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by pksebben 4y ago
SO is a high school teacher. This is her primary complaint about how we do things today. She talks a lot about the book Grading for Equity. I'm of the opinion that traditional schooling is a bit of a zombie. There just isn't a way
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by pksebben 4y ago
I agree with you that they have the capacity to remember an image - but they're not compressing them. That's a fundamentally different thing. The argument being made by that class action lawsuit is that "this thing can repro
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by pksebben 4y ago
is this (1) the lawsuit you're referring to? 'cause those images are not the same. Sports events are just easy to fake, because they're boring - all sports pictures look roughly the same. Edited to add: There's another
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by pksebben 4y ago
It doesn't need to be all-or-nothing. The broad standard in most law (that I know of) is sufficient: if you can establish a _mens rea_, you're entitled to damages. Not that establishing intent to do harm would be easy, or that th
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think that some of the friction here is about mindset. I have a lot of friends who are artists, and many of them consider this stuff 'tech shit I'll never understand'; I think, because we've culturally set ourselves
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by pksebben 4y ago
But it's really not, though. It's remembering something related to the pixels, yeah, but that's like remembering the shape a line can take or the color of the sky. To extend your musical analogy, it's remembering that m
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by pksebben 4y ago
This. I see and understand the FUD on behalf of the artists. It's real; this is going to change things in a way that makes their lives harder, and that sucks. What I see in the discussion is a results first, truth second thing. This is
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by pksebben 4y ago
it's not remembering pixels. for it to do that, it would have to have the pixels stored somewhere. It does not. The laion 5b dataset is in the neighborhood of 220TB. (1) That is how much storage space you need to remember the pixels. T
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by pksebben 4y ago
but they're not. Works derived stylistically are not copies. Were they publishing copies, your harry potter analogy would hold, but that is categorically not the thing happening. Diffusion is not compression, or copying. It's styl
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by pksebben 4y ago
... or finish you off. It's become sentient! swims away furiously
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by pksebben 4y ago
I have fairly strong opinions for both of those other mes. Keeps us all aligned, really. 'Mad' would be a misnomer, though. mad seems counterproductive.
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by pksebben 4y ago
had to look it up. it's kind of interesting. like someone took solipsism and turned it inside out.
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by pksebben 4y ago
thanks for sharing, this was great. I even tried to click on the "further reading" links at the bottom
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by pksebben 4y ago
Isn't there continuity there? you're in the same body, which has to have some bearing on a consciousness. for example, my knees are shot. part of being me is having to put up with that, which causes a sort of pattern in my experie
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by pksebben 4y ago
came to the comments to say something like this. What the author completely glossed over was the definition of consciousness, which I think puts most of the rest of the post on shaky footing. If we define consciousness broadly enough to be
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by pksebben 4y ago
I've been on pocket casts for years and found very few reasons not to love it
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by pksebben 4y ago
but hold on. "not having people" and "not having people with the skills you need" are different in this regard. Offering more money won't make more people, but it will motivate people to learn skills.
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by pksebben 4y ago
God, I wish you were right. I felt the same way for a long time. At this stage, the only way I see it going is the system collapses on itself. There's no reason for them to listen and there's nothing we can do about it, though.
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by pksebben 4y ago
That's a fairly vitriolic take on what I understand to be a pretty benign opinion. Am I missing some context here?
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by pksebben 4y ago
the three steps you mention do not operate like that, in reality. 1 - most news is published by one of a few conglomerates. It is impossible to be competitive in this space without a staggeringly large bankroll, and most 'competition&#
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by pksebben 4y ago
the stakes are way lower. My buggy code doesn't kill people.
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by pksebben 4y ago
it's the institutional knowledge that's the problem. Policing has an entrenched culture that reinforces bad behavior - I would take a fresh set of cops with no connection to the one we currently have any day. Of course, this is an
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by pksebben 4y ago
I've yet to find conclusive research backing this up. Got any sources?
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm not sure I follow. are you suggesting that by saying there's a connection between bullying and school shootings, that increases the risk of school shootings?
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by pksebben 4y ago
unfortunately, it's the rich making the tax laws.
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by pksebben 4y ago
a couple generations of ostensibly left individuals got co -opted and hoodwinked into playing team politics, because they grew up in a time when the economy worked better in general and the effects of politics in general were more subtle. A
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by pksebben 4y ago
why bother? all that data is for sale, and relatively cheap. is this an actual thing that is in the works?
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by pksebben 4y ago
Yep. Part of the problem is the set of incentives surrounding these huge centralized databases of consumer preference - the folks holding the reins have no reason to fix the situation because they make money off the circumstances as well.
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by pksebben 4y ago
counterpoint; separating the wheat from the chaff is already terribly difficult, and perhaps this will provide the necessary motivation to produce an effective method of doing so. Google, once upon a time, solved a similar problem. With all
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by pksebben 4y ago
yep. If one could solve the discoverability problem for podcasts they'd make a mint. The problems, as I see them: - must be resistant to gaming. Many of the really popular podcasts are backed by marketing money, many of the best ones a

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