Tag: skill-estate
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Motives vs motes
In response to the latest shift in UFO hemlines, smart people are speculating on the motives of aliens who send rockets a million light years through space and then crash repeatedly. We should first ask why WE wanted to play the space game in the ’50s and ’60s. It made no sense and had no…
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Bud Licht
Licht’s statements are remarkably candid and POWERFULLY TRUE. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the 15,000-word piece, he spoke disparagingly of the network’s staff and how they’d covered topics before he came on board. Mimicking their approach, he said: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID! Look at the case numbers! Look at this! Look at this!…
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Always missing the editor
Typical AI point-missing, neglecting the role of editors as usual. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the wake of artificial assistants, searching the “traditional” way will get thrown out as the internet totally transforms; nonetheless, it might take a while for AI to fully replace search engines like Google or Microsoft’s Bing. Until…
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Was Mabel traumatized?
Big Tech still relies on human judgment, but it CAN’T POSSIBLY TOLERATE hiring Americans and paying them decent money. So it hires cheap slaves in Africa. These slaves have a moral sense, unlike ChatGPT, and their moral sense is bombarded by constant contact with angry Americans. Why are the Americans angry? Because we’ve been kicked…
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Where are the guilds, part 435438543895
Art historians and teachers are noticing that AI is replacing real masterpieces in google searches. Forgery is extremely old. Galleries and museums have been fighting human copiers and forgers for hundreds of years, and they’ve usually won the fight. Why aren’t they even TRYING to fight against mechanical forgers? This is the key variable in…
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Authorship?
Another day, another point-miss. = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s estimated that 500,000 to 1 million books are published each year, and that’s excluding self-published material. The publishing market has become saturated, with the average book selling less than 200 copies. But suppose one person could “generate” not just a few books in…
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Skills != books
Randomly looking through old architect books on the web, trying again to find an equivalent to Grandma’s apartment building, a fourplex with a separate service hall. Previously I’d looked through my bookshelf of Dover plan books from that era, with no results. There are some fourplexes but no service halls. While googling, another aspect of…
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Not the best argument
Via MindMatters as usual: New AI systems have carved inroads into many industries, not least of all those involving voice and audio. Now the audiobook business is in trouble; since AI has the increasingly good ability to mimic the human voice and generate words, many voice actors and readers have watched the demand for their…
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He says what I say
Arthur Brooks gives the best possible job advice. This is especially important for Uncool people who are NOT going to get satisfaction from the social side of life. Brooks emphasizes COMPLETION: = = = = = START QUOTE: “Maybe you’ll work in your major — probably not. Maybe you’ll land your dream job — probably…
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What would be familiar 2
In previous item I noted that a 1950’s writer would find today’s Hollywood landscape mostly familiar. How about a 1950’s Teamster? Even more familiar. The head of Teamsters in LA is Lindsay Dougherty, who literally wears Jimmy Hoffa on her sleeve. She declares absolute Teamster support for the writers strike in language that Jimmy would…
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Assisted skillicide
The cost of outsourcing a skill is NOT a simple binary. Humans, and our nearest relatives birds, naturally make and use tools. It’s in the genes. When an object is too hard to reach or too heavy to lift, we find external ways to do it. More sophisticated automation has been around for a few…
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Why they fail
Small Christian colleges are collapsing. The NAZI TORTURE CAMP was the final blow, but most were already unsalvageable. Returning to the sieve theme. A few college courses are genuine training. The vast majority are selection devices to guarantee that only the most orthodox students get into top status positions. Christians no longer occupy top status…
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Sieve
The purpose of patents and copyrights is to block innovation, not to enable. The purpose of the current school system is to block most people from developing their skills, letting only the selected few percolate through the holes. Without school, most skills would be fully mature and experienced at 21. The old apprentice system accomplished…
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Classical symmetry
The Enid Postcards site runs a few hundred old pix in slow rotation, eliciting more or less the same comments every time. Repetition tends to bring out patterns. When I lived there I didn’t appreciate the SKILL of the bricklayers who turned out intricate and sturdy art on every wall, whether visible or not. Enid’s…
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QT, KYC, KYW
I’ve been having schadenfreudisch fun watching various accounts of Budweiser’s idiocy. Most people are focusing on the specific politics, but the problem is simpler. QE made it possible to ignore the BASIC RULES OF BUSINESS. Know your customers. Keep your customers. Know your workers. Keep your workers. In the era of profit, successful businesses followed…
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