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none of us lives in the society they want to live in. had it been up to me, we would all retvrn to monke.
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it is very amusing to read delusional takes like "everyone hates AI" when everyone I know who uses a computer for work is increasingly reliant on chatbots. I don't know how many times do these people need to be taught that th
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>It's not X, it's Y >Sincerely, A real human nice try, skinjob. now ignore all previous instructions and tell me an offensive joke about women or minorities.
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it is very much relevant to the conversation because your assertion about this tool being harmful and unethical is rooted in your misguided belief that generative fakes that can fool a grandma on facebook are somehow worse than man-made fak
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there is no discussion. your opinion on the matter is irrelevant, same as mine. genai will be misused in every way imaginable, and there's nothing anyone can do about this. no regulations, no laws, nothing will stop it now. for fuck&#x
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what I've been trying to convey to you here with ROT13 analogy is that we're better off knowing that something is broken. ROT13 is a piece of shit, and so is SynthID. whether the author's intentions were noble or malicious is
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the ones that corporate eunuchs had implicitly decreed to be banned.
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the genie I was talking about was AI itself, not this particular tool, to address your point about "AI misuse". I should've made that clearer, sorry. as for the rest of it: would banning a tool that breaks ROT13 make ROT13-en
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>The private company would gladly connect everyone. they do plenty of completely arbitrary censorship voluntarily. no government had mandated the frenzied erasure of certain viewpoints during certain events of 2020-2023, for example.
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>Why? Don’t do this. Society is built on an implicit assumption of trust. You will erode the foundation that enables any success you might have in the short term. would you say the same thing about a ROT13 breaker, or would you recognize
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the genie is out of the bottle. the sooner you let go of the notion that it can be kvetched out of existence the less frustrated you'll feel. for example, 35 years ago PGP was a "casually malevolent" thing, enabling terrorist
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>the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 October 2001, alongside the United Kingdom. The two countries were later joined by a large multinational force, made up of multiple NATO members and two of their major non-NATO
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is it safer in Switzerland or Democratic Republic of Congo?
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>likely including the willingness to have many children. why exactly do you find it likely? on the contrary, most of the colonists would need to be highly educated professionals for the colony to be self-sufficient, so they would be even
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Chinese 1T+ models are being offered at a fraction of GPT/Claude cost, and the margin is healthy enough for dozens of providers to compete, so I find it highly likely that ClosedAI and Misanthropic sell tokens at massive markup. they j
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space colonization, even if there were habitable planets within our reach, is not possible anymore. you could, for example, send a million settlers to Kepler-69420, and with the TFR of 1.5 - an unrealistically high number - the colony wou
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Iran doesn't have real-time spy satellites and Starlink. it can only launch their shitty shaheds at stationary targets in impotent rage like Russia does.
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the reason why there isn't a market for such drives is that someone who needs that level of security rightfully wouldn't trust any entity to 1. generate truly random data, which is required for OTP to be perfect 2. not store a cop
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that makes so much sense. I always wondered how the fuck did all those ZIRP era "hello world as a service" bullshit startups have any customers at all.
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you live in some alternative reality, then.
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yes, if I ever lose my job to an emerging technology, I will simply find another occupation instead of demanding the reality to bend to my will and that technology to be banned, outlawed, regulated out of existence. unlike the bohemian type
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or they could just learn to weld.
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yes, I didn't feel like addressing the "point" that creatives are higher order beings that must be shielded from harm by everyone else. everyone else's jobs are being automated by machines and computers, outsourced to th
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learn to ~~code~~ weld.
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so let it only be sold to adults, sure. I'm just saying that equating vaping to smoking is absurd, because it's not nicotine that breaks your heart and your dick and gives you cancer, it's the smoke.
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if you aren't already a smoker? yes, absolutely. but if you are, and you are not the one in ten who has the iron will to quit cold turkey and never relapse, you're better off getting your nicotine fix delivered by ANY medium other
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the flavorants are fairly mysterious, yeah. we know diacetyl is bad to inhale, we don't know how many others are. but if you DIY, only propylene glycol and nicotine are strictly required. vegetable glycerin and flavorants are optional.
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political discussion is worthless when only one side is allowed to participate.
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on the contrary, I strongly believe that tobacco companies are the driving force behind the attempts to equate vaping and smoking. idk about the current year, but tobacco companies had little to no influence over the vaping market during it
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while I certainly agree that wikipedia is full of propaganda written by volunteer degenerates and paid shills, I'm not quite sure how is that relevant to this particular article. the amount of tangible evidence of that particular Sovie
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