turnip_burrito

turnip_burrito t1_j9so09d wrote

Your point is ridiculous. Okay, fine. Whatever. Art as a concept (*waves arms*) was never scarce. We'll go with your broad definition.

However, certain forms of art are absolutely scarce, have always been scarce, and now we're seeing the transition of the type of superficially impressive digital artwork from high scarcity to low scarcity.

Other kinds of art are still scarce: Handmade pots have a certain scarcity, performances, etc.

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turnip_burrito t1_j9snfcm wrote

>The medium is what made it scarce in the past.
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>Art was never scarce.

Which is it?

And if I want to see someone perform in person, the access to see this is limited. The person only performs one time, and there are only so many seats. So this is an example of scarcity in art.

When I say art was or is scarce, I mean that there are forms of art that show scarcity. If you want to define all expression as art, then yeah there's no scarcity. But that's obviously not what most people mean by art.

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turnip_burrito t1_j9smktx wrote

Of course art was scarce. Now certain kinds of art are not, and some still are. All art requires time, energy, or mediums to produce and access. And new art of higher quality requires more time, energy, or materials. For some forms of art, these resources are plentiful, and for others these resources are still lacking.

Now the cost of all these things has fallen for various kinds of art. More paints, more paper, more instruments, more photographs, more people hours, more computing power, more broadcasting, more storage, etc. But if you want to see somebody perform (dance/sing for example) or paint in person, that is an example of art that scarce. Original physical art works are also scarce. As well as digital art made more to spec.

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turnip_burrito t1_j9mkweu wrote

Genetic engineering for anything but avoiding horrible diseases is forbidden as far as I know. I don't know of any trials to engineer smarter children, and don't believe the trials will be publicly permissible.

BCIs are pretty much garbage for making superintelligence and will remain that way for decades at least. The only way they become useful is if we understand the brain very well.

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turnip_burrito t1_j9j74rx wrote

Yes, I said "when the order of magnitude jumps by 10x or more".

Hence a jump by one order of magnitude, (10x), or two orders of magnitude (100x), or three orders of magnitude (1000x).

You can jump by more than one order of magnitude. Diabeetus' comment is wrong, because the order of magnitude can grow more than one order.

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