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For smaller languages the steps would be: - Somebody would have to digitize an old book without mistakes. - Somebody would have to publish it online. - Somebody would have to scrape and archive that. - Somebody would have to transliterate it to Latin script. - That transliteration would also have be the same transliteration I'm using.

It's unlikely it will be done for a lot of languages.

> There's easier schemes that don't rely on that.

Remembering random words is hard. This is how we got into this in the first place.

> Popular movie quotes or lines from books with minor iterations are bad choices. They are somewhere out there and not as safe as one might think.

In English. Not all books in all languages ever published are "somewhere out there".

Europe is not a single country, the EU is not a single country.

> But I’d be shocked if it’s legal anywhere to release a product that competes with what you work on at your job.

That happens everyday. In fact most companies are found by people who already work in the industry. You simply should not steal trade secrets, copyright or patents.

It's about the cost of credit. References are free in academia. In music crediting means paying royalties. In academia the assumption is that citing is fair use up to a point (a paragraph? a page?). Since songs are much shorter, the window for "fair use" is also much shorter (5 seconds? 10 seconds?).

While I do agree with your first point, I think it's a bit .. obvious. Of course you need to create value in order to be great (or get rich).

Regarding the article, it doesn't match my experience. All the prolific creators I know (about) are prolific consumers as well. Writers are known to read a lot. The girl the author saw sketching on the bus probably loves looking at and reading about art and does it often as well as actually creating art.

The other issue is the amount of creative effort you can spend. For example, software engineering is a very creative job and often at the end of the day I just have no energy left to create more.

There's still a long road ahead until that happens. Writing a single function, even if includes a long a list of steps, is not the main challenge nowadays. The challenge is how the code is organized, i.e. architecture.

> the idea that conspiracies themselves are [..] a typology through which people who lack definite or satisfactory narratives as citizens explain to themselves [..]

I really like this idea. To me it means that conspiracy theories create modern day mythology. Ancient people used myths to explain to themselves things they either didn't understand or feared. I've always wondered how did they come with these outrageous ideas but it now makes sense.