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Winning what, exactly? The race to the bottom?

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One of my favorite family photos is us standing in front of a big banner we made with dot matrix printer celebrating my grandparents 50th (this must have been in the mid-late 90s).

It was so incredible to me at the time as a very young man, there was even fonts! I think it was Print Shop Deluxe for Windows 3.1/95.

The focus on children needing their phones controlled is the correct instinct, incorrectly applied to a too-narrow group.

Smartphones are fomes peccati.

The man is an icon.

Reminds me of old internet, when activists we doing it for The User.

You'll get hammered for this on HN, but the web was magical and weird with Flash around, and now it feels quite vanilla and boring. I long for the days of weird experimental art and goofy animations and bonkers UIs.

Ignorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.

Creativity = variation + evaluation + selection. It's not bad, though every example he gives has a built-in scoring function haha.

Best thing about nerds is watching them try and build frameworks and formulas for the creative act. Like a metronome trying to compose a symphony.

You're right to be tired of it, and of course I haven't tired these specific features yet, but Davinci was already lowering the barrier to entry for filmmakers, and if 21 works as they say it will, then you're looking at a major lowering of said barrier.

If you have baseline epistemic hygiene there's nothing wrong with using an LLM for advice.

If you have baseline epistemic hygeine you'd also recognized this as a B2B sales pitch: Axa sell group health, employee-assistance, and corporate wellbeing products.

There is a handover premium that you pay when you churn which often exceeds whatever savings you think you might find. Inertia and institutional knowledge are two of the biggest drags, not to mention morale, hidden costs recruiting fees, ramp time, and customer relationships.

It's fake bottom-line thinking that optimizes a few items while ignoring second and third-order effects.

Innumeracy with a finance vocabulary.

People stopped actually reading when we dropped classical liberal education, right after WWII.

This is merely the end-state of industrialization, which is efficient and soulless.

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You have a voice. Don't give up.

You can't prompt-inject the intangibles.

Now, Cannes specifically – and entertainment generally – is rife with hucksters and people who started off as hucksters only to later become credible. Culture jamming is often looked back on as innovative!

But the difference between this and, say, Adbusters is that Adbusters and artists in general tend to punch up, whereas this – regardless of merit – is looked at by other artists as punching down, simply because it doesn't carry any intangibles.

And art is intangibles.

Time, culture, sweat, friction, a personal POV; art is an inherently human-to-human communication tool anyway. When you strip all of that away you lose something, in the same way a Big Mac is not the same as your mom's spaghetti.

I think that AI filmmakers, if they believe they can make films of high critical and/or or commercial success, need to avoid engaging in culture jamming and take a more honest approach. "This is my chosen medium" and then develop in public while treating the intangibles as legitimate, instead of something to be hacked around.

The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news"

Apathy is for cowards.

If we separate the hype incentives from the actual product itself, I completely understand how seductive the tech is and how it can lead to a sort of mania. I myself have been up late into the night fiddling and building.

It's like discovering fire, which offers both utility and magic: you can cook your food and gather warmth, and you can also stare into it and tell stories and never be bored. We're probably genetically wired to gravitate things which have both function and form.

That said, there's a reason the manic witch doctor was never the chief. Leadership requires discernment: when to consult the witch doctor, when to jirga with the neighboring elders, when to draw the sword.

A chief knows what happens when you cut the tribe by a third "for efficiency", or the burn seed corn to feed the fire, or replace the sentries with golems. The witch doctor often ends up boiled in his own cauldron.

Sturgeon's Law measures ratio, not volume :\

The Federal-Aid Highway Act was built with local consent in most places, and modified by local control where consent failed.

Also there's no evidence that more data centers = "progress".

I love this. Yeah there's some FUD out there about water usage and whatnot, but using the internet to spread actual awareness about local concerns is a fine demonstration of free speech at work.

If slop is more expensive to produce, maybe there will be less of it clogging up the digital commons.

I think it will matter more and more as the barrier to entry for content creation is lowered.

"In cultural practice this process of minimal change takes two primary forms. First, we create stories and metaphors that map strange new experiences back to something we already understand."

This is quite common in creative fields as quick shorthand for a new concept. For example, in filmmaking you might introduce a new crime thriller as script as "It's like Michael Mann's Heat but set in the high finance world of *Wall Street."

Probably true for a lot of innovation programs. "It's like Reddit but for hackers"

This is a great insight. Taste is the human moat.

Interesting to see this on HN, I'd be curious to know OP's rationale, but I'm glad they posted it.

Film criticism itself has suffered greatly in recent memory; at the end of the day, whatever trouble a critic might have gone to to watch, process, and articulate their thoughts on a given film is now reduced almost entirely to a number on Rotten Tomatoes.

I use the internet but I don't trust it.

"Follow me: a day in the life of a soup line influencer"

The bottom line is that you can also compete by investing in quality.

It's certainly a lot less messy!

Good. The intangibles of art are undeniable.

- emotional connection

- aesthetics

- zeitgeist

- lived experience

- artist journey

You're free to fall in love with your sexbot, but it's still just jerking off.

The bigger question is constructive prohibition, i.e. can the government kill civil rights with a thousand cuts.

This opinion is mostly standing/housekeeping.

Here's a clean interpretation of the ruling https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/2...

And the actual ruling [pdf]: https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/0101...