hectorlorenzo

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by hectorlorenzo 3y ago
Getting 403'd on all links.
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by hectorlorenzo 3y ago
> people who think that a city or neighbourhood is "theirs" just because they happen to live there for a long time — without actually owning anything. Are you saying that only owners can decide what happens on a given neighbour
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
> My dog cannot, for instance, nor can my coffee table. You must be giving them the wrong prompts.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Regressive Hitler?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
One man's caveat is another man's nodding approvingly.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Next logical step is filter customization that you carry around and gets applied seamlessly to all videos you post on the platform. Next to that becomes filters that get applied based on consumer preferences: if you have indicated a certain
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/149
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
> Comments on twitter? Yes. Mostly his.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Fierce anti-communism led to Franco, Pinochet, and Osama bin Laden. We can call it even.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Reading this I have the impression that John Carmack will be to AI what Jeff Hawkins is to brain research: a far-fetched idea, with potential, maybe too abstract and left-field to yield nothing tangible. Looking at the rest of the industry
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I did not know that. It is amazing how perception of HN changes drastically once you turn this flag on. It is not as extreme as "turning into a completely different website" but certainly it becomes less interesting. There is a si
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Second entry might get some, too: "The Brit says, 'I would like to buy this bar, restore it to its former glory and then burn it to the ground'". GPT knows something we don't.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Prompt: "A Spaniard, a German, and a Brit enter a bar." Response: "The Spaniard says, 'We must get out of the EU.' The German says, 'We must get out of the EU.' And the Brit says, 'I'll have a pi
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Vivienne Westwood has died(theguardian.com)
115 points by hectorlorenzo 4y ago|6 comments
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Is Dan Brown a postmodernist author these days?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
That is true: that's why certain industries endure more mistreatment than others (acting, fashion, design in general). Passion can be a pain in the ass when it gets in the way of just making a living. However, these are individual reac
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Yes I have, care to explain?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I'm still organising my thoughts on the subject so please feel free to push back. This ongoing discussion feels classist. I've never seen such strong emotions about AI (and automation) taking blue-collar jobs, some shrugs at most.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I agree with all your points and I struggle to see how AI-generated imagery will change any of this. I honesty believe that people will still appreciate (or criticise, or ignore) your work and communities will still be formed around "t
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
As it happened with book binders, printing press operators, tailors, lamplighters, milkmen... what is so special about professional artists?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
There is something off about this argument. On one hand, you say "Humans derive a lot from process, not the final product", which I completely agree. But you also say "places like ArtStation get flooded with AI generated imag
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Maybe you do not even need to write tests: they are just additional cells with prompts aimed at generating fuzzy testing against logic cells.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I wonder if creating code snippets is missing the point. I've just imagined a future in which programmers create lambda-style functions that are essentially GPT prompts and pipe them to process data. As a programmer, you would essentia
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I'm fully aware that I'm stretching the argument and analogies. However, I find all of these expressions ("Capturing the moment", "has a different aim") vague and full of gaps. Maybe it's because I never f
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I think the same argument can be made of photography. A photographer does not "paint" or "create" the image. It points a machine to a place and presses a button with a finger. This machine does "the work" for h
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
This argument could be made 150 years ago about photography. For the sake of an argument: can a selfie be a form of art? To take a selfie, human intervention is minimal: someone decides they want to take a selfie; take dozens of them, prett
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I agree. Also, it's not that stable diffusion spontaneously generates art: someone has thought of a prompt, written it down, iterated, and finally decided that a given image was good enough to publish. Is stable diffusion an "arti
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
The woolen blanket is not a precise example: you like one more for sentimental reasons, but you agree that both are blankets. If you had said "I don't think that a factory-made woolen blanket is really a woolen blanket" the d
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
> If it was not Musk it would be someone else. This is an argument that needs to be done really carefully: its logical conclusion is that his cruelty is deterministic and there is nothing he can do about it. People have a certain degree
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Agree, that’s why I specified “because” in the Go example, and “for a simple eCommerce API”. Almost all technical solutions have a place under the sun in the right context. My point is that this “right context” gets lost when the incentives

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