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by andreilys 4y ago
There’s no other way to see those types of efforts as anything other than attacks against science itself The funny thing is most of what you call bad faith questioning ended up being approved by “Science” (cloth masks being ineffective, h
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by andreilys 4y ago
I think they're referring to the NPC programming that people receive through media/authority figures, and only have those views because "my fellow tribe member on Fox News/CNN said so" You can't really blame th
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by andreilys 4y ago
One of these countries has rule of law and can prosecute such incidents, the other… not so much.
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by andreilys 4y ago
All private corps are beholden to the CCP, anyone that steps out of line is disappeared or taken out of the lime light. Just look at Jack Ma. If you imagine that the CEO of Binance has any ability to prevent the CCP from weaponizing TikTok,
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by andreilys 4y ago
Why should I, a US citizen who has no business need to travel to China currently, worry about the CCP's authoritarianism more than the US govts? If you ever run for office or hold a position of national security interest, your person
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by andreilys 4y ago
Imagine one day you run for office, or hold a position with national security interest. In this scenario, it would be a lot easier to setup a honeypot thanks to all this additional information. In some cases, even blackmail you if you have
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by andreilys 4y ago
It comes from the fact that the CCP is not above committing genocide on its own citizens, or disappearing high profile figures who are critical of the party line. Pretty easy to imagine what would happen if a party official said "pleas
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by andreilys 4y ago
The evidence is in the way the CCP treats private companies (Alibaba, Tencent, etc.), it really doesn't take much logical thinking to realize that at any point the black-box algorithm can change on the whim of a party official.
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by andreilys 4y ago
I don’t see why AI generation would be restricted to stock art. There are plenty of very impressive results already that will displace artists further down the chain. I think of it more like, If an artist can support themselves doing commis
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by andreilys 4y ago
Self driving cars and generating AI are two completely different problem sets. Particularly as one deals with the world of atoms, where the cost of a mistake is much higher. There are already models that work to “aesthetically” rate images,
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by andreilys 4y ago
How do you think artists “higher up the food chain” got there? Inevitably they started on the lower rungs and worked their way up. If these tools displace the need for lower level/apprenticeship like work, then it won’t be a surprise i
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by andreilys 4y ago
I’m curious why do you think that AI generation will plateau at its current quality level?
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by andreilys 4y ago
Anecdotally a lot of friends in SF don’t bother reporting crimes because they know the police won’t do anything and it’ll be just a waste of their time reporting it.
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by andreilys 4y ago
There are billions of people who use FB/instagram/Tik-tok, so yes that’s the majority of people that spend time in digital worlds
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by andreilys 4y ago
It feels like everyone's so desperate to create or predict the next AI unicorn, that no one's paying attention to the fundamentals. What exactly are the fundamentals? The transformer revolution is pretty foundational and the ina
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by andreilys 4y ago
The creative process is very much fitting together and remixing things. Humans are not an island. I recommend watching the “everything is a remix” series it does a good job of expounding on this
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by andreilys 4y ago
Yes I’m sure inflation has everything to do with price gouging and nothing to do with the trillions of dollars printed by the Fed. Because of course, money printer go brrr with no repercussions right?
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by andreilys 4y ago
Well the obvious example is RenTech's Medallion fund which consistently out-performs human stock traders. The Medallion Fund has employed mathematical models to analyze and execute trades, many of them automated. The firm uses compute
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by andreilys 4y ago
In our experience, even deep learning technologists at the top of their game are surprised when we point out that deep learning (or any other form of AI) struggles when tasked with predicting the future. It seems to do a pretty good job o
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by andreilys 4y ago
Murdering (or being complicit in the factory farming model), and then consuming another living conscious being is on a very different moral plane than remixing intellectual work. It's hard to imagine the mental gymnastics required to t
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by andreilys 4y ago
How does having someone else pay for the domain renewal imply charity?
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by andreilys 4y ago
I recommend watching the video Everything Is A Remix. There are very few artists who you can call “original”, the majority are riffing and remixing based on previous predecessors. Making find tweaks here and there. This is something you can
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by andreilys 4y ago
Sounds like you haven't been looking that hard. There are plenty examples on the DALL-E subreddit that put the majority of Deviant Art artists to shame.
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by andreilys 4y ago
The metrics we select and how we measure them is an inherently political thing. How we measure inflation is a great example of this, we choose to include some things, but exclude others because if we had a true measure of inflation, the gov
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by andreilys 4y ago
The constitution was signed by 20-somethings e.g. James Monroe (18), John Marshall (20), Aaron Burr (20), Alexander Hamilton (21), and James Madison (25)
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by andreilys 4y ago
Profitable companies that grow 2% y/y are not very attractive for employees.
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by andreilys 4y ago
You can pay a college art student to replicate the Mona Lisa, but the value will be nowhere close to the original. Artificial scarcity is merely a signal/status booster in a virtual world where post-abundance is present. If you are in
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by andreilys 4y ago
I started with no audience and got >100k reads on one of my articles because I used a medium publication. This resulted in being able to build an audience that would read my work irrespective of whether I published with a publication.
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by andreilys 4y ago
the first requirement for this is that rules and regulations are followed. Unfortunately when you have regulatory capture by special interests groups, this ensures that no progress ever happens because the organization with the most lobby
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by andreilys 4y ago
It all depends on whether you’re getting sufficient external stimulation. If I go through an entire week of interesting experiences/conversations/etc. then spending a day alone will yield all kinds of interesting ideas/concep

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