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AI slop implies the problem is that the audience likes it, and to some that is the problem, but the real issue is how difficult it makes it to find the stuff you actually want to see. “AI spam” is the term I default to using.

I don’t care.

That’s indirect. Not all screen time is entertaining, and not all entertainment is screen time.

But digital devices are by far the most effective at endless entertainment.

The abolition of boredom and what it’s doing to kids’ psyches.

If teleportation machines were mainstream, I don’t think they’d be optional for participating in society.

Can it? Can’t exactly do double-blind case controlled studies.

More importantly though, economics is rarely studied scientifically. If nothing else, allowing the existing economists of the world to call themselves scientists is not deserved. Until economics is approached with the academic rigour of history and sociology it shouldn’t really be called a science.

[points to any average economists]

Well economics damn well shouldn’t.

It’s the opposite. So much sensory overload means we’ll be much more appreciative of the quiet moments in media.

• Warm white christmas lights. Diffuse lighting is so much better.
• Induction cooktops. Because gas cooktops are toxic both inside and outside the home.

Why not. Not like that money would be put to better use elsewhere.

Steak

Even if everyone did, not every business would.

• Searching a large dataset with a vague search criteria.
• Real-time feedback when studying a foreign language (since accuracy is less important than quantity).
• Apparently in medicine they’re using generative AI for something meaningful, but I’m not entirely convinced it is actually generative AI and I’d need to do more research.
• Sometimes it can help in learning to program and in sanity-checking code security.

If I remembered it, it wouldn’t be overrated.

Do people rate that highly, or just play a lot of it?

Ireland abstained too, and they didn’t really have a recent slave trade.

There’s normally a reason when that assortment of countries chooses to abstain (the no voters are normally just evil). In this case it’s likely the use of the word “gravest”. I’d say the holocaust was worse, at least in the slave trade the people were just a means to an end. The holocaust involved torture by design and aimed to erase an entire religion.

Others may disagree, but there’s at least room for doubt on the declaration that it’s the “gravest”.

Alternatively I’d somehow stop the Taft-Hartley act from passing. It prevented trade unions from making political donations until Citizens United vs FEC.

Late 1999, I’d smash all the voting machines in Florida.