UtopiaPunk

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by UtopiaPunk 14d ago
How is technology adoption in education not political?
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by UtopiaPunk 14d ago
LLMs are also more flattering
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by UtopiaPunk 15d ago
Copyright is broken and needs major reform, but copyright must exist in some form as long as we are operating under the current economic system. If we want a society where some people have the job of creating art, then they must be compensa
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by UtopiaPunk 15d ago
The artist still owns their right to distribute their videos. If someone copies their videos and uploads them to a place with no ads or no patreon subscription that eats into the profit the creator of the art could be making, because someon
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by UtopiaPunk 1mo ago
If they are in the public domain, they could publish them. How many books are in the public domain but have never been digitized and shared in a public archive? And if the books are not in the public domain, then they should not be allowed
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by UtopiaPunk 1mo ago
This page provides a great overview of several popular translations of The Odyssey. It lists line-by-line translations as well free translations: https://readtheodyssey.org/best-odyssey-translation
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by UtopiaPunk 2mo ago
I don't see this happening, but I really wish that the Mastodon model centered on joining your city's local Mastodon server. Your server is centered on local people and local conversations. Maybe one would find this local communit
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by UtopiaPunk 2mo ago
Have you tried Bookwyrm? https://bookwyrm.social/ It uses ActivityPub, so you interact with Mastodon and stuff, if you are into that.
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by UtopiaPunk 2mo ago
Does anyone here handwrite a blog? I've been thinking about doing that, but I'd be interested in how people accomplish it. Personally, I'd like this to be a hobby that gets me away from screens, so I'm looking to focus m
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
If you want to hear the difference between an audio file recorded at 44.1 and 88.2kHZ, then you need slow the audio playback down. Otherwise, a trained ear cannot physically hear the difference.
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
I agree, legal immigration is much too difficult and I think that's awful!
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Are you proposing a different solution? Or are you content to be a cynic that does nothing?
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
The USA has never had a leftist president. No president of the USA has ever sought to end capitalism. I think you know that, and that you are alluding to that with quotation marks. But I'm not sure how the person you are replying to is
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
I don't want to speak for European countries. Never lived there, and I think people living there should be responsible for deciding how they navigate such issues. In the USA, where I live, there is not much of an ethical or cultural de
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Sorry if I'm being dense, but what parts of the USA? Or, I guess more specifically, what is it that you are needing to clear?
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Is your point that taller trucks and SUVs provide considerable benefits over shorter ones? What are those benefits? Or do you mean simply that trucks and SUVs, regardless of their height, provide benefits? I don't doubt that and do not
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Ugh, ok. Most people do not need one. I'm not sure what the need is for a very tall pickup truck that can also hold a family five? But maybe there is one. Perhaps there is also a need for an excavator that holds a family of five, idk
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Nothing in the article is suggesting that we do not need cars and trucks. It does make a compelling case that specifically large trucks and SUVs are causing preventable deaths. And I certainly find no reason that we need very large trucks
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
I think society only works in a high trust society. Well, maybe something exists functionally in low trust society, but it sounds miserable.
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
Is the concern that we'd marginalize parents and kids? As a parent of little kids, that's a concern that wasn't even on my radar. I had no idea that that was a major concern of people. Wild. I'm not saying it is a fabr
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by UtopiaPunk 3mo ago
"Might makes right," you know? I personally control my life by spending almost all of my income, after bills, towards expanding the elaborate tower-defense-like automated weaponry on my plot of land. If I must leave my fort, I alw
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
Two points on that: 1. This would require hardware to be affordable by mere mortals. That hardware is not financially beyond our reach yet, but AI is making the cost of buying good computer parts very expensive. The big corporations are wor
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
"With luck, it might even help us find methods of reducing their influence and power." If it started to look like that might happen, the ones with influence and power would adjust the AI behavior. They own and control them.
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
I understand that the war between Russia and Ukraine, and now Iran and Israel/USA has set back the slow progress that was being made on nuclear disarmament. I don't understand your claim that nuclear disarmament caused a war, thou
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
Maybe I'm a big idiot, but I think nuclear disarmament is a good geopolitical strategy. The USA has treaties in place pursuing that end on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_disarmament
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
Yeah, I agree with you! Regulation of that kind of environmental problem works better the more land is covered. National is best, statewide is meaningful (if you are in a geographically large state). Local is better than doing literally not
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
A lot less people would be mad, yeah. In my own area, the mere rumor of a data center was enough to galvanize activity and get write-ups in the local news. The focus, generally, was on how it would raise electricity costs for the county an
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
Yeah, and it should be. But the USA, at least in this current moment, builds regulations catering to corporations and the rich over people's general needs. So the regulations that are on the table at the national level are ineffective.
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
You're starting with an assumption that AI is, on the whole, a net positive for society. A lot of people would disagree.
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by UtopiaPunk 4mo ago
You should report that to animal control. In most cities, dogs are not allowed to be running loose off leash and "at large." If they are bothering people, it's clearly an infraction.

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