1dry

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by 1dry 8mo ago
Trump and his acute destabilizing actions are the symptoms of the chronic, broad, deep destabilization of our society in the form of differing perceived realities, caused by....the internet and its exploitation by sick, greedy social media
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by 1dry 9mo ago
Expressing frustration at the pervasive tendency of technologists to look at everything, including art which is a reflection of peoples' subjective realities, with an "at-scale" lens, e.g., "let's collect ALL of it,
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by 1dry 9mo ago
updated - thank you commenters for making it clear that my sentiment was not clear
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by 1dry 9mo ago
Thank god we are taking care of the “researchers working on things like music classification and generation” ! As long as we can convince ourselves we have a sound analysis of it, no need to support and defend people making actual art right
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by 1dry 9mo ago
Yuck. Just to make it easier to train slop machines. The point of art is not to have completionist archives of EVERYthing that’s ever been made! Let it die. Death is the most natural part of life. Art is about the human experience, not “for
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by 1dry 4y ago
What is wrong with that, especially as it facilitates the creator's being able to earn income from their irreplaceable work?
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by 1dry 4y ago
That's great of you to buy the book as well, major kudos. I would bet most are not as altruistic as you. Do not traditional libraries and their ebook lending systems, however inconvenient, provide the same service? All one needs to do
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by 1dry 4y ago
So you optimize text spamming?
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by 1dry 4y ago
> I'm honestly not sure if I'm capable of working in tech anymore at this point and that's doing quite a number of any selfesteem I had. You know, as Mr. Rogers said, "Not your toys, they're just beside you, but
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by 1dry 4y ago
Right, yet we do track all kinds of well-being related metrics, there are happiness indices and the like, yet it seems no one optimizes for them.
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by 1dry 4y ago
I think what's selfish is romanticizing "so many more [hypothetical] lives" while real lives now are smothered for the sake of malignant capitalism. Perhaps the fact the the former takes no self sacrifice makes it an appealin
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by 1dry 4y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that "traveling the stars" is a worthy goal, even more worthy than stewardship of the paradise we already have. We are living in heaven. We have a wonderful planet that nurtures us yet
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by 1dry 4y ago
Totally agree. I think the issue here though is not with regulation itself, but with corrupting influence that we as constituents allow to infiltrate our regulatory bodies. I'd hope campaign finance would help solve this issue too – ha
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by 1dry 4y ago
It's definitely a political problem more than any other, yes. What would give politicians more incentive to operate this way would be real campaign finance reform. Check out represent.us
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by 1dry 4y ago
Unspoken and underlying the author's entire worldview seems to be, "the more new things, the better," a not uncommon tunnel view in the engineering world. The purpose of regulation, ideally, is to ensure that whatever activit
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by 1dry 4y ago
That's an interesting idea dogcomplex, I'd be very curious to see the output of that process. Still ... who or what will choose what is too "average-y," what should be replaced with something more clear? Will some larger
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by 1dry 4y ago
So, what matters?
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by 1dry 4y ago
preach
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by 1dry 4y ago
Well, the author says they keep up on "the latest papers" and whatnot, which leaves me as yet unconvinced of the artistic quality of the future output from these models. We will see. While I'm still rambling on about this – t
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by 1dry 4y ago
Every one of the MidJourney images featured in this article is obviously derived from averaging. The model is trained to correlate the average look of this or that with whatever keywords. For example, the "artist at work" – okay f