I want to skip to the part where Matthew Rhys played the Anthropic guy in the movie and Taika Waititi plays the Palantir guy.

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I agree with the point that it's a big conversation, and that very good stuff is often ignored, but I have trouble with the idea that these differences are meaningless. It's the reason I dislike the word "content" for lumping together beautiful things with people wasting food in amusing ways.

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I think it's not a great argument against AI eating a lot of the arts to say that AI can't be creative/original. Setting aside the question of whether they can... does *most* art strike you as extremely original? The vast majority of people, including great artists most of the time are mid.

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Specifically, what to do when you are 100% guaranteed to lose, and correct action *always* being to rush in. The best versions of John Henry contain a section from when he's a child and prophecies he'll die holding his hammer, suggesting he knows the outcome of the race before it starts.

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It is, perhaps not incidentally, one of the few folk ballads sung by everyone in which the hero is Black, but/and representing everyone, rather than acting as a comic figure or as a tragic Them.

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