Retric

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by Retric 7mo ago
That would be true if they gained the exclusive ability to reproduce works etc. AI companies want a license to train not ownership of a portfolio.
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by Retric 7mo ago
I object to calling people chatting online artists. However, ultimately nobody is going to pay them more than the value of their posts to the AI company which puts a severe cap on what that’s actually worth. People who post a great deal of
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by Retric 7mo ago
Gravitational orbits lose energy over time. Not really relevant on human timescales but interesting trivia if nothing else.
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by Retric 8mo ago
> is so absurd that it will probably genuinely burn down the entire global economy if paid. Where did you get that idea. Global economy is ~200T/year PPP. 0.1% of that split across every artist you want the training data from woul
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by Retric 8mo ago
If you can’t maintain altitude without losing significant airspeed, you’re just falling.
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by Retric 8mo ago
> can be more efficient at narrowly defined tasks My point was in narrowly defined task of turning chemical energy to motion, a Jet engine is less efficient than muscle fibers if you use ATP as the point of comparison. Biology got reall
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by Retric 8mo ago
Sure in theory, in practice the incentives don’t align for local governments to particularly care if these things actually work well. Here there was no attempt to photograph the driver rather than just assume the owner was responsible or wo
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by Retric 8mo ago
Systems don’t necessarily react based on the legal situation. A red light camera that’s improperly installed, poorly maintained, etc could essentially act randomly from a drivers perspective.
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by Retric 8mo ago
Efficiency by what metrics? When aircraft can carry onboard oil refineries and drilling rigs you can more reasonably compare them to birds. Without that you need to consider ATP vs jet fuel or crude oil vs a dead fish? Skeletal muscle can
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by Retric 8mo ago
It seems unlikely that we would be more efficient at achieve consensus than evolution which can hand craft neural structures via feedback loops across millions of generations. Especially when this demo needs 200k neurons when organizations
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by Retric 8mo ago
501(c)(3) is just one of 29 types of non profits defined by the IRS. Many non-profits aren’t charities and some of them can even distribute profits. 501(c)(7) IE non profit social club for example could be just about anything from knitting
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by Retric 8mo ago
If you’re making sense of something you need to include everything in that category. It’s perfectly reasonable to create different subdivisions / buckets based your own definitions or NTEE code etc, but all those sub categories combine
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by Retric 8mo ago
> Why are hospitals and universities lumped in with the food bank in the first place for instance? Ask the IRS / congress, this isn’t some arbitrary grouping it’s what charity means in the US. I do think it’s worth asking that quest
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by Retric 8mo ago
The problem is there is no guarantee the warehouse worker at a food bank is doing anything of value. So we can’t assume such things are productive without direct evidence.
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by Retric 8mo ago
If the change is not designed to educate the student, then the point isn’t education. As a general rule when changing complex systems, you sacrifice what you aren’t trying to optimize. If you make a random change to a car without considera
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by Retric 8mo ago
> A large part of the things we import from those countries indirectly come from China 88B can’t be a particularly large part of 377B even before you consider that 88B is largely used domestically not for exports to the US and Canada als
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by Retric 8mo ago
> Do you want to take a wild guess as to which country is a top 3 importer to all of these countries/regions? Canada imports 377 Billion from America and only 88 Billion from China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by Retric 8mo ago
> If you forced China to use less fossil fuels you would personally feel a much larger hit to your quality of life. America imports more from Mexico, Canada, and the EU than China which ranks as #4 when you consider EU as a single entity
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by Retric 8mo ago
Elections are decided as much by who shows up as who each individual supports. If the election was held tomorrow it’s likely many people that voted for Trump wouldn’t go, and many people who didn’t care enough to show up would.
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by Retric 8mo ago
This administration has terrible approval ratings. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...
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by Retric 8mo ago
I’ve read papers saying otherwise. In real world conditions when you’re trying to track moving transmitters, we are talking about an extremely difficult to detect signal and you’re trying to accurately identify an extremely large number of
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by Retric 8mo ago
Status is a tool for the working wealthy, but ultra-luxury brands are only appealing to a subset of wealthy people. There’s a great number of people with 100+M and even far beyond that who enjoy nobody knowing just what kind of wealth they
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by Retric 8mo ago
Intentional noise can obstruct that signal. Which should be obvious from a pure information theory perspective, if you can extract more information from a transmission to identify the radio a transmitter could modulate that to carry inform
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by Retric 8mo ago
How things are aren’t the only way things could be. A receiver could use a new random ID to call “collect” to a secure third party network which agrees to pay for the base stations bandwidth for every connection. The station then responds
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by Retric 8mo ago
Going single payer is a drastic drop in the cost of healthcare as a percentage of GDP. There’s no fiscal advantage to the current system whatsoever. The core issue is it suddenly destroys a large number of companies and removes millions of
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by Retric 8mo ago
I think we can call them both stupid in they are malformed. Let go of a feather and brick on the ISS gets a different result than doing so on top of Mount Everest. Similarly understanding chimpanzees behavior is a deeper question here noti
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by Retric 8mo ago
That article is somewhat revisionist. > In 1945, the heating effect of a high-power microwave beam was independently and accidentally discovered by Percy Spencer Sure, meanwhile using microwaves to heat stuff up dates back to the 1920’
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by Retric 8mo ago
Oil is just one aspect of climate change, coal was far more important because there’s plenty of coal to case extrem harm. The vast majority of new electricity generation installed in the US over the last 15 years has been wind and solar. T
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by Retric 8mo ago
A lot of early work into physics seemed like dumb questions at the time. When taken to the extreme “Do heavy objects fall faster?” tells you quite a bit about how the world works. And critically people intuited the wrong answers to many su
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by Retric 8mo ago
Your “requirements” aren’t actual requirements here.

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