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I hear the voice of Zuul when I read this.

Yeah I don't think there's that level of thought and planning and skill going into each of these devices.

> AI results from search engines don't generate the click-through revenue that search ads did.

Doesn't this seem totally obvious? Like, they removed the need to click through things, that's kind of the defining behavior of these AI results.

My suspicion is closer to 95%

Totally agree, I just hear none of that kind of music on the radio for the last 20 years.

I think physical drum machines are less what I'm referring to, to me it's more the Pro Tools style DAW that allows us to perfect the life out of music. Yes, counterpoints a plenty, but I stand by it.

Agree. What is interesting in a band situation is when one human does something another human doesn't expect, whether by accident or just trying something different. This cannot happen with solo artists and laptops.

This is why Angine De Poitrine is vastly more interesting than Tame Impala to me.

It's called the bullshit firehose. It's designed to make you give up arguing, because who has the time? Unfortunately, naturally trusting people are often ensnared.

Honestly, this motion right here is the death of open source - the rug pull. I no longer can trust any open source project won't get bought up and sunsetted. I'm glad open tofu and valkey and Linux exist to serve as a counter example but this makes me sad.

The price of a sandwich in Paris vs ... idk, Pennsylvania is a perfect summary to me. 4 euro vs $18

I have no idea why you're being downvoted, because you're absolutely right. I have circumstances that make moving abroad something like a nuclear option. I could take my job with me, but that's the least of it.

I haven't been on Facebook in 15 years. I spend every night on Wikipedia, following random links. I worked for a Parisian company for a decade and have been around western EU more than most Americans.

Probably dial back your assumptions a little bit. I've earned my opinions just as much as you have.

I'm biased as well, being American. I think I'd much rather be middle class in Europe than the USA as well. Middle class in the US is a constant feeling of the ladder dissolving just beneath you.

Been thinking about this for a few days and I'm pretty sure this all sounds horrible to me. Obviously the vendor would be judging the value of the outcome, which likely happens way after the usage of the tool.

So I go snap together some valuable innovation out of the same pieces that others have snapped together nothing of value, and then along comes some corporate tax collector? I haven't heard of the "outcome economy", maybe I've got this wrong but I'd much rather pay full price for the tool than give the vendor a percentage of what I do with it.

Read the AI2027 paper, it's got a scenario that's pretty realistic (except for the part where there's a functioning American government making choices that are at least partially motivated by wanting to avoid outcomes such as these).

Can you elaborate?