Fair enough, I kind of brought the argument over from the original thread.

Agreed, but the extreme anti-position pretends that something they call "AI" cannot be part of the process and that's just self-evidently wrong. If I take a snapshot with my phone, is that "Art" or not? And if it has ML-based image processing , does that make it not art?

I used to be insufferable about how the US cultural response to the 60s protest movements was to commodify "protest" such that you could comfortably express your opposition to anything within a consumer framework. Now that's just the air we breathe (granted, worse on social media).

For games, I say around PS3 or 4 we reached the point that film was at by the 1950s, with sound and color and an established format that could endure. I think it's great because the technology can take a back seat to the artists - though we'll probably see a lot of formal innovation yet.

Good piece - I do see the AI bubble as most closely analogous to the late 90s Internet boom - a lot of "value" lost in the markets because we were throwing everything against the wall, but longer-term it was in fact funding a revolution in, well, everything.

I think that's right, and for that reason I think establishing "ICE can't wear masks" as black letter law is an important reform, it makes all that other shit harder. Also just good policy.

I really disagree, it looks to me like they put a lot of work into the shading/lighting/etc to give it a unique look while still leaning into the hand-drawn animation style. I was expecting more "Fortnite-ization" from your description.

I think if you're going to make this argument, especially in the context of the actual lawmaking process, you have to be more specific about what you mean. Will Noem say "fuck you I'm breaking this law"? Or "ICE agrees to honor it but some agents will go rogue"? Lotta daylight between these options.

The (mostly computational) chemists who were working on protein folding now have new, more challenging problems to work on, building on this work. There was no "replacement", only an amplification of existing effort, same thing with every machine since the wheel.

Ha, I was just thinking "if people don't shut up about Stancil, Faine is going to put big naturals and an Alf hog on him" and I guess I'm a little disappointed now.

My impression, just from watching ICE interact with and react to very neutral observers and bystanders with phones, is that ICE and CBP are extremely hostile to the idea of having their every move recorded. Wonder why.

This was THE key lesson of the BLM moment for me - police don't want to be reformed, ICE doesn't want to be reformed, but communities want good policing. It's a long hard slog of increased transparency, responsibility, ethics enforcement. Abolish ICE, where do the agents go?