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by 1attice 4y ago
This is a good point, and I upvoted it. AI tools do redistribute the ability to produce art, which might otherwise tend to be limited to a lucky few who get the right education and training. The problem, however, is that without a profess
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by 1attice 4y ago
Friend, I'm well aware of Rawls' broader position, and I in fact hold an MA in phil with a concentration on Rawls. Nothing you have said seems to interact with what I've said, other than to suggest, erroneously, that understa
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by 1attice 4y ago
Thank you <3 I've had to do a lot of my own reckoning recently, for reasons that are personal, but 'willingness to see even uncomfortable things about oneself' has been a big part of my recovery. Here's hoping it can
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by 1attice 4y ago
Moreover, if your personal code of ethics permits hurting other people, you may need to contemplate revising your personal code of ethics. (Excluding edge cases such as kink or vengance.)
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by 1attice 4y ago
[EDIT: 2023-03-19@20:12PDT : s/esteem/respect/g, to match Rawls' usage.] The anger you notice is not context-free. People are shouty because: - There are livelihoods at stake - Worse, there are systems of respect at st
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by 1attice 4y ago
> No business opportunity will last forever Typically, one tries (if one can) to build a business larger than a single opportunity.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Again, as a fair-to-middling organic language model, my only opinion is that, a PIN, as currently implemented in Bitwarden and described above, leaves Bitwarden users open to a form of exploitation that can be categorized as a downgrade att
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by 1attice 4y ago
I have no opinion other than it is obviously a downgrade attack. As a fair to middling organic language model, I cannot tell you how to keep your keys safe; I myself am blessed with a good memory and 160wpm typing speed so I use that.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Hi Justusw! No disagreement here -- wage slavery is just that -- and, in utopia, we would have the robots do everything. But, as the error message goes, "you cannot get to there from here." It's like seeing an ideal endgame c
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by 1attice 4y ago
Allowing people to choose an insecure means of securing their work just is a stochastic downgrade attack. Think it through.
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by 1attice 4y ago
thank you for saying this.
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by 1attice 4y ago
Well, there goes my trust in another old friend. That's a downgrade attack for sure.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I'm about to step out, and I will have to write my own essay in reply, but frankly, this time is different. - OP's family of arguments, which I'll call BAU (Business as Usual, i.e. the claim that there is nothing fundamenta
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by 1attice 4y ago
> Bold to assume Discord is any different when searchable history is inevitable as the biggest criticism of people moving their technical support to it. Good point; Signal it is.
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by 1attice 4y ago
The rising interest in novel antidepressants on HN suggests to me that even the wildly comfortable readership of HN is struggling with this era. I have no judgment to cast on those who try and enjoy adaptogens, but please think through what
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by 1attice 4y ago
Hear me out: sure, we denuded the planet of life, but we're ushering new life into being with GPT-N /s If there are future generations, the priorities of this era will be inscrutable
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by 1attice 4y ago
Reminder to readers: it's 2023. Do not self-report as being not-ok on a public-facing site. Even a throwaway account can be linked back to you. This may have implications for your insurance, your employment, and your relationship(s). I
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by 1attice 4y ago
You could literally be hit by an asteroid and you'd find a way to blame "leftists." Good night and good luck
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by 1attice 4y ago
Non-productive work is not destructive work -- again, Keynes ditches. Your country, the USA, is very close to system collapse because of its inequal distribution of fruits. I daresay it makes good popcorn-time.
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by 1attice 4y ago
> My value in software engineering isn't in typing up the loop, and less even in knowing that I'll need one. It's in knowing how to manage complexity across a broader cross integration of concerns. The way I'm doing t
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by 1attice 4y ago
Allow me to indulge in my own historical induction. Up until Louis Pasteur invented the germ theory of illness, it was broadly understood, across many different cultures, that disease had its origins in one or all of: witchcraft, possession
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by 1attice 4y ago
You still haven't stepped away from historical induction -- your argument still depends on this time not being radically different than last time. There are good reasons -- presented everywhere, right now -- to suppose that this time
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by 1attice 4y ago
I hadn't thought of that -- but yes, it very well might be the case. Let's say there's a 50% (extremely generous!) limit on AI contribution. An efficient company will operate close to that line, say, targeting a 49% AI contri
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by 1attice 4y ago
> This prediction has occurred with every technology revolution. It hasn't been borne out yet. So what? You are performing 'induction from history', which is possibly the hand-waviest possible means of estimating what is n
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by 1attice 4y ago
This announcement has immediate, significant practical impact for creatives. The most important document a creative had, up until today, was their portfolio -- typically, a look-book of finished pieces. Now, that portfolio needs to include,
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by 1attice 4y ago
This hoary take irks me. There were still places for human endeavour to go when the looms were automated. That is no longer the case. Think of it instead as cognitive habitat. Sure, there has been habitat loss in the past, but those losse
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by 1attice 4y ago
This article left me with a profound sadness. Not only was it paint-by-numbers, it managed to downplay its own alarm, undercutting the point of reading the article in the first place: for if AI is so 'dreary', then why are we danc
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by 1attice 4y ago
sure. See image on the tweet that started this thread. Now, take a look at these hands from MJ3: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/wlujgw/midjourn... It's important to note that MJ3 rel
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by 1attice 4y ago
Yes, that's it precisely. The odds of having a good hand have gone up dramatically, near as I can tell. Even the hands that aren't quite right seem better somehow. I expect either MJ 7 or 8 to do hands flawlessly, every time.
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by 1attice 4y ago
I think tf not. I'm on team human.

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