You should read Blood Meridian.

> a camera lets you get a better result for less effort than a paintbrush and canvas does

Only if your goal is photorealism, which is one of the least interesting forms of art.

Agree entirely - creativity emerges through the process of work, or is "discovered" through work. If AI does the work, it fundamentally can not be a creative process.

Painters don't imagine something and through shear technical skills translate what is in their head to a canvas. Their style emerges through constant, repetitive work and iteration. The work itself creates the art, not an idea. An idea is just fuel.

Your video of the ocean and Roger Deakins video of the ocean are going to be very, very different.

I think most people have the ability to express themselves through art, but if their first experience of trying to make something is using AI tools, they will never discover that they can make something genuine that reflects their experience.

If you’re referring to Lolita, the novel is written from the perspective of an unreliable narrator, that Nabokov very clearly holds in complete contempt. You would know this if you had actually read the book.

Not really a topic that piques my interest.

Glad you enjoyed it, I guess.

React allows for encapsulation of state in a reusable component, its more than just templating.

React also requires you to know the long list of do's and dont's and is littered with minefields that most average developers are not even aware of.

Everyone just busts out "React" for every small thing, but few commit to actually learning this pretty complicated technology.

The last two recent Cloudflare outages were because of React.

Really?

I'm concerned that the identification of genetic subtypes of ASD, as mentioned in the article, will lead to more terminations of pregnancy. We need people that see the world differently.

The most easily identified "autism genes" (eg "fragile X") tend to lead to severe variants of the condition, which probably don't benefit anyone. We may eventually have a "Gattaca problem" but this isn't that, at least not yet.

There are 8 billion people from a multitude of backgrounds and experiences. We’ve got plenty of viewpoints.

People get abortions because it’s financially inconvenient or a bad time or something else trivial constantly. Surely a lifelong affliction isn’t that hard to understand the motivations behind.

Are you willing to be a caregiver for the rest of your life? Are you willing to have whole your life having ruled by needs of someone else with no space for own goals and wishes?

If you are not, why are you trying to force others to go through it?

You may be surprised to learn that the answer to both of your questions is yes.

Yup, autism spectrum tends to strongly mess with your ability to find a romantic partner. And that is decidedly selected against.

However, I don't think the random nature of evolution will have a meaningful effect on humanity going forward. We will soon reach the point of selecting for more desirable genes. Done badly it would be Gattaca.

> A decade and a half is insane timeline in tech industry, and huge majority of users use Siri the same way today as 15 years ago, setting a timer or an alarm clock.

Also quite good for making shopping lists, with some bonus amusement when you get a weird transcription and have to try to work out that "cats and soup" is "tonkatsu sauce" several days after you added it to the list.