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by rendall 3y ago
I invite you to review the community guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3"
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by rendall 3y ago
> I hate its craven, cringing, condescending, bitch-broken, mewling, groveling, wheedling, suck-ass tone. I hate its endless passive voice and weasel words. I hate its pompous It is important to remembers and it should be noteds.* Wh
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by rendall 3y ago
> Not sure what you were trying to add to the conversation. That is disappointing. There is one common factor with all of the toxic communities, forums and chat rooms that formed your impression of "the gaming universe" over
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by rendall 3y ago
> Did I say that every person in the gaming community is awful? No, and no one said you did. For the second time, argue what someone says . > Your comment that “not everyone is bad” Here you even put quotes around something no on
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by rendall 3y ago
Consider the availability bias : extremes are notable (easily recalled), and so become outsized in evaluations. Example: It is likely that any given random violent crime was committed by a man. Some are therefore convinced that all men are
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by rendall 3y ago
Did GP say this? Argue against what a person says not against some easier-to-argue position.
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by rendall 3y ago
How delightful. I was 99% sure even before I clicked that it would be Steve Mould. Loved his parody of the fixed grin of Technology Connections.
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by rendall 3y ago
I was one of the early users of ok cupid, even before it was dating and more just a kind of social media for questions and tests. I met some amazing people on that site. At some point something changed though and the quality plummeted.
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by rendall 3y ago
It's really silly. Also silly: forgetting that a group is not its worst members. Remember that every single group with which you identify has had unstable members who behaved badly. Whether criminal behavior, death threat, bullying, or
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by rendall 3y ago
Agreed. I think for me, bizarre because the conclusion was so medieval. I get that it is a philosophical essay so reasoning like "I do not agree with punishing family members for the crimes of their kin because I am a civilized human b
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by rendall 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand your query, but I appreciate self-reflection in general, e.g. "I hold the view that the suffering of the victim of a crime creates a kind of cosmic imbalance that is only rectified by equal suffering of t
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by rendall 3y ago
> If people lose faith that the justice system will implement it for them, then faith in the institutions falls to pieces, and social cohesion collapses as people resort to vigilantism. I understand the argument, and I do understand y
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by rendall 3y ago
I suppose you're right and my expecting an entire dissertation in an off-hand blog post isn't reasonable. Maybe I just disagree with "retributivism" (I find the concept barbaric and uncivilized fr) and so my standard for
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by rendall 3y ago
How bizarre and ivory-tower. He defines his identity ("I am a retributivist") according to philosophical stance rather than to simply describe his beliefs ("I ascribe to retributivism"). > "To be clear, I oppose
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by rendall 3y ago
> Most (if not all) other images it used will be cc, unlicensed (most images on the internet) or copyrighted but unidentifiable You keep saying "most". I get that you believe copyright infringement is orthogonal to your point
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by rendall 3y ago
You downplay the risk, but don't really address it head on. There is data out there about you and your family. Recall the tendency of human beings to arbitrarily discriminate or even perpetrate genocide. Hopefully, there will never be
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by rendall 3y ago
> Because most text/images used by AI company to create, test then pretrain/train their tools are creative common /unlicensed (I trained/fine-tuned an OCR in 2016), and thus, copyrighting the output of any model woul
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by rendall 3y ago
You don't win an argument by gatekeeping and patronizing like that. There's information you don't have, apparently. This is not a technological issue alone, but also a social, legal and artistic issue. It is very clear that a
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by rendall 3y ago
No idea what you're taking about. Throwing arcane technical terms about does not advance your argument. Nor does the triumph or obscurity of the AI research elide the copyright interest of artists in how their own work is used.
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by rendall 3y ago
> not sure how letting people copyright the output of a program that ate the work of a million other people would "promote the progress of science and useful arts"? I agree with you. It's a mess. AI output should be copy
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by rendall 3y ago
I think this decision is incorrect, even after reading the decision itself. There is human intervention at every step. Midjourney was made by humans. Were I to construct a robot that wandered about randomly snapping hundreds of photos, then
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by rendall 3y ago
Must I "produce specific harms" before I have the right not to consent to my data collection? Isn't "I don't like it" enough? Metadata analysis can deduce quite a lot about you. Your sexual predilections or y
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by rendall 3y ago
> If even a single mimic was found the secret would get out... I'm imagining these creatures as something we do not have defenses against, so, given that this creature would have evolved alongside our social, language and analytic
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by rendall 3y ago
"As an international superstar, [Jackie Kennedy] was the Princess Di of her era..." Interesting turn of phrase. Princess Di was far closer a contemporary of Jackie Kennedy than either are today. I can't imagine there is a l
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by rendall 3y ago
I was curious about this myself. Perhaps the pizza request is arcane or buried in lots of other requests?
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by rendall 3y ago
Would you mind saying more about your experience with Gandi?
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by rendall 3y ago
I've already addressed all of these questions. Bottom line is if your stance made your life more difficult while making workers lives easier, I'd be more inclined to listen and take what you say seriously. But it doesn't. The
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by rendall 3y ago
To even have a hope of convincing me that you're not just an entitled, unprincipled miscreant, you have to do more than just "avoid" tipping establishments. You have to not go to any establishment that has tipping. If you d
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by rendall 3y ago
At least now you no longer pretend that your stance against tipping is but selfless regard for the plight of the exploited worker. Choose: a) Establishment A charges 40% more and pays the workers fairly with benefits and actively refuses t
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by rendall 3y ago
I agree. I likely never will argue for prohibition, given that I have believed in the principle of an inalienable right to drugs ever since I could ponder these matters. My perspective on public drug policy has become more nuanced over the

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