pretty basic - they know they have no chance of hiding from the US. so they go plausibly in reach but outside of being casually bombed by missiles from israel.
the moment they go deep US will go after them hard.
we can see what happened to opera/theater/hand drawn art as conclusive answer. humans move on to the newer more easier to create/consume thing in general (digital music/tv/digital art) and a small percentage of people treat the older mode of creation as high art coz it's more difficult and expensive to learn / implement.
Calling cinema a "new form" of theatre is quite a simplification. It was certainly inspired by theatre, but the two differ in almost every aspect: medium, communication language, cultural role, and audience dynamics. Most people throughout history probably never experienced theatre or opera – so they didn’t move from them to cinema; rather, cinema emerged as a more accessible and reproducible medium for those.
Theatre and opera are regarded as high art because they are performed live in front of an audience every time, demanding presence, skill, and immediacy – unlike cinema, which relies on a recorded and edited performance.
the point is not that AI services will be affordable "eventually" it's that the advantage is so crazy that people who don't have access to them will NEVER be able to catch up.
First AI wrappers disrupt industries ->developing nations can't compete coz the services are priced prohibitively -> AI wrappers take over even more -> automation disrupts the need for anyone -> developing nations never develop further.
this seems more and more likely not less.
cutting edge GPUs for eg - already are going into the stratosphere pricing wise and are additionally being sanctioned off.
It seems you're suggesting that once you start this process of building tech on top of tech, then you get far ahead of everyone because they all have to independently figure out all the intermediate steps. But in reality, don't they get to skip to the end?
e.g. Nations who developed internet infrastructure later got to skip copper cables and go straight to optical tech while US is still left with old first-mover infrastructure.
China has already been transshipping saying they assemble in vietnam with the only thing being done is stuff like taking labels that say made in china off the products.
Vietnam does not care as long as vietnamese people are getting paid something.
Oh come'on, her voice is totally fine. She's a really good presenter and produces interesting, fairly advanced content in an accessible, entertaining way. I think criticizing her for something she can't change like this is extremely impolite.
Patreon fundamentally is a way to support your favorite artist.Be a PATRON of the arts. Some(most?) creators use it as an ad-hoc subscription method but it really isn't what Patreon is fundamentally built for.
if you're complaining about subscriptions that go into perpetuity your first target should be app stores that set up 10 year recurring payments in the biggest chunk possible for something you'll probably use for a couple of months before forgetting about.
I'm not a medical professional, but as a firmware engineer I do bristle a bit at the suggestion that "hardware" and "software" problems can be so cleanly separated.
