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by jl6 2y ago
Actually I think long tail revenue is quite well correlated with a property being a hit. Netflix paid $500m for the rights to Seinfeld 20 years after the show ended. Star Wars is still huge, nearly 50 years after the release of the original
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by jl6 2y ago
The success that we can now measure through hindsight wasn’t assured at the time of greenlighting the film. They took a huge gamble: https://variety.com/2021/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-peter-j... It would ha
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by jl6 2y ago
This guy perhaps? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c934y9kv07eo.amp
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> There are approximately zero people who decide they'll create something if they're protected for 95 years after their death but won't if it's 94 years. I’m sure you’re right for individual authors who are driven by
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Maybe a crisis will occur and maybe our descendants will have to make a tough choice, but that could enrich the story of the performance. If they choose to end the performance for whatever reason, that’s their business. The hopes and desire
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by jl6 2y ago
Tribalism is part metaphor, part euphemism. What it’s really getting at is cult behavior. Agreeing with someone on a lot of things isn’t tribal and isn’t cult. The actual problems of “tribalism” are exactly those of cults: worship of a lead
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How do you figure?
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Hofstadter should have written Gödel, Escher, Bach, Borges . I wrote about the connection between Borges, AI, Wikipedia, Kafka (the messaging system, not the author), GPUs, and cryptography in the small print on page 7 of this: https:&#x2
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by jl6 2y ago
What this mostly seems to demonstrate is that hip-pop is endlessly derivative. That might be a consequence of their data source: > To build this project, we used the dataset of hundreds of thousands of songs on Genius.com accessible thro
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I assume the insane recipes are generated from users’ prompts, so you might want some content warning or moderation. Kinda cool though that it generates recipes for anything, regardless of if it involves food.
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We can run any algorithm using billiard balls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball_computer What I’m saying is that we don’t know that consciousness is just an algorithm. If the physical implementation matters,
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by jl6 2y ago
The computer is physical, but the computation is (at least) a level of abstraction above the physical layer. The physical process may be the important part, not just the (apparent) algorithm that the physical process executes.
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cf. the philosophical zombie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie We really have no idea whether consciousness is something that can arise from computation, or whether it is somehow dependent on the phys
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Bump it up.
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Hard to know who this is aimed at until we see the price. I guess they are going for the “slow memory, but lots of it” market that is less sensitive to how fast their very large LLMs run as long as they run at all. Hobbyists will rejoice if
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The eternal battle between “you can’t ban it until you’ve proven it’s harmful” and “you can’t allow it until you’ve proven it’s beneficial”.
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The problem is that over the past few decades there has been substantial conflation of sex and gender, with many information systems replacing the former with the latter, rather than augmenting data collection with the latter.
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Wild speculation: video game engines. You want your model to understand what a car looks like from all angles, but it’s expensive to get photos of real cars from all angles, so instead you render a car model in UE5, generating hundreds of p
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by jl6 2y ago
I really hope other EV brands are picking up the lost sales, rather than demand being displaced back to ICE vehicles. Hating the owners of Tesla stock is one thing, but the owners of oil & gas stocks are far worse.
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I mention reproductive role (gametes etc.) because that’s what sex is, not because it’s the sole feature of interest. Why we care about someone’s sex is a different matter. Sometimes we don’t! You can sell someone a coffee, and their sex ha
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Those different “definitions” of sex are not the plain and common meaning of sex as reproductive role. “Hormonal sex” is a characteristic, not an alternative conceptual framework of what sex is . Yes, passports should acknowledge intersex
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It’s usually more important for official documentation to be accurate, not for it to match appearance. Many people appear younger or older than they are, but it would be bizarre to put apparent age on a passport. The document is supposed to
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by jl6 2y ago
We need to create a type of visa that has some kind of court-enforceable rights attached to it. Currently there seems to be no middle ground between citizen-with-full-rights and foreign-scum-with-no-rights. Travel for legitimate business an
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by jl6 2y ago
Having a vulnerable inmates unit sounds like a great first step towards fixing some of the other abuses you might be thinking of.
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None of those things had attack ads with this kind of impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_is_for_they/them It was and is an important issue to a lot of voters and by ignoring it she let her opponent expla
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She was loudly accused of having extreme positions on a hot button issue. Saying nothing was tantamount to admitting the accusation was true. That's how the court of public opinion works.
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It will?
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Theater and movie set designers have to work with this constraint too. They seem to manage.
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Physics skunkworks where the inductees are purposefully shielded from status quo ideas, as a hedge against local maxima.
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I think you are talking about a far more modern period, in a much more complex, socially stratified society. The Neanderthal period was 50k-100k years ago.

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