lacy_tinpot

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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Artists no longer make money from selling music. They make money from live performances, or niche products like vinyl records/merch. But from streaming services? Not really. Live performances also have the added benefit of shielding ar
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The State = People. The government are People. They are both as fallible as people are fallible. It's not magic. Technology helps to mitigate the fallibility of people.
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I was just pointing out how funny the blatant doublespeak was in that comment. What if your home country has made trade illegal? Well guess what your home country does not support free trade. It supports limited trade, which is a perfectly
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
>There's not typically quite as much interest in doing the same for women. Women also prefer female voices.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Just don't trade. Easy. We're actually supporting free trade by restricting free trade. Because when the government controls what you trade that's what free trade actually is. What an amazingly blatant example of Orwellianism
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Protection and control are indistinguishable. And secondly what if the State is a bad actor? "Protecting" free trade from "bad actors" is just an extension of the state to control what "free trade" is from what
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
I think this is a very lazy kind of cultural analysis. The reason female voices are being chosen over male ones is a little more multifaceted than just SEX. Heterosexual women also tend to prefer female voices over male ones. Female voices
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
You noped out because you might have to travel to India? It just occurred to me that perhaps the world isn't deglobalizing, it's just that America/Americans are deglobalizing. Globalization is here to stay, even increase, wit
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Is it really "hype" if like 100s of millions of people are using llms on a daily basis?
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Your analogy serves zero purpose. What's the logic here? Machines can't think because humans are the only ones that can think. We know because we're thinking and the machines can't. So what's thinking? Well we'
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Now you bring out the straw man as a defense? How about you use that idea for what you're typing as well. You're not standing up for art and culture. You're not asking for a "little reflection". You are however just
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
The real evil people here are the "artists" that have this kind of attitude. I still remember the "Digital Art isn't real Art" people, which btw still exist among your snobby "Fine Arts" crowds. I think we
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
We do this every round for every new technology. Here's the truth: NO ONE KNOWS. What part of No One Actually Knows do people not understand? This applies to both the "AI WILL RULE THE WORLD MUAHAHA" and "AI is BIG BIG H
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
How many Universities require taking Calculus, from diff to multi variable, for Humanity graduates? I think even the English majors should be required to take all 3 calculus courses to graduate.
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It doesn't because we already know it doesn't because just like think about it and it clearly doesn't. So everyone trying to make the technology is a big dumb dumb for even trying. Like is the conclusion we shouldn't eve
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I thought we hated doing the menial office jobs though.
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Why do want a technology that's able to automate human drudgery? Feels like an absurd question.
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Why do people so desperately want to see AI fail?
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Yes. But it's surprising how few people even make a basic attempt to do something simple when there's a paid way to do it that's simpler or readily available. This is the case even among technical people.
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Hi, Phil major here. I did math. I did logic, which was required. My peers in other humanities generally did not. But Phil might be the only exception. Further I ended up taking a class that actually read original Greek texts, which isn&#x2
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What it actually seems like is that Humanities are trying to retain/gain power in this new world where it's increasingly apparent that rigor is far more valuable. If humanities taught logic, and actually rigorous analytic capabili
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Actually I think it's the other way around. Humanities should require math and science in order for people to graduate. At the minimum Calculus/Stats + a CS class + some kind of science should be the absolute bare minimum.
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Employers? Philosophy majors are generally unemployable, unless they're going into law. Though they do tend to make decent entrepreneurs or are self-employed in some other way. At least that's my assumption from experience.
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> They are so good at arguing that they can justify almost anything This honestly just sounds like distilled intelligence. Because a huge pitfall for very intelligent people is that they're really good at convincing themselves of re
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AI being used to completely off load thinking is a total misuse of the technology. But at the same time that this technology can seemingly be misused and cause really psychological harm is kind of a new thing it feels like. Right? Like ther
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From America's perspective the East is Europe and West is Asia. If we're going to talk about cardinal directions.
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What monopoly? Google's entire business model is currently under threat right now.
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To imagine being anti-pharma, and big corporations used to be a Leftists/Hippy talking point.
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by lacy_tinpot 2y ago
I can't tell if you're being ironic or not, because those examples are basically definitionally Orwellian. Also how about never descending into dictatorships and authoritarian regimes?
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You call the first and one of the most successful democracies in the world a monarchy/dictatorship? The American Executive branch is given broad powers since the very beginning and considering the success there might be something to it

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