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Wait y’all can pick the correct thing out of your pocket regularly? I’d say I have a 10-20% error rate. At least once a week I’m standing in front of the staff room door wondering why my car key is in my hand.

There’s really no difference between us

There is an important difference between reality and make believe.

I wonder what kind of performance bonus the republicans earn from putin if they can pressure the world’s 5th largest economy to leave the US.

not really, it makes the store lock everything up behind plexiglass creating more friction for paying customers too.

That’s not really harm in the way that hunger or poverty or lobbying against workers protections is harm. That’s more like a temporary inconvenience that doesn’t stop anyone getting what they need, right?

Stealing a physical item from a giant corporate store is also always morally acceptable.

Having power neurologically suppresses empathy. Therefor resources controlled by the powerful will on average be used more harmfully. Taking resources from the powerful reduces total harm done.

You will use a loaf of bread less harmfully than Walmart will use the profit from it.

Plenty of artists don’t make their art in that way. Most of the grand masters of the past had underlings who did most of the painting, and since Duchamp found objects have been considered valid art.

Cave art artist are definitely real artists, for sure.

As I said I don’t see any need to police who counts as an artist.

As a digital artist his brush is a stylus pen, but he can put that down and use a whittled burnt charcoal pencil, because they’re both largely brush-like objects. A prompt-wrangler can’t go into their backyard and whip up a midjourney-like object to use in the same way.

But I don’t think complexity of tools makes a real artist.

If the argument is that digital artists have learnt the skill of drawing and therefore count as real artists, well some percentage of prompt-wranglers can draw, and some percentage of conceptual, ‘outsider’ and other artists can’t draw.

Almost all professionally trained artists can draw, but I hope we can agree that professionally trained doesn’t = real artist either.

I think “plagiarists aren’t real artists” is a much sounder argument than this, but mostly I don’t think there’s much sense in policing who or what is a real artist. Even about stuff I don’t like.

I’m sure there are plenty of people who can both draw and type in prompts, just like there are plenty of people who can both draw and use Photoshop.

If you take away an artist’s brushes, they can’t make art without making new brushes.

All this example shows is that brushes are easier to make yourself than a LLM is.

I don’t like AI art, but I don’t think this particular argument proves anything meaningful.

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It’s genuinely hard to recognize when a rule that almost always applies doesn’t apply to the specific situation at hand.

Killing bloodthirsty rich people who are beyond the reach of the law and can’t be stopped any other way is a valid exception to the otherwise valid rule that murder is bad.

For all the fun-ruiners saying this is not uplifting news because his assets will live on, zombie-like, animating his feckless children as they continue to inflict their monstrous will on our country - shush!

Just let us have this ok? A few moments to celebrate the death of a parasitic aristocrat doesn’t seem like too much to ask.

It’s a great painting but yeah it does look like someone had to explain what a child is to the artist who’d never heard of such a thing and wasn’t really paying attention to the explanation.

Buying a 10 year old civic will always be more environmentally responsible than buying a brand new EV

I hear so few people talking about this fact. The middle and upper class don’t want to hear about any solution unless it involves buying status symbols.

Proving you’re morally superior to the poors is definitely the most important part of combating climate change.

If they’ve already proven they can steal and lie, of course they’ll get VC money.

I just strongly doubt that. Firstly, heaps of people would be dressing as aliens for Halloween and thus talking about it.

Secondly, there’s just way too many follow up questions, about them, their culture, their home, their tech, their goals, their language, their biology, the impact they’ve already had in our history, who knew and who didn’t, etc.

So many fields would begin looking into it and throwing up new angles and facts for people to chew over.

Just think of how much time christians would devote to converting aliens to jeebus.

Great news!

The town of Klamath is where you start in fallout 2. I could totally imagine that shaman from the starting village saying something about salmon swimming freely.

Threaded messages seems fine to me, as you said that usage is more well understood than threadiverse which risks conceptually-centering a billionaire controlled platform.

The existence of threads makes threadiverse an inappropriate name for fediverse content aggregators, is the point I was being overly sarcastic about.