Harrison [He/Him]

The ol’ head in the sand approach

The units of time we use come from a bronze age civilisation that used base twelve instead of base ten. They’d count on their hands using the finger joints of one for single digits, and then the joints of the other for multiples.

It’s obviously Wendy though

Well, you’ve got to get rid of it some way, and while charity might systematically be a problem there are plenty that do genuine good.

you have a persecution complex to rival the christofash’s.

He already said he’s Serbian

If you have any decency, get rid of most of it, preferably to charities or political causes.

That sort of wealth in the hands of a single person is obscene, and spending it on luxury when there are people starving and homeless in the world is the height of immorality.

Foolish if the goal is to hold on to more money than you could ever need in ten lifetimes to pursue the goal of accumulating more from the work of others.

No, it’s more like doctor or engineer where it’s a protected profession that’s criminal to imitate.

The cost is just money in this case. It doesn’t use rare or unethically sourced materials (at least if you’re not a vegan), it advances the biological sciences as a whole and it’s something to do for bio grads that might generate a lot of value for society in the future.

We can, through collective effort, precipitate change away from or reverse negative change, and the first step to that is complaining about it.

It’s because your entire table is supposed to respond “Green flame!” When you say you’re casting it. You have displeased the dice gods.

Yes

Not religious, but if it works it works. Clearly there is joy in faith for some people.

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The program might have required skill to write, but that’s not an excuse for it to threaten entire industries.

We don’t live in a world where industries exist just because it would be nice for them to and people need work.

An industry is a productive environment that creates products for others to buy. If the people buying from the current art industry care about human inspiration and the uniqueness they add to art, they will continue to buy from humans. If they do not, why should the state use it’s monopoly on violence to cripple any other source of product?

Are artists some special class of people above every other group of workers who’ve lost their jobs to automation?

They didn’t say trace. A good artist can use the style of another artist when creating a new work.

The ability and willingness to generate images in a style associated with a person, without consent, is a threat to that persons job security and shows a lack of value for them as a human. As if their creative expression is worth nothing but as a commodity to be consumed.

You can’t own an art style. Copyright only extends to discrete works and characters. If I pay a street artist to draw a portrait of me in the style of Picasso, I’m not devaluing Picasso as a person.

It sucked for candle makers when electric lights were adopted. It sucked for farriers and stable hands and saddle makers when cars became affordable for the average person. Such is the cost of progress.

This is true in US law but it should probably be noted that a lot of the “misconceptions” you’re outlining in OP’s comment are things that are legal in other jurisdictions

Once you display an idea in public, it belongs to anyone who sees it.