newsy-combi

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by newsy-combi 9d ago
15 years. The AI itself will be nostalgic for it.
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by newsy-combi 9d ago
How few songs run on loop on Spotify? Not to mention radio.
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by newsy-combi 15d ago
Professionals in the respective fields CAN do those things. We expect them to notice their own mistakes too. But the bar gets lowered and lowered as AI companies struggle to make ends meet.
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by newsy-combi 15d ago
The real answer is converting from any format to any other reliably. Text to speech, speech to text, music to video, image to 3D, piloting a drone by converting video feed to rotor speeds, literally any file conversion, like html to pdf, ph
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by newsy-combi 15d ago
We've had AGI since RNG! Cut the poor, unacknowledged RNG AGI some slack, will ya? It can literally solve everything when you're patient enough.
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by newsy-combi 15d ago
Not trying to hate because a FOSS audio editor is great, but all of these UI improvements are carbon copies from conventional DAWs or video editors, invented 30 or so years ago. Like giving audio clips a header which lets you move them arou
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by newsy-combi 18d ago
Lion standing up makes no sense. This is supposed to be a bear. The marks on its arm denote how many people it killed. It's not religious, it's not sexual, it's educational.
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by newsy-combi 1mo ago
A friend had the Fair Phone 4. It broke after a year. Hostile customer support, not worth her time. Idk. Stories of "good guy" indie companies who drop you as soon as you fell for their marketing keep piling up. It may be greed, s
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by newsy-combi 1mo ago
> Some would argue that if art makes you feel anything this strongly, it's 100% doing its job. It's pretty easy to invoke disgust and pain. That doesn't make public toilets and getting shot pieces of art 100% doing their j
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by newsy-combi 1mo ago
What's the point of that? I mean, as you invent the story, you already know what happens next, even with your tree system, you're choosing what happens before the AI writes it. So what exactly do you get out of the AI writing it?
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by newsy-combi 2mo ago
Agreed except with > To believe there is no possible way to print out a 6 foot tall by 10 foot long AI generated image that would look awesome hanging in a gallery is stupid. Maybe if you have a really impressive pipeline where the AI do
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by newsy-combi 2mo ago
Humans are capable of producing slop too. Maybe the cutout does look like AI. Given Monet's blurry style and repetitive content (he made 250 water lily paintings), this is not surprising. When you strip the cutout of its context, it ca
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by newsy-combi 2mo ago
Blue pill: The supplier of the thing you want is friendly and has your best interest in mind. (Suppliers can be corporations, government, the opposite sex,...) Red pill: The supplier is corrupt and should be treated as such. Black pill: You
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by newsy-combi 2mo ago
It's weird for reddit clones to pretend they're anything but a small subreddit in scale. This site has a "discover" feature, "topics" (its own subreddits), "tuning" (huh?), user following, probably dm
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by newsy-combi 3mo ago
Chomsky is the NYT opinion section of academics. Where it matters, he's smoothly aligned with the rich and powerful. Where it doesn't matter, he's allowed to be a polemicist.
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by newsy-combi 4mo ago
Depends on what you mean by "we". Humanity? Yeah, impossible to die out by fertility crisis merely due to lifestyle. The fewer babies are born, the more unoccupied space there is, making it more and more attractive to have kids. B
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by newsy-combi 4mo ago
It's also a useless quote. Fertility requires a whole supply chain pyramid: food, housing, infrastructure, medical industry, alcohol... the same goes for the needs of deep learning: energy, rare earths, nuclear science,... together the
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Not just as a company...
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
I thought private banks create money the moment they take out a credit from the central bank. The central bank's job is to set the interest rate for those loans, et viola.
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Wait till you find out we live in a Von Neumann Universe
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
A president fundamentally has to try and please two competing groups, the rich lobbyists and the general population. Whatever he does for one, the other will dislike. Nowadays, the rich disliking you as a politician has much more weight, th
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Where is the "as a company they can do what they want and if you don't like it, don't buy it" crowd when you need them? Stuck defending Google, Micrososft and Apple, I guess.
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Kafkaesque
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Lack of empathy better describes Google's psychopathic pursuit of ever more control over its users, while the products get ever more enshittified of course.
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Lots of nay-sayers to this, but yes, strikes do work and it's one of the very few real tools for change that people have.
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by newsy-combi 5mo ago
Increasingly, a masters degree is now a piece of paper attesting that you managed to cheat your way through uni using AI. "Congrats, you spent X years at Y location. You unlocked the right to play [role] - we recommend you keep using A
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by newsy-combi 6mo ago
I don't see a lot of agenda behind them though, they don't sell or advertise anything. Are they personal armies? Vote bots farming points to gain downvote privileges? Early versions of bots prompted to be as undetactable as possib
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by newsy-combi 6mo ago
You're equivocating two totally separate things
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by newsy-combi 7mo ago
Pros and cons to this. It would re-centralize media again, stochastically dictating what we talk about. The Epstein case would have been sealed some five or so years ago without the onslaught of publicly visible interest in it.