I should hope that if Zuckerberg isn't severely punished for this, it at least sets a legal precedent for every other person to do the same with immunity.

All the Aaron Schwartzes of the future could freely share scientific papers with the world.

Willing to bet they'll lobby for regulatory capture and raise the drawbridge for the little guys.

I think this a great point though. It's always worth asking what the purpose of innovation is. The end goal should always be to help people and societies thrive and feel vitality. If the goal becomes speed for its own sake, it is going in the wrong direction.

I agree that copyright is foundationally wrong, but the way out has to be through a culture shift of people putting their work in Public Domain. It's not up to a private company to decide everyone else's work is public commons.

Honestly, the best use of AI I've found so far is also getting them to call me out on bullshit assumptions and logical fallacies. Helpful for the kind of thought exploration + planning that another human won't want to discuss at 6am.

Calibre lets you put non-Amazon eBooks on these very same devices. It made me start using my old Kindle again: https://calibre-ebook.com/

I can tell you that myself (and many others) still create concept albums as our primary format. It's not that people aren't still creating it.

The choice is still there for any listener that cares about albums as a format. I don't mean that in a negative way. I suspect that many people listen to both playlists of singles, and albums of their favourite artists, depending on mood.

This. Super important.

A pre-commitment means nothing unless you have the mechanisms in place to enforce it.

A pre-sacrifice would be more effective.

100% agree. Any AI org that is that tied to a single nation's interest can only be detrimental in the long run.

I know "open-source" AI has its own risks, but with e.g. DeepSeek, people in all countries benefit. Americans benefit from it equally.

Love what you're doing, but it is funny - I make a lot music in the style of GBA, and specifically bitcrush and downsample to bring in those audio artifacts. They add a lot of high frequencies that give it a great shimmer.

Having said that, there is definitely many use cases where GBA games would want to reduce that artifacting. Keep it up!

Whenever I've trained clients in AI use, I've tried to strongly recommend using GenAI as a "Learning Accelerator" as opposed to a "Learning Replacement".

GenAI can be incredibly helpful for speeding up the learning process, but the moment you start offloading comprehension, it starts eroding trust structures.