CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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I hate this "I got mine"/"I'll get mine" attitude. If I were wealthy, I'd gladly pay higher taxes to support social programs. Shouldn't that be the whole point of accumulating wealth - to be able to give back? It should be hard-coded into the very structure of society.

The whole point is that it's not really an old person problem. It's a poor person problem.

We rag on the boomer generation for sponging up all the wealth for themselves, but what gets lost is that this was also at the expense of large swathes of less fortunate boomers. They weren't just hoarding from other generations, they were hoarding from their fellow boomers. The exploitation class did not discriminate by age.

Tax the wealthy more, they won't lose any quality of life whatsoever, and the money they extorted from their fellow humans gets paid back to support them in their old age.

This isn't actually a hard problem to solve if you take greed out of the equation.

Sometimes you just have to work within the system that exists and promote change from within.

The conversation shouldn't be about restrictions as much as it should be about compensation. AI "art" like this only exists by ripping off original artists.

You're not wrong to compare this fanfiction.

In that light it's important to note that fanfiction writers don't have the right to make money off of their fanfiction without an explicit agreement with the original creator. This shouldn't be treated any differently.

AI creation is incredible in what it can do, but when it's this direct of a ripoff, the person it's ripping off should be granted a share of any money it makes. In this case, that person is dead, and I suspect Carlin didn't have a high opinion of inheritance and intellectual property estates, but it still feels wrong to profit off of the life work of somebody who was still around in your lifetime.

Your heart is in the right place, and I understand what you're saying. Impressionists have always been a thing. People who emulate the art styles of greater artists have always been a part of the culture, and should be.

But there's a critical difference with AI, because it is quickly approaching a point where it can create copies so high-fidelity that they are indistinguishable from the originals. Crucially, they will be doing this with a relatively small amount of actual effort from those who wield them. We need to put protections in place for original creators, or before we even understand what's happened, all of culture will be driven by AI-produced remixing, and as those technologies are controlled by mega-corporations, everything about art we hold dear will be sold to appeal to algorithms. It's not too late to put the brakes on yet, but that won't be true for long.

Honestly it came off on the level of a pretty decent impressionist. Not quite on Carlin's level, but evocative enough of his patter and sensibility to make me wish it was the real thing, and there were moments in it where I could almost pretend that it was.

Man, I miss Carlin.

Boy though I would love to hear Carlin's opinion on all this AI shit. I think he would get a perverse kick out of seeing himself poorly re-created in such a manner, but I also think he would tear to shreds the kind of people who think it's a good idea to use it like this.

This is precious.

It also contains the filthy words penis, vagina, scrotum, vulva, and gay.

There's a reason that there is such a tiny list of reasons for justifying this. It's supposed to be a near impossibility for anyone to have qualified for such a measure. And then there's Trump who just blasted himself right past that hurdle.

Hopefully what comes out of this is a rigid set of standards that any state has to meet before resorting to this in the future. It remains to be seen whether those strictures will come down in favor of Trump or not. They may well decide that he's met all the requirements for disqualification and he will be the benchmark (skidmark might be more accurate) going forward.

Considering the court is currently stacked with his own judges, I'm definitely not optimistic about them ruling against him.

It fucking sucks that politics steers the decisions of the highest court in the land, but that's where we are.

The fact that it's usually women doing the dumb thing is problematic, but these jokes are easily mapped onto whoever you want to denigrate. As a Montana, these were often jokes about North Dakota, and as the scion of a large Norwegian clan, I also often heard these as Sven and Ole jokes.

To me the latter is actually a funnier way to approach them, because it's two characters who everyone knows are dumb (and who are stand-ins for those people in your life who act this way) and you're not just blanket insulting a whole group of people.

Yeah, so was McCain until he got onto the ticket and every GOP puppet master shoved their arms up his ass.

"What's next?"

I'd modify the question to specify that each life is presented as a unique and compelling motion picture, each between an hour and four hours in length, of the sort that would be likely to win either critical acclaim or box office success (or both) at some point in the late 20th to early 21st century - and that I get to watch them in an unending variety of well-staffed and enthusiastically-attended movie theaters, with interesting companions who I can discuss the movie with for as long as I want to afterwards, with endless credit to spend at the concessions, and with no bodily needs like discomfort or fatigue.

Honestly, imagine watching Schindler's List, Come and See, and Jean Dielman a billion times over. And then imagine that those films are each several decades in length.

The prompt said that time freezes. No time = no pain.