I’m suggesting that the choice between industrialization and skilled labor is a false one because China is industrialized and has a highly skilled labor force. I agree this is because of American owners seeking profit, but it seems the same won’t happen to China now that they’re industrialized.
Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?
Here’s a question: why don’t you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?
Back when search engines worked… Pepper Ridge Farms remembers
That makes it a commodity, not art.
their argument is so broad it ends up also applying ti things like photography.
That’s what you said, so I take it as: if I give a definition that includes Photography, it will be regarded as too broad. But I went ahead and gave you part of a definition anyways.
What I said is that Art is not a commodity. I will grant you that “wanting things” and “getting things” is a form of human expression, but it is not art, that is exchanging commodities. If you can express a Generative AI scenario where someone draws upon their “values” instead of their desires then you might have an example of art. So in your library scenario, what “values” are behind their desires for “digital art”? Or is this person just wanting a certain aesthetic?
Hold up, you think the definition of art is too broad if it includes Photography but not broad enough if it doesn’t include Generative AI? Based on that I don’t think it is possible to give you a reason you would accept.
This conversation of “art” reminds me of the difference between “value” and “values”: https://davidgraeber.org/articles/value-the-antropological-theories-of-value/
If someone want high quality digital art, teaching them crochet doesn’t help them.
This is a statement of “value” not “values”. That someone wants “digital art” but there is no connection being made to their “values”, they are simply getting what they want.
Art is not a commodity, AI is.
Enshittification is a paradigm shift, but not one we associate with the birth of the internet.
On to your list. Why does misinformation appear after the birth of the internet? Was yellow journalism just a historical outlier?
What you’re witnessing is the “Red Queen hypothesis”. LLMs have revolutionized the scam industry and step 7 is an AI arms race against and with misinformation.
LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.
At our library we teach people how to do art, including crochet. If the person is able to go to the library then they aren’t being gatekeeped from learning art.
My alternative? AI art isn’t even art so at this point we’re just debating what is a better skill: crafting or prompting.
What’s the end game here for the poor person who is too busy to have hobbies? They should work more to afford Generative AI art? Make it make sense.
Regardless of the team size, I say simplify as much as you can so you can dedicate your resources customizing what makes their business special. You mentioned a PBX system and no infrastructure, this makes me think you talking about Customer Management. It sounds like you’re documenting as you go, fantastic. Maybe loop in a noob time to time to review the documentation or have a Q&A that reifies the docs. Best of luck!
I think a concern for the business is whether other people can help maintain the system. As such don’t go too custom and roll your own. Take things like nextcloud and see if you can fit the requirements by bolting on a few docker services. Keep it simple by using “appliances” where it makes sense (dedicated NAS?).
Who needs IP laws when you have EULAs that bar competition? Certainly not corporations with their armies of lawyers.
I can’t take made up curves seriously
It amazes me how these people are basically a stereotype. Especially for all their talk about individuality…
I’m surprised it didn’t end as a crypto announcement
WDYM? Our Oligarchs are richer so obviously things are better, just not for us.
I lived through those times, this is different. The punishment for false hope is that the lesson that things can always get worse.
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die