Ashelyn

Who knew flickers on a cave wall could be so addictive

If the yolk directly touches the surface, the emulsifiers could potentially mess with things?

It is a weaponization of ambiguity on where to draw the line; sailing the Ship of Theseus all the way from one end of morality to another

It's not about getting rid of cars entirely. It's about prioritizing other modes of transport that are more efficient at moving people for 90% of daily trips they need to make.

Cars will still exist, they will just not be most people's first choice for going to/from places. Ideally they exist more as a tool for specific situations where needed, such as work that covers a broad/rural area and requires large/specialized tools.

The problem is that, for the property owning class, the unaffordability of homes is broadly a feature and not a bug.

Yeah it turns out having a politician who actually believes in popular things motivates people to go vote for them

I will engage one more time

What? Any and all filters an intelligent species could encounter need to be factored in statistically, even if not all of those filters will 100% be encountered

When I see something impressive generated by a computer, I may go "wow", but when I see something, displayed on a computer or not, that I know a person went and handcrafted so many details on, I am inspired by that dedication to the craft. The human elements within art are a big part of what makes it meaningful.

If someone wants to use AI for the parts of a work they don't care about (or as placeholders) so they can pour their heart into a different aspect of the work, fine. If they want the computer to do all the work for them, they have created slop. This is independent of whether we live in a society that values gross resource accumulation or one that shares equally.

I will say that the push towards slop primarily stems from our societal zeitgeist. The mentality is "I need to make as much money with as little effort as possible", and sometimes people really do need that money to pay bills. I think that's a big reason why it's such a problem. There is little monetary value in actual expression for the effort required when compared with mass produced "content" for dollars.

Perhaps it's a contextual Great Filter only for instances of intelligent life in which capitalistic modes of production win out.

Pledges of this nature should be legally binding and non-retractable

This reads like a puff piece somehow. At any rate fuck the health insurance industry, and if the product really is as good as presented here then it should be more broadly available.

Also, we'd be able to mix this stuff with drinking water and it would be fine to inject into someone's bloodstream? I could be very wrong but I don't think most drinking water is treated+packaged to that high of a standard. I suppose the hypothetical mentioned in the article also in case of severe blood loss, where getting literally anything into your veins that won't outright kill you is preferable to the alternative.