When Bruce Forsyth died, there should have been a state funeral.
I like the rhinos. "Of course you can move on, but you have to take me with you."
Love Zoo Vadis!
And the thing is, *everyone* likes some less-popular thing. We're both better off if I subsidise your cooking show and you subsidise my music documentary and both also get money from the big blockbuster hit we both like, than if we can only watch the blockbuster.
(This is, incidentally, one reason artists tend to get more boring as they get older. As they master the tools and get to create their vision exactly, you get to see that their vision is actually *less* interesting than the approximation they created working within limits, as it's more generic.)
The current AI industry is the new oil: they demand the right to extract resources, to pollute both the social space and the physical environment, and they claim there will be massive dividends for society so they should not be required to make safe or to pay.
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'Corrections' Seth is my favourite Seth. Angry is a close second though.