The perennial generative AI debate is actually pretty awesome. It's got parts about IP & copyright, environmental benefits & consequences, impact on the future, control by government/corporations, technological feasibility, mathematical inner workings, deep philosophical musings about the nature of imagination/cleverness/creativity/consciousness etc, and of course a touch of existential risk. Each argument has a bit of everything in it and I learn a ton from every conversation!
It's also one of the few topics where I can debate about it online and not feel my blood pressure rising during the process.
) effectively over now.
Was it fun? Yeah, I guess. Was the voting system broken? Absolutely. Was it better than similar previous events (Arcade, Low Skies, High Seas)? A little, though it did also continue for a lot longer.
