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by silver_silver 2y ago
Europe and China are currently leading the transition to renewables so that is an American problem
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The CO2 concentrations we’re approaching also cause cognitive impairment
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by silver_silver 2y ago
In my mind the only realistic solution left is to make up the difference with solar radiation management, and I would bet it’s what will end up happening
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Ads already pause if you switch apps on mobile, and vending machines/retail screens have had cameras in them for expression/attention tracking for years. It’s not much of a leap from there
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The US and Russian navies use them very effectively
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by silver_silver 2y ago
It’s still possible to mitigate without upending society (provided the Hansen paper is wrong), but just barely and not for long. It is absolutely dire and urgent but we’re not beyond hope for the future generations yet.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The true believers seem to think the compute and energy requirements will drop by an order of magnitude in the near future
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by silver_silver 2y ago
It is a fact that the majority didn't consent to this, not an opinion. The foundation of these tools is, in my opinion, copyright violation. Building a product by transforming a collection of works cannot be fair use by any stretch of
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by silver_silver 2y ago
According to this survey [1] of 1000 visual artists, 95% believe they should have a say in whether their art is used for training. That much should be obvious. As for hating it with a passion: that's an anecdote from my circle and the
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The vast majority of artists hate generative models with a passion. Many have stopped publicly sharing their work because they feel violated by their work being used to train them
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by silver_silver 2y ago
I'm a 6'4" man and bought two pairs of trousers from the women's section recently. They fit perfectly but granted are what would have been marketed as "plus size" in the past. Would encourage everyone who doesn
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by silver_silver 2y ago
SpaceX is one of the most competitive employers for engineers. They're vacuuming up young talent in the US faster than NASA and have a tremendous amount of funding from both the private and public sectors. Imagine if the same resources
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by silver_silver 2y ago
I've always been a strong supporter of space exploration and a big fan of SpaceX in particular, but my world view has taken a turn in recent years. As a species, our emissions have to peak next year and then be halved by 2030 to preven
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by silver_silver 2y ago
It’s not just Swedish doctors. I was put on psychiatric medication for what turned out to be as simple as allergies and lactose intolerance. In my experience unless you’re paying through the nose, you have to be pitiable/attractive eno
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by silver_silver 2y ago
That human would become another artist whereas the model could potentially replace the entire industry. There’s a comparison to the Industrial Revolution to be made but it’s not one which convinces me. Making artistic dream jobs even more i
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> the homes of state sponsored hacking Stuxnet?
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by silver_silver 2y ago
I believe that was a joke
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Would this generate ~150mb images like the similarly-named jpackage or is it possible to trim down the runtime?
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by silver_silver 2y ago
>They are not fascinated by AI, they are not on Instagram or TikTok, they are not really partaking in the present This is such a limited perspective. I’m in my 20s and don’t bother with any of that either. The continuity is of one’s cons
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> There's already a big enough problem with males using female spaces Back it up with some numbers, and then let’s see how many of the perpetrators identify as trans.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> We really need to push Mass Transit, Walking, Bicycling and other forms of transport. The only real draw back is the loss of some convenience. But 140 years ago, people lived OK without Autos. It’s the norm for most young/lower in
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The assumption that colonisation and endless population growth are inevitable goals of any intelligence is a flaw of the paradox, in my opinion. I see it as something we just haven’t outgrown yet as a species. That colonisation could of cou
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by silver_silver 2y ago
In the case of primary homelessness (UN definition), America is about 12x worse than the UK - see swores reply below. I am from neither continent and as an outsider America’s current problems seem to far outweigh any decline the European po
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Utter nonsense. The UK has lost its outsized influence but the economic problems are at worst the same as in America. Property is less expensive even, and nobody’s at risk of being bankrupted by a medical emergency. The armies of homeless i
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Most of the papers she worked on were either translations or not written by a native speaker.
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by silver_silver 2y ago
The company is a bit predatory in that they typically employ editors from poorer countries, so her difficulty was more making enough from it than meeting the quota - but the quota was strict enough that you would very quickly lose the posit
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by silver_silver 2y ago
It’s possible this is caused by the editors rather than the authors. An old partner edited papers for a large publisher - largely written by non-native speakers and already heavily machine translated - and would almost always use ChatGPT fo
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by silver_silver 2y ago
> which is very likely to be bad for reasoning capabilities. As opposed to our aligned models which refuse to answer questions with controversial answers?
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Not as radical a change as, e.g. integrating systemd though
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by silver_silver 2y ago
Questionable at best to consider copyright in this case but not when generating images.

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