I would say that's technically not a bad joke. It just doesn't come across well given the context of this thread.
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You should maybe indicate if you're critical of this exploitation or in favor. If it's the latter it would be easier for the mods. And if it's the former you would lessen the inherent yuckiness people feel when reading this.
Let's say you're right and you've prevented the birth of Adolf or altered him to send him to another life trajectory. Who is to say that there wouldn't be another mad person, naturally a man, who would rise to power and commit similar if not even worse crimes. It's not only the person that made the fuehrer possible, it's also everything happening in the world, especially politics at the time. So you've bumped Adolf but you've created Anton who was similarly radicalized but he wasn't a landscape painter, he was a physics major and he made Germany develop nuclear weapons much faster. So now you have to go back and disturb Anton's conception. Which brings about fuehrer Armin and so forth. You might be stuck in a time loop you'll never be able to stop because you can't control all the variables.
Ich wollte meine immer schon mal grün streichen.
But we already know what to expect thanks to Stormy Daniels.
It's where all good engagements start!
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No, I mean engagements to marry.
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Is it just me? It's just me, is it. Oh, okay.
qA fA qing plaH! Today is a good day to die!
It would also make more sense to divide the day into something decimal but some base twelvers showed up first. It would also make more sense to stop using measurement systems where 12 hooplas equal 1 boink. The alphabet is just another thing like that. It's been stolen and rewritten and now we are stuck with it. You can write an alternative sound map to help new learners. But the 26 letter order is here to stay.
I take solace in the fact that a lot of the output of so-called AI needs to be checked and doublechecked, rendering any time and overhead savings nonexistent. This may change but I'm clinging on.
It's too early to tell where on the "modern technology replaces humans spectrum" the advent of so-called AI falls. Are we talking about enraged workers seeing their livelihoods in danger by industrialization throwing their wooden shoes, sabot, into the machines? Hence, or so the legend goes, the word sabotage. Or are we talking about accountants and bookkeepers, whose need to exist was questioned when Excel became a thing and automated something like 60 percent of their work. They actually grew in number because they could do more sensible things now. We can at least hope it's the second scenario.
As far as the masses enjoying so-called-AI-generated music is concerned, I think of how the availability of photography changed paintings. When you couldn't just snap a picture of something, a photorealistic facsimile in oil on canvas was fantastic. It took weeks but you didn't know better. When photography became widespread, artists went banana. Picasso actually knew how to draw things correctly but you wouldn't think that seeing his later body of work. Impressionism is delivering lovely scenery without sticking to the realism of the Dutch masters. Art isn't in a vacuum, it develops around life, life includes technology - it's an unavoidability that technology influences art.
Any photograph would be amazing to the people in 1830. Wow! It's my neighbor Bob sitting on a chair. Wow! It's a picture of a thumb. I have two of those but I've never seen them like that. Wow! It's a picture of New York. I'll never be able to go there because it takes 6 weeks and costs more than my net worth. Jump to today and we've become much more discerning about what a good photograph is. I live in hope that we develop a so-called-AI discerning taste as well. Especially in music. We've done okay with photoshopped images too.
Did he really do them though? The reason why this is within the scope of belief is the fact that there's no conclusive evidence that removes reasonable doubt by contemporary standards.
Let's say it's all exactly as it says in the four different versions that are somehow considered canon and none of it is a millennia old game of telephone: did he choose to do them? Did his dad force him? Could he maybe not have had free will in this regard? Do we know about all the miracles? Maybe there were more! Would it be fair for us today to judge him based on incomplete records?