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by viccis 11mo ago
Last time I read it, I did not find it challenging outside of some of the more obscure words used (particularly things like names of types of buildings and similar mundane objects), and my Kindle's built-in dictionary was able to defin
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by viccis 11mo ago
I'll add some recommendations to the author's list, as I have found that reading difficult literature (both fiction and non-fiction) has been like exercising a muscle for me. For example, I read Blood Meridian before doing this an
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by viccis 11mo ago
There's always that person who needs to make a knee-jerk inferiority feeling into the author's problem. The author never made value judgments about people. In fact, he starts by pointing out that he thinks those kinds of judgments
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by viccis 1y ago
That's because Chrome tracks so much telemetry about you that Google is satisfied with how well it has you surveilled. If you install a ton of privacy extensions like Privacy Badger, uBlock, VPN extensions with information leakage prot
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by viccis 1y ago
>Are there any laws that protect labour in the US? Air traffic controllers are famously a group of people who were just mass fired for striking. These days the laws in the US actually protect the airlines from them by making it illegal f
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by viccis 1y ago
You first, Larry. Any functional social credit would have him at "untouchable" levels.
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by viccis 1y ago
It calls out the NYT at the beginning, but am I supposed to be impressed that a bunch of mostly obscure minimalist blogs are a few megabytes smaller than the biggest online news site (by subscribers) in the world? What are we doing here? An
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by viccis 1y ago
Ignoring that you are making an assumption about how the randomness is handled, this is a very vacuous definition of "deterministic" in the context of the discussion here, which is AI controlling large and complex systems. The fac
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by viccis 1y ago
That's why I would start applying instead of just quitting. There are plenty of companies that use AI responsibly or not much at all.
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by viccis 1y ago
Open source? Close it and ask them resubmit a smaller one and justify the complexity of things like a DSL if they wanted it included. For work? Close it and remind them that their AI velocity doesn't save the company time if it takes m
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by viccis 1y ago
Can you provide a concrete piece of evidence that the USSR government set out to accomplish this? For example, I can easily pull up correspondence that shows the intent of top brass in the regimes responsible for other 20th century genocide
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by viccis 1y ago
It's not extrajudicial if it's done by the governing body of that state. As far as being a terrorist group, there's not a single definition of "terrorism" that includes them but not the US and Israel. I'm not a
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by viccis 1y ago
Hamas is not an acronym, it's "Hamas" not "HAMAS" >We saw what HAMAS [sic] does - all the video from Oct 7 Not relevant to this topic, nor is it true (there's no video from Oct 7 that has any bearing on this
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by viccis 1y ago
Holodomor's an interesting example because unlike the Armenian genocide, Holocaust, or genocide in Gaza, there's no explicit evidence of it being intentional, despite mounds and mounds of evidence of Soviet atrocities that were re
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by viccis 1y ago
I was referring to the Armenian genocide, whose primary perpetrator refuses to acknowledge it, with the support of Western governments.
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by viccis 1y ago
Hamas carried out executions of a few dozen ranking members of opposition groups that had been carrying out attacks and aid banditry against civilians, at the behest of and with the funding of the Israeli government. This is not a "gen
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by viccis 1y ago
Exactly. There's another 20th century genocide that is "highly contested" in specific odious circles, but there's no reason to present that opposing viewpoint in an encyclopedic treatment of it, given mounds of evidence
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by viccis 1y ago
He was famously (and, I'm realizing more and more, correctly) averse to anthropomorphizing computing concepts.
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by viccis 1y ago
>is the fact that it went from an f(intent) -> output a reason to treat it as derivative Absolutely. All generative AI output is, by definition, derivative.
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by viccis 1y ago
If you are just giving a prompt to Suno, then Suno is making art, not you. The Beatles wrote She Said She Said based on the LSD influenced rambling of Peter Fonda, but no one would say Fonda made that song.
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by viccis 1y ago
My honest review, as a musician who has spent many years of my life making music and both giving and receiving blunt critique: Stunningly mediocre. Worthy of a Pitchfork 1/10. If your choice truly is between having AI make "art&qu
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by viccis 1y ago
That has nothing to do with AI, which itself is categorically and noncontingently "slop".
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by viccis 1y ago
I think part of the point of it, as a thought terminating cliche, is that it's usually used to critique something that is commensurately fatuous.
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by viccis 1y ago
Wait until you find where the modern use of "slop" (as opposed to its original meaning before a few years ago) came from
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by viccis 1y ago
No lol I have thought of starting one but I am not a self promoting type and so I'm not even sure how to get it off the ground.
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by viccis 1y ago
Good lord that video. "Where Anyone Can Buiild, Shar and Evolue"
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by viccis 1y ago
I think it depends on the complexity of the knowledge to be created. I agree with you broadly, but the danger of using your boxing analogy is that for game systems that can be sufficiently understood, AI has actually invented new strategies
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by viccis 1y ago
Has there been anything written about AI "intelligence" from people well read in even the basic and foundational writings on epistemology? For example, I see a lot of people using Hume's way of thinking about how knowledge is
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by viccis 1y ago
This is the kind of attitude that I hope Wikipedia continues to exist and educate people away from falling for.
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by viccis 1y ago
Yeah man that's why I said ten years ago lol

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