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by roarcher 10mo ago
I would argue that the degree to which you owe something credit for your success is the degree to which it guarantees that success. If my society/group/family guarantees my success, no matter my actions, I owe it everything. If it
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by roarcher 10mo ago
> They serve a political purpose. Indeed. > That vague notion that "some people are just different" is the base for many political violations. As is the idea that everyone is an interchangeable unit of labor, all producing t
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by roarcher 10mo ago
I only argued that legitimate cases of individual achievement exist. The fact that trust fund babies also exist does not contradict that.
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by roarcher 10mo ago
What level of analysis would you consider "complete"? Certainly if we accounted for every neuron in their brain we could reduce their achievements to whatever configuration of gray matter produced the thoughts and actions that led
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by roarcher 10mo ago
By "owe" I mean that the credit for their success belongs to the group and not the individual, because the individual was merely a product of good circumstances provided by the group. I believe this is the sentiment intended by th
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by roarcher 10mo ago
> It's the uncomfortable answer behind the question of "Why do WASPs own everything?" The correct answer to that question is "they don't".
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by roarcher 10mo ago
It's obviously true that nobody achieves things in a vacuum, since we all have some level of "privilege" given to us by our economic circumstances, the level of education available to us, our luckier heritable traits, etc. Bu
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by roarcher 11mo ago
I assume they mean those firms hire compiler engineers to work on the specific languages they use. Jane Street famously uses OCaml for pretty much everything. Not sure about Bloomberg, though a quick search shows that they have Bloomberg Qu
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by roarcher 11mo ago
On some cars you can also unplug whatever radio/modem doodad is responsible for phoning home. I have a Ford Maverick and disconnected the "telemetry module" which resides under the transmission hump by the front passenger se
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by roarcher 11mo ago
I've gotten in the habit of typing any long messages in my text editor first and them pasting them into Slack for this exact reason.
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by roarcher 1y ago
The combination of a brand new account with an incredibly juvenile username and careless writing (lack of capitalization in your case) usually is a red flag for a spam account, so yes, in these cases I usually check comments to see if I&#x2
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by roarcher 1y ago
In another comment you're defending AI girlfriends, and you're going to tell me what "normal" people who don't live on the internet do? As a matter of fact, all the actually normal people I talk to about AI in perso
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by roarcher 1y ago
Huh? Are you just trying to sound cryptic, or are you actually claiming that the actors in current movies are also fake? And yes, I'm well aware of the allegory of the cave. So is everyone. What I don't understand is why it's
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by roarcher 1y ago
Really? I won't be able to tell that the "actors" in a feature-length presentation don't actually exist? I see you responded to this point elsewhere in this thread, but frankly your reply is a non-sequitur. I'm not
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by roarcher 1y ago
It's irrelevant because I never claimed that AI wouldn't be used in the way you said. You're arguing against a point I never made. There is no line, and you never claimed there was in your original comment, so stop moving the
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by roarcher 1y ago
Man, am I ever getting tired of replying to the same irrelevant points over and over again. > Most people would use these tools for personal use Not what we're talking about. Not "personalized media", not large studios &qu
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by roarcher 1y ago
That's not the other way around, that's my point. A scientific idea will eventually be accepted because its objective truth makes it inevitable in spite of resistance. Wide acceptance of AI movies is no more inevitable than wide
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by roarcher 1y ago
A good thing, since most such movies will be made to keep one hand occupied.
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by roarcher 1y ago
A "blockbuster movie" implies commercial use. I think actual stars would object to their likeness being used in that way. If you're talking about people firing up the ol' 5090 to make a "movie" about their favo
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by roarcher 1y ago
I think AI has its place in special effects, but "making a blockbuster movie for $1000" requires replacing all the actors, music, cinematography, everything that makes a movie "art" except maybe the plot. And I have ne
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by roarcher 1y ago
Scientific ideas have the benefit of being objectively true. AI movies are not a "scientific idea". Liking them is a matter of taste, and there are plenty of things that never catch on.
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by roarcher 1y ago
"People will like AI movies because it's inevitable" Circular reasoning. If you can't answer WHY people should come to like AI movies, then you have nothing to say.
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by roarcher 1y ago
Gonna be pretty hard to pass off a whole movie as real when none of the "actors" exist.
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by roarcher 1y ago
Never. I've seen people instantly go from liking a static image to disliking it upon learning it was AI generated. The same applies to other kinds of media. No matter how "good" it is, knowing that it was created by an unfeel
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by roarcher 1y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this just seems to be a guy playing with magnets? In the "Demonstration of Ion Propulsion" video, he shows how the magnet "shoots" through the ring, but it's just the release of
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by roarcher 1y ago
And when those studies determine that AI is the wrong solution, you don't use it. So we agree, you don't come up with a use case.
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by roarcher 1y ago
Oh I agree, in that sense these features fulfill their true purpose, which is to assure some clueless VC that his money will be at the forefront of innovation or some hogwash. But they give zero value to the end users, who largely ignore th
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by roarcher 1y ago
You come up with solutions to use cases. Inventing a use case to justify a solution is backwards and by definition not legitimate.
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by roarcher 1y ago
> org needs a system using New Buzzword, to show to VC's or others, and this is the opportunity to use New Buzzword, whether it makes sense here or not Oh lord, I have seen some nonsense built because some prospective investor wante
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by roarcher 1y ago
A 52-foot-long animatronic Spinosaurus for $2900? Now that's a heck of a deal.

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