sycamoretrees

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by sycamoretrees 2y ago
Paris - the city itself - is actually surprisingly high density, almost as high as Manhattan if you do not include the two very large 'Bois' (woods) that are technically part of the city.
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by sycamoretrees 2y ago
I think it’s fine to not be into poetry, but at its core the Divine Comedy is a long poem, and I’m not sure what’s left after you remove any and all “poetic” elements. The Wikipedia page I’m sure could give you the basic characteristics of
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
why are we using image generators to represent actual history? If we want accuracy surely we can use actual documents that are not imagined by a bunch of code. If you want to write fanfic or whatever then just adjust the prompt
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Haha, thanks for the insightful comic
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Oh… my bad. Didn’t know that was a term. Sorry
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
American born Chinese dumplings.
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Why do people go to see movies when they could just watch the trailer on YouTube?
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
If that’s what the article is about, then I just don’t really see the point. Literally who cares what SBF and his ilk have to think about literature. If the article is simply an appeal to common sense, or an effort to convince others to edu
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
I read quite a bit, actually. But I don’t go around making others feel bad for being supposedly intellectually inferior to me. > is it the vocabulary? Because it’s a grammatically-simple sentence. Yes, the vocabulary. Throwing a bunch of
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Little more than an article for Atlantic readers to pat themselves on the back with. By the way, I get the sense the author isn’t as wise as he imagines himself, either. His catty obsession with Kanye West’s mental break and his seeming Tw
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Quite simply, they’re saying that all those things can be done on a laptop if necessary. Duh.
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
I see. Thanks for the reply. But I wonder if that’s not a bit too optimistic and not concrete enough. Alignment won’t solve the world’s woes, just like “enlightenment” (a word which sounds a lot like alignment and which is similarly undefin
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Is more research really going to offer any true solutions? I’d be genuinely interested in hearing about what research could potentially offer (the development of tools to counter AI disinformation? A deeper understanding of how LLMs work?),
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Good comment. Not to be nit picky, but I think you might be wrong about the psychologist part. A core principle, perhaps the most important principle of all, in talk therapy is that of transfer between the patient and the therapist. I don’t
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Art, or creativity, is the part of the movie that is not toil. Art being made purely for the enjoyment of all is purely commercial, and so it is in some ways equivalent to toil: it is something whose sole purpose is to be consumed. Yes, bei
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Art is about more than just imitation. It’s about the meaning behind the work. I am not talking about Marvel movies, which might as well be totally AI-generated at this point. I would suggest having some empathy for those affected. It’s not
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
This simply doesn’t look like the IKEA style. The prompt may not be explicit enough about it looking like IKEA. This looks like something from the 70s. Which makes sense, since Midjourney likely assumes a connection between bomb/fallou
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
No, I get it, I’ve heard that argument and I see the logic behind it. It’s a “victimless” crime. There are two issues I can think of that I would lead one to different conclusions. The first is that of consent - do I consent to my hard work
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
So, if you write a really good (free, since you don’t believe in intellectual property) book and I merely translate it into German, you don’t mind me selling it on Amazon and making money off of it? Ethically this is OK right? Since it’s no
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
The question is how this is really possible without a dramatic restriction of internet content accessible to citizens, i.e. national firewalls. OpenAI is accountable, but that’s only because they have something to lose. How does one reign i
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Hmm, 500 million is a lot but it is only 500 million. Unclear how they can finance what is already there, pay for food and schools, a nuclear weapons program, a relatively giant military with ridiculously long military training, etc, and on
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Who is funding all of this, at the end of the day? China?
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Why would bilingualism be a defense? Try throwing ChatGPT or whatever a line which combines several languages. e.g., If you ask it “¿Quel est the resultado of 四*6.1, in inglese?”, it will probably reply “4 times 6.1 equals 24.4.” I suppose
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Noise, but I’ve gotten so accustomed to them helping me sleep better that even if it’s silent outside I find them comforting to put on.
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
Reminds me of a story I heard a while back, about a factory town back in the day where the management would adjust the town clock to make it run slower during the work day, and faster overnight, in order to squeeze more labor out of the poo
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
One tip for earplugs -- I didn't know this for the longest time, embarrassingly -- is to roll them between your fingers into compact, narrow cylinders before inserting them into your ear, that way they will expand and fill up your ear
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
I don't know, I feel like even a real version of the Beatles singing God Only Knows would disappoint. I just can't picture Paul McCartney signing it. The fact that this is AI-generated is amazing. To be completely honest, the God
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by sycamoretrees 3y ago
I'm all for it, though I won't comment on this bill in particular, which seems to be lacking. There are, of course, ways to implement this that don't include sending even more personal data to social media companies. The most