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by 0thgen 4y ago
Anyone else see stuff like this and think: "Yea but it's wikipedia, they deserve whatever funding they want" I get they can probably be closer to perfect as an organization, but I'm still always left feeling that wikiped
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by 0thgen 4y ago
Fair enough, and I think your description that quality depends on an individual's own weighted dimensions of interest is spot on. But I'd also append what you said with: human individuals probably share a lot the same dimensions o
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by 0thgen 4y ago
I'm operating under the assumption that there is some construct of quality out there than can predict which art pieces will be deemed "better" than others. I just don't have a good description of what it is.
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by 0thgen 4y ago
I could see that prize judges aren't _exactly_ correct on assessing meaning, but are they not even close? Like, their judgments are totally orthogonal to quality?
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by 0thgen 4y ago
Is it worth pointing out that the model (midjourney) is extrapolating from the textures, spatial arrangements, and image statistics embedded in human art that's already existing? Not saying humans are the only thing that can produce ar
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by 0thgen 4y ago
and what were those dogwhistles?
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by 0thgen 4y ago
if the models are too opaque to give appropriately weighted credit to all parties involved in the dataset the model learned from, would that make it reasonable to just push all AI generated inventions to the public domain? (at least in rega
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by 0thgen 5y ago
that's a good argument. part of the fun is learning the AI behaviors. and in modern games it honestly would take a while for that to get boring, the AIs certainly are getting more complex
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by 0thgen 5y ago
now that is seriously amazing gameplay mechanics
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by 0thgen 5y ago
did not know, nintendo should take inspiration here
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by 0thgen 5y ago
that is absolutely fascinating. curious to read the paper, and see what the major obstacles were, or whether some newer techniques (like federated learning) could make the process more computationally efficient
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by 0thgen 5y ago
this comment hit me pretty hard. why do we expect longevity in the free open source world?
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by 0thgen 5y ago
could it also in part be to the fact that graphics can be parallelized on GPUs, and AI behavior is inherently serial? (and beyond perceptual tasks like vision, does modern AI benefit from GPUs that much?)
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by 0thgen 5y ago
or a pokemon that you actually "train" like you would a real animal, following all the principles of animal reinforcement (which you sort of get for free with neural nets)
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by 0thgen 5y ago
it would certainly make MMOs a little more interesting if raids actually required outthinking an intelligent machine as oppose to exploiting it's preprogrammed responses via rote trial and error
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by 0thgen 5y ago
it'd be cool to see an information theoretical explanation of the complexity of hierarchical -vs- non-hierarchical file systems, and why human beings have such an initially easy time with hierarchies. there's the obvious inherit
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by 0thgen 5y ago
alright, in that case you're right, the processors seem wasteful though interestingly, the specialized processors alkso seem like an example of a second order effect of bitcoin: driving innovation towards more energy efficiency. (thoug
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by 0thgen 5y ago
fair enough
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by 0thgen 5y ago
"If I were to become a dictator of a large part of the world, I’d tax heavily all the extra cycles, all extra watts of power wasted, all extra RAM, and all excess bytes sent over the wire, and tax it enough to eat into profits of big t
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by 0thgen 5y ago
I was under the impression that standard bitcoin mining leveraged GPUs for the heavy lifting. If that's not the case I'm happy to know what does
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by 0thgen 5y ago
So when bitcoin hits it's schedule max limit and can't be mined anymore, is the point moot? I guess the question is: how much of a total energy bill will it have racked up before we get to that point, and should we consider the li
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by 0thgen 5y ago
by specialized hardware, you mean GPUs? which are extremely useful for graphics, machine learning, and large-scale mathematical calculations? the gains to society that GPUs brought can't be understated. how do you think they run the cl
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by 0thgen 5y ago
just because bitcoin wasn't directly involved in a transaction doesn't mean it isn't standing in for economic value if I steal an ancient coin worth $10,000 dollars from you, and you're upset about it, am I making a good
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by 0thgen 5y ago
this why I don't trust platitude-ing about the environment that isn't back by economics. real solutions require thinking of the world as a complex, dynamic system, where influencing one variable can have unintended consequences on
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by 0thgen 5y ago
except all the goods and services that it currently stands in as a reference for (given people had to buy it with their own money, which they provided some service to obtain)
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by 0thgen 5y ago
except all the goods and services that it currently stands in as a reference for (given people had to buy it with their own money, which they provided some service to obtain) but hey,
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by 0thgen 5y ago
bitcoin mining provides an opportunity for anyone, anywhere to convert their computing resources into value. the competitive pressure is to have more efficient energy usage than your competitors so in reality, bitcoin provides an direct inc
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by 0thgen 5y ago
I think people underestimate the economic mechanisms needed to solve an issue like this. changing personal individual behavior and spouting platitudes works in disney movies, not in a society with 8-billion members
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by 0thgen 5y ago
fair point; outside of it's main use case (writing documents), we're better offer using more sophisticated tools
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by 0thgen 5y ago
Pandoc completely solves any of the issues mentioned about markdown for scientific writing. it works flawlessly, and it unarguably way cleaner than writing in plain latex How can anyone - tell me - that this - list Is harder to read: \begin

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