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by leashless 3y ago
I remember about 2017 or 2018 giving a talk about Ethereum and asking how many people in the audience of maybe 400 had heard of the CAP theorem. One hand went up in the back. That's when I knew our culture was doomed. CAP is (for the r
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by leashless 3y ago
I am not willing to change my mind based on the case you have presented. I have engaged. I am not persuaded.
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by leashless 3y ago
Noooooo this is all very very much messier and more complicated than it seems. The heart pumps. The heart is not a pump. There is neural tissue all over the place, hormones by glands which affect decision making and so on. You will not ea
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by leashless 3y ago
Oh I tried. I suck. If I worked at it, I would still suck. Am I to be deprived of the capability to take images from inside my head and turn them into pixels TO PROTECT THE CARTEL OF PEOPLE WHO CAN DO IT MANUALLY? Seems like a bad idea. “go
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by leashless 3y ago
All artists study other artists. Are we to ban this too?
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by leashless 3y ago
This is pretty simple. Either we maintain that it is illegal to learn from copyrighted images without a license — which is going to destroy human culture very fast I believe, Or we accept that anybody can study a copyrighted work and learn
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by leashless 3y ago
"Billions can't make the images in their heads real to protect the class privilege of a few hundred thousand professional artists worldwide?" I thought about that extensively before I wrote it down. If you think it is flawed
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by leashless 3y ago
No, I don't want a gold star, I want a robot that can draw for me when I want something done. I'm not trying to pretend AI image generation is art. I have no interest in that question right now. What I'm saying is that it&#x2
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by leashless 3y ago
I came pretty close to getting Shuttleworth Foundation to pay Flattr to build Flattr into Ubuntu so that FOSS devs could get paid via Flattr. More than 10 years ago. Flattr were too busy. The problem was not the idea.
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by leashless 3y ago
And if we had banned these digging machines would be be talking to each other on the internet now? Somehow work survived.
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by leashless 3y ago
Yes, I think that's absolutely true of both plastic surgery and of AI. I don't mind, it's better than where I was before! I can semi-draw with AI help. Good enough.
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by leashless 3y ago
I feel like this is a bit like the whole thing with "do submarines swim?" I'm not interested in the question of whether an image I make with AI is art or not. I've written decent fiction in my time. Maybe here and there
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by leashless 3y ago
When a talented person tries to ban the tools that make an average person able to do the same stuff the talented person can do, this is intentionally disabling people to preserve a class privilege . If there was a pill that gave people +40
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by leashless 3y ago
This is entirely not the point. I want to see a picture of a 5 kilometre high tower surrounded by spiralling cones of line on an infinite plane made of tessellating fractals. Now I have that picture. Great. I did not make than image &quot
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by leashless 3y ago
"actual thought" "gut reaction" etc are artificial categories and are nothing like the real processes of human cognition. these are myths you are using to reason about reason. It's nonsense.
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by leashless 3y ago
Mine workers extract iron ore. Iron ore is made into iron which is made into machines which shovel iron ore. "Tell it like it is Till there's no misunderstanding When you strip it right back Man feed machine Machine feed man"
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by leashless 3y ago
"Supermodels complain about plastic surgery letting ugly people look better" type headlines abound in AI
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by leashless 3y ago
Incredibly talented people complain when technology lets talentless people make some of the beautiful things that they imagine but never had the talent to make real. It's like rich people saying money does not matter. "Easy for yo
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by leashless 3y ago
If you can't see the problem, you've already thrown away something that you needed. I mean that most sincerely.
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by leashless 3y ago
Fuck no. This is the rationalist error. Nope. Not doing it. Pointing and laughing is the right response, not trying to figure out why mummification in the Victorian era is a bad code smell for the mindset that produces it.
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by leashless 3y ago
Mummification. On a bet. With the motivation being to demonstrate utility. That is seriously enough to recheck everything because it seems to have blown up the founder. And if it does this to him, what's it gonna do to us? It does not
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by leashless 3y ago
Bentham's mummification is a Brown M&Ms story. Once you see that in his life the result of Utilitarianism was mummification in an era where that was batshit there's kind of a long pause and a "recheck everything" a
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by leashless 3y ago
It's just amazing. I used to work at UCL and you can casually find yourself walking past Bentham. It took me years to understand how weird that was and how massive his mental footprint is today. I'm considering starting a public c
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by leashless 3y ago
This is exactly the problem with Rationalists. *Everybody* understands that when the founder of a Thing does something as daffy as Having Themselves Mummified in Victorian England the rest of their thinking is automatically suspect. It&
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by leashless 3y ago
My angle on AI safety these days is that we're using very very naive ways of thinking about the problem. I spent a bit of time on twitter recently discussing it with Yudkowsky and I've come to the conclusion he's way off base
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by leashless 3y ago
I've written a little about "weasels" (Weakly State Like Entities) -- think Disneyland and Burning Man. I think the world is already full of things which do most of what micronations or network states aspire to. Activists who
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by leashless 3y ago
So I'm the hexayurt guy -- http://hexayurt.com and http://appropedia.org/hexayurt We've been at this FOSS housing thing for 20 years, aiming for upgradable shelters for climate refugees rather than mid
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by leashless 3y ago
We used it at Burning Man in 2023. Burning Man is hard on gear and a surprisingly busy RF environment. It was reliable and has a good user experience. I really liked it.
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by leashless 3y ago
For me there were two keys 1) a single loudspeaker for the speaker’s voice. For some reason stereo is tiring . Brain can’t locate the speaker in space already and then the voice comes from two different places? I don’t know. Hugely helps m
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by leashless 3y ago
I recently discussed whether Stallman’s “Four Freedoms” apply to corporations. If not, that would change things.

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