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- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 2 days ago:
well at least you know my comment wasn’t written by AI 😞
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 2 days ago:
if you’re contribution is a paper that you don’t even proof read to ensure it makes any sense at all then your contribution isn’t “productive science”; it’s a waste of everyone’s time
- Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists. 1 week ago:
afaik the apple buy content isn’t removed in the same way as streaming service content is
- Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists. 1 week ago:
that’s the same as steam
- Comment on Opinion: It's time for a proper Steam-type service for TV alongside streaming exists. 1 week ago:
this is kinda what apple tv does… i don’t really use the buy feature, but you can buy most TV series (eg stargate sg1 is $30/season, or $180 for the “box set”, strange new worlds is $27/season - prices in aussie dollars)… movies you can either buy or rent
not sure about geo restrictions or anything though
i’m not necessarily suggesting this as a good option for everyone, however it’s an option that exists so production companies have agreed to go this route with a lot of their content at least once before
afaik apple tv does exist on non-apple platforms these days too
- Comment on Is there a way out? 1 week ago:
and similarly, any metric tied to a reward is no longer a metric worth measuring for the purposes of maintaining system health
- Comment on Is there a way out? 1 week ago:
in a structured and dynamic system, order could be randomised - not entirely, but between the “tiers” of contributors… it looks as though if everyone submitted detailed attribution, that could then be used to dynamically vary order so that nobody gets “first” for every view for the same amount of effort as others
- Comment on Sony launches new version of the best cheap 4K Blu-ray player that drops the streaming tech – but the price looks odd 1 week ago:
we need an OpenWRT but for TVs
- Comment on Anon uses Windows 1 week ago:
that is a much less interesting tech anomaly
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
competition is healthy but fuck i wish they didn’t compete on catalogue - i wish they competed on features, or maybe “premium offerings” or something
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 3 weeks ago:
i mean, we hunt them with guns now so i’m not sure a pointy stick will change their point of view :p
- Comment on Lightning bugs!! 3 weeks ago:
coming from australia, this is super real… we have such a unique set of animals and plants that it’s all just so normal to us, but then you travel overseas and everything is like what you see on tv and in movies
i’m mid 30s, and last year i saw snow falling for the first time in chicago… snow falling is beautiful, and to most of the world it’s just normal - to australians, it just never happens
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 5 weeks ago:
I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name
that’s exactly the point: there are international bodies that name these things. the arrogance of all of this is astounding. the US president doesn’t get to just snap his fingers and have the world say “yes mr president” and bow down to it…
gulf of america
is not it’s name
- Comment on Microsoft Follows Google on a Controversial Decision - gHacks Tech News 5 weeks ago:
the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question
but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 5 weeks ago:
not specific to australia - i think that “not the other guy” works a lot better for right-leaning parties than left-leaning (or, rather, less right-leaning) parties partly because conservatives campaign on fear, progressives campaign on hope and change. there’s no hope in “that guy sucks and i’m at least not that”
to win on hope and change you need to provide actual policies. to win on fear you only need to tear the other side down; eventually the populace will always get frustrated with the current government, and fear (or, rather, just “a change”) will win just because it’s “not this”
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 weeks ago:
i think it’s still a good example, and the point stands - it kinda doesn’t really matter if he did sculpt them or not - either way, it’s the fact that he was a troll, the unknowns, the ideas that is what makes the art; not the piece itself
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 5 weeks ago:
idk that sounds a lot like a “not the other guy” campaign, and i think we’ve pretty conclusively proven that doesn’t work for us
sure, dutton is unlikeable and that should be pointed out at every turn, but as a a contrast to your good policy
- Comment on Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM 5 weeks ago:
yeah this graphic was made for the US where FPTP locks them into bullshit… we have choices: our preferences actually send a message
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 weeks ago:
To suggest a machine neutral network “thinks like a human” is like suggesting a humanoid robot “runs like a human.” It’s true in an incredibly broad sense, but carries so little meaning with it.
i wasn’t meaning to suggest that it thinks like a human - simply that the processes are similar enough, and humans aren’t non-replicable… in which case there is some process behind creativity, and that process is some sort of input, processing via our neural processes, and some output. the intent was to say that AI having the possibility of creativity shouldn’t be dismissed off-hand just because it’s not human
If the AI is creative in the same way as a person, then it is a slave.
is it though? does creativity rely on being able to interpret the concept of freedom? i think creativity can be divorced from a sense of self, and thus any idea of slavery except in the sense of anthropisation from a 3rd party
but I am against selling it
why though? if the art is the inspiration and intent, then the prompt is the art and the image itself is only the expression of that inspiration and intent - all are essential parts of the piece
It’s sad to see an entire industry of workers get replaced by machines,
agree and disagree there - it’s sad that a huge amount of artists that have devoted their lives to honing their craft are now less able to make money from using their skills… on the other hand, it’s the democratisation of skills. AI art allows more people to communicate their ideas without the need for skill
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 5 weeks ago:
It’s also a tacit admission that the machine is doing the inspiration, not the operator. The machine which is only made possible by the massive theft of intellectual property.
hard disagree on that one… the look of the image was, but the inspiration itself was derived from a prompt: the idea is the human; the expression of the idea in visual form is the computer. we have no problem saying a movie is art, and crediting much of that to the director despite the fact that they were simply giving directions
The legality of an act has no bearing on its ethics or morality.
Except their hired artist is a bastard intelligence made by theft.
you can’t on 1 hand say that legality is irrelevant and then call it when you please
or argue that a human takes inputs from their environment and produces outputs in the same way. if you say a human in an empty white room and exposed them only to copyright content and told them to paint something, they’d also entirely be basing what they paint on those works. we wouldn’t have an issue with that
what’s the difference between a human and an artificial neural net? because i disagree that there’s something special or “other” to the human brain that makes it unable to be replicated. i’m also not suggesting that these work in the same way, but we clearly haven’t defined what creativity is, and certainly haven’t written off that it could be expressed by a machine
in modern society we tend to agree that Duchamp changed the art world with his piece “Fountain” - simply a urinal signed “R. Mutt”… he didn’t sculpt it himself, he did barely anything to it. the idea is the art, not the piece itself. if a urinal purchased from a hardware store can be art, then the idea expressed in a prompt can equally be art
- Comment on Reddit Sub Ban Wave 1 month ago:
if it was an accident, that’s almost as bad: either way they’re testing or developed some tool that has grouped lgbt and adult content together
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 1 month ago:
figured i’d do this in a no comment since it’s been a bit since my last, but i just downloaded and ran the 70b model on my mac and it’s slower but running fine: 15s to first word, and about half as fast generating words after that but it’s running
this matches with what i’ve experienced with other models too: very large models still run; just much much slower
i’m not sure of things when it gets up to 168b model etc, because i haven’t tried but it seems that it just can’t load the whole model at once and there’s just a lot more loading and unloading which makes it much slower
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 1 month ago:
that’s true - i was running 7b and it seemed pretty much instant, so was assuming i could do much larger - turns out only 14b on a 64gb mac
- Comment on I am in the US and its gotten very political but as pretty much a peon do I just tune the stuff out thinking its fear mongering? Or should I closely pay attention to it? 1 month ago:
okay so perhaps “feeling lucky”
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 1 month ago:
i believe one of the big advancements with deepseek r1 is their method of adding the reasoning component is novel and very very efficient. i haven’t checked it out, but it could legitimately just be more efficient to run
- Comment on Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks 1 month ago:
it’s actually pretty easy to run locally as well. obviously not as easy as just downloading an app, but it’s gotten relatively straight-forward and the peace of mind is nice
check out ollama, and find an ollama UI
- Comment on China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats 1 month ago:
that’s not really how this works though… we don’t have the training data, so nobody else can recreate this from scratch exactly
- Comment on Wobble Wobble 2 months ago:
how dare you not let me enjoy the next few days of reasonable temperature in peaceful ignorance 😭
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
episodes shouldn’t be assumed to be exploring the same moral or philosophical points… it’s very difficult to explore complex logical arguments through innuendo whilst also maintaining a consistent grounding for all of them
and also, the decision is left up to the viewer: by presenting situations that both (perhaps) cross, and do not cross the line it allows us to form our own opinions, rather than the shows writers convince us of their idea of what’s right and wrong
- Comment on The Stars of Star Trek: Section 31 Know Why You're Nervous About the Movie 2 months ago:
i think that the existence of the disease is more of a maguffin than the point that the solution was achieved without section 31… the “problem” could have been any number of things and the fact that it’s s31 is more an interesting plot device to create other narratives around, rather than degrading the ultimate point