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by mindcandy 2y ago
I've only ever seen bad-faith arguments about oracles. They set up the goal posts as if the goal was "You can trust absolutely nothing. You are born and will die trapped in The Matrix. You are in Descartes's proposal where ev
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by mindcandy 2y ago
As a drooling crypto bro, a single organization creating a blockchain by itself for itself doesn't actually accomplish anything. Blockchains enable decentralized trust. And, there's nothing decentralized if a single org controls e
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by mindcandy 2y ago
> A lot of code relies on FP operations being deterministic A lot, but still quite the minority. People do run into situations where the same code with the same data produces slightly different results all the time because of changes in
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by mindcandy 2y ago
In America, it mostly comes from farm subsidies. Subsidies on feed corn and feed soybeans make it cheaper to buy feed than to grow it yourself. So, rather than grow feed on the same farm, fertilized with manure, farmers buy feed trucked in
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by mindcandy 2y ago
That's pretty much Tether. You could probably bootstrap a POS coin by staking Tether. There would be a lot of details in getting it to eventually grow independent of Tether. I don't claim to know how that could happen. Especially
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by mindcandy 2y ago
You need some proof of work to prime the pump for proof of stake. Otherwise, you have no security because there's nothing at stake. Now that we have plenty of proof of work completed, we don't really need any more. You can bootstr
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by mindcandy 2y ago
There's also https://doersino.github.io/markdeep-slides/demo.md.html#slid... Be sure to view page source.
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by mindcandy 2y ago
Math is mixed up. He's got 43.6 BTC. Currently worth $68K each, for a total of $2.9 mil. He's waiting for it to be worth $4.4 mil. I'm betting his retirement math worked out to $4.4 mil before taxes. And, $100k is a human-bi
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by mindcandy 2y ago
You sure? Cause this sure looks to me like: User: Hey, AI. I have a question for you that only has a direct answer in an article from The Onion. AI: Here is a direct answer from that article in The Onion. The Onion: Look! AI is so dumb it
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by mindcandy 2y ago
Along with legit news and problems, there has been a ton of outrage this past year that boils down to User: Hey, AI. Act naughty. AI: Hee hee heeeee… I am so naughty! User on Twitter: Look! Look! The AI is naughty!
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by mindcandy 2y ago
I’m no lawyer. But, this sure smells like some form of fraud. Or, at least breach of contract. Employees and employer enter into an agreement: Work here for X term and you get Y options with Z terms attached. OK. But, then later pulling Dar
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by mindcandy 2y ago
Attacking creativity is not the topic here. The topic is if new art styles can come out of AI. I think it can because I think that "Style A + Style B + some unique qualities" is plenty to qualify as a new style. Like "Miyazak
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by mindcandy 2y ago
OK then. Your turn. Show me some humans that in the past four years have made new styles that you honestly cannot find references for in the same way.
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by mindcandy 2y ago
Well, if the standard is "A group worked on a style for decades, it changed the field widely, and decades later it is recognized and studied worldwide" then nothing made in the past four years can possibly qualify :P Because rand
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by mindcandy 2y ago
If you don't think new art styles have come out of AI art, you haven't looked for them. Or, you are putting your requirements for "new art style" too high for even humans to achieve moving forward indefinitely.
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by mindcandy 2y ago
If it's both "Fake, cringe hype" and also "Going to beat anything I do", then it's Schrodinger's Villain. Nobody's being fascist here. But, the old fashy trope of "The Enemy is both Too Weak and
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by mindcandy 2y ago
> The demos just become more cringey, the messaging more duplicitous and fake-authentic. This part sounds like you are going through a rough patch. Like you are feeling down, not sure why, and are digging around for reasons. What you are
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by mindcandy 2y ago
Ohhhhhhhh, boy... Listening to all that emotional vocal inflection and feedback... There are going to be at least 10 million lonely guys with new AI girlfriends. "She's not real. But, she interested in everything I say and excited
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by mindcandy 2y ago
US here, and I've heard all of them from Americans and Europeans. Other one I've heard is that if you start a company and it fails, at least in Silicon Valley they ask "So, what are you making next?". But, in Europe they
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by mindcandy 2y ago
You can get an 8-pack of Philips 2700K non-programmable bulbs off Amazon for $18. No need to get incandescents or filters.
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by mindcandy 3y ago
This is true for explicitly adversarial actors. I can imagine a serious-business misinformation group investing the money required to train up a generator designed to defeat automatic detection. For everyone else though, the people making c
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by mindcandy 3y ago
This is exactly the apples I’m talking about. Merchants eat much higher fees on behalf of the customer so they can hide the much longer settlement times from the customer and accept that they’ll also have to just eat the occasional fraudule
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Visa/Mastercard have settlement times of over 24 hours. Meanwhile, for over a decade now, Litecoin has had a settlement time of 2.5 minutes. And, for tiny (sub $100) transactions, it’s totally reasonable to just look up the wallet’s ho
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Perfect is the enemy of the great. Credit card users pay $1+ fees per transaction all the time. They don’t complain only because vendors usually eat the fees on their behalf to obscure the issue. I have a “2% cash back on everything” card w
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by mindcandy 3y ago
To say it was “trained on child porn” is just about the most “well, technically….” thing that can be said about anything. Several huge commercial and academic projects scraped billions of images off of the Internet and filtered them best th
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by mindcandy 3y ago
> the evidence shows money isn’t buying results. There are different kinds of results. There’s “Money spent on campaigns gets my favored politicians into office” which apparently isn’t working out too well. There’s “Money spent on campai
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Am I reading this right? Revenue: $667m Total comp of 3 execs: $322m Income: ($90m) I might have a suggestion on how they can get out of the red. It's a wild one, I know. But, it just might work!
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by mindcandy 3y ago
From what I understand, the US Dollar is backed by: The IRS requires taxes be paid in dollars. It's a federal offense to refuse payment in dollars for purchases under US jurisdiction. The US has negotiated other countries to require pa
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by mindcandy 3y ago
I get that the concept is upsetting. And, I'm not going to tell people to not be upset or not state their will. Ex: DeviantArt has instated an opt-in checkbox for "It's OK to train on my art" and I think that's grea
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Very good! Alternatively, if I created a large body of works that were 90% Lisa Frank and brought it to a large market distribution, making significant revenue, then she could sue me for damaging her market and her brand. Which she has done

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