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Conventional wisdom would seem to say yes, but when you look at digital art and really examine what's happening the answer is probably no. Every time you move a file between drives you're making a copy and deleting the original. Every time you move files between servers you're making a copy. For...

Learning to draw is incidental. Drawing (or sculpting, or painting, or whatever) is just a means of translating the image in your head into something visible to others

How did that limit even come about? Like, I heard somewhere that it somehow goes back to alphanumeric pager technology, which seems ridiculous to me. That's like having a limitation that's a holdover from carrier pigeons or the pony express

Milli Vanilli lied about what they were for years and from the start. Based on the article it seems that these guys didn't. At most they seem to have tacitly allowed an unaffiliated third party to lie about them for a couple of days after they were already established.

By that metric it can have artistic value becuase it's a human operating the AI. As long as they have something clever or meaningful to say with it, it can be meaningful in the same way the toilet is. For example, I'd argue that the way the Twitch streamer and youtuber wayneradiotv uses it has...

The real value you should evaluate is entertainment value EDIT: As for cultural significance, that comes from being a cultural touchstone. Artistic value is tangential. Reality TV and pop music are culturally significant

Kind of like the remake of Plan 9, nobody complained about that.

That's exactly what I was going to say. Pop music has been corporate slop for decades. I remember we were already joking that all the pop stars were mass-produced robots way back in the 1990's. At least this new thing is relatively honest about what it is.

It just occurred to me that most or probably all of these movies and media were never patented, so a technology based on them ought to simply be legal regardless of fair use

I wish I could suss out how to get Stay Tooned to run on a modern PC

*A fantasy or science fiction themed strategy game that deals with two different species that are radically different sizes. It is either simultaneously a citybuilder and a basebuilder (the smaller species city is the larger species' base) or else a simultaneous citybuilder and 4x/grand-strategy...

I want a game that uses AI to infinitely expand something along the lines of Scribblenauts in the same way that Infinite Craft infinitely expanded the gameplay of Doodle God

does the end of an empire in this sense need to be a balkanization or are they counting nominal regime changes as the ends of empires as well?

No I said that businesses are disposible and replacable. Businesses are not people. Business is the opposite of life and humanity. They can be primarily made of people, in a similar way to how the Human Centipede* was made of people, but that does not make the whole a person nor does it make...

Regulation to protect the consumer. Or to protect people from businesses. Yes. But not regulation on people.

The same thing I said about businesses being replacable goes for the workers too. Even moreso for the workers. The customer needs a specific product or service, but the workers don't need a specific job. Really. In my experience it's been mostly because of fearmongering and moral panics. Maybe...

I see it as iconoclastic. Everyone's always bending over backwards for businesses and those who don't get bent over forcibly. I'd like to turn the tables for once. And why should I care about businesses? They don't care about me. or about anyone. And they're disposable and replacable. If one...

Exactly

In retrospect I've realized that I do have a dream job. I want to be in charge of a large company that I don't like so that I can deliberately run it into the ground. Possibly by creating an unsustainable price war that takes some of the competitors out as well and ultimately benefits the common...