gazebo64

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by gazebo64 1y ago
Good talk!
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by gazebo64 1y ago
> is it a net benefit to the population to add fluoride to the water supply and at a suitable price point or is there a more effective method to achieve the desired outcome What if I don't care about that outcome if it means my wate
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by gazebo64 1y ago
Just pointing out something I recently learned that others may not be aware of -- most bottled water also has fluoride added. iirc water labeled as "distilled" cannot contain additives (or at least fluoride), but most of the &quot
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>Presumably, not everyone is good at brushing their teeth Is it fair that everyone is forced to ingest this chemical for the benefit of people who can't or won't engage in their own basic hygiene?
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>Hold up, all that stuff is completely unattested (and would have to be facts tried before a jury anyway). I mean, it was going to be attested until the judge decided to adjourn his proceedings and push him out the back door to avoid ICE
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by gazebo64 1y ago
> They found a technicality on which they could arrest her, so they arrested her because they wanted to arrest her If by technicality you mean correctly identifying that the judge intentionally adjourned the suspect's court proceedi
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>For this administration specifically, the thing that has always existed wasn't an issue that demanded these actions the last time they were in office, just 4 short years ago Immigration and border security were maybe the #1 policy
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>Why is this an issue now when it has always existed? Because it's a relatively new phenomenon that the ruling administration enables and advocates for the import of 10 million illegal immigrant laborers.
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>An economically viable solution to this problem would be simply force companies to pay all laborers, foreign or domestic, legal or illegal, a living wage Do you think that the law has a cut-out to allow for paying illegal immigrants les
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by gazebo64 1y ago
I fail to see how the lack of a perfect quantifiable metric of merit logically flows down to "stop admitting Asians because we have too many"? Whatever the university's method of determining merit is, it should be applied to
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by gazebo64 1y ago
I know this comment is totally innocent but it does kind of bum me out to be at a point in time where instead of addressing our impact on the environment directly, we're trying to make computers that can talk to dolphins so we can tell
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>I have songs I'd love to compose in my head, but it would be totally impractical for me to go through the hundreds/thousands of hours of training that would be needed to realize these songs in reality. Nor am I particularly mo
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by gazebo64 1y ago
>Yet no one with all his mind can deny that ai makes writing code faster, not necessarily better but faster, and games at the end are mostly codes. It's actually quite easy, and not uncommon, to deny all of those things. Game code i
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by gazebo64 1y ago
I think the most salient point the artists make in the article is that the process of ideating and iterating on art is just as valuable, if not moreso, than the end result. You can get a good looking image from an AI generator but miss out
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by gazebo64 2y ago
What exactly am I getting wrong? You insisting that nobody hires studio musicians or orchestras, and claiming that "usually you hire one electronic musician" are both demonstrably false opinions that have almost no relation to my
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by gazebo64 2y ago
Describing music to an AI is not "making music" the same way that hiring a musician and asking them to write you a rock song about a breakup is not "making music"
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by gazebo64 2y ago
I don't work as a musician so it's nothing to do with job security -- I think that using artists' output without their consent in order to train a soulless AI model for some tech middleman to profit from is repugnant, and the
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by gazebo64 2y ago
This is already easily solved by using royalty-free music or by licensing pre-made music from numerous publicly available sound libraries online -- with the added benefit of supporting actual musicians instead of plagiarist tech middlemen.
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by gazebo64 2y ago
> if the user of the AI doesn't do any of the above then I think the US copyright office says it can't be copyrighted in the first place (so no profiting for them anyway). Am I understanding right that the point here is that wh
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by gazebo64 2y ago
I think we intuitively allow for artists to derive and interpolate from their influences because of a baseline understanding that A) it is impossible to create art without influence and B) that there is an inherent value in a human creating
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by gazebo64 2y ago
The difference being that a musician being influenced by other musicians still has to work to develop the skills necessary to distill those influences into a final product, and colors that output with their own subjective experiences and ta