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Franz Liszt is a Menace to Society and all those whose consider themselves Decent, Hardworking, Folk should warn their Children aginst[sic] him. Composition is of course a Good, but the competition is too steep, and if the Young seek to imitate the likes of him it will end in Tears. The Young should be guided, steered into more reliable, beneficial aspirations.

It really depends on the specifics of your life. I get a lot of mileage out of imagining what a more functional adult would do, then doing that (stupid example: <FUNCTIONAL ADULT> doesn't buy the cheapest shoes available and try to make them last 5 years while enduring back pain). It's hard to change quickly; sometimes decisions I made years ago (or that someone in my family made decades ago) throw a wrench in the works. I also took a big step back from various forms of ambition, in favor of building a solid, enjoyable life. I hope it gets better for you too.

the article does mention that the client rejected a similar approach. steganography seems like a bad choice for a museum setting where you don't own the images.

I definitely don't need an AI to write // TODO make this work. That's what I'm for!

I totally agree, but the person to whom I was replying probably does not.

Would you prefer that they would not prepare for unusual circumstances? This is what any serious organization does when there are real stakes. Smart people sit down and gather information, think about likely scenarios, and write a playbook, updated over time. Seems like your response is a knee jerk entirely based on the optics of the name.

The fed responding wrongly to a crisis, even a minor one, could cause enormous pain and suffering -- think famine. I don't have the expertise or patience to actually evaluate the contents of the document, but they are definitely doing the right kind of thing here.

Yes, and? Fools and their money, etc. No one is forcing people to pay these rates. If someone wants to buy one that's their business.

The internet is probably good on balance. The best thing to ever happen to humanity...forget it. The best thing to happen to humanity is most likely the practical harnessing of electricity for light and industry.

The continual popularity of Kraft cheese may bolster the argument.

Even humorless curmudgeons (like me) can get in on the action with a huge array of people to disagree with, act snobby to, and never before heard of stupid opinions!

By storing in a dry, cool place and cooking for long enough presumably.

Then someone will require a notarized statement of intent before you can read the recipe blog.

That's a interesting way of thinking of it, but a little limited. For most, the proof of work aspect becomes just another part of the the status competition. I think I'm a little more optimistic about the future.

Also, there's definitely web games (paperclips, kittens) and art in every media that are memorable and excellent to someone. That's kind of the point that I was making; the medium is part of the message, but many things can be presented in different ways, and mostly this doesn't detract from anyone else.

Fundamentally, I reject your model of art; I personally think the actual artifact should be the most important part. Anything else shouldn't even be considered as far as we're able, even though we are mostly status seeking monkeys who pay very close attention to every other monkey's status so as to increase our status.

I look at these things as essentially aesthetic preferences. There's certainly cases where a certain medium is the objectively right one for a task, but there's many others where it really just a matter of taste.

s/tenants/tenets/

This idea is interesting, but unfalsifiable with our current methods of understanding history.

Hey, speak for yourself, buddy.

More seriously, I think there's ample historical evidence that drugs (with a liberal definition, beer, etc) are very popular across various times and places.

I've had a similar experience in a long running survey. When I gave the "wrong" answers, the interviewer asked a bunch of questions and eventually told me to skip certain questions.

I'm not any kind of historian. Reading the works of those who are, is mind boggling. There is just so much history out there. 60 years of civil war, with heavy conscription...hard to imagine. Although future historians might look at our recent era as 80 some years of war, counting wwi-ussr dissolution.

Fast delivery not a daily need for most people, but the dopamine hit is huge, and it makes people buy more stuff. I think an underappreciated factor of amazon's success is how it makes normal people feel like they're the boss, who can slam their fist and get immediate action.

Personally, I feel similarly to you, that most of the time the difference between one day and 1-3 weeks shipping is negligible. However, I think that relies on certain assumptions; I buy most consumable items (food, sponges, soap, etc) in person and almost always have enough to last another month or without buying more. Not everyone does that, some are JITing their daily needs and/or don't have enough free time and energy to make sure everything is always set well in advance (think working single mom, kid needs dress shirt tomorrow for whatever).

This is why its a wonderful thing, an act of rebellion and of bravery, to create something, to love someone, to laugh and smile at another human being. Yeah, the world feels terrible. Smile anyway!

The military doesn't magically know what's going on better than random civilians, and in many cases is risk averse and paranoid, subject to hysterias and fads just as much as everyone else. They do have some non-public sources of data like air search radars.

All this to say, temporary airspace shutdowns don't convey any useful signal about the existence of uaps or foreign drones.

That's really cool that it exists / is possible. Maybe someone will create a similar service that undercuts them - but I would imagine the licensing agreements somewhat require them to do drm with the player / media server. 9k entry cost is going to keep essentially everyone out of the market - and much of that sounds like total bs costs, in no way related to the cost of the components.

> Do we want activist software engineers?

Regardless of whether "we" want them, we already have them, and that genie isn't going back in the bottle. In my view, every person has to decide their ethics and then act accordingly. The alternative is forcing people to accord with the principles of the employer or government or guild or whoever. There just isn't a coherent supermajority morality anymore - and no real path to one.

I don't have a solid object level opinion on the llm stuff. For the most part it seems like a tempest in a teacup to me. Some things will get easier, some things will get more annoying, and everyone will still have to get up and put on underwear one leg at a time.

An important corollary then is "it's not proof of work, it's a scam" :P

Sure, although I think there's room for reasonable people to disagree where to draw the line for various services. But taxi service? Seems way way out there in terms of costs and of minimal benefit.

That is indeed one solution to this "problem". However, maybe people who live in the sticks should just accept the tradeoffs that come with rural life? If you want next day delivery and taxi service maybe you should live in a place that has those? Not every service has to serve all people in all places and times equally. The government should absolutely not be mandating service levels across the whole US.

There's really not much an audience for human poetry either (if you exclude music lyrics).

Would you rather wash the dishes than enjoy a favorite book, or piece of music or whatever form of art best floats your boat? Seriously?

My nonaggregate quanta is electrical pulses in the ignition system, thankyou.

Sure; "consumption" in this sense almost always means buying legal goods and services. Some economics would say that someone buying something is by definition proof that it is a beneficial transaction. I wouldn't go that far personally.

Seems like you might be approaching this from a different perspective / this is a confusion over the mutual meaning of words. But the GP is basically a slogan or an axiom, not worthy of serious rebuttal.