PuppyTailWags

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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I fully agree that we should be working on preventing ACES and other environmental effects that specifically have proven out to have causal effects on mental illness. But psychosis cannot be eliminated altogether, and if someone is psychoti
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
On one hand I want to be sympathetic to the author here, who has personal stake in preventing the severely mentally ill from murdering people. At the same time, the author doesn't at all go into the deeply personal and often traumatic
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I don't think anyone's argued seriously about whether or not a calorie deficit causes weight loss, mostly I've seen that CICO doesn't actually help people perform the calorie deficit part and is instead primarily used fo
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
You're still focused on accurately describing the category of falsehood ChatGPT produces. You're missing the point. The point is that people don't even understand that ChatGPT produces falsehoods significantly enough that eve
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I think the concern is to get laypeople to understand that ChatGPT's output has a non-tangential chance of being completely false, not to get laypeople to understand the nuances of the falsities ChatGPT may produce. In this case, lying
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I'm completely comfortable talking about those things! :) I just disagree with the notion that copyright should just magically go away without any serious consideration of its consequences to creatives. I'm more than happy with so
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
No, because HBO has more than license: they also have audience and money to pay for actors, animators, script writers and, most importantly, a marketing campaign. They could still make a ton of money off of it, just that George R.R. Martin
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Frankly, I'm comfortable with the copyright holder being responsible to pay for the continued ownership of the copyright beyond its registration fees. It would allow them to determine whether or not a work is worth the continued invest
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Alan Dean Foster's situation was not an irrevocably signing over his rights; he signed a specific business agreement that Disney tried to renege on dubious claims that would totally change corporate law if it was made valid precedent.
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Cory Doctorow's license on his books is explicitly Noncommercial, No derivative. The person I was disagreeing with would disagree even with that permissive license! And it would also go along with my argument, that Cory Doctorow is sti
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I'm not asking whether or not George R.R. Martin would or wouldn't be fine: I'm asking whether or not it's reasonable for HBO to make a killing off his work without him being paid at all as an example of how it doesn&#x2
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I'm completely comfortable with a "if no one's making it available reasonably, it should be made so" policy. I'm only concerned for living creators to retain rights to their work and be compensated for their creatio
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Then how should any artists make any income at all from their work? I'm not talking about 0.0001% lucky creators with huge compensation. I mean the 70 year old with cancer who cannot write anymore. I mean the 35 year old disabled artis
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I don't think I agree with this. Novels can take years to write, and to have their copyright expire after only a few years may not be enough for the author to write another book. What would be the motivation to write a series if the se
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Appreciated! I'd delete it if I could since you pointed it out, but I can't, so I appreciate the move. :)
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Warning: That thread has mostly devolved into discussing crime, totally ignoring Bob Lee.
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Baby powder is usually corn starch now.
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Do we know if this settlement is actually significant in incentivizing J&J to never pull this shit again?
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I'm really confused by this blog post. On one hand he claims he doesn't believe women might experience hostile workplaces or discrimination, but then he points out he sees plenty of women doing software engagement where the woman
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
The problem with gambling isn't a lack of education. Gambling preys on people when they're vulnerable and gamifies their desperation into a death spiral of suck. I would also keep children away from it, since they're at a dis
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I, a non-ADHD person, do not have to put myself into situations where I have no choice but to do the thing I need to do. I simply see I need to do something and then do it. Does this strongly deviate from how I described a disability above?
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Something has to be happening in the environment that's making people fatter. The only process that is statistically successful on a population level in getting people to lose significant amount of weight is a hormone regulating drug,
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I'm just pointing out, in my anecdotal experience, that the smartest people I know don't have interest in AI because of the way AI clashes with the things they find the most intellectual stimulation from. None of what you said rea
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Genuine question: are ADHD people inherently disabled in developing self-discipline due to their brain wiring? [I mean disabled in the sense of "they need external assistance or must put way more effort", in the same way someone
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
It makes it so that the actual intellectually interesting analysis of art, when viewed through the lens of an LLM, becomes a cognitively simple to understand puzzle of matching prompts to effects. There's not a lot of interesting conve
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
It still doesn't occur to me that the 1-3% smartest people in the world would be attracted to LLM/AI just because they're intelligent. The most intelligent people I know are variously uninterested in AI because AI threatens m
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
This doesn't read like a complaint about the pricing per se. It's more like pointing out Apple's low sales might have something to do with their high pricing and then providing that the pricing is unattainable for laypeople b
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Right, so it's still justified to feel bad for visa workers in this case, because they are stuck at an abusive workplace because of circumstances of their visa.
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
It's harder with visas, because you're not gambling if you can find another job, you're gambling if your employer can acquire a visa in time for you to not be deported.
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by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
I would say it's equally hard to sympathize with the cops that pushed down an elderly man, then left him bleeding from the head on the street, marching over his unmoving body towards protestors , in broad daylight. It's importa

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