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Spaceman Spiff
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Spaceman Spiff
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the path to the stars requires not just tech but also liberty, virtue, enterprise, and above all courage. unsurprisingly, I hate communists.
United States เข้าร่วม Haziran 2014
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By popular request: ✨GPT 4.1✨ is now available in ChatGPT for Plus/Pro/Teams subscribers (and soon to Enterprise/Edu). We built it for developers, so it's very good at coding and instruction following—give it a try!
Also, ✨GPT 4.1 mini✨ is replacing GPT 4o mini everywhere in ChatGPT, including for free users.
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@karlsapp @YIMBYLAND If you don't know what American values even are, you ngmi, sorry
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These idiots have no idea how screwed we would all be if the American population collapsed to 100 million.
EVERY SINGLE CITY would look like 2008 Detroit. Literal Armageddon.
Marlin, Esq@nostalgiafkninc
An America of 100 million by 2028
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@zoomertea "Kids, if you slay people with a big knife, we'll make a netflix movie about you"
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@gwern @jam3scampbell I think normal people don't really understand the vastness of the gulf between "pocket calculator" and "C3PO". "Just program the AI to do all the things"
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one reason ppl aren't impressed by AI is that, to non-technical people, "computer can do computer code" doesn't really mean anything
but it becomes much more impressive when you realize how we did it--
namely, we put a giant blob of neural tissue in a vat and have it output letters. we reward the blob when it outputs letters we want and poke it when it doesn't. if we reward the blob for outputting letters from computer programs, it learns to output letters that form syntactically correct programs, test them, and eventually do all the work of a full-stack engineer that makes $300k/year. the same blob can also speak perfect portuguese, convert images to studio ghibli, and book a flight autonomously. in light of that, some would look at this blob and even say it's alive.
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@TurnerNovak No, I read he is just trying to get her to lactate in his mouth. It's a rejuvenation thing, apparently.
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@DefiyantlyFree Unless Congress steps up its game, the Dems will win the midterms.
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@eigenrobot The AI gods are capricious. Your supplication must be just so
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they cut me off. it's so over
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@eigenrobot you know in south korea you get arrested for twerking
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@teortaxesTex > “But muh good union jobs”
China will crush us like one of their infamous ladies in high heels with a kitten.
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So much manual work
I can't imagine that China will go about it like this
Lord Bebo@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸 The 155mm shell production in the USA
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@petergodofsky I was never a Trump fan but what was the alternative? Kamala Harris?
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@TheMindScourge It is the duty of the children of Kier to serve Kier.
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@AaronBergman18 We have lots of regulations re building to code, and our inspectors are less corrupt, but it still does happen ... just more rarely.
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Isn’t it kinda weird that buildings don’t fall down more often
There are a lot of them, how does nothing ~ever go wrong in the west?
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@Empty_America Closest English translation is "The Gang of the Salvadoran Wise Guys"
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As far as I can tell, "Maria Salvatrucha" means something like "Mary the Trout-Saver."
Does anyone actually know what that means?
Where did the Trout come from in all this?
Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort
“But how can we be sure he’s really a member of MS-13?”
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if the US does initiate an invasion of Canada, I wonder what the designation would be. Going by this admin's poasting trend, and the general Anglo sense of humor, I expect something very Based, Clever and Funny. For example: Operation Leafblower. Or: Maple Syrup. Ideas?
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@kodanagain @pegobry_en It's illegal not to flirt in France. The French language is also semantically incapable of not flirting.
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Anglos need to come up with an equivalent of "no homo" to indicate that a man is paying a compliment to a woman but not flirting with her
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No... the fear isn't irrelevance, but that's a comforting thing for us technologists to tell ourselves.
The fear is degradation. You can sense where this leads even if you can't put your finger on it, which is why so many feel vaguely uneasy. They say they hate it but they don't know why...
No... They love it. They really do enjoy all of the images, and that's exactly the problem. Because the ghiblified images are just short of being ghibli. They're like 85% maybe 90% of the way there. And Ghbili is gorgeous--and 90% of gorgeousness is still beautiful, so of course you like it!
But then it's the unease creeping in. Like all magicks it comes at a cost. "What price will we pay?" you find yourself asking. And the answer might not be obvious but when you think about it it's obviously true.
Artists do and did spend thousands and thousands of hours over lifetime developing and refining this, and all artistic styles. That's what it takes. So what happens when you can reach 90% of perfection with .001% of the effort?
Perfection vanishes. There's no place for it anymore. At best you're left with cultural ossification, which was already the trend before AI by the way. Endless repeats and rehashes on the same formula, never *quite* as good as the original, but never terrible enough to justify the incredible expense and risk of doing something new.
At worst you're left with constant degradation. Everything is 90% as good as what came before, because each round of AI facsimile comprises the majority of the training data for the next round of AI generation.
Slop begets slop, and if we're really lucky, it accelerates into a sort of reverse cultural singularity where finally it gets bad enough for people to finally invest in skills and originality again to create something new.
We all want beautiful art that moves the soul and conveys something new to us. The quintessential human experience is transformation by way of art. But the market wants to make money. The market wants speed. AI generated art serves the market, which is a beautiful thing, but it doesn't serve human flourishing. At least, not directly.
And so we goodhart ourselves into oblivion. Perpetually missing the mark. And that is the definition of sin.
vittorio@IterIntellectus
re: backlash against AI-generated Ghibli-style art the reaction here boils down to one simple fear: irrelevance what took artists years of dedication, practice, and struggle can now be replicated effortlessly by ai for nothing. resentment for this loss of exclusivity is understandable but futile today it's drawing and graphic design, tomorrow it's coding, playing and writing music, writing, cooking; every single skill humans have learned will become nothing more than a prompt away. and before we fool ourselves: taste, style, and even "vibes" aren't safe either. they're just patterns and context, and AI is best precisely at pattern recognition. eventually, even aesthetic judgment and intuitive creativity will be automated away. sure, traditional crafts won't disappear completely, they'll survive as niche hobbies or lifestyle choices. some still ride horses despite cars existing, some write on typewriters despite laptops, others start fires with sticks for the novelty. but when speed and effectiveness matter, technology is always better your skills can't remain your core identity. cling to them and the only thing you'll be left with is bitterness. adapt now, accept the inevitability of AI, and start figuring out how to use it or you'll become irrelevant faster than you think.
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HOLY SHIT.
"The relationship Canada had with the United States is over"
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I hope she's into cats, cat strollers and the like.
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Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
Liberal woman says she broke up with her conservative boyfriend in part because he told her he was socially liberal but economically conservative. A woman like this will never have a happy, long-lasting relationship. It's not possible. "I'm a very liberal woman, so I am obviously, like, very much everyone knows that I'm a liberal woman. My brother's gay." "All my friends are gay also, like, abortion rights, female rights. But anyway so I would, like, always ask him. I'd be like, what like, what's what's your politics?" "Like, what do you who do you where do you lean? And he was just like, well, like, socially, I'm a liberal, but, economically, I'm a Republican." "F*ck that!" ... "I asked him point blank on election day. I'm like, so who would you have voted for if you would have voted in this election?" "He was like, I would have voted independent." He sounds awful too. He should learn how to say his true opinions.
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