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If you seriously dig into literature or film you'll find that many of the stories don't fit into the hero's journey at all--or only fit if you make the "journey" so generic as to be practically tautological.

As for the claim about people's lives. People who are serious about art almost invariably keep enjoying the "basic" classics; many musicians keep listening to Bach all their lives. Faulkner claimed to read Don Quixote over again every year. It is possible to find novelty in the well-worn.

50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its

In the US, they do.

> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views

Most cranks are.

Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning social institutions we have left.

In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%.

Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adjusting prices is necessary for these comparisons to be meaningful at all.

This is a website for engineers, you should be embarrassed to be posting these completely innumerate comments.

Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?

> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria.

In other words, trans people can't use the bathrooms matching their gender identity.

> Calls for ideological diversity, not just at the campus level, "but within every field, department, school, and teaching unit."

In other words, every academic department is susceptible to ideological litmus tests defined by the state. If Trump's white house feels like your Computer Science department has too many Democrats in it, you fix that problem or you lose your funding.

> Restricts student visas to foreign students who ... "are ... supportive of, American and Western values."

In other words, another ideological litmus test, only in this case the consequence is that foreign students can be thrown out at will.

> Requires that "university employees, in their capacity as university representatives" as well as all colleges, faculties, departments, and other academic units "abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events"

In other words, tenured faculty lose their right to free speech.

> Your example proves my point. If there are no judges, the government has to let you go free.

That happens, you believe?

> For example, do all people have a right to health care? No, because, in the extreme, it leads to logical contradictions with other rights. (E.g. Doctors being forced to provide care at gunpoint.)

In the same vein, people do not have a right to a fair trial--in the extreme, this would lead to a contradiction with other rights (e.g. judges being forced to practice law at gunpoint).

> I have to laugh, even as a liberal myself.

Probably not as much of one as you think.

Yes, but it's nonsense to equate identity with difficulty. The goth scene originated in a London nightclub, for goodness' sake (the Batcave). There are goths in every big city, and in a lot of cases they move to places _where the scene is_ so that they can participate.

Basically an uninteresting conclusion. Of course a "non-expert" reader isn't going to be able to distinguish between AI and Walt Whitman--a "non-expert" reader likely won't even know who Walt Whitman is. "Expertise" is needed to even make the question meaningful.

This is a genuinely awful poem, and if you wrote it, you should feel bad.

Fine art is a matter of nuance, so in that sense I think it does matter that a lot of the "human art" examples are aggressively cropped (the Basquiat is outright cut in half) and reproduced at very low quality. That Cecily Brown piece, for example, is 15 feet across in person. Seeing it as a tiny jpg is of course not very impressive. The AI pieces, on the other hand, are native to that format, there's no detail to lose.

But those details are part of what make the human art interesting to contemplate. I wouldn't even think of buying an art book with reproductions of such low quality--at that point you do lose what's essential about the art work, what makes it possible to enjoy.