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mk  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Putin Wants War in the Balkans

Glad I am beyond draftable.

mk  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dark Hubski

I hear you. But maybe we all need a bit more friction for the good things in life.

mk  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Where’s the evidence of that asymptote?

mk  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

Imagination is a novel synthesis of information. These things will eventually have eyes, ears, conversations, etc., and multiple models working as one. We will be out-imagined.

mk  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

This technology is in its infancy and it can make videos from short text prompts and you think its going to look anything like this in 10 years? You could make a strong case against YouTube in 1995. It's not going to make storyboards, it's going to churn out movies and commercials by the millions and they might be individualized for each viewer.

mk  ·  41 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: OpenAI's Sora

The performance scales with compute. People are not ready for what is coming.

“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

This is where we are atm.

mk  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

To you, but have you always voted for the winning candidate?

The hard truth is that people aren't nearly as freaked out about a second Trump term as we (or apparently the dems) expect. Biden looks like a strong wind will knock him over, and sounds worse. Trump will definitely want to debate Biden, and he will utterly destroy him if Biden does.

Also, no one I know likes Kamala. No one.

Biden has no clothes and the dems are pretending he does: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

mk  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-dismayed-by-biden-trump-2024-rematch-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-01-25/

The disapproval goes deeper than that in the midwest. It’s also “I’m sick of the dems woke shit” and “he seems dementic”. That’s what friends and family tell me.

mk  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

All the polls are showing the same atm. The dislike of Biden is strong, nothing like four years ago. The dems simply are not listening.

mk  ·  63 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

I don't think you believe I live in a bubble. Ann Arbor is definitely a bubble, and Biden is very safe here, but I have lots of relations outside of A2.

It's a second Trump term. That's not a crazy proposition or a narrative. The Dems thought Hillary was going to win. They think Biden will win again. I think they are wrong.

mk  ·  64 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 24, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/politics/cnn-polls-trump-biden-michigan-georgia/index.html

Here in Michigan, this reflects what I am hearing and seeing. I don't think the left wants to believe what is happening.

If Pence did what Trump wanted to, different states would have declared to have different presidents. We were close.

Yes, but I think it's misguided. Influencing others is what happens to successful artists. It is part of the definition of success.

What would dance music be without the DNA of Sugar Hill Gang? IMHO SHG is greater for their influence. I do not think that all artists influenced by them should pay them, SHG would just have to pay it on backwards anyway.

I don't see content being part of an AI model or human model to be very different. IMHO it's not a matter of it being in there, but how literal the output is. Of course, if an AI is producing work that we'd call plagiarism if a human created it, then there is a problem.

Not a lot. But I wouldn't feel differently.

As someone who paints and writes. I don't care if AI scrapes my work, because humans scrape my work. That's the goal, actually.

I scraped the Iliad and Odyssey, and many other works to write Under Odysseus. I scrape George Inness every time I go to the museum, and he's in my paintings.

There are no immaculate artists.

mk  ·  72 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal species

Paywalled. How bad if 10 is the worst and 1 isn't bad at all?

mk  ·  78 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 10, 2024

It's still Wednesday.

mk  ·  139 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Silicon Valley’s Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone

I hate how NYT says "Silicon Valley" as if it were a monolithic thing.

I think Humane is correct that we will be losing the phones, and that AI will take us there. This is so much more feasible than putting a big screen on your face and swiping shit in the air around your kitchen. Steve Job's Apple would have made this device. Tim Cook's cannot.

I doubt this will be the device, but I am sick of my phone.

mk  ·  1282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just died

I have a feeling that this next SCOTUS nomination is going to make the GOP the dog that caught the car. If Roe vs. Wade is overturned, >70% of the country will not like the direction the country is heading at all.

Independents can suffer each party's Promised Land in theory, but not in practice.

IMO this nomination is the high-water mark of the GOP. Well done, Mitch. I expect that 25 years from now, We'll be able to congratulate an anti-McConnell for summiting the other side.

mk  ·  165 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 11, 2023

But whether or not that is true now (and it will always remain unprovable) doesn't allay my concern; it won't be eventually.

mk  ·  174 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 4, 2023

I watched Biden talk today. It had been a while. He reminds me of my grandma in her last year. It’s not right that he run again. It’s politically dumb, but it’s also just not cool.

mk  ·  267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Physical Definition of Life

    Biology boils down to chemistry boils down to physics and if you reduce variables on both sides of the equation, "life" is not necessary for the universe to exist.

How do we know? What forced the indeterminate?

I disagree about Shrodinger. In his What is Life he posited that consciousness was not even something that was seated in the individual, but spread across the lot of us, with an illusion of individuality. I don’t think he was so sure himself.

Yeah ‘posits’ is the wrong word for the second law.

mk  ·  267 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Physical Definition of Life

    Growing crystals, arguably one of the most regular well-ordered things out there, increases entropy

Yes, I can be more clear. I tried to be here:

    This work contributes to the persisting life system, and as the principle of natural selection postulates, such work is likely to be selected for, thereby propagating life.

But it’s poorly stated. It’s either life because it does the type of work that persists the system, or crystals are life, but not the kind that does work that persists as a consequence of doing it.

Thanks. I’ll reflect on your thoughts and get back.

mk  ·  287 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China

Yeah, but Taiwan seems more feasible, China appears more able, and the Chinese, more aligned.

Meh. 80's were even better.

mk  ·  318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Just wonderin if anyone else is paying attention to El Salvador cause that shit is wack!

Where on gods good earth can I get news?

mk  ·  355 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 5, 2023

The project is a new mobile OS.

It's just refreshing to be able to write a proposal to a bunch of anons, and if they like it, you get the funds, and there's nothing more to it.

mk  ·  365 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 29, 2023

Had that in Costa Rica but the tail end scraped.