Glad I am beyond draftable.
I hear you. But maybe we all need a bit more friction for the good things in life.
Where’s the evidence of that asymptote?
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.
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.
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paywalled. How bad if 10 is the worst and 1 isn't bad at all?
It's still Wednesday.
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.
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.
But whether or not that is true now (and it will always remain unprovable) doesn't allay my concern; it won't be eventually.
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.
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. 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.
Yes, I can be more clear. I tried to be here: 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.Growing crystals, arguably one of the most regular well-ordered things out there, increases entropy
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.
Yeah, but Taiwan seems more feasible, China appears more able, and the Chinese, more aligned.
Meh. 80's were even better.
Where on gods good earth can I get news?
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.
Had that in Costa Rica but the tail end scraped.