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@Seanfrank @garrytan Anti data center sentiment is really just a manifestation of populist resentment towards tech/billionaires/AI (which they see as a threat to their employment)

I don’t know why data centers have become this generations nuclear power. Unlike nuclear power, there is a 0% chance that a data center can lead to any sort of disaster scenario. This project in Utah is: - in an uninhabited area - bought and repurposed water already in use - is bringing its own power, so it won’t cost citizens anything It’s like being against building a nuclear power plant in the middle of Nevada, except there is no radioactive waste. No fall out. No risk of anything. It’s a big computer in the middle of nowhere, that is self sufficient in all resources. There are a million real problems in America. Data centers just aren’t one.

@envisionedluna People tend to stop talking to me when I say “so how about the world-historic courage of Jerome Powell, huh?”

In Bushwick and Girls at the club are fawning over me like "it's so hot how evil you are" All I said was that Joe Biden passed some of the best legislation of the past 80 yrs and he gets no credit for it

@DrewPavlou Drew our Greek Australian king, join the YIMBY technocratic center left. Abundance. Lee kuan yew. Imagine it

Opposition to data centres is just completely retarded moral hysteria by people who hate human civilisation.

@DrewPavlou Interesting. Maybe the right isn’t the place for you?

Ben Shapiro has a completely normal personal life. His opponents include: - Nick Fuentes (closeted homosexual neo-Nazi) - Candace Owens (schizophrenic black lady) - Tucker Carlson (jihad defender paid off by Russia and Qatar) - Elijah Schaffer (drug addicted closeted homosexual who cheated on his wife with young boys while she was raising his infant children) - Andrew Tate (Muslim human trafficker) - Dan Bilzerian (Muslim pimp gambling drug addict who inherited his money from a Ponzi scheme and gave himself a heart attack in his 30s from snorting too much coke) - Myron Gaines (Sudanese Muslim closeted homosexual who hates women) - Sneako (Haitian jihadist deported from Australia for meeting with ISIS affiliates) So just by being normal, Ben Shapiro wins. His opponents literally sound like a list of Arkham Asylum escapees, just a bunch of mentally retarded psychotic freaks involved in drugs, prostitution, gambling, neo-Nazism, jihadism. Shapiro wins

@Felbloodreaper @jzlegion Hell yeah brother

@usuallycringe @jzlegion Been there. Done that. Moved on. It wasn't mine. Anyone could do it. Gonna go make more unspeakable horrors now.

I think Monet would have wanted people to see the best version of his work, so I compiled the critiques everyone had and generated an improvement!

@uncledoomer It’s time

why is everyone wigger maxxing

@kaleidic @RichardHanania Sure, but this is exactly the problem: Weinstein types avoid confrontation on specifics at all costs, and it takes someone with the balls to ignore the norms and bring forth an actual confrontation. I don’t hate the moderator, btw, you’re right that he’s just doing his job

@usuallycringe @RichardHanania That evasion of specifics was built into the panel invitation. There’s no way Weinstein would have attended had he realized what Tracey wanted to do. That’s not to say M.T. was wrong to do it, but it does mean the moderator was merely urging the sort of panel B.W. had agreed to.

This is absolutely beautiful. Weinstein can’t defend his nonsense on the merits. I thought he was genuinely schizo. But he doesn’t respond to Tracey by saying “yes Epstein is alive.” He knows he can’t defend it. At some level he knows he’s full of it.

@new_dialectic @RichardHanania Listen to me because I’m right and that guy is wrong

@usuallycringe @RichardHanania what am i supposed to do with this contradiciton

@annakatherines_ San Francisco is also a pretty great place to be lonely

Friend visiting LA for the first time and she said wow this is so amazing how do u deal with your friends not living here and I just said without thinking “I’m lonely a lot of the time” which is true but I’d rather be lonely in LA than anywhere else

That would be an interesting experiment! I still feel like the generative process in current models necessitates a human in the mix at some point. Even if you were to prompt an AI to choose its own 10 influences and iterate on that, a human is still prompting it, and a human is going to decide which of the pieces it produces are the “best” In my thinking, artists create new art because they have feelings that has not been represented in current art styles, so they try to create new styles. Computers don’t (currently) feel anything, so there’s no desire to create a particular thing. Even if a computer were to simulate a humans emotions, it would still be up to us humans to decide if the art it produces resonates with us Back to Monet as an example: Impressionism emerged as a reaction to photography. Why make realistic art if a camera can capture the world perfectly? Monet captured what photography couldn’t capture by emphasizing how a landscape *felt* rather than how it exactly looked. If you put an AI in Monet’s shoes, why would it do that? It doesn’t feel things, it doesn’t have desire. I might even say that if you were to try to simulate desire, you’d have to recreate a person’s entire life/personality, and at that point it might become an issue of chaos theory (maybe getting ahead of myself there) I like your point about how when people try to recreate an art style and fail, that failure can become its own unique feature in a new style

Yeah I picked bad examples. I think you're overestimating how much styles get changed though from piece to piece, and underestimating ai ability to merge styles. Eg give it 10 style influences to blend and it'll be as 'original' as if a human merged those. One thing ill grant is that physical things also influence styles, maybe more so than intent of the artist. So people doing something 'worse' or not quite as they intended based on what they paint with, or their skill, combined with the influences of what they're aiming to make, perhaps makes it a bit more unique sometimes. Like if I tried painting in a monet influenced style it would probably be fairly... 'unique' let's say. An experiment to run would be to have an AI iteratively use it's own previous work as influences, randomly picking different ones. Then it might have newer styles emerging over time. More so than from one single output.

Very interesting idea. In my view, artists create new artistic styles because they have feelings that current art styles can’t represent, so they feel compelled to create a new aesthetic to express those feelings. Computers don’t feel things (at the moment) so they don’t feel that compulsion. I’d love to see if it’s possible, but it seems like it would require a paradigm shift away from the current way we design AI Maybe these claims have to do with western individualism? Also, is intelligent design a uniquely western idea?

こういった「人間には全種の中でただひとつ人間だけが独占している、説明不可能な優れた能力を持っている」という信念や主張が大きな支持を得るのと「インテリジェント・デザイン」みたいな主張って英語圏では近い距離にあるのかな？

@ranaaphobic I think we’re sleeping on the serpico dog

I think we’re sleeping on his Serpico outfits

@Nairebis @jzlegion Yes I’ve heard Impressionism was a reaction to photography. Why make art when cameras can represent everything perfectly? And the impressionists tried to capture the *feeling* of landscapes. I don’t see current ai models being able to capture those new feelings

@usuallycringe @jzlegion Probably not, because there's a theory that impressionism was inspired by observing out-of-focus photography, liking the soft effect, and extending the concept. Nearly all human creativity has some seed of inspiration.

@LincolnMargison @jzlegion Well yes, I can identify the monet since it’s famous haha, but I think your q is beside the point. Yes, new styles come from the past, but it seems like artists react to the world and past are in unpredictable ways— which I don’t see current gen ai doing

Take it up to 1840 or later whenever he painted in that style, because his closest influences were likely from within his lifetime, and probably indistinguishable to most people not super familiar with all of his work. New styles never just pop out of absolutely nowhere. For example, of these images, can you say for sure (without googling) which would be the monet and which was a prior work?

@Dsuranix @jzlegion Any links to this kind of research?

@usuallycringe @jzlegion there are such models, trained on repositories like wikiart. the answer is with current interest at an all time low, no.

@El_Xico99 Unfortunately i feel like Gen X nimby home owners will become the new boomers and we’ll still have the same problems. It’s probably zoning that is holding it back

Boomers are the only thing holding San Jose back from becoming Shenzhen. The money is there, the will is there, the labor is there. Everyone not only seems to want this but they’re itching for it. A beast waiting to be unleashed. Once boomers are out of the picture. It’s game on.

@SidKhurana3607 Almost the same map again: x.com/sidkhurana3607…

Counties with a median income above 100K:

@Noahpinion I wonder why Japanese advertisements are aesthetic, but American billboards are an eye sore (eg law firms in LA). I guess it’s because Japanese cities are more built for people than cars, the higher building to street ratio makes everything more aesthetically pleasing to people

Zakkyo buildings are what make Tokyo beautiful