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Amid arrests and dark warnings about Jewish students’ safety, an editorial at the campus newspaper offered a far different view of the crisis. https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/04/columbia-university-protests-presidents-jewish-students-encampment.html Columbia has a radio station, WKCR, "The Home of Technical Difficulty" which is broadcasting continuously what is happening on the campus concerning the protests and demonstrations. It is online, but regard its self-given subtitle. There are no funds for anything for the radio station. It's entirely volunteer, including the equipment.

Understood. It is a pet peeve of mine. Sorry.

I’m not sure if she’s really relevant to the discussion when she competed as a man and didn’t transition until well after she’d retired.

I get that not everyone is into modern and postmodern art, but generative/aleatoric music has been [designed? curated?] by human composers since the 1950s. One of the most moving pieces of the post 9/11 era was William Basinski's Disintegraton Loops, which consisted of composed synth loops put to tape that were played and recorded in a state of decay--so, a composed work modified by incidental "improvisation." Not saying you have to like stuff like this, but it's been part of the human musical repertoire for a while, and plenty of people are moved by it. I am a researcher and I have no problem using layman's definitions of words in casual speech. Just as I don't correct every person who fails to recognize peppers and eggplants as "fruits."

Got tired of look for a map of westoros or the paintes table so decided to make my own How do I post a pic on here??

Art as a pursuit, rather than an object or product, is a good answer, and, from a philosophical point of view, I don't entirely disagree. The 'Death of the Author' theory might defend the opposite, though (and it predates generative IA by a lot). And yet, at the same time, the result of the creative process is also a commodity. A bad pun in a news headline, a comercial jingle for a cereal advert, a review of a boxing match, a promotional image of a Lazyscrog on mars, a legal report, the design of an Ikea chair... These daily, banal examples of creativity which we mostly do to earn a livelihood rather than as a means of artistic expression are far more threatened by AI than anything else.

If they're selling that, yes.

Hypothetically… a theory is something else. I hate that particular use of “in theory” because it undermines what “theory” actually is…

Is it possible for AI to generate art that moves people? Obviously, yes. And if they do so, it's not necessarily any more copying than what humans do. Artistic creation always involves the combinations of different references, and what is an innovative work versus a derivative one is largely, if not wholly, subjective. Is it possible for current AI to generate art that moves people? Sure. Again, in theory. Is it likely to happen very often? I'm guessing no. Certainly not for me. It'd be interesting to tease apart what I think is missing given my rather generous definition of creativity above, but I'd have to chew on it some more.

I do appreciate the incredible shittery of both criticising trans people for wanting to do sports because they have an advantage based on going through puberty as the other sex, and then ALSO criticizing using puberty blockers which would make this a nonissue.

Break a leg, man. Hope your dreams come true.

There was one bit this viewer's pov appreciated. That was at the end, in, as we have already been informed, Blackthorne's first to fail endeavor to rebuild a ship for seafaring. Buntaro's appearance to throw himself into this failed endeavor along with Blackthorne. Both of them came back from the dead. Both of them failed to keep Mariko from what she wanted, she escaped both of their versions of what they thought was what she should do, leaving them to fail together in this too. Both Ha! However, I really missed Blackthorne's decision, and then mental preparation to commit Seppuku, and the aftermath of being stopped right at the moment, for several days afterword, and then in one way or another for what would be the rest of his life. This, more than anything else in the novel -- and particularly missing in this television adaptation -- allowed Blackthorne to enter "Japaneseness.' That was the powerful bit of Clavell's fiction, that never left my recollection of the readings.

Who said I'm okay with it? As I get older I'm simply getting better at not getting upset by matters that are completely beyond my control. I don't see the point of fifteen pages of Scot trying to squeeze ChatGPT back into its toothpaste tube.

Because I want sports to be fair. Steroids make it unfair. And I believe trans athletes competing against cis women is also (though not in the same stratosphere of) unfair.

Ok, well I hope you'll continue participating because you're one of the few creatives I know who appear largely ok with AI generator theft. Insofar as the latter part of the quoted, it's an AI issue because until they achieve sentience, they'll never be better than us. So yeah, greed is part of it.

I mean in practice they are, given that almost all competitors in almost all sports take them If you think that getting rid of steroids means we would not have professional sports, the i really dont understand what the problem is with trans people competing with cis people.

This is my honest view of Generative AI “Art”: I’m going to say until computers have sentience and an ability to be moved by beauty, crushed by despair, frustrated with ennui, they will not be able to create “art”. Art is intrinsically tied to the emotion that is a necessary part of human existence. Computers cannot make “art” until they can be moved by their brain’s own existence to create “art”. Do you see what I’m driving at? Even if Computers could “feel” their art should be incompressible to us because our existences are so very different from our silicone children’s existence.

I don't even know what that means. Anyway, look, I come from a creative background. Most of my family are creators. My nephew is an artist straight out of art school. I fully support the humans. But what is the point of this discussion, really? The thread was started by the board's biggest luddite and technophobe. Who, frankly, just seems to want to fight over the issue. He's doing the usual shtick of just ignoring counter viewpoints. He doesn't care about any of these arguments, so why fucking bother. My last word on this. A lot of the problems raised here are not AI issues. They are human greed issues. Simple as that.

Art is not just the effect it has on the "consumer", in my view its inseparable of the intent of the artist. Seeing a beautifull sunset is not art, beatifull landscapes can make you feel incredibly profound things, but they are not art. To me there must be intention to create somehing artistic. Artificial inteligence can be a tool, but nothing generated by the ia is art. At most its the art of other people being stolen to make a profit

There is so much more involved in the lives of trans people like all of us, than sports, yanno? For many, perhaps even most, sports isn't even on the radar. Sports is not the point or the reason or anything at all. A Breakout Spanish Novel About Class and Trans Identity Comes to the U.S. Alana S. Portero’s debut, “Bad Habit,” follows one woman’s coming-of-age in a blue-collar Madrid neighborhood. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/books/review/bad-habit-alana-s-portero.html

Superposition, collapse. Superposition, collapse. Spooky goalposts, bruh >.<

And there are rules against them also, its not one or the other. Its not like people are giving juice heads a pass. To be fair if we got rid of all steroid cheats, there would be almost no professional sports.

"Please kids, we need Israel to hold the line until Christ finally comes down to obliterate all of the unbelievers there."

Instead of hiring actors for “background” yes.

What, you mean like they already do when filling up scenes with CG crowds and shit?