Amezarak

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by Amezarak 8d ago
> So actually, your remixed music you could play live, as a DJ. No, you can't. You have to procure a license to DJ publicly. A Public Performance License is offered by most of the major music conglomerates, or you have to find a ven
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by Amezarak 8d ago
They are trending illiberal because of the tension between elites who think ignoring and censoring the popular will on various issues is wise and the voters who see that and think the only solution is a drastic one. Several western countrie
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by Amezarak 8d ago
Why is it this line of reasoning never goes into questioning just who the forces endlessly propagandizing about the need to censor social media are? Is this not sowing distrust in democracy itself? (If you can’t trust your electorate not to
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by Amezarak 8d ago
OK, so who is deciding what information makes people “anxious and depressed” and therefore what Facebook is allowed to republish in feeds? Would it be reasonable for Facebook to censor all information about the climate emergency to protect
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by Amezarak 8d ago
Right. So instead, a central authority determines what is true or not and therefore what is allowed to be published. Easy - there’s clearly a neutral arbiter of truth we can all depend on! So the problem was never that the algorithm let peo
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by Amezarak 8d ago
Liberal democracy does not mean that the government and other authorities hide information and opinions from people for fear it might make them “anxious and depressed.” I gave you a specific example: should they stop letting people see cont
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by Amezarak 8d ago
OK, well, I support liberal democracy and all that entails. So we’re kind of fundamentally at odds here and probably won’t be able to find common ground.
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by Amezarak 9d ago
OK, so, in the vein of the original thread, can you explain how Facebook would be "sowing discord" or "making people depressed and anxious" in some specific way that isn't just spreading other people's speech (
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by Amezarak 9d ago
"How long and often" people engage with content is a perfectly reasonable metric to optimize and a very close correlate of interest. There are, in fact, plenty of things going on in the world people should get mad about, or that t
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by Amezarak 10d ago
If the rise of fascism and hate is due to people being able to talk to each other on Facebook with insufficient censorship, it seems your actual problem is the system of governance that gives everyone a right to vote, even if they do it bas
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by Amezarak 11d ago
Speaking for GP, I want to have both a reasonable legal system and safe, clean drinking water. We can have both, and the former precludes the idea that plaintiffs and judges can simply invent new fundamental rights that require enormous sum
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by Amezarak 19d ago
You dispute that the officer was shot in the neck?
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by Amezarak 19d ago
> Several people got decades in jail because the FBI successfully convinced a jury that setting off fireworks near a detention center on the 4th of july was actually detonating bombs. And that because one idiot brought a gun and shot it,
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
> Are passages about killing infidels and the other xenophobic garbage is a historical metaphorical and nuanced stuff which must be interpreted very different nowadays? Fine. But then all the other things should be also interpreted heavi
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
Is it possible that other anti democratic forces are working to instill the notion that the ideas of their ideological opponents are illegitimate and when voters hold those beliefs it’s only because they’re been propagandized and deceived?
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
What about a high public salary implies corruption? If anything, it would seem to be a signal in the opposite direction - a very highly paid police officer is not out to collect bribes. Also, is there any inherent reason why police salaries
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
No, I noticed this too. Voice mode was great at providing detailed responses, although I wished it would have dialed the talkiness down just a tad. Then recently it suddenly got very terse, way too terse, but also latency went way down. Voi
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
> No other provider has this same issue at that scale. What gives you that impression?
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
Notice the Wikipedia link says the problem was "put her in a bikini." The claims about "Grok just lets you undress people" were massively exaggerated because people hate Elon (perhaps for good reason) and not worse than
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
> Less and less people have time and money for that, for the same reason this stuff happens in the first place (i.e. greed and wealth consolidation). It takes very little time to prepare and cook most simple meals - if you want to dress
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by Amezarak 1mo ago
The US is the biggest oil producer in the world. Consumption does exceed production, but obviously this changes the calculus around energy independence. It is the third largest coal producer, behind India and China.
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
> Gullible people can now automatically be detected and exploited, gnawed down to the bone and thrown away with none of the people who harvest their resources ever meeting or even thinking of them, but you are too smart for that, so it&#
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
The people writing about this are complaining that this is even possible , not just that Google was enabling it. > The button makes it socially acceptable to generate misinformation. That's it. No, it does not. It makes it socially
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
> What does that mean? Is the older information environment books and newspapers? Then only a tyrant could arrange a return to that state, which didn't prevent the readers being credulous anyway. No, not a return to books and newspa
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
Then frankly I find this all overblown and somewhat insane. The AI safetyism moral panic is something I find very demoralizing. It seems like the main legacy of AI will be its use as leverage to annihilate computing freedom and privacy for
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
Right, I understand that you were able to generate these images from Google Earth. But nowhere can I find, including in that article, where other people could see your generations presented in Google Maps/Earth as if they were real
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
Did Google Earth actually show these as replacements for the true imagery? Or are people simply complaining that people were able to generate these images at all? I'm struggling to understand the controversy.
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
The only difference between a heat pump and an AC is a reversal valve to change which direction you’re pumping the heat in. (Of course obviously an AC fundamentally is a heat pump, but setting that aside.) That makes it very hard to puzzle
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
> which were likely written very early and often conflict quite strongly with then New Testament narratives. They were not likely written very early in almost all of those cases (your own link dates every single one to well after the c
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by Amezarak 2mo ago
The Talmud is not contemporary. Not only that the identification with that figure as the Jesus is highly contested.

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