Voroxpete

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Voroxpete,

“Retailers say organized crime is to blame.”

It’s not, but they’ll say it is.

Voroxpete,

… aaaaaand you’ve killed us all.

Voroxpete,

Yeah, what kind of idiot doesn’t parallelize their timer function.

Voroxpete,

Found the person who’s never used tar :-P

Voroxpete,

“nonlethal”

Less lethal. The correct term is less lethal. There’s no such thing as a nonlethal weapon. Pepper spray and tazers can be lethal under the right circumstances. “Rubber bullets” are rubber coated 25mm rounds that have been deemed sufficiently safe when bounced off of the pavement into a person’s legs (and even then can cause serious injuries); they’re not remotely safe when fired directly at a person’s head, which is what cops often do with them.

Whenever you hear the word “nonlethal” used to describe a weapon, always remember it is only ever “less lethal.”

Voroxpete,

Yeah, there was zero miscommunication here. They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and now they’re trying to bullshit their way out.

Voroxpete,

Which means, in effect, that their friend is saying “My belief that you are truly a woman is at least as strong as my belief in my god,” which is an incredibly powerful way to validate someone’s identity.

Voroxpete,

pro-palestine

Weird way to spell “people who aren’t totally cool with genocide”, but OK

Voroxpete,

This isn’t something new to nueralink. Brain-machine interfaces have existed for quite some time. Neuralink is one of a number of companies that are exploring directly implanting these devices rather than using an externally attached (hence, easily removable) interface, but the core thesis of “Brain control computer” isn’t any kind of grand leap forward. That’s just Musk’s marketing.

Voroxpete,

Correction: An even more useless search engine.

Voroxpete,

Madness. Science and maths are clearly different colours you lunatic. Science is blue, maths is green.

Voroxpete,

I’m a big advocate for the idea that we need to start selling “manly socialism.”

I want to see grainy low contrast posters of a guy in wrangler jeans posed next to an F-150 with a sledgehammer over his shoulder and text that says “You’re really such a pussy that you just let some rich asshole in Redmond walk all over you? Real men unionize.”

I want to sell solar power to midwesterners with video ads of rugged manly men getting off the grid. “My daddy taught me to do everything with my own two hands. Instead of suckling on the teat of that big ol power grid, I get my own from God’s beautiful bounty.”

I want videos of church goers saying “I’m voting for public healthcare because God told me to lift the poor and the weary.”

I think there’s real legs to this. Meet people where they are.

(And before anyone starts, I have no desire to break bread with these people. They hate me and everything I am. I have no illusions about that. But for real change to happen, it takes a village; even the parts of the village you want absolutely nothing to do with. I don’t have to break bread with them to get them pulling in the right direction; I just have to help them see what’s in their best interest.)

Voroxpete,

Art skills can be far more easily taught and to a wider variety of people regardless of their inherent talent than software engineering and game design at the required level.

What an absolutely batshit insane thing to say.

Voroxpete,

So, the big problem right now with AI art is that there’s no real way to modify it without basically completely redoing it.

You can alter the prompts, but due to the intentionally chaotic nature of the models, what you’ll get out is a completely different image. You can’t just be like “I want her head tilted a little more to the left, and give her a bigger smile, but keep everything else the same.” When you’re working on professional art, generally what happens is the artist presents you with each version, from rough sketches to finished line art, to rough paint work, and you request changes as you go. There’s a collaboration as you guide them towards the result you want. But with AI you’re just shotgunning outputs and hoping that one of them lands close enough. That’s fine for your bedroom wall, but not for a professional environment.

And if you want to have a human artist go in and make those changes to the finished image, they have to contend with the fact that they only have a finished image, not any of the layers from sketch through to brush work to lighting and so on. So they’re basically stuck trying to seamlessly paint over the existing image. That’s harder than it sounds.

Can artists use AI as a tool? Absolutely. Generate like 50 versions of a scene, use them as references. Or ask it for a sketch, then paint over that in your style. You can correct mistakes and make adjustments along the way. But the idea that humans can just “touch up” AI art to fix the mistakes doesn’t really work.

Voroxpete,

You’re offering a hypothetical where AI art can actually reproduce all of the capabilities of human art. Not just broad aesthetics, but emotion, intentionality, subtext, use of imagery, understanding of the human soul…

Is that ever going to be truly possible? Maybe if we create real, true AI. Something that’s actually sentient.

But putting that aside, if we accept your premise, then sure, I doubt anyone would care. Then again, once an AI is able to create truly human art, what would be the difference between an AI and a human?

AI is fucking cool. The idea of living in a fully automated post scarcity future where advanced learning machines take away all of the need for manual or intellectual labour sounds amazing. But the goal should be to make a world where humans are freed from drudgery and given more time to create and appreciate art and beauty. Instead we’re creating a world where humans toil away our lives while searching for brief sparks of joy in mass produced, corporate owned art that barely qualifies as art. Seems kind of fucked to me.

Instead of asking how far we can go in terms of automating away our ability to create beautiful things, shouldn’t we be asking how far we can go in terms of automating away the barriers to people creating beautiful things?

Voroxpete,

I think there’s a lot to be said for “soft boycotting.” If we could get more people to just check a few other retailers before they go to Amazon, that would actually hit their bottom line a lot harder than a small number of people cutting them out entirely.

The problem with boycotts is that people get told to treat it as an all or nothing thing. It’s a lot better, to my mind, to just reduce our reliance on large monopolies where possible, and accept them as an unfortunate necessity when not.

Voroxpete,

Which in turn leads to people giving up or never trying.

Even a 20% reduction in sales from a million people does a lot more than a 100% reduction in sales from 100,000.

Voroxpete,

Just to be disgustingly credible for a moment, I imagine that the biggest practical issue with tethering a drone to, say, a tank, is that as soon as someone spots the drone (which is floating in the air with zero ability to camouflage itself) they have now spotted that you have a tank somewhere very close by. Close enough that just dropping an artillery barrage on the whole area probably isn’t a waste. With good enough optics you could probably even follow the cable in order to get an exact location on the operator, and then introduce them to Mr Missile.

Voroxpete,

You did. If you leave your root password blank it’ll automatically add the user account you create in the following step to sudo and disable the root account.

If you want to have both a root account and a user account with sudo, you’ll have to do that manually, but that’s a pretty unusual setup.

Voroxpete,

Yeah, general practice is to either elevate privelige by switching accounts, or by using sudo. Having both just increases your attack surface to no practical benefit (especially since you can technically still switch to a root account with “sudo - i” even if you’re going the sudo route).

Voroxpete,

So is the US and Canada and the UK. Should I wish for those countries to be genocided too?

Voroxpete,

Because my basic humanity requires me to care about theirs, even if they don’t care about mine.

Voroxpete,

Yeah, 90% of the time someone says pothole and I hear “The story didn’t spoon feed me the answer and I’m inexplicably mad about it.”

In another thread just today I was pointing out that this is the result of the Cinema Sins school of criticism taking over the average person’s relationship with media. People seem to genuinely think that how good or bad something is comes down to tallying up “plot holes” to come up with a sin score and calling it a day.

Plot holes are fine. Even legitimate plot holes are fine; if a story actually captures your attention and holds your emotional engagement, you won’t be thinking about plot holes because you’ll be too busy enjoying the story. This is Hitchcock described as Fridge Logic; problems that only occur to you hours after the movie is over and you’re staring into the refrigerator trying to decide what snack to make (yes, that’s the actual origin of the term). And he was very much of the opinion that this was absolutely fine; as long as any apparent inconsistency wasn’t so egregious as to break suspension of disbelief right there in the moment, it could be safely ignored.

When people fixate on minor plot holes it’s either because a) fundamentally the story sucks, so their mind is wandering, or b) they’ve trained themselves to constantly find or invent logic holes instead of actually trying to engage with what the storytelling is doing.

Voroxpete,

I’ll have to check my schedule, I think I already have an angry screaming match scheduled around that time.

Voroxpete,

If I exit my bedroom through the window I fall to my death. Not sure how that helps me in a fire.

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