, for example, is an incredibly commercialized art. Replacing every song or album I have ever purchased with AI generated facsimiles is also an incredibly depressing thought.

And just to be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong.

> I would hope people still find value in painting, especially in a world with photography.

Sure, people do, but it is now a hobby for some and high art for a smaller number of professional painters, but the market willing to sustain a large number of professional painters doing portraits is gone.

> That is even ignoring the strained nature of this analogy. The context of the original quote was in a discussion of the inherent plagiarism of AI. Photography wasn't invited by stealing painters work.

I think the analogy is relevant because I am discussing the plagiarism of AI in relation to the economic aspects of copyright infringement and the impacts on the market for artists and SW devs. Not in relation to the moral rights[1] of authors. The issue of artists being annoyed on principle, not on economic effects, that some souless computer is producing plagiarist art that imitates their artstyle without attribution is a separate but closely related issue. I'm not sure but I think the article is more concerned with the former issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
by lolinder | 2025-06-03 13:23:07+00:00
Anecdotally, I've recently felt far more threatened by e-bikes in NYC than I ever have by cars. Cars in NYC are nuts, but they're a competent kind of nuts. I've never had one get even close to me, and that's with me jaywalking as much as any local.

E-bikes are a totally different story. They'll shoot through narrow streets twice as fast as the cars do and blitz through stop signs without even slowing down. There have been multiple occasions where I was nearly hit by one of them.

They seem to think that because they're smaller they don't need to care as much, but at the relative speeds of cars and bikes on those narrow streets I'm pretty convinced they'd do more damage to me than the 5-10 mph car would.
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by jeroenhd | 2025-06-03 13:23:48+00:00
Something often ignored by articles like these: you can still use Windows 10 safely past the 10 year support period, if you pay for additional updates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended...

Realistically, many people will use registry hacks and other forms of piracy to get those updates for free, of course, just like people did with Windows 7. Only businesses or people afraid of viruses will pay, but that's probably enough for Microsoft.

I find it quite confusing to seemingly target people still unaware that Windows 10 is going out of support, but also list FTP/SSH/git/SVN integration as a feature. The people who use version control probably know what alternatives are or aren't available (even if they'd rather not need to find an alternative).
by killerstorm | 2025-06-03 13:23:50+00:00
It seems it was originally written to be provocative and might not reflect author's views, as author have himself produced a lot of computer art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieder_Nake#Art_career

I think something missing in the article is role of art as a way to communicate meaning. Perhaps it's deliberate, i.e. author wanted to provoke people into talking about that aspect.

Obviously, art is part of the broader culture and it is one of the ways people update the collective unconscious. With computers entering human life, and thus culture, people need to make sense of computers. And "computer art" is a part of it, and it's part of the discussion about originality and individuality, so it definitely should be (if anything should be at all).
by piltdownman | 2025-06-03 13:23:55+00:00
What a wonderful bit of satire.

To those that missed the joke - 'consuming' the classics is the antithesis of a liberal arts education. The value lies in the engagement, the debate, the Hegellian dialectic involved in arriving at a true grok level understanding of the text or topic.

It would be akin to reading the Sparknotes of Ulysses and being able to reference how it draws heavily on Homer's Odyssey, or utilises stream-of-consciousness narrative to great effect; and thinking that, as a result, you have the faintest understanding of the text, its conception, or its impact.

The OP almost hit on this with the 'Listen to all the online lectures from Oxford,Yale,MIT etc...'. Unlike coding bootcamps or similar, universities are not VOCATIONAL TRAINING - no matter how skewed towards that end-goal the American Economy is dictating such. As just about any Educator can attest, no amount of listening to youtube lectures will replace the University experience, nevermind the Oxbridge/Ivy League experience.

The pedagogical benefits are simply unrealisable from an AI prompt 'streamlining'- i.e. being forced to read and engage with topics outside of your comfort zone to maintain your GPA, engaging and working with people from a diversity of outlooks and backgrounds, benefitting from the 1:1 and small group sessions with the Academics who often wrote the literal book on the subject in question.

If the intersection of JSTOR and Machine Learning didn't reduce humanities to Cory Doctorow level script-kiddyism, the hoi polloi throwing prompts into a hallucinatory markov chain isn't likely to advance or diminish Academia anymore than the excess of 'MBA IN 5 DAYS!' or '...for Dummies' titles previously available.
by emamoah | 2025-06-03 13:24:12+00:00
The fact that you'd use that number to automatically disqualify candidates is just insane. It doesn't give you a globally objective measure of a person's performance, because, like I stated, it depends on the competition in their particular group.

I could objectively be better at math than John from another school. But MY school is extremely competitive, so I'm probably in top 20%. But John doesn't have much competition in his school, so he might be in the top 10% in HIS school. But your system will reject me because I'm in the top 20%, and probably accept John because he's in the top 10%. Total absurdity!
by addicted | 2025-06-03 13:24:14+00:00
> Anecdotally (London not NYC) I feel like I am "endangered" by e-bikes much more often than cars

Speaking of NYC, not London, there are several reasons I see for this. 1. NYC has used bike lanes as pedestrian safety infrastructure, siting the bike lanes right against sidewalks, providing a buffer from cars. NYC DOT has done a lot of research every time a new bike lane has been added, and every time they did that pedestrian deaths and severe injuries dropped. However, the flip side is that you're gonna have e-bikes much closer to you than cars.

2. Street infrastructure, including red light timing, etc. is entirely based on cars and not bikes. The bike lights, for example, switch directly from green to red, providing no "yellow" period to stop. This actually makes sense because bikes are significantly safer, but it leads to different behavior than cars, which some pedestrians feel is "unfair". What would actually be fair would be to design the infrastructure suitable for bikers as well.

3. Pedestrians simply have different expectations of cars/ebikes. You will reliably see tourists not even look for bikes while crossing the bike path and stand in the middle of the bike path or walk in the bike path in a way they never would with a car lane.

4. Bikes are just given much poorer infrastructure. In NYC, you have narrow bike lanes, several of which are interrupted with slick and dangerous sewer gratings, and with no space to pass, with car parking right next to them leading to people constantly hopping through the bike lane from their cars to the sidewalk without looking, constantly creating a danger of opening their doors without looking causing bikes to be "doored", etc.

There's way too much "feels" in this discussion. It's about time someone provided some actual data that bikes, and even e-bikes, have even slightly increased risks to pedestrians, when all the actual data suggests otherwise, and it's about time we recognize that at least in places like NYC, the "danger" caused by bikes/e-bikes, is literally because the city has made bikers a buffer to protect pedestrians from the actual dangers on the road, the 1-2 ton cars traveling at incredible speeds through dense urban areas.
by HenryBemis | 2025-06-03 13:24:34+00:00
Or.. to counter that. How many people are working there, and how many people own that company? What is your 5-10-50 year strategy? Get a $20k salary per month till the end of time and live a long happy life, or sell it to GigaCompany for $1bn and go buy an island and retire at the sweet age of <insert_your_age>? Do you plan to expand? Milking the customers for as much as you can is a great(?) idea, but risking your customer base "because I want to go from $100k salary per month to $101k salary per month" is reckless imho.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-06-03 13:24:38+00:00
Even the original extreme proposal had wide support. The changes were offered only after Germany with Poland were against it IIRC. This is the state as of December 2024.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/sig...

I don't like that Opposed / Abstaining are both green. Abstaining means they don't care.
by l11r | 2025-06-03 13:25:00+00:00
> Trump has been openly playing with the idea of a third term

Because Trump is just a blabbermouth. Sorry, but people are just indoctrinated from both sides. You can check prediction markets and see the real odds of Trump not leaving the office. Yep, there is a chance, but IMO it's around 5% max.

> I don't understand where you're getting the idea of comparing with ...

Yes, I understand that US has democracy crisis. And so has the Europe! The problem is that there are no longer healthy examples in the world, except maybe smaller countries. Democracy as a thing is dying, but US are still holding the torch IMO.
by genewitch | 2025-06-03 13:25:07+00:00
Cool, not who you replied to but this is a cool idea, another way to archive pages. Gotta compare it to singlefile and headless chrome - I've been looking for a faster way to get a snapshot of a webpage via a chatbot (like in discord or matrix). Used to use Firefox headless, but large pages/slower sites would time out the api.
by iflores12 | 2025-06-03 13:25:23+00:00
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by benregenspan | 2025-06-03 13:25:25+00:00
One other thing that might feed into skepticism is that, for the average person who does not actively choose to use LLMs, the most regular LLM interaction is likely to be with AI Overviews in Google search, which are generally a pretty unfortunate experience. For example my last search with an AI Overview, for interpretation of blood pressure reading, resulted in the output: "Systolic pressure (top number): 123 mmHg, which is within the normal range of less than 120 mmHg".

The fact that LLMs can generate this kind of output is not incompatible with the OP's argument about how useful they can be when combined with agents and code review. But search is the lowest-friction way for anyone to interact with LLMs currently, and right now it's a pretty poor advertisement.
by markx2 | 2025-06-03 13:25:29+00:00
The issue with "The number of games you have played" is the card collecting. Right now ArchiSteamFarm is running on my laptop and is 'playing' games to farm the cards. Cards which I will sell around the Winter Sale and that money will buy me a game or two. It's also the reason that the "Year in Review" stats which Steam produces are, for people like me who farm cards, are fairly pointless. Amusing though. I do get that the stats are useful for people who do not farm cards.

The other issue around the 'buying' of a game is bundles. If I see a bundle in which I want one game and not the others then if the bundle price is lower that the wanted game price, and it always is, then I'll buy the bundle. I might redeem the other games to my account for card farming, but I'll gift to Steam friends if they want them.
by alecst | 2025-06-03 13:25:42+00:00
Yea I partly agree I guess. I am a cyclist in NYC and there are definitely "e-bikes" that present more like motorcycles and people drive them over the Queensboro Bridge bike path which is like 3 feet wide. It's crazy. I'm surprised I don't see more streaks of blood on the concrete there to be honest.

So I would like to see better e-bike laws that make it illegal to have a machine that's too heavy and/or fast, and to issue court summonses to people operating those machines in bike lanes. That seems fair. It's a clear hazard, it's a selfish use of resources, and if everyone did it they'd just close the bike path altogether because it'd become unusable.

Having said that, that's not what the city is doing. They're fixated on cyclists running red lights and stop signs, not distinguishing between different kinds of bikes. Bikes, and e-bikes, are safer than cars for everyone around them. We want to encourage people to bike more and drive less because they're so much safer. (Remember a bike isn't like a car -- if a cyclist hits a pedestrian, they're gonna get hurt too!) For this reason, many states allow bikes to treat red lights as stop signs and stop signs as yield signs. So NYC's sudden shift in policy, to me, feels backwards.

It sucks because if safety was really the major concern the mayor could have just built more and safer bike lines -- which was what he promised to do, made a plan to do, and then just didn't.
by Trenthug | 2025-06-03 13:25:58+00:00
This is a theoretical framework I've been developing to define consciousness using principles from information theory and algorithmic complexity. The idea is to measure conscious states in terms of their information-processing structure — using bits rather than normalized entropy — and to distinguish between conscious, schizo-conscious, and unconscious states as formally different information objects.

I’m especially interested in:

Whether this aligns with or diverges from models like Integrated Information Theory or predictive coding.

How this approach could interface with machine consciousness or computational neuroscience.

Feedback — especially criticism or alternative formulations — is very welcome. I’m treating this as a living model open to revision.
by lukan | 2025-06-03 13:26:02+00:00
A) land mines are banned in most countries for that reason

B) mines don't move by themself, but stay where you deployed them

A moving autonomous killer drone has a potentially bigger effect if unleashed on the wrong area. Besides, war is usually fought in civilian areas. If you send the drone to the frontline, but its GPS is jammed, it might move somewhere close by.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-03 13:26:12+00:00
So there's so many cops in your area that they have some dedicated to just policing bicycle laws? Or is your area one of those where "with all other crime being solved..." that they are now policing bicycle laws?

In my area, bicycle cops are the officers on bicycles, so of course they've ridden bikes before. In my area, officers that enforce bicycle laws are just, you know, officers.
by netsharc | 2025-06-03 13:27:21+00:00
Sun Tzu says it better:

"A military operation involves deception."

He could be telling the truth, he could be lying... A drone programmed to automatically boot up , check its location, and if it's at the right coordinates, take off and crash at some other coordinates (the airfield) is more satisfying to "fans" of automated warfare.

For extra fun, add some other code to "look for plane-like objects to crash into", but now you're approaching dangerous territory of "What if a civilian 737 happens to be boarding at this airfield"...

The reports also mention the truck roof opening remotely, one could also use GPS coordinates to trigger this. But doing it manually from a distance, after checking the surveillance cameras that the coast is clear, is more reliable.

I guess they used smartphones and SIM cards with mobile data for the remote communication...
by j33zusjuice | 2025-06-03 13:27:25+00:00
OK, that last sentence would be incredible. I think this is tongue in cheek, but I was an English lit major so I feel the need to defend my honor. XD

I don’t think you’d do well in 400-level classes this way. English Lit isn’t as much of a joke as STEM students make it out to be[1]: it gets a lot harder than the bullshit 101/201 courses everyone is required to take. You’re supposed to try to be original in your analysis, and it has to be rigorously proven within the text itself.

Probably as a grad student you’d start arguing against other critics points, but not undergrad. I think that would hold for almost all schools because no one at that level in that field wants to hear from someone who doesn’t know how to analyze a text in the first place. It’d be like a high school student trying to tell you about software (or systems, network, data, etc.) engineering.

For similar reasons, AI summarizations for past contributions wouldn't work, either. If you’re arguing someone else’s analysis is wrong, you’re going to need to read and understand the whole thing. And if you’re just copying from AI, you’ll have a hard time defending your position.

Although, man, if you can understand the subtext of a book from listening to an audiobook *while gaming*, AND you have time to watch all the online lectures about a book!? I need to talk to you about time management, my friend!

1 - I have been involved in so many forums and subreddits where people try to analyze books, comics, TV, or movies. Based on what I have seen come out of people there —- most of you MFers couldn’t pass 300-level classes.

People can’t analyze literature for shit, and I think it’s because everyone gets such a negative perception of literary analysis because high school and required college classes are junk. It’s actually really hard to read five novels in month, keep track of all the characters and plots and themes and so on, and understand all of them well enough to write a coherent argument. I saw so many kids in my major crying about their GPA getting tanked because they weren’t ready for rigorous analysis. FWIW, I was 25 as a Junior (third year of uni, in the US), and had spent the last few years reading exercise physiology papers while bored at work. Seeing real science changed my life, and I wanted to apply their level of rigor to my own analysis of any kind. It’s why I’m good at my job now, tbh.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-03 13:28:37+00:00
I'll get on my soapbox every time to also point out that a fareless system is also cheaper for everyone to operate. Operating and maintaining fare systems costs millions of dollars (hundreds of millions when they upgrade the system), enforcing and gating fares reduces system efficiency. Rolling those costs into taxes instead will always cost less than collecting at point of operation.

Fares are already too low to cover operational costs, so at this point it's practically theater.
by jeffbee | 2025-06-03 13:28:43+00:00
Vaguely interested in what the hypothetical Dutch Protocol could be, though.

As a cyclist in Boston you might not be aware of the overwhelming popularity of electric bikes in New York. Between Citi Bike and the delivery guys they are by far the dominant variety of bike. At this point it's wrong to think that electric bikes are stepping on the turf of the analog bicyclist.
by colanderman | 2025-06-03 13:28:54+00:00
Thank you for your perspective.

I've pondered but haven't been able to figure out the right solution to this in general, as I'd love e-bikes to displace cars as the dominant means of transport. Maybe a 3rd differentiated lane?

The closest similar vehicle I can think of is the motorized scooter (e.g. Vespa). They can't (and shouldn't) be allowed in bike lanes. But they're too slow for all but dense cities. In my region, I know famously they're the source of lots of contention on the island of Martha's Vineyard (which has few if any bike lanes).

But, in the States, most places that have dedicated bike lanes are dense cities. Vehicles can't legally or practically drive much faster than 30 MPH (~45 kph) anyway. Even as a pedal cyclist I can usually keep up with traffic. So it's largely not a problem here yet for the larger e-bikes to stay in the car lanes.
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-03 13:29:20+00:00
If your first thought is that eBikes are dangerous, please keep a few things in mind:

eBikes can be dangerous, OK, we get it, but this discussion is about the uneven enforcement. If this is about keeping peds safe, why are drivers of automobiles not getting this treatment?

They're giving court dates to riders of normal bikes as well.

It comes down to who usually rides eBikes. They're trying to get the working poor into the criminal justice system. I guess quotas aren't being met now that weed is legal.

One person described bike lanes as a war on the working class, yet the bikers interviewed who got hit with a summons were gig workers or construction workers. Please don't fall into this trap of turning against the working class in service of the monied class. I assure you, the construction worker in the bike lane is just trying to the job site. They aren't starting a war.
by bombcar | 2025-06-03 13:29:28+00:00
Trains are much more dangerous than cars (bigger, harder to stop, even trams) but I don’t worry about them as much, because they rarely leave the rails and they’re easy to predict.

Cars are much more dangerous than bikes, but they rarely leave the lanes, travel in (mostly) known directions - though I’ve learned from experience to always look both ways even on one-way streets.

Bikes aren’t that terribly dangerous (though a pedestrian hit by an e-bike at 28 mph can be killed), but they’re entirely unpredictable and seeming appear as if by magic from directions you wouldn’t think possible.
by 4ad | 2025-06-03 13:29:43+00:00
Indeed, KDE is like Windows, which is sad, because I don't like the desktop metaphor, yet KDE is the only group that is concerned with usability and improves the system with every release.

I actually don't mind the GNOME metaphor... but they make it less and less usable over each release. Philosophically, what they are talking about sounds great, but pragmatically the system is just getting less and less usable. UX consistency is good, but not when it comes at the expense of functionality. Also, I don't like that GNOME has been ideologically captured by the extreme left.

Back in the day I ran WindowMaker and FVWM, but nowadays, with Wayland, HiDPI screens and expectations of integration, it is not a viable strategy anymore.