Windchaser

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by Windchaser 5d ago
> I didn't want to go too off topic, but since this is such a sticking point I need to make a big note about the US: most of the world is more sedentary than 100 years ago. But the obesity epidemic is mostly US-cerntric. Note: nearl
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by Windchaser 5d ago
> We do know that LLMs can cause psychosis, we do know it can cause people to behave in an unhealthy manner, etc. We are seeing more and more evidence that AI usages in education is at least correlated with bad grades. We are seeing peop
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by Windchaser 5d ago
Still, (chiming in), your claim that " I am also sure that every single one of them did indeed get addicted to nicotine, and many of them died from cancer" could use some evidence to back it up. My understanding is that only about
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by Windchaser 7d ago
So long as the AI company owns a copy of the copywritten work.. does training on it represent an "exception"? They're not reproducing the work for sale, no? So how does training violate CR law?
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by Windchaser 7d ago
> But I would suggest replacing "seems" with the best numbers available. I know there's research on it for applied and basic science in general, and the rewards were massively EV+. But I can't recall whether similar r
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by Windchaser 8d ago
> If you're arguing for abolishing copyright, I'm all for it. But as long as copyright exists, AI training should not get any exception to it. AFAICT, the courts currently lean towards allowing AI to be trained even without aut
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by Windchaser 8d ago
> Musicians are paid to record music. If they were not, as is the case for ai data, we would indeed consider it theft. I remember reading literature from the 1930s, and there were quite a few folks who thought that the musicians-doing-re
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by Windchaser 8d ago
I mean.. it feels kinda weird to say that you get to determine how other people use your work? Once you've sold your product, it's out in the open and available for use however the customer wants to use it. If I bought a cake from
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by Windchaser 8d ago
> It doesn't justify a funding system that didn't exist / didn't fund those researchers. We need to come up with better reasons to fund such a thing. Do we? For most of us, it seems like the EV (expected value) from s
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by Windchaser 8d ago
> There's an obvious bias in focusing on retirees though. I mean, the whole notion of retirement exists for a reason. I see this also among my early retiree friends. People are quite happy just "playing" - gardening, joini
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by Windchaser 9d ago
> And remember how Iran slaughtered tens of thousands of its own citizens a few weeks prior. And the continual killing of Iranian citizens having differing political options of the regime So, that's over, then? We changed the regime
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by Windchaser 10d ago
Sure, losing weight is of benefit. But malnutrition is defined as a "serious deficiency" in the intake of energy and nutrients. Healthy weight loss is not malnutrition, and you can quite definitely be missing essential vitamins an
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by Windchaser 11d ago
> Surveillance isnt a problem until people use it for personal gain It absolutely can be a problem when used for organizational or ideological gain - e.g., when used by state, religion, business, or political group to spread propaganda,
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by Windchaser 11d ago
How is malnutrition ever good? "Mal", bad, in the latin
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by Windchaser 11d ago
> I am shocked it’s not reported about in Western media. Average american already has their hands full (slash "their brain full") with local matters - family, friends, community. It's hard enough to get attention to spare
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
>4C by 2100 is pretty far outside of the model projections. I'm not saying it's impossible - we all know there are some long tail uncertainties to climate projections - but for the most part, it's contraindicated by a lot
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
> US emissions has declined in real terms since 2000, and has plummeted rapidly on a per capita basis. And yet we still have some of the highest per capita emissions in the world. Nearly tied with Russia for "highest per capita emis
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
> The more realistic climate scientists think we will blow past 2c by roughly 2035. We are on track to 3c by 2050 I keep hearing this, but not from the climate science community, but from laypeople. I don't understand it. I haven&#x
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
Sure. But again, compare our current GHG emissions per capita. Or set aside new electrical energy capacity, and instead look at other GHG sources: automobiles, agriculture, concrete. Are we doing well there? Mostly, no, not great, and we
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
> You are making a disingenuous attempt at shifting blame onto the west. What makes this disingenuous? I thought I was pretty clear and honest about my belief that the West is to blame for a huge portion of the warming so far -- and this
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
> The biggest lie we're being told in the west is that we have a hand in climate change. If you look at total historic emissions to date, the US is responsible for 25% of all of them, and the EU is close behind at 22%. China is at 1
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
And when the Earth was 3C cooler, NYC was nearly under an ice sheet. The current estimate is that we're heading for +3C warmer, which is gonna have some big impacts.
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by Windchaser 1mo ago
I can still read it; it’s just been downvoted afaict. But it does seem like a bad comparison if what the other commenter said is true. I mean, here we’re talking about a lot of legitimate research being cut for absurd reasons.
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
Well, we'd still expect CO2. (Do the SO2 and NO2 get scrubbed? And - what else?) Edit: read the wikipedia link someone gave below. Yes, SO2 and NO2 and particulates are scrubbed. Older incinerators released a fair amount of dioxins, bu
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
> The problem is that the statutory fines need to be setup so that they are actually a deterrent rather than a cost of doing business Out of curiosity, how high are the fines now? > Why 100%? Because they should be effectively put out
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
> I dont understand how this one comes up thay often. It just sounds like the most useless thing ever. These literally make me suspect I am only one who cooks here while others kind of imagine what it might be like or something. I cook a
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
> What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. Hmm, here's a few that co
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
> You're not allowed to sell illegal drugs on the street? ... Or that police should look the other way bc it's too heavy handed to just detain the few dozen ppl that do this until they stop. I don't think you need to arres
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
Man outlines how hardened criminals take down Flock cameras, detailing it step-by-step: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1v78ihu/...
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by Windchaser 2mo ago
> How many indignities do you stomach for what exactly? People selling handbags neither threatens my dignity nor makes me indignant. When I think of "terrorize", I think of things like.. y'know, people strapped with explo

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