IceMetalPunk

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API or library to grade “music quality”?
3 points by IceMetalPunk 3y ago|0 comments
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
> "And if he can't sell it, why would he create it (or at least, why would he publish and market it) in the first place?" And this is the crux of my biggest issue with people who are against AI art. The question "if a
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
As someone with a background in biomedical engineering, who once planned to research the development of gene therapies for cancer treatments: yes, definitely :) But we do know the basics, and our ability to synthesize, excise, and replace s
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I maintain that the short-form limitation of Twitter is exactly what amplifies the shitstorm compared to other social media platforms. Being anonymous makes people act like assholes, but when you only have 140 (now 280) characters to speak
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I'd like to start a petition that we engineer a chimp with human TKTL1 and human FOXP2 genes! Sounds like we're only about 3 or 4 SNPs away, and if a chimp had a denser neocortex and a brain structure more suitable to human-like
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Here's the thing about truth: the "who" doesn't matter. There shouldn't even be a question of "who determines if something is untrue?", nor should we be advocating for every individual to decide the truth
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Not stolen, just a terrible consequence of a poor voting system (i.e. electoral college) and a larger-than-comfortable minority of voters who were also shitty humans.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
That's a poor analogy. You're going to the website, it's not coming to you, and you're given recommendations, not having them load and play the videos for you automatically. This is more like you buy a frozen yogurt at M
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Even humans have trouble deciding (a) what constitutes "suitable content" and (b) whether we should be deciding that for other people. So of course our current algorithms don't take that into account, since we can't de
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I agree with you that clicks and view time do not necessarily equate to desired content, but I disagree with you that Google uses those parameters because they're "evil". They make money when people continue using their produ
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Discussion of fraud is not beyond the Overton window. Continued discussion of dangerous ideas which have already been proven false should be, simply because of those two reasons. False balance is bad; false balance when one of the ideas o
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
No one call the forest rangers, I'm running down that hiking trail! :D No, but legitimately, my motivation is "I know what I'm good at, how do I apply that to create new things?" If I'm forced into things I'm n
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Nice! I love how fast AI is improving :) Attention mechanisms are something I know to be extremely important in the rapid advancement of modern AI (post-2017), but they're also something that I still don't fully understand in term
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
If we learn to be less greedy, more empathetic, and more willing to give to those who need more than us without expectation of immediate reciprocation... then the answer is "better and happier". (I can't view the link now to
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I was going to say. Recommendation algorithms across the internet work on the simple principal that "if they click these things or watch these things a lot, then they must like them, so we should recommend more of that to them because
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
So, let's remind everyone the difference between correlation and causation. Many people may look at these colorful charts and walk away with the idea that "therefore, having more money or liquid assets makes people happier".
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
...ew. Gross.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
100%. In fact, let's be less scientific and more creative: 200%! My current job's entire lack of creativity is what's burned me out, made me unproductive (when for 3.5 years I was one of the most productive members of my team
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I've never understood the view that "this disability is part of me and we shouldn't try to cure it". I struggle with anxiety and depression, and the same argument could be made there: that my mental illnesses are "p
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Spider-Man wisdom: "Don't watch the mouth, watch the hands."
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Care to elaborate on what you think the solution is that would "massively decrease living standards for most of the developed world", and how it would do so?
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
On the other hand, humans also don't give 100% correct output in anything, either :D
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
To be fair, climate change is already "solved" in that we know how to reduce, slow, or possibly even halt it. It's not a matter of figuring out how, it's a matter of getting people to actually care enough to do those thi
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
I mean, yeah, but that's no different than people claiming DALL-E will replace artists, or GPT-3 will replace authors, or calculators will replace mathematicians, or the printing press will replace handwriting, etc. Whenever there&#x27
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Completely agree. Also, "Even if these AIs started generating their own ideas, it would be amazing and fascinating and worth celebrating": they already can, if you combine them with something like GPT-3 :)
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Game dev, because it's creative and it's what I've spent most of the last 20 years of my life doing in my spare time anyway.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
When you have something like `const [variable, setVariable] = setState('foobar')`, you are not getting "variable" back directly. Instead, you're getting a pair of a setter function and a getter function. React keeps
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
It'll cure all your polyp ills.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Thanks! Good luck to you, too, in whatever endeavors are on your plate these days.
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by IceMetalPunk 4y ago
Some AI is snake oil, sure. The wording in the cited tweet, however, makes it sound like AI in general cannot "work" (whatever that vague term means), which is untrue, as we have AI that does "work" already. The bigger i

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