This proposed economic model creates a dystopian situation: whoever has the most capital has the right of first refusal to consume art.
Current primary and secondary ticketing markets are not ideal, but this proposition disenfranchises whole market segments from consuming art as experience based on economic factors. That's bad for art, it's bad for artists, and it's bad for consumers.
I love writing documentation, and I love teaching people how to solve problems. At my day job I've written a lot of the organization's most trafficked explanations and how-to guides for understanding our codebase and engineering principles.
The other week an engineer in another group fed all of my documents, and all of our codebase, into an LLM. They were able to ask it questions, and get immediate answers that were by and large better than the guidance I would have been able to provide in between my other responsibilities.
As much as I love writing and explaining, I think we're sadly past the point that it needs to be done by humans. I have always considered documentation to be an imperfect, point in time, reflection of a codebase. When an LLM can read and synthesize all of code and immediately respond with up to date information... what's the point in writing documentation anymore?
I've read at least 8 articles this week about LLMs having massive hallucinations/brain-farts when writing testbeds for code. Unfortunately, the author didn't see the problems until he tried adding a test; then he had a huge WTF moment.
The fact that the LLM you mention gave good answers is probably more a reflection of YOUR documentation than any particular "brilliance" on the LLM's part.
As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything.
For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as you said) have a lot of people on your split sheet so your royalty percentage is very low or have a terrible deal on percentage with your label, distributor, or both.
Snoop Dogg isn't living off Bic lighter endorsements. He definitely makes a lot of money on music.
Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would love to transition into something more public. I don't really want to mess around with Jekyll, Medium, or Substack. Public Notion feels sort of compelling.
I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and found the OCW lectures. I stopped going to class, and instead would spend the time at the library to watch Strang's lectures and take notes.
I was one of the very few students to ace the class, and I will be forever grateful.
