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I’m not so sure that there isn’t some hay to be made around insisting that AI firms should be distributing half their profits to the writers whose works they stole to train their models, but I also agree with Cory that it’d be a mistake to do that in a way that broke using the internet to provide citations for dictionaries.

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If you’re interested, like I am, in how and why copyright might not be the best tool for helping writers make a living writing, you’ll definitely want to read Cory’s latest at Pluralistic:

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The AI copyright fight isn’t being fought to protect your wages – it’s being fought to see...

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My brother @stevendbrewer, (who shared this with me) and I are not AI natives, or even AI immigrants. I guess we’re AI foreigners. Maybe AI refugees.

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(My brother warns me “People get offended when you say ‘refugee,'” so I was all, “Ooh! I’ll post that immediately!” He claims to be more an AI refusenik, while suggesting that I’m more AI-curious.)

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Oh, the humanities!

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Source: Michał “rysiek” Woźniak · 🇺🇦: “I am shocked. Nobody could hav…” – Mastodon 🐘

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There’s a reason I insist that a podcast is an RSS feed of MP3 files: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@Miraz Yep. Everything seems fine now. :-)

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Ashley unhappy with the rain: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Two horsemen of the Darkpocalypse: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Stagflation mention in the New York Times: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@drewcastillo I still have lots of MP3s on my phone, from back when you kickstarted Zombies, Run. :-/ (I mean, there have been several new phones since then, but it’s the same collection of MP3s.)

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@drewcastillo I’m toying with the idea of getting back to Zombies, Run! I really enjoyed it, back in the day.

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Living off capital: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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As we’ve known for a decade, full-fat dairy is good for you: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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That’s not what I learned in 4th grade.

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@gelliottmorris.com by inflation or deflation.

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@gelliottmorris.com Maybe. I think it’s more a matter of who was a debtor (farmers and small businessmen who needed to borrow to buy seeds or raw materials) versus a creditor (the wealthy). Since there were no credit cards and virtually no consumer debt, ordinary people didn’t have debts to be wiped out or made ruinous

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@gelliottmorris.com You don’t need a gold standard, but a gold standard made it somewhat automatic, unless you explicitly revalued.

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And I’m not really arguing for or against, so much as pointing out that “kids these days” don’t know what they’re asking for, when they want prices to go back to what they were.

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@gelliottmorris.com Back when we were on a gold standard, inflation was often undone, to back to the (usually pre-war) gold parity. The result was usually a years-long grinding depression.

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Could we do that again? Yes we could!

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www.philipbrewer.net/2024/05/26/u…

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PSA: Rebalance your portfolio: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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My brother just got email asking if he’d ever thought about upgrading his website with “an engaging video to explain what you do?”

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My reply was:

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Ooh! An engaging video!! I never thought of that!

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I figured I’d go with either a tedious video or an annoying one.

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That’s what everybody else does.

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Steven pointed out, “I don’t think a video that actually explains what I do would be very engaging.”

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@Miraz It’s a very good book. And it may be somewhat more nuanced than my brief review gives it credit for. There’s a good bit about places (like New Zealand and Australia) where it may legit be too sunny for more than brief sun exposure. And about skin color, which also makes a big difference.

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Recommended reading: In Defense of Sunlight: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Avoiding Substack, without avoiding Substack content: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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“Exit through the state” could fail: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@numericcitizen As near as I can tell, it’s there to monetize the writing of Nazis, with enough non-Nazis to provide some cover for the firm.

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@Miraz Thanks! I like any photo of me with a sword, but especially artistic ones!

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Probably my longest, fastest run 🏃 so far this summer: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Things are still amazingly bad: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Longsword workshop, with an artistic photo of me! philipbrewer.micro.blog

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The notion that “SpaceX’s ambition to put data centers in space” makes more sense than putting them in North Dakota, Alaska, Siberia, and maybe Tierra del Fuego or the Falkland Islands suggests that a bunch of people have no sense at all.

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Good thoughts and bad thoughts about AI \"A : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@hollyhoneychurch Yep. Wildfire smoke. It’s just annoying here. A few hours north, where I lived as a boy, the AQI is truly terrible.

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@hollyhoneychurch The air is not lovely here (east-central Illinois, where the AQI is presently 165 = unhealthy). BUT! Today I the two air cleaner devices I ordered—one for upstairs and one for downstairs—arrived! So the air is lovely inside, even if it’s not so lovely outside.

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@philipbrewer.net Thank you!

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Who best immanentizies the eschaton? philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@Miraz Another of the relatively rare instances when I’d happy to just have a “like” button. :-)

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@philipbrewer But you don’t need to do that. Any reasonable variation in intensity is going to produce better health and fitness outcomes than cranking out miles at a fixed pace.

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And it doesn’t have to be just cardio. You can alternate between walking and lifting and see similar benefits.

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@skoobz Interval training has been around forever. (Because it works.) Recent research has focused excessively on making the intervals really, really short. (I think I saw a 10-minute workout where you spent six seconds at an all-out effort, and then 54 seconds recovering.)

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@JohnPhilpin Tempting.

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Personally, I’d like an S&P 500 index “minus the 15% of the companies spending the most on AI CapEx or tokens.”

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@philipbrewer Perhaps more important, getting in all that walking takes time that could be spent on other health-promoting activities that would be of greater benefit. (Lifting, if you don’t already lift. Running, if you don’t otherwise run. Swimming, meditating, etc.)

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@Miraz I’ve followed the studies on that. Very few people get that many steps, so you need very large studies to be able to tell if that much walking provides a benefit, but the studies I’ve seen seem to suggest that the benefits never vanish, they just get smaller and smaller.

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@manton Same. I don’t do it every year, but this’ll be the third sleeper-car trip in maybe 15 years. Always very nice.

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@Miraz Always a good plan.

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Five ways to be really foolish with an activity tracker \"My : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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See more? Or not see more? philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Non-obvious spam comments: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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Welcome to the recession phase of the current stagflation: philipbrewer.micro.blog

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An artist’s date for Jackie’s birthday \"A\"Steven\"Slugs\" : philipbrewer.micro.blog

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@tchambers I’m always a bit doubtful about stuff like this, because I think they often get cause and effect backwards.

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If you’re sick, or stressed, you will sleep more, because you need more sleep. And then you might go on to have poorer health because you were sick or stressed.

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If you set a regular bedtime, and then get up when you wake up feeling rested, I wouldn’t worry about getting less or more than some arbitrary number of hours of sleep.

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@ArnoldHoogerwerf My dad had a big poster of that picture framed and hanging on the wall.

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@Miraz It’s so hard to tweeze apart what’s aging, what’s exercising too much, what’s exercising too hard, what’s doing the wrong exercises…. And, as you say, there are step changes, so you can’t just assume that you can do (nearly) as much as five years ago.

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@philipbrewer.net Short answer: Avoid debt, raise cash (even though the “-flation” part will bite), limit investments in the stock market or your own business (crushed by the “stag” part), and wait for things to get better.

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