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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Maybe this is the big filter, the one from the Drake equation and the Fermi Paradox that destroys civilizations before they can spread past their own planet. Not nuclear bombs or viruses or AI or grey goo nanomachines but overcoming the fact that the worst garbage of the species rises to positions of power because they don’t have any morals that would slow them down or give them pause for thought before exploiting the rest of the species in any way possible.




  • Neither the position to keep all the old solutions because they are old nor to adopt all the new solutions because they are new is sensible.

    Some old solutions worked in the past and don’t work anymore because the actual world around us changed (the bits outside our control, e.g. some resources might be more sparse but were more plentiful in the past, human populations are larger, the world is more interconnected,…).

    Some old solutions appeared to work in the past because we didn’t have the knowledge about their flaws yet but now that we do we need new ones.

    Some new solutions are genuine improvements, others are merely sold by marketing and hype.

    Some new solutions have studies, data or even logic and math backing them up while others are adopted on a whim or even contrary to evidence or logic.

    We can not escape the fact that the world is complex and requires evaluation on a case by case basis and simplistic positions like “keep everything old” or “replace everything old” do not work.




  • Copyright has always been a stupid law in the digital age. Copying is an essential part of many processes. The focus on individual copies has been nonsense for decades when the real focus even for those short term licenses (and I agree with you there) should be who is allowed to use the content and for what purpose (e.g. public showing to large crowds might be more expensive than common friend or family groups at home). Also, pretty much anything about copy protection is complete nonsense in the current laws.

    We also desperately need to prevent companies from using that monopoly to prevent older works from being available by having the copyright and not publishing the work anymore since this is killing our cultural history.




  • I think music might actually be truly different here compared to most other forms of art because music truly is relatively simple in a lot of genres, at least the bit from having lyrics and emotional annotations to the actual song. It will never do anything truly revolutionary of course, that is what human musicians are for but if you just need a new song in one of the more repetitive genres and don’t want to learn an instrument or how to sing to put your hand-written lyrics to music I can see AI actually working well here much in the same way music in the past had to deal with the introduction of synthesizers, MIDI,… which automated large parts of the process already.