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I didn’t like “static” and “dynamic” but they were the best words I could come up with quickly. Mostly I mean that the performative arts involve a physical skill component that will be hard to develop without the sheer hours. Introspection and character-building are also necessary but less primary, and the threshold for technical skill rises as the amount of originality required decreases. Compare standards for classical music and ballet to jazz and modern dance. The expectations for a top violinist or ballerina are essentially those of a figure skater or gymnast.

None of this is to say painting and sculpting don’t require skill, but I’m not sure Picasso or Van Gogh would’ve been able to show their genius if they had to be Bob Ross and do it live every time.

The article is about the creators of “static” art: writers, composers, and artists. Having a day job would affect actors, musicians, or dancers, much like it would affect athletes. The artistic fields that require “dynamic” performance need the hours spent on muscle memory.

I'm pretty sure that having to account for segfaults, keyboard interrupts, power outages, and other kinds of 'real world' exceptions that have to be caught means that the code might be deterministic but the computer is exposed to unexpected stimuli.

People probably act in a mostly deterministic when there are rules constraining them: sports, board games, social environments, lines. Maybe we are deterministic on a neurotransmitter level. But there's little control over external stimuli.

Education inflation is difficult to solve when assessing the value of “education/experience currency” means having to consider “exchange rates” between different fields (see CS vs ‘Computer Engineering’) and institutions (potential degree mill, boot camp, well known university?). The opportunity for arbitrage and dumping “education currency” into the market is really huge so long as we see “education” as a single currency rather than a collection of different ones. It would be insanity to treat all fiat currency as one unit of value, one country deciding to print more money directly causing inflation for the whole world. Why should education be treated any differently as a market?

Little late, but my two cents as someone who majored in a humanities field (although working in tech now):

Our lectures were almost always intended to be heard after doing the readings. They were comprised of helpful info professors knew from academic experience, not easily found in any print material. Relevant historical context was especially hard to pick up without knowing what exactly to look for.

I felt like my humanities lectures were more analogous to demos and labs in my STEM courses, learning that relies on a certain spontaneity and physical presence, even if not all of the material is strictly "necessary". As for a counterpart to my STEM lectures, I too would've been bored out of my mind listening to most humanities professors read our readings to us...

If you treat photos as pleasurable pictures, then machine-generated photos will serve fine (e.g. stock photos).

What if you replace "photos" with "music", "art", or "literature"? Sure, we will get to a point where a computer can write a symphony that fits all the characteristics of Beethoven, or write a stylistically accurate Shakespearean sonnet. But it won't have the weight of the artist's observations behind it.

Not quite IF, but reading Ulysses and retracing the protagonist's steps around Dublin is surprisingly common. Interactive but deterministic...

There was the whole Nest thermostat debacle recently, but no legal precedent as far as I know.

Real world usage would have to be curated though, awkward sentence constructions or word choices do happen in real world usage. Or as the article shows, there can be multiple, very different ways of fixing awkwardness. I'm not sure what it would look like to find a solution that's "fitted" to several of these.

Another user mentioned stealing IP, maybe the US is involved in similar activities (not necessarily targeting China) and doesn't want to be caught pointing fingers.

But politically, we had the Contras and Cuban exiles. It's not as if the US has clean hands.

Will there ever be an online "cultural institution of free speech"? Usenet was pretty close but the ISPs and government were able to tighten the clamps over illegal activities. There are some subreddits that could probably be shut down too.

Wouldn't an FBI seizure involve a gag order?

It seems like "security through obscurity" could only successfully combine with encryption if a critical mass of the population got onboard very quickly. But security-conscious users are just such a minority, even programmers have bad security habits.

Anecdotally, almost everyone I know is using Gmail or Yahoo for email, and has never heard of ProtonMail or Signal. They'd probably mark an email from @protonmail.com as spam...