msabalau

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by msabalau 4mo ago
Given that, according to the article, he's just using it for storyboarding, in attempt to better communicate a vision to a range of human contributors, it's really unclear how this decision will "age badly." either this
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by msabalau 4mo ago
I mean, between SynthID and C2PA don't you already have labels and watermarks that covering a lot of major players like Google, Adobe, ElevenLabs, NIVIDEA? No real concern about false negatives there. As for false positive, the most s
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by msabalau 5mo ago
That's an odd way of viewing it. Having the reporting from the local paper amplified outside the immediate community strengthens the signal, and supports the general norm of holding officials accountable. "No man is an island enti
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by msabalau 5mo ago
The MP3 spec was defined a decade before we had iPods. Spreadsheets took a decade to become indispensable to businesses. Clifford Stoll had used the internet for two decades before writting his infamous 1995 essay in Time saying the interne
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by msabalau 5mo ago
In the absence of any evidence, it is really unclear why anyone needs to catastrophize about generations of harms. Is there any reason to believe that "social media existing" is a worse and more enduring harm than tens of millions
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by msabalau 5mo ago
It literally doesn't matter why search revenue is growing. What is observably true is that it is that it is growing, as has it has been, throughout the LLM era. Absent additional information, no one else can identify the false assump
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by msabalau 6mo ago
Oh, sure, putting a million or more Uyghurs in internment camps, sterilizing people, and trying to systematically erase a culture and a religion is "just as repressive" as the what is happening in Europe, as long you one is willi
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by msabalau 6mo ago
Where are you ? What precisely are you doing other than posting stuff that pretends that a party in minority in both houses of Congress could actually stop a president, unless some politicians in the majority chose to join them. And, as un
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by msabalau 6mo ago
The Quincy Institute exists to push their "restraint/realpolitic" agenda, not to accurately describe reality.
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by msabalau 7mo ago
Yeah, their forth place video model does not go away, but they didn't ink a billion dollar with Disney that's just gone up in flames because they "weren't serious" This may well be a needed reprioritization in the f
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by msabalau 7mo ago
We have "proper numbers" for the full range of issues covered in the essay? From airport aesthetics to El Paso being shut down because of lack of coordination around anti-drone testing, or something? The article is not just about
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by msabalau 7mo ago
Either AI causes a collapse in aggerate demand, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you still have your blue collar career. If it it does, you still have your skills at things that are hard to automate, and don't seem to be any wor
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by msabalau 7mo ago
But they have engaged with it, and made an assessment about it's current utility. We have no reason to believe that they won't keep an eye on this. Little to nothing about AI tools so far suggests that that one can't just as
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by msabalau 7mo ago
That's certainly why the Navy supported Top Gun. At the same time, you certainly could reasonably read the film as being very dubious about the military. It opens with the psychological collapse of Maverick's wingman when a MiG l
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by msabalau 7mo ago
Maybe one could reasonably blame on-line video and or video games if this were a global phenomenon. But it isn't. China and India are going gangbusters. Japan is thriving and doing strong work. Nigerian cinema is projected to hit 3 mi
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by msabalau 7mo ago
Canada is great. Montreal feels like a stylish and fun European city. As a film lover, I've been to the Toronto film festival many times, it's an unmatched experience--so many things to see, and watch films with a very engaged fe
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by msabalau 7mo ago
It's a bit simplistic to personify complex organizations of millions of people like "The Government" or "The Market" as if they were a living, breathing persons with a single mind. There were people working in gover
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by msabalau 8mo ago
It is really unclear why you think that either the political interest or strategic logic of not wanting to rely on manufacturing in China, and having some on the value being created here goes away, or is some idle whim. Sure, if it took dec
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by msabalau 8mo ago
I was lucky enough to be an early tester, here's a brief video walking through the process of creating worlds, showing examples--walking on the moon, with Nasa photo as part of the prompt, being in 221B Baker street with Holmes and Wat
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by msabalau 8mo ago
Yeah, sure, starting from 1998 just a year after Amazon went public, when it was still just a glorified online bookstore, is the most relevant and honest comparison one could make to Nintendo.
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by msabalau 9mo ago
I think it depends where you live. Peanuts seems to have fairly large presence in Taiwan and Japan--it's currently owned by Sony. It's one of the tentpoles on Apple TV. According to Wikipedia, as a franchise it's brings in
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by msabalau 9mo ago
When you are in a hole you can at least stop digging.
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by msabalau 10mo ago
A wide range of countries got rich, while China's policies were unique, in addition to being abhorrent. Why should anyone believe that the only other option for China was "being Nigeria"? The PRC is getting older faster than
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by msabalau 10mo ago
Yeah, so what? There was definitely a broad (not universal) triumphalist belief on the part of both elites and the broader population in the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall and disintegration in the 90s that capitalism and democracy
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by msabalau 10mo ago
I don't know that A Game of Thrones is a good example, at all. The series was already remarkable commercial success before the TV adaptation. A Feast for Crows debuted at #1 on the NYT list in 2005. The series sold millions of copies p
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by msabalau 10mo ago
We can see what consumers do. The Gemini app is second most downloaded app for the iPhone, right behind OpenAI. Apple is certainly not trying to "distort the picture" as you evidently wish to believe that Google is doing. That&#x
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by msabalau 11mo ago
The articles references articles she has written on science fiction, but if one is interested in SFF more broadly, Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is India's first Hugo nominee, as he co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to O
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by msabalau 11mo ago
Yeah, the "normal" people I know, use AI in Grammarly or Adobe Express, or a astonished and delighted by NotebookLM, mostly because of the audio overviews--but also because grounding chat with sources gets you better, focused chat
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by msabalau 11mo ago
If there is a non-zero chance that I might want to play such a game, from time to time, I can stream it. Why would I want to limit my options for occasional AAA gaming to the graphics supported by a particular console, when I can spring for
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by msabalau 11mo ago
That's a major use case, especially if the definition is broad enough to include take my expertise, knowledge and perhaps a written document, and transmute it to others forms--slides, illustrations, flash cards, quizzes, podcasts, scri

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