Addendum 2: I'm an artist making art who has an arts degree! I care about this stuff! But sometimes I feel like I'm in a ship that's on fire and saying "the ship is on fire" and people keep saying "Sir, people have always swum."

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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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One other thought is it's my impression that it takes about a decade for this sort of thing to change. For example, it took a long time for people who grew up without it to feel it wasn't cheating to look something up on google or wikipedia. Now it feels silly not to do so.

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Why do you think humans are so primed to believe in variations on the labor theory of value? Meaning it took centuries for economists to put this idea aside and to this day, people without economic training tend to intuitively believe it.

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Ok so I am convinced we need to recalibrate the global standard calendar such that every Halloween is still on 10/31 but is also a Saturday. What's the point of global dominance and hegemony if we can't use it for good Saturday Halloween is 1000x better for everyone

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