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by gitfan86 4y ago
Our definition of "technological signatures" is an ant colony's pheromones. Because we don't have a solution to quantum gravity we cannot rule out the possibility that other civilizations can control space/time with
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Those are valid points. My point is that the percentage of ant colonies that we have interacted with is very close to zero.
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by gitfan86 4y ago
I believe that the earth centric and human centric view is the problem with the Fermi paradox. Why do we assume that a civilization more advanced than us would have desires towards colonization and contact with lesser lifeforms? It would be
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by gitfan86 4y ago
That is incorrect, "The International Energy Agency recently predicted that solar power would become “the cheapest source of electricity in history,” and a report by Carbon Tracker found that 90 percent of the global population lives
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by gitfan86 4y ago
It is exactly how supply and demand works, lithium refiners are making huge profits, which causes more investment in refining capabilities which unlocks larger economies of scale. If you don't understand this please just circle back to
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by gitfan86 4y ago
No, batteries are already replacing peaker plants at TODAY'S costs https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/12/battery-storage-syste...
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Your logic is backwards, it is the demand for batteries that will make them cheap. Just look at the actual data https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Manufacturing, refining, and AI improvements are going to reduce the price of batteries by another 90%
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by gitfan86 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by gitfan86 4y ago
But that is exactly how copyright law works. If you copy the first 10000 bytes of a steven king book and compress it with zip and distribute it, there is a good chance you would lose the lawsuit if sued. If on the other hand you copy the fi
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by gitfan86 4y ago
It is just weights, there is no string of bytes
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by gitfan86 4y ago
It isn't premature at all. Stable Diffusion took 100GB of already compressed images and turned them into a 2GB model. The XOR of those 100GM images could never fit into 2GB.
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Because there is a lot of money and fear involved I agree that there will be a lot of litigation, but the outcomes will be mixed at best for the copyright holders. Lots of people have memorized lyrics to copyrighted songs but no one is suin
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by gitfan86 4y ago
I hate to be a "told you so" person, but since 2010 I've been saying bitcoin is just a typical libertarian pipe dream. Yes I missed out on a large financial bubble, but I also made $0 on beanie babies, and that is fine. But m
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by gitfan86 4y ago
No replicator, just extremely cheap labor and energy. Imagine if someone from 1000 years ago could have access to an American garbage dump. Things that in our current economy have zero or negative value would be extremely valuable to those
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by gitfan86 4y ago
At this point the fed seems to be saying that those days are over, they will continue to increase rates until inflation hits 2%. Obviously this cannot go on forever because it becomes impossible to service the debt and you have to print mon
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by gitfan86 4y ago
It has become clear since alphaGo that intelligence is an emergent property of neural networks. Since then the time and cost requirements to create a useful intelligence have been coming down. The big change was in August when Stable Diffus
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Once I got my hands on stable diffusion, I bought a 3090 because I was afraid that they would go up in price, but my power supply wasn't big enough and I returned it for a 2060. But now I see that 3090s are dropping like 40% in price s
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Goodlist, I would add Stable Diffusion
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Yes, you are right, so far the biggest discovery of this century is that intelligence emerges from large enough networks of digital neurons trained in large enough datasets. It isn't perfect, or super human at all. But the crazy thing
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by gitfan86 4y ago
ML doesn't have "types" but you can run a prompt answer through ML and ask it what exists in the answer. So you cou lock down questions and answers to "cutlery", and the response doesn't include a spoon, fork,
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Exactly my point. White Male CEOs are afraid of an article in a major newspaper showing them being rich next to a picture of a poor minority that they just fired. So they put a PR spin on the firings.
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Legal probably approved the word "lens". And if this ends up in court they will say that "lens" means that we are aware of the impact layoffs have on our society, but does not change who we fire during a layoff, meaning
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Then your child gets to live the rest of their life knowing they killed someone.
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by gitfan86 4y ago
Ever since Elon became the world's richest man people like this have showed up. I don't know if they have been misinformed or if they just want to say negative things about billionaires. But the early history of SpaceX is very wel
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by gitfan86 4y ago
The possibilities are endless. "Insert Willie Wonka, as Froto's love interest, and Willie should joint the major battles with UZI machine guns, and his dialog should be as if he is an inner-city gang member."
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by gitfan86 4y ago
You could "hack it" by using a couple of other models as part of your pipeline. Similarly to how you have to use GAN after SD to "fix" faces sometimes. You also could put a language model on top of your prompting system.
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by gitfan86 4y ago
The article is from 2015, so yes, you are right, it is easy to say that we have not had insane changes since 2015. And certainly there have not been insane changes between yesterday and today. But if things start changing just 1% more each
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by gitfan86 4y ago
As far as She-Hulk goes yes. This isn't going to replace Netflix shows, it is going to create entire new industries, just like how when YouTube came out no one thought that some 12 year old kid named Jimmy was going to build a 9 figure
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by gitfan86 4y ago
I'm a 40 year old engineer. The big events in my life from a technology perspective so far have been: 1989: Coding for the first time (Apple IIe) 1994: Getting on the Internet 1999: Using Google when it started to get really good 2005:

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