Papazsazsa

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by Papazsazsa 28d ago
It's not quite as simple as "if you have one of these you're a terrorist" of course; it's one indicator based on long-standing patterns, but never used as sole proof. AQ training/bomb-making manuals from the 19
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
Please define "real world day-to-day power"
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
There's no hard-and-fast rule of course – but there is a (broad, fuzzy) threshold. One need only look at the latest superhero reboot in which many true artists had their 'art' reduced to mere 'content'.
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
Author's argument is that when early humans painted, they weren't expressing an interiority they already had; they were engaging the creative process of reality directly. I disagree in the sense that reality includes the intangibl
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
Human society overwhelmingly rewards lying cheating and stealing. All you have to do is look at how we collectively measure success: wealth, status, position. It may seem like that due to the media amplification effect – but it really isn
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
Watching tech cannibalize itself is about as entertaining as watching Hollywood do it in the mid-2000s.
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by Papazsazsa 1mo ago
My take on the problems including cost sickness: 1) Supply/demand. There's actually a shortage of quality movies relative to what the market will bear, one need only look at the occasional breakout hit like Obsession to see that i
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by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
Winning what, exactly? The race to the bottom?
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by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
If you don't want to work in a Pinterest board: https://theselby.com/ https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/ https://www.worldofinteriors.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ap
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by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
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,
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by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
The focus on children needing their phones controlled is the correct instinct, incorrectly applied to a too-narrow group. Smartphones are fomes peccati .
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by Papazsazsa 2mo ago
The man is an icon. Reminds me of old internet, when activists we doing it for The User.
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by Papazsazsa 3mo ago
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.
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by Papazsazsa 3mo ago
Ignorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.
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by Papazsazsa 3mo ago
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
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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 cor
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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, ra
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
You have a voice. Don't give up.
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
The 'simple fix' to attacks on culture and institutions is obviously not "just stop reading the news" Apathy is for cowards.
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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 dis
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
Sturgeon's Law measures ratio, not volume :\
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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".
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
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, ma
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
I think it will matter more and more as the barrier to entry for content creation is lowered.
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
"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 field
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by Papazsazsa 4mo ago
This is a great insight. Taste is the human moat.

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