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- Comment on On trees... 4 days ago:
People have experimented with that sort of thing. Here’s a DIY for going into 3rd person mode using a camera on a stick and some electronics in a backpack. Bit of googling also finds me body swap experiments, but nothing on a crotch perspective.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 5 days ago:
You mean legally? Yeah, no problem. It depends on the location, though. In the EU, the rights-holder can opt out. So if you want to do it in the EU you have to pay off Reddit, Meta, and so on. In Japan, it’s fine regardless. In the US, it should turn out similarly, but it’s up to the courts to work out the details, and it’s quite up in the air if you can trust the system to work.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 6 days ago:
The usual tends to be that the platform can do basically whatever. That shouldn’t really be surprising. But I see your point. If you literally want consent, not just legally licensed material, then you need more than just a clause in the TOS.
You could raise the same issue with permissively licensed material. People who released it may not have foreseen AI training as a use, and might not have wanted to actually allow it.
- Comment on Are there any initiatives aimed at training generative AI using 100% public domain works and works authorized by the creator? 6 days ago:
For images, yes. Most notable is probably Adobe. Their AI, which powers photoshop’s generative fill among other things, is trained on public domain and licensed works.
For text, there’s nothing similar. LLMs get better the more data you have. So, the less training data you use, the less useful they are. I think there are 1 or a few small models for research purposes, but it really doesn’t get you there.
Of course, there aren’t any such open source projects. When you take these extreme, maximalist views of (intellectual) property, then giving stuff away for free isn’t the obvious first step.
- Comment on GIVE ME 4 1 week ago:
Big fail. That has grenadine in it, which is non-alcoholic.
- Comment on GIVE ME 4 1 week ago:
So, how do you make a TS? I’m guessing it starts with breaking an egg.
- Comment on Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords. 1 week ago:
That won an Ig Nobel, IIRC.
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 1 week ago:
And quartz, of course.
- Comment on Is there any fundamental difference between an instance and a formal website ? 1 week ago:
“Instance” is programmer lingo. Roughly, it’s when you have the same piece of code running multiple times with different values (as part of the same system). More narrowly, “instance” is used in the context of classes. All lemmy instances run the lemmy code but with different users, admins, and so on. The expression makes perfect sense, but it is not used in a formal way.
A lemmy instance runs a web server. Wikipedia says that when you host a web page under a dedicated domain name, you have a website.
- Comment on It's My Nature 2 weeks ago:
I always think about that fable when I see Germans voting for that far-right party.
- Comment on Data speaks for itself 2 weeks ago:
History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that “Churchill-quote” because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.
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- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
Granted, it is more fun to have more answers involved, but 2 identical answers immediately gives it away as fake.
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- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
It’s annoying that 25% appears twice. How about these answers:
a) 100%
b) 75%
c) 50%
d) 0%
- Comment on How would legal procedure change if every citizen eligible for jury duty was aware of jury nullification? 3 weeks ago:
Far fewer than 1 in 20 defendants get a jury trial in the US. If every defendant insisted on their right to one, then the system would break down for lack of jurors.
Few juries would decide to nullify, since, by and large, Americans believe in punishment.
So the change would be insubstantial.
- Comment on Your majesty 3 weeks ago:
I’d be more supportive of fungi independence if they aimed for a democratic republic. Just saying.
- Comment on The Beetle 3 weeks ago:
Oh Lemmiwinks, Lemmiwinks, …
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- Comment on Mr Burn 3 weeks ago:
Ah, you may leave here for
four days11 minutes in spaceBut when you return, it’s the same old place
The poundin’ of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don’t leave a trace
Hate your next door neighbor but don’t forget to say grace
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 weeks ago:
20 ccs of lasagna, stat!
- Comment on FANTER 3 weeks ago:
Just the German branch of The Coca-Cola Company.
- Comment on FANTER 3 weeks ago:
History trivia: Fanta was invented in 1941 in Nazi Germany, when Coca-Cola Germany couldn’t get the original syrup because trade was cut off.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 weeks ago:
Ok, another answer closer to the ground. 2 goals are often invoked. Reduce the trade deficit and increase domestic manufacturing.
- Trade deficit
… means that more goods (and services) come into the US from the rest of the world than the US delivers in return.
Reducing the trade deficit makes Americans poorer by design. There will be fewer goods available for Americans, either because they have to give up more to the rest of the world, or because they don’t come into the country in the first place.
The rest of the world is willing to loan money to people, companies, and governments in the US. It is also eager to invest in the country, because it really was a good place in which to do business. Look at the current big thing: AI. You can’t really do that in the EU, and investing in China has its own risks. Trump may actually reduce the deficit by making the US more of a South American style banana republic.
- Manufacturing in the US.
One manufactures stuff outside the US and transports it there because it is more efficient. Americans can be more profitably employed in different areas. Moving more manufacturing to the US should be expected to leave the average American poorer. It should not be expected, in isolation, to reduce the trade deficit as it creates new investment opportunities that potentially attract foreign money, increasing the deficit.
However, while Americans would be left financially poorer, there may be benefits not captured by conventional econometrics. Maybe manufacturing is more emotionally satisfying in a way that is not captured by only looking at the wages. Who knows?
Unfortunately, getting to that state will be brutal. Millions of people will have to find and learn new jobs. That is what happened when manufacturing was off-shored. Reversing that will have the same cost. Some economists have come to believe that the psychological cost of such structural changes has been vastly underestimated, and that is why trade agreements are so unpopular. The benefits from free trade may not outweigh the psychological pain and disruption of communities. Reversing free trade will have similar effects, that are likewise virtually impossible to measure.
I think the most objective benefit would arise if a war happened that disrupted trade. For example, if Trump invaded Canada and Greenland, this would probably lead to the US being embargoed. Then it would appear good to have already built manufacturing capacity in the US while it was still easy. You need physical goods to fight wars, after all.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 weeks ago:
There is no absolute, objective way to judge if some policy is a good or bad. We can only determine if some policy achieves its goals. This is difficult as different justifications for the tariffs have been given.
We can also have philosophical arguments over whether the goals are good in some abstract sense. For example, some people on the right feel that the US not having access to X-mas knick-knacks and gifts is positive, as it will force people to engage with religion.
- Comment on In heat 5 weeks ago:
In short: BONK
It probably thought you were Elon Musk.
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- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 1 month ago:
I thought it was a good fit for this community. Good to know my repost wasn’t just spammy.
- Comment on Perfect Easter cookie for Christians 1 month ago:
That took me way too long.
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 31 comments
