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by blargey 1y ago
If that "in my language" version is a serious attempt at condensing the meaning of the quote instead of taking a potshot at the author, that illustrates a severe decline in reading comprehension more than any blog post argument.
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by blargey 1y ago
"If an artificial label/watermark is the only criteria by which you can differentiate <unwanted version of product> from <wanted version>, by definition there's nothing wrong with the unwanted product itself"
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by blargey 1y ago
The political system that brought us Wolf Warrior Diplomacy? Being an authoritarian uniparty doesn’t make them immune to seeking political capital one way or another, and they’ve dipped into the “encouraging jingoistic nationalism” part of
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by blargey 1y ago
Counter-anecdote: I have a smallish build and have well-tuned satiety, but a consistent measured TDEE of 2400~2500 kCal, and would go hungry and waste away at 1.5k. I agree there’s no substitute for measuring your numbers. But meticulous ca
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by blargey 1y ago
Is that a meaningful comparison if the biggest car manufacturers have their sales split across a dozen models for each Tesla model?
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by blargey 1y ago
Many men and women socialize differently in mono-gender groups, for a wide variety of reasons, and reducing that to “being offensive to the other axis” is…well, reductive flamebait.
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by blargey 1y ago
That’s just procedural level generation with extra steps. Why ask humans for input when you can just as easily ask the LLM to generate a list of key-features that would be received well by user_profile 400231862?
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by blargey 1y ago
I would assume written scenarios involving job loss and cheating bosses are going to be skewed heavily towards salacious news and pulpy fiction. And that’s before you add in the sort of writing associated with “AI about to get shut down”.
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by blargey 1y ago
No, it isn’t, because the prompt doesn’t have a millionth of the information density of the output. Merely changing a seed number will provide endless different outputs from the same single prompt from the same model; rng.nextInt() deserves
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by blargey 1y ago
Everyone has a phone camera, and takes photos, but not everyone is a photographer, and even photographers wouldn’t proclaim all their photos “art”. AI cannot “democratize art” any more than the camera did, until the day it starts teaching a
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by blargey 1y ago
An even stronger cultural and legal opposition to anything resembling suicide?
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by blargey 1y ago
I thought the whole trend of "healthspan" as a word was a direct response to / attempt to sidestep the many people who are convinced that any artificial increase to "lifespan" will doom humanity to either Tithonus
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by blargey 1y ago
A single cent? I think you vastly underestimate how little a dollar does in the US, and how much it does outside. Moreover, insisting on going all-in on medical research before doing any immediate lifesaving sounds to me like a gross perver
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by blargey 1y ago
What are people supposed to argue with the sort of person that claims destroying 2B of federal science funding is justified solely by alleviating 0.001% of the 1.83T deficit - aka accomplishing nothing? There's nothing to be aware of
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by blargey 1y ago
The whole concept is baffling to me. People don’t like immigrants as it is, why would they take kindly to “digital nomads” proclaiming citizenship in a “network state”? Proclaiming a permanently foreign identity and banding together to dema
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by blargey 1y ago
I can't fathom the thought process that claims the goal is "preventing escalation" and immediately decides the only method is escalation.
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by blargey 1y ago
These robots don't look conducive to automating the labor specific to factory farming. Overlap with manure cleanup at best, but do factory farms have spacious enough layouts to be compatible with those? More generally, the egg market i
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by blargey 2y ago
I think some (a lot?) of people perceive “draw the rest of the fucking owl” as “soul-crushing, boring clerical work”, and actively seek out AI vibe-drawing as an alternative (either ignorant or uncaring of the limitations thereof). It’s not
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by blargey 2y ago
Aside from the quibbles over how much of government activity is useful and won't get done otherwise so we have to have less of something to have more of that stuff, there are also a good number of taxable things that most people don
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by blargey 2y ago
That number has been falling since 2012 and was around 22% as of 2023 (ignoring the hand-wavy conflation of the entire agriculture sector and stereotypical rural farmers) https://tradingeconomics.com/china/employment-in
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by blargey 2y ago
> What is considered payment? Bribery laws, SEC insider trading/collusion stuff...there's many existing examples for definitions for that, when the law doesn't want something to be for sale.
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by blargey 2y ago
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function (linked on that page but easy to miss) provides a great visualization/interface for the budget that can drill down deep into each category's sub-categories
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by blargey 2y ago
The real problem is not the effort (or lack thereof), it’s the perception that modern AI is dropping them off at the peak of Everest, when in reality they’re being stood on a plastic-molded crag at a sea-level tourist trap. Creative vision
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by blargey 2y ago
Gee, whatever would Ghibli have done without this publicity boost. It’s always the already-popular artist’s identity giving clout to the model, not the other way around. And if the artist’s style is not well known, their identity is obfusca
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by blargey 2y ago
“Up 146%” is either because your start time is during the 2020 market crash, or the display is actually “150% of the starting value” (up 50%).
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by blargey 2y ago
Is that sort of stuff actually effective against propaganda though? I'd assume that by the time a disclaimer is written up, submitted, and accepted according to whatever the criteria is, the original un-disclaimered message has been re
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by blargey 2y ago
The kids will be alright if profanity - a crass word - shows up in their autocomplete.
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by blargey 2y ago
The terrain generation is not the appeal of Minecraft, it’s the game system that lets people level that terrain into a canvas and then build their own stuff on top.
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by blargey 2y ago
We deny people's natural right to be defrauded by outlawing fraud, yes.
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by blargey 2y ago
I don’t believe any of these companies are seriously trying to create a tool for musicians/artists. When they say they’re catering to “artists”, they want to say that you can become an artist by promoting their models for the small f

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