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altruios
2y ago
Ah... so it seems there is nothing deficient for artists. Just photographers?
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altruios
2y ago
I've only ever used Krita, really. What features am I missing from photoshop? What is that gulf that I do not see?
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altruios
2y ago
> but it will never be able to attach a relatable backstory to it I think your human bias is showing. I suspect there will be (specifically) 1 AI - that gains that mindshare. It's all branding! There's a gaggle of pop stars, a
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altruios
2y ago
If the employers acted respectably: what would the left wing journalists complain about?
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altruios
2y ago
Seems like a high value target to attack. Imagine a xz situation visible by less people letting a (rootkit for a) bot net infect literally every windows machine in a matter of hours... Automatic updates are a good thing... /s 1/2
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altruios
2y ago
With reasoning, and logic. Phantom limb syndrome is a real thing. Extending that to a 'phantom stomach' that always reports that it is empty (missing) is not far fetched... So 'know': no, no one knows what it's actu
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altruios
2y ago
DC from fuel | DC from mechanical motion | AC from mechanical motion... yes? Not enough dynamos: build more dynamos.
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altruios
2y ago
And the 'no modification' is exact-why you lose me.
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altruios
2y ago
I am struggling to find that, sadly I am coming up short. It was from an essay, I believe, with a secular view of these things. But I can't seem to find the author. that was before I had zotero to organize these sources :)
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altruios
2y ago
It would imply good processes for keeping out those that would run it to the ground in the name of (short term) profits... That makes me hopeful... But every succession is a risk. Every merger is a risk... ask Boeing.
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altruios
2y ago
Both are needed. But Currently there are no checks in place to prevent this 'mind-share' take-over, so to speak...
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altruios
2y ago
sadly, the trend for these sorts of things is to sour after the original founder leaves... There is an esoteric concept that has some dynamics that explain this phenomenon somewhat. Not to get to into the weeds (the origins of this concept
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altruios
2y ago
I would only use this (or any ai) self-hosted if it works 100% offline. I would also not want it minified - as I would want the freedom to tinker with it to my personal specifications. Which makes me ask a question: what rights would I have
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altruios
2y ago
The only feedback I would give is I'm suspicious of (will not buy) closed sourced AI anything. With that said: thank you for sloughing off the subscription model trend! That is welcome. But going open source so that I know "for su
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2y ago
When I tell it to lie to me, I don't expect it to say 'I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that" the task isn't tell the truth, the task is 'follow the prompt'.
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2y ago
I'll put it in my reading list and get to it soon. But these are ideas that I have been looking at for a long time... and previous refutations of 'free will' as 'actually it's just these feed-back systems and we sho
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2y ago
> We have in our brains these neurons dedicated to experiencing what we observe others experiencing. We cringe when we see someone suddenly become involved in a painful accident. We recoil when we see something horrific. The nature of wh
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altruios
2y ago
I've give it a read. But if it's just rehashing John Locke's prisoner dilemma of perceived choice vs actual choice... I'm talking about objective reality, not subjective experience. The free will I'm interested in k
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altruios
2y ago
I am not talking about 'hidden variables'. More like... 'hidden (unfound as of yet) functions'...
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altruios
2y ago
So this leads down to some interesting consequences. If everything is determined by biology, and biology is determined by chemistry, and chemistry is determined by physics (quantum or classical). The next question is: "from where does
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altruios
2y ago
> demonstrably still participating Care to show a demonstration then?
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2y ago
My understanding was 'measuring is touching' with light, imparting energy into the delicate system, and no measurement can be done at that scale (thanks to the rules of light frequency/energy) that can both detect it and be w
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2y ago
I mean, experiments should be able to test this? Maybe in the future someone will find a way to adapt the double slit experiment to test for 'choice' on a fundamental particle level. "Can a particle choose for itself?"
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altruios
3y ago
you would enjoy Dave Ackley's perspective on 'robust computing' vs 'efficient computing'. But his one of his ideas is allowing for error: which can speed up calculations if you can also reduce the error as the calcu
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altruios
3y ago
You seem to be talking over me and not at me. And seem to have inserted an assumption of what comes next in this conversation. I don't want to give my money to a billionaire fascist, or capitalist, evangelical, or -ism (What I want is
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3y ago
> There is an argument to be made here though when said owner is another corporate entity - that is not a person so maybe it doesn't deserve any privacy. Agree on that point. One argument I muster for the general case: say you disag
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3y ago
Would the delay vary by pitch? (or would i also have to increase for that to be the case)
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altruios
3y ago
Imaginary constant... complex tuning here we come! The ideal tuning isn't 440hz, it's (440+42i)hz /s
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3y ago
No, I hold the privacy of a public company differently than a private citizen. If you do business - the stipulation for that is you should become 'public', in so much that there is a record of who owns a company... it should be th
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altruios
3y ago
Knowing who owns the LLC is ever so slightly different than also knowing their home address. Knowing THAT someone owns company X doesn't mean you know their location as well. That's all I care about or want: To know 'who'
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