aortega

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by aortega 4y ago
>It should be virtually free to go to college If you are going to invest into something, it should be good investment that gives returns. An Useless degree clearly do not give enough returns not even to pay for itself.
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by aortega 4y ago
> Many jobs that don't require a college degree hire college grads because they can get them Exactly, that's the scam. Requiring a 'Tax' that you pay the college that is nothing but a useless piece of paper, that make
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by aortega 4y ago
> followed by crypto (which is a glorified pyramid scheme - prove me wrong). It is not wrong, but as long as it replaces the far, far worse pyramid scheme that is Fiat, I'm fine with it. But we digress :)
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by aortega 4y ago
I can imagine many, which are not only useless, but also malicious and generally negative for society. I won't name them here so as not to 'offend' people, but it's easy to tell which ones I mean.
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by aortega 4y ago
But psychology clearly don't pay enough to pay the loan back, so the degree is overpriced.
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by aortega 4y ago
> it should be obvious that there is much more to learn about writing or communication Are those skills valuable enough to warrant a 500k usd loan? clearly not, or else they should have no problem repaying it.
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by aortega 4y ago
>There are valuable skills Depends on the business and the degree. They may be valuable, but they are not 500k usd valuable. >(particularly writing and communication) You should learn that in grade school.
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by aortega 4y ago
I don't think we should abandon it, but if you want to pay 500k usd for you degree on french poetry in the 17th century, you should pay for it yourself.
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by aortega 4y ago
The defaulted loans are not for STEM careers, that have little trouble paying back, the problem is in humanities, arts, etc. colleges offered useless degrees to people that do not need them except for vanity, without any plan about how to p
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by aortega 4y ago
By your answers I can see that you both didn't get a very high score on those tests.
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by aortega 4y ago
>However, the problem that I see is computational time. We arrived quickly to the conclusion that intelligence is mostly speed, that I think is the correct definition. IQ tests have a time limit. Increase the limit, and anybody would inc
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by aortega 4y ago
>AI is a mind for the mind. Exactly, think of it as a symbiosis, a man is slow, but a man in a bycicle is fast. Now a man in a rocket, can go to other planets. But it is still a man, a rocket is just an inert pile of metal and fuel. Same
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by aortega 4y ago
>I'll always remember 2022 as the year that creativity died. It's like saying that computers killed artists. AI is just a tool, it still need a human in control and guiding it, can't generate anything on his own (yet). If
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by aortega 4y ago
You can comment those lines too.
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by aortega 4y ago
>StableDiffusion from the original repo will rick roll you if you try to generate something that triggers its NSFW filter. Just replace in scripts/txt2img.py: - x_checked_image, has_nsfw_concept = check_safety(x_samples_ddim) + x_
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by aortega 4y ago
Bicycles were invented before tires, they were called boneshakers for that reason.
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by aortega 4y ago
Bikes are incredibly simple devices, it's amazing that they were not invented up until 200 years ago.
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by aortega 4y ago
If we will never know, then there should be some kind of proof that the beginning of the universe is un-knowledgeable, sort of like Godel's theory of incompleteness. But there is none, so the affirmation is incorrect: We don't kno
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by aortega 4y ago
The real effect will be that you can publish a real picture of you fucking a gorilla and nobody would believe it because it's trivial to generate it with an AI.
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by aortega 4y ago
>make a hyperrealistic pornographic image of you with a gorilla[0] I don't understand this irrational fear. This can be done today, just need some minutes instead of some seconds to create a good Photoshop. Also, seriously this is t
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by aortega 4y ago
I goes to the miners or in this case, stakers. Balance is just need that to 'publish' torrents (because the network charges for modifications) but not to search or download them.
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by aortega 4y ago
I have several telescopes and I have dropped things in the mirrors quite often. The decrease in quality from a damaged mirror is almost zero. You only lose a tiny part of the total surface. Is not like hubble that had the wrong shape. A tin
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by aortega 4y ago
>these undeveloped countries who will bring their unsustainable cultures with them. I live in Latin America, in my trips to the US I get disgusted when I see hundreds of family cars with giant gas engines that we only use in construction
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by aortega 4y ago
>I really doubt that the world can support 8bn people with the average US standard of living That's a completely different problem. So basically what you want is to poor people to stay poor. Well, luckily technology improves and wit
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by aortega 4y ago
Every american consume about 1000x the resources of every African. It's incredible how the media brainwash you into believe you are actually taking care of the environment when 90% of the CO2 emissions comes from America (and China joi
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by aortega 4y ago
>will do the environment a huge favor and keep the birth rate trending down. Why? intuitively it would seem that that less humans will improve the environment, but intuition is often wrong. The planet can sustain much more people, it&#x2
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by aortega 4y ago
So you are saying sexual attraction is cultural? because that's exactly what the gay community is fighting against since the 1950s.
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by aortega 4y ago
>They can't date older women because older women spot their bullshit a mile away and steer clear. I think you should stop demonizing men's natural sexual preferences. Key word here is natural, we don't choose what we like.
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by aortega 4y ago
"To be alone is the fate of all great minds, a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils." Arthur Schopenhauer
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by aortega 4y ago
A picture of a black hole would be always artificial, for color don't really exist as it's only the brain interpretation of a part of the EM spectrum heavily averaged, that's why we don't see green stars even if there ar

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