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by tivert 2y ago
we all know technology is just a vector for nerd fantasy the billionaires will make our dreams come true, just believe them
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by tivert 2y ago
> I personally find this visual quite cold and soulless, compared to previous Windows wallpapers, mostly XP's of course. For me this also coincided with Windows becoming completely useless and my moving to a Mac. Honestly, I kind of
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by tivert 2y ago
> Something similar I've noticed--there's a certain level people reach within a company where they're now too busy to type out "thank you" or even "thanks." Now "thx" is all they have time for
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by tivert 2y ago
Can't we all just go back to being positive and amazed with OpenAI and it's technology? Why does everyone have to be so negative about tech?
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by tivert 2y ago
> A few days ago I was re-reading some of those threads about reddit API changes from ten months back where so many users claimed it was their last message and they were leaving for good. Almost none of them did. I checked two dozen prof
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by tivert 2y ago
> Only "rich people" and "dupes for libertarianism" "seem to" prefer low taxes? I think your problem is you're treating "trickle-down economics" as a synonym for "low taxes," when it
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by tivert 2y ago
> I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which it's being associa
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by tivert 2y ago
I suppose it could be materially different, in that it's even worse than just hiring a soundalike. And I don't think the issue here is so much copyright as it is likeness rights.
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by tivert 2y ago
> I think that is different than deepfaking something I don't understand how it's different in any material way.
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by tivert 2y ago
I can't type a question mark into the word processor.
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Google sends DOJ unexpected check in attempt to avoid monopoly jury trial(arstechnica.com)
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by tivert 2y ago
That would be a vulnerability of a naive, always on implementation. But I'd think that risk would be significantly mitigated if the self-destruct system has to be armed first. e.g. China invades Taiwan, someone then immediately presse
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by tivert 2y ago
> 1. If it's a remote switch, wouldn't Chinese hackers also be able to potentially block this kind of kill signal? (Unless it's a dead man's switch I suppose). Not necessarily. It could be triggered by, say, a shortwa
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by tivert 2y ago
Whoever said anything about communism? The idea of trickle-down economics is something that only seems to appeal to the rich and people who eat up the libertarian propaganda they produce or patronize.
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by tivert 2y ago
> If so, I’d live to see the science. Ok, here's the science: [insert libertarian propaganda here]
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by tivert 2y ago
> Finally! This is so annoying for Spotify users. Every time the system starts up, and Spotify is configured to start at startup, but you haven't interacted with the window yet, then press the physical play button on the keyboard—in
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by tivert 2y ago
OpenAI should hire you as their lawyer.
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by tivert 2y ago
> But where it will get murky is people sound like other people. Most voices are hardly unique. It will be interesting to see where this lands. Yes, it will be interesting in June 1988 when we will find out "where this lands":
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by tivert 2y ago
> There is no doubt that the hired actor was an impersonator, this was explicitly stated by scama himself. And here's some caselaw where another major corporation got smacked down for doing the exact same thing: https://e
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by tivert 2y ago
> ...and furthermore it calls the entire "court" into question. It's pretty obvious this is not a real court, and it should be ignored by all. Yeah, it's not a real court, it's just a bunch of "transnational
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by tivert 2y ago
> I don’t think punishing stock holders makes any more sense than punishing all of Germany after WW1 did. Come on, stockholders are nothing like the subjects of a hereditary monarch. > You need to cut the head off the snake, not nib
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by tivert 2y ago
> They (very likely) didn't base Sky's voice on Scarlett's, but on some level designed it around the Samantha character. Oh, totally, they just based it on the voices12 collection, which they won't tell us anything ab
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by tivert 2y ago
> Would you, personally, accept punishment if (when) your government is found to have done something wrong? After all, you can vote. That's fundamentally different. Everyone has to be citizen of some country or other, and it's
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by tivert 2y ago
> Lots of Countries/Government have gotten away with it, though. Going there is a derail. And it doesn't even work because my analogy relied on the relationship between private groups/individuals and the legal system, whic
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by tivert 2y ago
> Even if 90% of the punishment ends up distributed across the richest 7% of Americans, I’m not sure what that would do to discourage corporate misconduct. A doctor with $10 million of stock in her accounts still has no individual say in
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by tivert 2y ago
> Over half of the stock market is held in the retirement accounts of everyday people. This is just a tax in a roundabout way. I don't have a solution, they all suck. But I'm not convinced this is any better. And how many peopl
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by tivert 2y ago
>> A "corporate death penalty" needs to be enacted, where a company can be seized and dismantled for egregious crimes. > By the time the company get sentenced, the people involved have already left with a nice bonus, and
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by tivert 2y ago
> Indirection, responsibility splitting, and accountability factoring are enormously effective organizational tools that ... are legally impossible to prosecute in practical timeframes, and give broad cover to bad faith actors. It's
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by tivert 2y ago
> Any measure less severe than an F is too much coddling in your book? Is your perspective that suicide rates are high because kids aren't getting enough failing grades due to typos? You're twisting my words, and I didn't
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by tivert 2y ago
> Thanks, have seen this - however, it seems like this article is jumping to conclusions about what this means. Could it be that executives at OpenAI are scared of what they built, or could another interpretation be that the senior leade

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