lotyrin

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by lotyrin 1y ago
I think it's more the Before Internet, or at least before Eternal September.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
https://g.co/gemini/share/0a0a38963df3 Edit to add commentary: Not the worst, but it still wants to fall into one or another ideology or consequences-detached philosophy (favorable to people because they provide p
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I don't know how anyone can trust these things at all. What I want: a balanced, nuanced, deep engagement with a topic I don't already have mastered that may need to challenge my intuition or require of me some effort to research a
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by lotyrin 1y ago
9/11 is nowhere near the beginning nor end of the process.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
It's my favorite thing about "Inside Job" conspiracies. Whether authority has covertly orchestrated an event behind the scenes or if they were quietly and deliberately lax in preventing the event, if they were just incompeten
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I don't think this happens enough for us to be able to derive descriptive usage, never mind prescriptive rules.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
You justify surveillance in the wake of terrorist attacks, etc. and when public sentiment toward government is mostly good (the financial surveillance here is an example) You make moves to constrict the available information and permitted b
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I use "Random" to mean chaotic (extreme sensitivity to initial conditions) but with unknown (or unknowable) initial conditions.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I feel you handle this balance quite gracefully, to the point where I was impressed at your handling of the issue while reading and before checking the comments section. I don't know why the idea of something being called something by
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Linguistics should seek to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. The field should, primarily, seek to describe language as used. Prescriptions can be useful and should be made if they improve a language's ability to provide clarity
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by lotyrin 1y ago
It's not about features or if they work it's about the conceptual load presented to the user by the quality of how those features are integrated, how much configuration they require to do only what you want them to, ask of you onl
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Yes, Issue with GitLab is their "Enterprise" maximalist feature set. Seems like they want to be the solution for the entire SDLC for every conceivable team. I remember thinking a decade ago "wow these guys are biting of
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by lotyrin 1y ago
The problem with Blue-collar work under AI is that your white collar AI manager can fork itself and have infinite time to micromanage you. I foresee people being asked to wear AR glasses and/or work in a digital camera panopticon to be
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by lotyrin 1y ago
What I've come to realize (despite avoiding such a negative conclusion) is that the dominant culture's experience with sex seems to be mostly limited to that which includes problematic power dynamics (e.g. mainstream porn, captive
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by lotyrin 1y ago
One of my favorites is spot gloss.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
The projection and optimism people are willing to do is incredible. The fallout on reddit in the wake of the push for people to adopt 5 and how the vibe isn't as nice and it makes it harder to use it as a therapist or girlfriend or wha
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Oh! The idea that each parameter could be associated with a text style prompt is a refinement of the idea for sure.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Yeah... I hope this is what their plan is with that, but I'm not entirely certain.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Yeah. Or like, a loop that plays continuously and has style parameters exposed you can tweak with a controller like a Midi Fighter Twister and get feedback from in real-time. Then you could do something akin to DJ/live production by ha
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Very nice. Anyone know of projects that aren't tackling the full-song problem but rather instrument parts/loops/stems/acapellas? I'd like something that's more like "infinite AI Loopcloud/Splice"
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Kinda wish the ski scenario had "yeti" as an event you could trigger.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
If you take the idea of it needing to be a constructed simulation you get the dream argument. If you add that one can't verify anyone else having subjective experience you get Boltzmann brain. If you add the idea that maybe the ancesto
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by lotyrin 1y ago
My intent wasn't to redact my comment history (I also value that permanence), just remove attribution/profile and any ability to log in so I stop being tempted to comment further.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Seems like it would be impossible to simulate anyone who isn't chronically publicly online? I'm chronically online but I have very few public profiles anyone could glean anything from. (And even the one I'm posting this with
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I don't follow. I don't practice monogamy so I'm really unclear how my arguments promote monogamy.
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by lotyrin 1y ago
> If two people each drink a beer and then have sex, did they rape each other? That's too concerned with post-facto labels. Better framing: If I am sexually interested in someone and value their consent, should I ensure that our fir
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by lotyrin 1y ago
Everyone is part of rape culture, the same way that everyone is part of racism. I am not trying to point out certain people as criminal but rather certain behaviors and ideas as perpetuating the situation and others as being disruptive to i
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I did miss that, I suppose I should have said "underestimate the effect of the power imbalance" then. But you've made it clear you do understand but don't care. You actually think it's justified for an older man to
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by lotyrin 1y ago
What evidence do you have that anyone here is lying? Given my priors I am inclined to believe everyone involved here is a reliable reporter of their lived experience, just their lived experiences of the same events are wildly different. If
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by lotyrin 1y ago
I'm not sure if you can't see the power imbalance posed here, or if you just can't see it as a problem, but I don't really care. You need to improve. Too many people (of all genders) see the value that men provide to the

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