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A similar true argument!

Ok boomer.

Make universities pay for this.

https://ronnysalerno.com/queencitydiscovery/2022/10/the-worl...

Useful for what?

How is it possible to build an accurate computer model to make this prediction?

A jury will probably decide the AI company's level of responsibility at trial. It is an open question til then!

How did taking it benefit other people?

They're customers.

Technically they aren't studying film! The article notes that the professors won't outright fail them, so these students just getting a degree without doing any work. Which in turn makes the degree credential a useless signal.

Art isn't for everybody.

"Information density" is not what works of art provide.

The low marginal cost also means that the job market is easier for software engineers in times when expectations are optimistic.

Kansas universities, like other colleges and universities, receive federal funding and student loans.

Faculty work products including syllabi and their research should be considered work-for-hire and owned by the public, since we pay their salaries.

If anything, it's maybe even more worth doing this in the age of LLMs since "nobody is going to read this" is probably no longer true!

LLMs are likely more attentive readers than most human beings and in a way a blog might achieve even greater reach by virtue of being read by an LLM and incorporated into its "understanding of the world." (Or whatever is the right metaphor.)

The cap is also a promise.

Kant said it first! https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-reason/

How often is the "news content" misrepresenting its sources?

AGI achieved internally.

Sounds like "memetics" gives agency to writing as a thing independent of human beings doing writing, which is an interesting frame but also untrue.

Sounds profoundly anti-humanist.

This is a good way for these books to signal what they are like to their readership (bad).

Also, because of the expensive infrastructure that can only be used by trams, there’s a permanence there that prevents future politicians from ripping it out to put more cars on for a quick political win with drivers.

This is definitively not true. It's something people said about the Washington, DC streetcar and it turns out they are about to remove the streetcar in order to replace it with buses:

https://www.railwaygazette.com/light-rail-and-tram/dc-street...

https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/surrounded-islands/

In this vein, people might be interested in reading about the Dawson City Film Find!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_Film_Find

In 1929, Clifford Thomson, then employed by the Canadian Bank of Commerce and also treasurer of the hockey association, solved the problem of the library's stock of film and the inadequate ice rink. Thomson took 500,000 feet of film and stacked the reels in the pool, covered the reels with boards and leveled the rink with a layer of earth. The DAAA continued to receive new nitrate films which would later fuel the destruction of the entire complex in a fire in 1951. The films stored under the ice rink were preserved by permafrost and were later uncovered in 1978 when a new recreation center was being built.

Literate enough to insinuate that the report is worth critiquing; not literate enough to do the critique.

English lit as a discipline has pretty strongly repudiated the discipline of "close reading" (and the "New Criticism" that buttressed it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism) in favor of whatever else it is that English professors now do in classes, so it's not surprising that...

The competent readers in our study... constituted 38 percent (or 32 of the 85) of our subjects

Seems like there's a strong case for moving English 101 type classes, which are required and very heavily subsidize the existence of English departments, into Communications or elsewhere.

Those interested may also really like this article about the cinematography of _Days of Heaven_: https://theasc.com/articles/photographing-days-of-heaven

My work became "de-illuminating," that is, removing the false and conventional light.

This book is particularly great about discussing the process of filmmaking, which in Malick's case often seems to involve a ton of experimentation through editing in order to shape a film after photography had finished.

(Some of this editing work notably led to major actors having their roles cut from films. Adrien Brody, for example, apparently believed that he was going to have the lead role in _The Thin Red Line_ but ended up entirely cut.)

For those interested, Richard Brody's book about Godard and Carrie Rickey's book about Agnes Varda are similarly detailed about the specifics of their filmmaking work!