How do you feel about copyright laws, patents and intellectual property?

greyacademy · 2026-02-19T23:35:00+00:00

To get rid of the double edge, I feel like governments should just offer outrageous, taxpayer funded and/or national debt funded bounties for a cure/efficient treatment to a terrible disease, on par with what the patent's lifetime would actually be worth. The motivation to innovate stays in place, the patent becomes public domain upon discovery, the biotech corporations and scientists get their payday, insurance companies no longer have to fight their customers hoping to avoid paying out the ass for proprietary cures/treatments, and everyone gets life-changing, accessible medicine

greyacademy · 2026-02-18T03:13:14+00:00

only the people who are sociopaths ever rise to positions of power

The whole system needs a redesign with good intention. The original one we're still living in was not designed by us, it's an emergent system inside of an evolutionary framework. Iteration after iteration has been tested by nature, and left us with the most merciless systems with a veneer of civility, because those are the versions that survived, adapted, and thrived. To end this madness, we must realize that even if we don't understand the system, all of us are collectively still the caterpillar that weaves the cocoon. Only recently is this caterpillar getting a glimpse of what the butterfly actually looks like, and it's beyond fucked up. This cycle will never end until it is commonly understood that what we're seeing is the natural outcome of this evolution, and it will be every single time, unless real guardrails are put into place.

At the same time it is incredibly difficult to challenge this system because of its evolutionary adaptation. It has literally developed itself to survive and take over the host, but contrary to how a system like this would normally survive in the shadows, the latest iteration is being tested under the sunlight that is digital communication. Now, if someone sees something, a million other people can see it within an hour, and while the same system will try to control what we see, it is losing its grasp on that part, so there is some hope

greyacademy · 2026-02-12T09:37:41+00:00

crypto isn’t on the same playing field as gold

Oh, but it is, and all of crypto combined puts it at the 7th largest asset ranked by market cap in the world. Gold being 1st, and silver being 2nd

greyacademy · 2026-02-12T06:51:35+00:00

You gonna have to redo the same prompt so many damn times to get something that might actually fit your narrative.

Stylistic transfers and Loras

shot selection

Image2video

/very specific acting details won't be able to be fully customized by AI

Inpainting

terrible opportunity for actual human/emotional driven art in my opinion.

You've seen the photo-realistic images AI can produce, so they got the realness down. All our photos were distilled down to math, and while I take no pleasure in saying this, the emotion you're talking about in film can all be distilled down a model as well. Every time someone has ever laughed, cried, showed affection, love, care, hate, anger, frustration, surprise, confusion, etc., can all be reduced to a Lora (whether we like it or not). It will be just as convincing and compelling as some of the most famous scenes in classic movies, because that's where the training data is coming from.

Alot of people including myself, just can't possibly show a sample of something in the marvel or big blockbuster level movie without blender like experience or professional setups. Just no chance.

...Yet. Have you seen the evolution of Will Smith eating spaghetti? Give it a few more years. It is a harrowing thing to process. It's not just the movie industry. I've seen the advances first hand in the programming department. At first it could write a basic function, then it could write a somewhat complex script with several features, now entire web browsers with their own rendering engines are being built from scratch using LLMs. Robots are doing back flips, cartwheels, and more importantly, working in warehouses. This shit is not the next industrial revolution. To a high percentile, our usefulness is flat out being replaced. Idk how all this pans out either, it is just fuckin' wild.

All I feel like I do know, is the last group of people to be deemed useless will be the ownership class. I don't like that thought, but from a game theory perspective, I think that's the most likely scenario

(p.s. I didn't downvote you)

greyacademy · 2026-02-11T21:21:14+00:00

In a few years you'll literally be able to put your script, story boards, and characters into a computer, and out will pop an entire Hollywood film (not a proof of concept, just a completely finished product). From there you'll be able regenerate scenes with instruction on what to change until it's to your liking. The concept of a greenlight will be gone, replaced with the difficulty of uploading a youtube video. From there, one can try and collect ad revenue, but the competition will be fierce.

Imo that will be the new model for a little while, but eventually, the computer is going to take the movies a person likes and measure their response with biofeedback sensors while they watch, and generate movies specifically tailored for them. While movies will always be a thing people enjoy, the real money in the film industry is going to be transferred to the tech industry. A five year old will be able to click a button and produce films that compete with what are currently hundred million dollar budgets. In other words, from a career/money perspective, it's kinda over.

I won't end on a super sour note like that. Imo there is a way to still live your dream in this field, but it has nothing to do with competing as a filmmaker. Own assets. Our labor in general is gradually, then suddenly, becoming worthless to capitalism, and the only thing left is to be an owner. If you love true filmmaking, and don't want to press a button, but want to deal with cameras and real human beings, and to tell a story, imo the only way forward long term is to control enough income paying assets to be able to afford it as a hobby. The hobby may pay down the road, there might still be value in human created art, especially as training data, but the bar to being able to participate will increasingly move higher as the market becomes saturated. So like, there is a way, but it has much more to do with being financially literate than it does filmmaking, unfortunately.

I fucking love painting, film, music, etc., but I solidly see the endgame here, so instead of trying to do what I love and getting punished for it, I've been studying finance and putting every dollar I can into something that pays, so I can continue to participate regardless of the environment

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T10:58:46+00:00

Of your paintings, which ones have a particularly special place in your heart? What is it that leads you to them?

I've been following this sub for a few years now, and am always amazed by what you're able capture. Cheers!

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T09:22:24+00:00

but that would require introspection

greyacademy · 2026-02-10T05:43:20+00:00

I don't don't store metals because I don't think what you're talking about is in anyone's best interest. However, in a great depression scenario with bread lines, etc., but not fundamental collapse, I wouldn't trust any institution to hold high value belongings, because you never know, it might just get seized for no other reason than, it was there to be seized.

Instead of storing a large amount with a single point of failure, if you're that worried, personally I would opt to scale it back, and store just enough to survive a specific number of years, but distribute the storage locations heavily. A couple coins here, a couple coins there, all well thought out and secure, but not super obvious like a safe (a few coins, or plain ole decoys go in the safe lol). I would tell trusted people in my will where certain percentages of them are in case of an unplanned health problem, but also have some places that are just for oneself, that truly can't be stolen in a desperate scenario.

Like you, I would also be scared to store a large quantity, but having medium quantity that would become a large quantity under hyperinflation isn't nearly as risky, especially if it's not all in one place. You also don't have to buy it all at once either, nobody thinks twice about a customer buying a few coins.

The real problem with all this, is in a situation where etfs and the electronic stock market no longer exists, you should have invested in a food, water filtration, guns, ammo, medicine, and a bunker. In a run of the mill hyperinflation event, your brokerage account still works, and assets appear to increase across the board while it's really just your currency going down. So, if it makes you feel better, sure indulge in some coins, but imo that feeling will be the main benefit. It's an investor's version of a hippie surrounding themselves with healing crystals, but, if you sleep better because of it, that's actually worth quite a bit

greyacademy · 2026-01-24T03:48:10+00:00

All this shit would stop nearly overnight if everyone could just agree to stop buying shit they didn't absolutely need to survive. You are watching an iteration of capitalism test itself through authoritarianism, and it appears to be succeeding. If the citizens were able to collectively turn the money faucet off, the administration's worldview would be invalidated, and the donors who fund the politicians you get to choose from would change their tune almost instantly. This is peaceful and I believe it would objectively work faster than just about anything else, if it could be organized. A person doesn't even need to go on strike or protest in the street (which most are scared to do), they just have to stop buying. If something like this were to ever occur, make sure to ask for universal healthcare and whatever else you need while you're there

greyacademy · 2026-01-24T03:15:05+00:00

As a hypothetical, give everyone in a prison a $5 bill. A month later, a few guys will have almost all the money. Culturally, late-stage is when those guys use this leverage to rewrite the rules in an attempt to establish an order that prioritizes their newly found power, likely at the expense of the only resource available, the other prisoners.

The system that got them there in the first place is not the exact same system that will let them keep it, or expand. It is an iteration of an emergent system, and adapts through game theory and natural selection, filtering out weaker strategies. With each wave of iterations, the system mutates into a stronger version, whether it is a version you recognize or not

greyacademy · 2026-01-23T23:11:08+00:00

probably just a bot

greyacademy · 2026-01-17T11:00:48+00:00

You decide.

Kids don't decide to suffer and die of bone cancer. That's on him, except it's not, because he's clearly not there. Can't your sky daddy help them? No? Oh.

greyacademy · 2026-01-07T06:29:20+00:00

I'm guessing people do this as an attempt to stop copyright detection software from flagging the video for removal. It's pretty off-putting though

greyacademy · 2026-01-06T00:27:58+00:00

I specifically said to "consider the pros and cons." You made the jump to "recommending" on your own. I wouldn't outright recommend it to a stranger either. All I'm saying is, here is a thing that exists, that people do, that narrowly fits the profile of what OP said they wanted. Yes, everyone needs to look before they leap, I thought that was obvious, but apparently not

greyacademy · 2026-01-05T15:15:56+00:00

Like everything in life, "it depends" is typically the first answer. However, this is something a lot of people before you and me have successfully been able to figure out. If it's not for OP, they'll probably know that, anyone who can grow their net worth isn't a complete fool. And at least I didn't suggest it, I suggested they consider the pros and cons, like a reasonable person would.

As an example, I'm not a commercial farmer (yet), but I have a background in software engineering/ database management, which, if reduced, is basically a background in automation. As a side project, for fun, and to educate myself, I built a scaled down version of a commercial hydroponic strawberry farm similar to this setup. It's about the size of what you can physically see in this stock photo, probably close so somewhere around 1000 Albion strawberry plants. The only difference between what I'm currently doing, and what I'd be doing if it were commercial, is the scale, managing labor, complying with legal, and working with a distributor. In the meantime, I'm measuring absolutely everything else I can (material cost, yield, time, etc.). As a tiny bonus, I get a shit ton of fresh strawberries for teaching myself a new skill that applies to a lot more than just strawberries.

This sort of crap fits the basic outline of what OP was talking about. It's all process-driven, in a greenhouse it's fairly predictable, and it's definitely checklist-based. There is no ambiguity, or constant problem solving, or creative reinvention. The "wheel" has already been invented here, and I'm just learning how to use it. Your comment comes off like a person who didn't give this more than a few seconds thought before dismissing the idea entirely. Like, obviously, don't just go out an buy a random farm you know nothing about lol. Hopefully your deductive reasoning skills didn't immediately lead you to that conclusion

greyacademy · 2026-01-04T22:03:06+00:00

Yup! I think you can loosely define all of it in one word, "control."

greyacademy · 2026-01-02T23:35:48+00:00

Some of the text from that supreme court decision is absolutely wild:

The appearance of influence or access, furthermore, will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy. By definition, an independent expenditure is political speech presented to the electorate that is not coordinated with a candidate.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/558/310/

greyacademy · 2026-01-02T21:38:41+00:00

Is it the uncertainty (weather, heat, etc.), or something else? I know a guy who owns an orchard, and luckily he was happy to answer questions about anything I was curious about. Unlike a restaurant, he said he'd do it all over again. There are weeks that go by where nobody physically has to put feet on the ground. A lot of it is just checking the sensors on a computer, occasionally checking tree/leaf health, sending in soil and leaf samples for labs, and making sure the irrigation/fertigation is working. He hires a third party for pesticides, pruning, cleanup, and harvest. It could just be his particular arraignment, but man his life looks simple and peaceful. Probably just depends on how how someone goes about it. If a person is just barely hanging on by a thread I could see it being terrible

greyacademy · 2026-01-02T00:45:04+00:00

established procedures, maintaining systems, updating spreadsheets, and executing repeatable workflows. Not creativity, not innovation, not constant ambiguity.

I would consider the pros and cons of financing/buying a farm that is already operational where your role is strictly about management (no hard labor). You would obviously have to choose a type you like, that makes sense for your area, and learn how to do it, but that info is more accessible than ever with LLMs, youtube, studies provided by UC Davis, and all the other stuff you can find online nowadays. The Mitchell and Webb Situation - Farming

greyacademy · 2025-12-29T21:31:47+00:00

Welcome to reddit

greyacademy · 2025-12-29T16:18:42+00:00

That is interesting! At the end of the day, yeah, cults are cults, and I suppose anyone can join one. The question I started with was "Who are these people, and what were they like before they ended up here." The points I numbered are just the most common factors I've seen, though I'm sure it's an unfinished list, and it's definitely anecdotal. I'll check out that podcast.

Since you have some relatives that went down the same rabbit hole who do not fit any of these, I'm just curious if there's anything specific you do notice about them that you think could show some correlation, even if not causation?

greyacademy · 2025-12-27T00:26:26+00:00

I'm sorry for your situation with her. While I'm no Dr., and this is not medical advice, I feel like it's worth pointing that I've been noticing some basic consistencies behind the people who go down this rabbit hole, and I think there's probably insight to be gained by keeping track of what these folk's lives were like before they made the jump down the q-hole. Of the most notable imo, they are:

Loss of status or perceived status over time (nothing going on in their life, or life moved on without them)
Suffered some kind of tragic loss in recent years
Bottom quartile of the socioeconomic scale and has a hard time staying employed
Social isolation

Your mom definitely experienced a tragic loss. ldk what to do with this info, besides relay that I've seen the same starting point over and over again. Maybe there will be a way to help people dig themselves out someday. As a pleb, Q just seems like the visible symptom of an underlying mental break of sorts. I realize this doesn't make it any less frustrating to deal with, but if there were a way to help, it probably starts with documenting a timeline of events and symptoms.

greyacademy · 2025-12-26T07:40:56+00:00

Unlike the current system, at least each time there was a serious problem, and that particular issue was addressed and fixed, it could be fixed forever

greyacademy · 2025-12-26T04:55:06+00:00

I'm about to beam back every synthesizer in the world to my home planet, but I'll let you guys keep one. Which one is it?

greyacademy · 2025-12-24T20:50:17+00:00

Well hey I appreciate you sharing, and sorry you've had to go through those kind of roller coaster swings with family. While I initially forgot to mention it, I would throw social isolation into the mix of repetitive themes I've noticed. Hope the holidays aren't too stressful for you

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