Do we actually need monetary incentives to get people to create new things. Won't people naturally keep creating new things as long as they aren't constrained by a more fundamental need? So we really just need to create a society where nobody has to worry about their basic needs like housing, food, healthcare, etc...and then people are free to create and are even free to fail while doing so.

I agree, but until we get to that new society and new economic system, people need to consider the creators. IP is often all they have.

More Lord of the Flies than Anarchy. There's definitely hierarchy in our system.

I shove them all into ~/docs and then edit my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to match.

Can you really not imagine any kind of system where everyone can pay their bills and knowledge isn't guarded behind a paywall?

I can imagine various options but none of them would change the point I'm making.

Misattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat.

"Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!"

until you get to the one actually tricky part and you need to pause it for sec so your brain can catch back up.

Use AI to dynamically time warp the video relative to the information density in the video. Fast through the boilerplate, easy to understand parts, slow through the hard parts.

"ChatGPT, please convert this interminable youtube video into a readable, instructional web page, ignoring all of the obnoxious adverts."

Unfortunately, the profitable use of AI will be to do the exact reverse...

"ChatGPT, generate a how-to video by ripping off the content from https://pierre-couy.dev/tinkering/2023/03/turning-rpi-into-e... - and don't forget to insert adverts for three different VPN providers in there too"

Easy peasy.

Hell, it's hard enough these days to identify which physicians are actually physicians. I recently had an NP introduce herself to me as "Dr. So-and-so."

Yep, google published a bunch of research about their hiring processes and it basically said "we've tried everything and nothing works... anybody else have any ideas?"

Yet they continue their leetcode interview process...

I mean, I'd say that about regular Duolingo.

Hell, I can learn that just by chit-chating with my redneck neighbor.