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by dsign 2y ago
What I find disquieting about this is not that AI assistants cause this issue, but how we, as a society, are forced to react to it. Imagine two scenarios: five years ago somebody saw this coming, and they thought we should legislate a cer
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Not a graphic designer, so I can't speak for their reasons, only for mine. First, I had a photoshop subscription and when I cancelled they wanted to fine me for cancelling. Then they bought the Substance suite and made it subscriptio
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by dsign 2y ago
Well, when is so big bad company going to bully us into using their tools to convert 3D sculpts into flawlessly animatable models? I'll submit to their abuse and surrender my lunch money to them. Though not if it is Adobe, I still have
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> Dr. Leo Galland, a doctor of internal medicine, describes people like Anders Johnson as having a non-celiac gluten intolerance from chronic giardiasis. I would describe Anders Johnson (probably a PhD by now) as a responsible and smart
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The hardware is getting so cheap! But the software... I bought for $20 a bed lamp that comes with led lights, bluetooth receiver, clock and alarm clock, and wireless charging for my iphone. It has a microphone to stream all my conversations
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>> The point is that making it work on Earth is orders of magnitude easier than making it work on Mars (or wherever) I disagree. There are folk who know the physics and the engineering of putting a colony in, say, the Moon. That knowl
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>> I think it's one of the reasons we have to be self sustaining on other heavenly bodies. This is not a joke. But every time anybody brings it up a mob shows up saying that we must make it work here on Earth, and we should all
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I know what this is! They want to "to give it" to Jeff Bezos, by breaking AWS' boto3, that has a nightmare of a story for handling/catching specific exceptions. It's all politically motivated!
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> The Nobel prize is aimed at the general public... Which is okay. The Nobel prize is okay. > This way, at least once a year, the everyday layperson hears about scientific discoveries. Spot on. The problem we have is that the everyday
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>> how do you go about it Let's not allow LLM bots to misinform, manipulate, and create chaos? This is the argument that we should allow everybody to have guns so that they can defend from other gun owners. In the case of LLMs, t
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My (cynic) take: using LLMs to police speech, down to the minutest nuance. There are bad things that we humans say and do. But let's stop using AIs to do our police work. Nothing good lies down that path.
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The AIs will keep getting better. We are not too far off from having AIs whose purpose is to establish an online presence that makes others believe there is a real person behind. The AI could even post (generated) videos of a fake person do
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From what I remember from this particular code-base, there are also: - Programmer to farmer - Programmer to musician - Programmer to writer and of course - Programmer to landlord.
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Not exactly. It's a recently invented pronoun that is most definitely singular, i.e., not used to denote groups of people[^1]. It's currently used to avoid giving offense around the topic of sexual orientation; but everybody knows
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Rejoice! Now that AI is a thing, it's a matter of short years before AIs begin making ads just for you. Obviously not ideal, except that then it will just be a matter of decades until most ads are targeted to AIs and the humans that re
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Somehow related, paper books from before 2020 could be a valuable commodity in a in a decade or two, when the Internet will be full of slop and even contemporary paper books will be treated with suspicion. And there will be human talking he
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This gadgets seem pretty amazing, and I would gladly dump that amount into a product that works... think about it; my prescription glasses are already in that price range and they come with periodic visits to the optician. BUT, I would be m
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Are you implying that Apple+ is a risky business for people who own Apple devices? If so, I'll stay away from it.
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You are just catching up to this idea, probably after hearing 2^n explanations about why we humans are superiors to <<fill in here our latest creation>>. I'm not the kind of scientist that can say how good an LLM is for hum
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There is some hair-splitting around the term, but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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Doesn't it follow that if we all get rich, then things will be much worse? But let's do another thought experiment: take everything from everybody. Clothing, housing, cars, infrastructure. If you also take away agriculture, the cu
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data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a deriving (Eq, Ord) >> Because then you would have to modify all the code which already uses the function, as "A" and "Maybe A" are incompatible types. Which is illogical. I'm
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As a poor person who doesn't fully own his own house but pays in taxes 60% of their income, and much of the rest in house loan interest and principal, I can see how that would play in my own case. If I were to come up onto a lump sum o
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As somebody who dreads relationships, commitments and marriages and who is being wooed by somebody with Kim's profile, I find this story double-disturbing. Criminal angle aside, I wonder what kind of personal fuck-ups end with a partne
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I thought that I was gifted, but in retrospect, maybe I wasn't. I couldn't play any games well; not the physical ones, not computer games, not card or board games. The other kids would get them fast, while I was always dumbfounded
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I tend to agree. The world is, on the rough, a dark place. While each person should individually strive to make it better, life will throw at you far worse than a thoughtless insult. With that said, as a general rule, creators, commenters a
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The technical process and its costs are amazing. These films are crowd-pleasers, and nothing in them should be polemic or connected to the real world, in order to recoup the millions. But that means that anybody who wants to bring anything
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You are not alone. I can't retire yet to start working on this, but I'm looking forward to when that day comes. In the meantime, I'm working my day job and writing at night speculative fiction on the intersection of this topi
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> Just, 9/10 out of times, advice offered is unhelpful and worsens things. Indeed. But if I were in some acute treatment in USA, in the center ring, I probably feel an unrestrained urge to ask for financial advice. "Dear, can
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I don't know why, but certain people tend to be very resistant to the stupendous power of information systems. One such information system, the dragonfly brain, is amazing, and another such information system, the human brain, may neve

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