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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Ask them how they feel about artists licensing their work for being training material. Plenty of them are going to respond just as negatively to that.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> there's been zero progress on actually meaningfully integrating AI into artists' workflow. This simply isn't true. An easy way someone who does most of their art more "traditionally" can use Krita to very much
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> But if you worked at a fantasy publishing house and commissioned a cover painting, it might take a fair amount of work for you to get the artist to create something in line with what you envisioned. If you do this infrequently, you&#x2
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
This argument resonates with me - but it's the same argument that has been made and artists have ignored or put up the same (unconvincing, in my opinion) arguments against the whole time. As you pointed out, this same discussion has be
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
He might be right on the big picture, since we're still far away from ever getting there, but it's just so hard to believe it based on what he writes, when so much of it is so, so, so, obviously incorrect. Anyone could spend a day
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
This is still quite clearly something different than being unable to see the different colors, though. Their mental model, sure. The way they convey it to others, sure. But you can easily distinguish between two colors side by side that are
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
The ability for us to look at a gradient of color and differentiate between shades even without distinct names for them seems to disprove this on its face. Unless the question is literally the equivalent of someone showing you a swatch of c
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
No. It's still absurd to project human outcomes from rodent studies. 90-95% of them don't pan out! And that's of the ones that progress from rodent studies to human trials. The actual number is even higher, but more difficult
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They are a required step along the way to human trials. But over 90% of drugs that show promise in rodents flunk out in human trials. Something working in rodents is an indicator that it might be worth doing testing to see if it works and i
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Projecting human outcomes from rodent studies is 100% quackery
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Greg Rutkowski Early stable diffusion prompting was a lot of cargo cult copy pasting random crap in as part of every prompt.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Image generation is nothing like AI code generation in this regard. Copying artist style is one of the things that is explicitly quite easy to do for open-weight models. Go to civitai and there are a million LORAs trained specifically on re
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
BattleTech is somewhat of a competitor, and a variety of smaller games have some niches. Plenty of people use proxies, too. There's places that do monthly packs of new STLs that could be an entire faction army, and there's long be
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> One thing I've found when talking to non-technical board gamers about AI is that while they’re 100% against using AI to generate art or game design, when you ask them about using AI tools to build software or websites the response
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
I didn't fear reprisal from Scott Adams when he was alive, either. And there are plenty of people willing to step in for Scott and defend him, as evidenced by the contents here. Someone dying doesn't mean the consequences of their
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Sure, there's a few. But 3 rodent studies isn't exactly enough evidence for a layperson to worry about, either. It's not even much of a signal for scientists in that area of research. Ivermectin is pretty safe for people to u
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
My personal quick rubric for determining if an ivermectin study showing improvement for cv19 outcomes is likely to be trustworthy: Was the population being studied one where parasite infections that ivermectin can take care of are endemic?
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
When there is no science behind it and you've been convinced by a bunch of charlatans hoping to make a quick buck off of taking advantage of the fear of their victims, there's not really a need to turn your experience into a study
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
As much as I dislike Adams and disagree with a lot of the attempts to paper over a lot of reprehensible stuff, he gave it a try, abandoned it, and publicly denounced it after it didn't work, and even spoke out against the pressuring ca
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
I don't know that I would call en vitro studies promising. Cancer would be long be a solved problem if even a tenth of the stuff that kills cancer cells in a petri dish was viable in humans.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
When my everyday life is no longer impacted by politics, I'll be able to put it aside for a day, because I'll be able to ignore the impact politics has on me for that day. But that's not the world we live in. It won't ev
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
The entire purpose of your brand-new account seems to be complaining about HN and comparing it to Reddit. Is this how you are going to raise the level of discourse here?
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Scott Adams said that Republicans would be hunted down and that there would be a good chance they would all be dead if Biden was elected and that the police would do nothing to stop it. Dilbert was brilliant. Adams' political discourse
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Reality also doesn't care about an answer if it is impractical for a huge number of people. There are a variety of different answers to the problem and you pick the ones that are applicable to you and work from there Telling someone wh
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
BMI still isn't great for fat people. An active fat person is going to have a significant amount of muscle compared to a sedentary fat person at the same body weight - just doing things carrying around that weight will build muscle. So
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Bhasin's study is fundamentally flawed in that it sampled muscle size while they would still have inflated muscle size from increased glycogen and water retention from the steroid use and didn't use a method of measurement that co
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Steroids significantly increase glycogen/water retention in-muscle while on them and for a period of time while coming off of them. This would increase muscle size by the measures noted in Bhasin's study (the big one people refere
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Adding rice might get you close to that for the amount of rice you eat, but 1 cup of beans will get you 16g of protein and 1 cup of rice will get you 4g of protein. So a chunk of your protein intake would still be incomplete. It's not
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
Being able to just up and move to a place that makes it more viable to grocery shop multiple times a week involves a certain level of affluence that a lot of people don't have. It is not a generalizable answer to this problem.
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by cthalupa 9mo ago
> When I’m hungry, I eat, and that’s it, I don’t think about food until hours later when I get hungry again. This was me up until my mid/late 20s. I never understood how people got fat. I didn't get it. It wasn't difficult

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