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- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 1 day ago:
Our current AIs are kinda pathetic, and might realistically only replace mediocre artists. However, people who buy art, can’t tell the difference between good art and mediocre art, so the financial impact could be felt by a larger number of people.
It’s a bit like comparing factory made clothes to properly tailored ones. We still have both, but machines have clearly won this race. Besides, only very few people appreciate tailored clothes so much that they are also willing to pay for them. Most don’t, so they wear cheap lower quality clothes instead. I think the same will happen to music and paintings too.
- Comment on OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns 1 day ago:
Ok, now I’ve finally come to a conclusion about this debate. When a human learns to draw or write in a particular style, there are no copyright issues. However, when a machine does the same, you need to compensate the people who made the training data. Here’s why.
The training data is an essential component of of the model. It’s like building a house with bricks you didn’t pay for. If you’re building something like a house, ship, software or a machine learning model, you need to pay for the materials that are required to build it.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
At that point, there will be no evidence of your disappearance, so legal details don’t even matter. Anyone who brings up such evidence, will also disappear.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 1 week ago:
Yes. These two are different things. Most people experience both, some only one of the two, and Jaiden experienced none of that.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 1 week ago:
You’re developing romantic attraction. It’s different from sexual attraction, but usually people think of them as one and the same.
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 1 week ago:
They are shredded to small pieces. Magnet separates all ferromagnetic parts, like steel casings. There can also be other separation methods such as flotation. Various non-ferromagnetic materials such as zinc and manganese can be dissolved in sulfuric acid. In order to speed things up, leaching is done at an elevated temperature.
In the next stage, Mn and Zn are precipitated as hydroxides using submerging like sodium hydroxide for example. There are other options too. You could also melt the batteries and separate the metals that way. If you use pyrometallurgy instead of hydrometallurgy, you’ll be using a lot more energy.
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 1 week ago:
Ok, so what if you have basically another car battery there and discharge it at 10C or whatever? That should help with the fast charging of EVs, but it wouldn’t have a very long life span. Alternatively, you could have many batteries and discharge them at some reasonable rate. The problem is, you would need a lot of space for that. Maybe capacitors would take even more, IDK.
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 1 week ago:
Interesting. Any ideas which kind of batteries they use?
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 1 week ago:
What would you suggest then? Got something else in mind that can charge steadily while nobody is there, and then suddenly dump a whole lot of energy at 1 MW when someone needs it?
- Comment on BYD announces charging tech that’s twice as fast as Tesla’s 1 week ago:
If 500 kW didn’t put plenty of stress on the grid, 1 MW surely will. How about you install a some capacitors in each charging station to balance the load?
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 1 week ago:
Ideally, you would find a “philosopher king”, but that’s unlikely to happen. The next best option would be liquid democracy or some sort of direct democracy. If that’s not an option, you could switch to preferential voting that leads to a coalition parliament fairly often. Proportional representation works too. Basically anything other than FPTP.
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 1 week ago:
You could also look back. History has many examples of people governing themselves in various ways that differ from the systems used at the moment. Even within the spectrum contemporary democracy, there are several options to choose from. People could just look up what kinds of democracies are used in other countries and how they differ from the one used (or not used) in your home country.
I think we need a new radical philosopher who comes up with a new way of government, and starts promoting it actively. Actually, long ago, I heard one small political party doing just that. They wanted to switch to the kind of direct democracy used in Switzerland, which sounded nice. If people heard about someone proposing an alternative, they might at least consider it.
The way I see it, people aren’t really exposed to different ideas of this kind. They see the problems, but not the answers. People aren’t really proposing new solutions that much, now are they?
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
Anyone who has observed a robot vacuum struggle with minor bumps knows that even homes aren’t ideal for wheels. Some warehouse are ok though, but they were specifically designed with wheels in mind.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
Bicycles are awesome. If you want one optimized for efficiency, get the simplest one. Going uphill will be annoying, but at least it’s always at peak efficiency.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
LOL. You can go places with convincing arguments like that.
But seriously though, versatility is useful, but only up to a certain point. In niche cases, special tools make more sense due to the superior performance they offer. For example, running with a traditional leg prosthetic isn’t as efficient as running with a special running prosthetic. You know, those carbon fiber arcs that looks nothing like a leg (AKA “running blades”).
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
I can totally get behind swappable parts. Depending on what you’re doing, you could use different arms and legs specifically designed for the task at hand.
See also: Adam Smasher
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 2 weeks ago:
I guess the only solution is to become a full borg. That way, everyone titanium bone would be rated to handle superhuman stress and you could cary much more.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Better just grind them to dust and recycle the metals.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G 3 weeks ago:
So, maybe there could be a government program for collecting old electronics and shipping them to places where people would still use them.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, people in the west are hoarding old 3G phones in their bedroom drawers. Come on people! You’re using a 5G phone, but somehow you can’t get rid of the old 4G, 3G and even 2G phones. How about you give them away? It’s not like anyone will pay anything for them anyway.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 weeks ago:
If you run the citizenship cycle every 13 years, and you get paid 5 million every time, that’s still about 32 k$ per month, which is not bad. It takes a very long time, but it should be worth it.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 3 weeks ago:
How long does it take to become a US citizen? That determines how often you can sell your citizenship and restart the process. Imagine getting 5 million every year or two.
- Comment on Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment? 3 weeks ago:
- Encrypt your data.
- Make a disk image.
- Make a torrent of that image.
- Start a cult where the torrenting your data determines the ranking within the order.
- Come up with a cool name and logo for the cult. Maybe something like “The Archivists of Eternity” for example.
- ???
- Profit
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
LOL, you got me! The chocolate thing is pretty much satire. Totally forgot about the fake cheese though. That would have been even better. I don’t know if anyone actually eats chocolate or cheese to cure homesickness. I suppose some of the other products might be more appropriate. People can have memories attached to all sorts of weird things, so I guess technically any food could be applicable.
However, the thing about prices is entirely factual, at least in my area. Everything in there is so expensive, that you would have to be really curious or desperate to try them out.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 3 weeks ago:
When you get homesick and want to eat some American chocolate or whatever, you won’t find it just anywhere. You’ll have to go a special American store for that. You know, like one of those Asian markets, but for American stuff. Everything in there is also really expensive, so don’t expect to visit every day.
- Comment on Is cops being evil/lazy/incompetent a USA specific thing, or is it the same everywhere in the world? 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of corruption, there are places where you don’t call the cops under any circumstances. If you somehow end up talking to cops for any reason, you can expect to loose a lot of money.
The police officer could request a bribe or threaten with fake fines. There could also be harassment, abuse of power and even violence. The police forces can actually form a sort of government-owned mafia, where lower-ranking officers are expected to collect bribes and pass them up the chain of command.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. Mystery solved.
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 4 weeks ago:
About that family thing. If anyone ever tells you that “we are family” it means you can call them for help when you’re moving. If you have trouble configuring your router, call your new family for help. If you need to drill a hole in a concrete wall, but you do don’t have the right drill bits, call your new family.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The way I see it, there are generally speaking two routes:
- Draw the pictures yourself,
- Write a computer program that can generate some sort of art.
Drawing requires lots of practice, as others have already pointed out. Writing a program takes skill, patience, knowledge and time, so it’s not that different really. Main difference is what happens next. If you’ve made a picture, you have a single picture. If you’ve made a picture generating application, you can have unlimited pictures. The latter option comes with some pretty harsh limitations, because the range of possible pictures can be very limited.
Here’s an example of option 2: pattern collider
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to the trough of disillusionment.