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by myaccount9786 4y ago
> Realistically a lot of old people just vote for who the guy on TV told them to Is there a study or some data backing this up? Or just a stereotype?
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Yes I agree with you that the risks are low. But I disagree fervently and am offended with the parent comment. It doesn't make one foolish or prideful to take ownership over evaluating the cost/benefit. As an asocial person who pr
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Social anxiety disorder.
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Thinking about the TV you watch but not writing an essay about it = interaction or no interaction? Where is the boundary; how can you define it?
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
It's not extreme to be an absolutist here like myself. The best things about the U.S. system are simple. If you are born on her land, you are a citizen. If you are a citizen over 18* you can vote. You have the right to free speech and
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Maybe not equally. I know maybe like 10 old people. Most of them are very smart. I've met several 2-year-olds. Dumb like a rock. But should 12-year-olds be allowed to vote? I don't see a reason not to besides history. In the U.S.
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Umm... yes, historically disenfranchisement was driven by racism and sexism. This is driven by ageism. Obviously racism was historically much more abusive. But both are still discrimination.
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
I think the controls in this space are such a shit show right now that being "open model" is practically equivalent to a WTFPL. If you're trying to build an app based on SD, then not being open source matters. But seems lik
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
The easiest way to combat this is to put your model behind an API and filter queries (midjourney, OpenAI) or just not make it available (Google). The tradeoff is that you're paying for everyone's compute. I guess SD is betting on
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
You can download the model weights and run them offline. At least, you could in v1.4. I assume this is still possible on v2.0?
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Ok, maybe opening theory is less fun. But tactics are very fun. They're not about memorization, but about calculation and pattern recognition. If you get good enough, you get to sacrifice all kinds of material if you calculate. Bxg6. R
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
To clarify, there are two logical consequences of that parent comment. Suppose a 65yo person watches too much tv and still votes. 1. In order to be allowed to vote, they need to watch less tv. 2. They don't get to vote otherwise. My po
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Just want to ask; how is it a disingenuous rewrite. What is the charitable interpretation of "old people have mental problems, but they still vote, and that's a problem"? That's literally what the parent comment says. I&
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
This seems like a reasonable argument until you go deeper. > most people keep at least 1 hand on the reins in a critical way: they vote > it's reasonable to be concerned about [old people's] mental well being. So you're
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
It may be beneficial from a medical perspective, but you're ignoring the obvious risks. For people with SAD, etc. there is the risk of severe stress. For all people, there is the risk of sexual assault. There is the risk of false or tr
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
That being said, I think there is a general bias in American culture towards "making something of yourself", which results in the act of participating in non-productive activities (ex: "mindless tv" such as gameshows, in
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
I disagree that consuming media and participating online is not "interacting with the world". I spend a lot of my free time reading Wikipedia, watching YouTube, and playing games. This content comes from "the world". At
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
I don't believe anyone could be 2200 and fall to 1300 because I am 1800 and I crush 1300s 99% of the time. And 2200s will crush me 99% of the time. How that decline happens? So you're saying that you could crush me but are getting
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Why complain about not getting better than 1300 then? My point is there are a lot of different levers to pull to get better and imo it's interesting to learn more tactics. The game does become more interesting as you get better. At lea
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Does it use the frequencies from the lichess database? That would be pretty cool if it did!
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Oh haha N=2 here, so you are probably right. Survivorship bias on my part. I posted these stats in another thread: According to https://lichess.org/analysis#1 , for blitz and rapid games played on lichess with 1.e4, 1...e5 i
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Sure maybe the translation is wrong, but I'm saying there's bias in the test due to the fact it only plays sicilian to 1.e4. What about 1.e6 or 1.e5? Hard to estimate fide or lichess rating if you don't test those. According
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Just want to point out the obvious: if you are staying at 1300 for over 1y, you are not improving and likely not understanding why you are losing. I would recommend you study rather than banging your head against the wall by playing more ga
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
I wish against 1.e4 it wouldn't always play 1...c5. Right now, it's less of a test of "what is your chess rating" and more of "how much sicilian theory do you know". Its prediction was about 300 points low comp
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Just to be clear, 122 random bits are just fine as a security measure depending on what you want to do. For example, if I have 1 URL and I'm trying to prevent someone from guessing it. How you choose to encode the bits doesn't a
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
> I find that 160 bits is a sweet spot of excellent security Please, for the love of God, leave cryptography to the cryptographers.
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Apart from the fact that they have no incentive to, there are technical downsides, even assuming you could get a useful homomorphic scheme to work in practice. For example, encrypted data can't be compressed. Columnar big data systems
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
A lot of "tech" companies are really just marketing companies. No innovation is being done, just optimizing some funnel. Working on useful software is good, glad you're doing that now.
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by myaccount9786 4y ago
Why indeed.