ranprieur

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by ranprieur 1mo ago
People in this thread are using the phrase "AI slop" as if everything made by AI is automatically slop. If you believe this, fair enough, but then you must support the abolition of AI. If you believe that AI is capable of making g
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by ranprieur 2mo ago
I still do it. Spotify is good for making playlists but I don't use it for listening. I collect mp3s, bought on Bandcamp or downloaded from Soulseek, and listen on an old Sansa Clip mp3 player.
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by ranprieur 2mo ago
Reading is declining because of computers, which are a much more fragile and dependent technology than text on paper.
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by ranprieur 2mo ago
A supplement called genistein mitigates the risk: https://www.med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/marijuana...
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by ranprieur 6mo ago
I did this, with a regular chest freezer and a thermostat. It used hardly any energy, but it was hard to clean and died after about five years.
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by ranprieur 7mo ago
This isn't new to AI. The same kind of thing happens in movie test screenings, or with autotune. If something is intended for a large audience, there's always an incentive to remove the weird stuff.
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by ranprieur 8mo ago
This is better than nothing, but the big advantage of the UBI is that there is no bureaucracy deciding who gets it and doesn't get it. If there are any conditions on the income, then there's a constant danger that the program will
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by ranprieur 8mo ago
> AI doesn't need to drive a tractor. It needs to orchestrate the systems and people who do. Pure dystopia.
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by ranprieur 9mo ago
I've been making music videos with a very satisfying creative process: Use AI to make a ton of images, pick the very best ones, and carefully arrange them in the right order. Example: https://youtu.be/r-_dJNgt3SM
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by ranprieur 10mo ago
This article fails to mention why the currency circulated so fast. It was depreciating: it was defined as gradually losing value, so hoarding didn't work, and the people with money had a strong incentive to spend it. The article makes
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by ranprieur 11mo ago
The most fundamental freedom is the freedom to do nothing.
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by ranprieur 1y ago
Because he's jealous?
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by ranprieur 1y ago
A great book on this subject is In The Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander. He argues convincingly that the correct biological metaphor for technological progress is not evolution, but inbreeding. We are turning our attention more and mor
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by ranprieur 1y ago
I agree with the author: Heroes II is my favorite of the series, just for the innocent vibe. Also, Heroes IV is underrated. It got bad reviews because it came out buggy, but the bugs were fixed in updates, and of all the HOMM games, it has
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by ranprieur 1y ago
Because the medical system doesn't.
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by ranprieur 1y ago
I like this idea, but my problem is with the word "successful". Setting constraints rather than chasing goals leads to doing interesting things. But there's no guarantee you'll ever be recognized or rewarded.
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by ranprieur 1y ago
"Efficiency" is selfishness. It's a word for when people in power want to give less and get more.
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by ranprieur 1y ago
Key sentence: "When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break."
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by ranprieur 1y ago
There's some good stuff here, but some of it is just wrong. Sometimes the person with the loudest laugh is laughing the most authentically.
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by ranprieur 1y ago
This all makes more sense if you go through the article, and every time you see the word "work", substitute "work for money".
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by ranprieur 2y ago
When I was young, every time I got a 20-20 prescription, my eyes got worse. When I stopped going to the optometrist, my eyes stopped getting worse. Now I wear glasses that only correct to around 20-40. I take them off for reading, and I hav
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by ranprieur 2y ago
> it’s not a desire but a necessity. Speak for yourself. I love sleep and wish I could sleep more. Sometimes I think the only purpose of being awake is to get food and shelter for more sleep.
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by ranprieur 2y ago
Nice idea. We need a technology that doesn't just look at mouse movement to help you do nothing, but reads your brainwaves.
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by ranprieur 2y ago
Disenchantment was well underway in the 1600s, and arguably peaked in the 1700s, the Age of Reason, before it was partly undone by Romanticism. The disenchantment narrative goes back at least as far as Chaucer: https://aeon.co&#x
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by ranprieur 2y ago
Yes, it repeats itself so much I kept thinking I had accidentally scrolled up.
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by ranprieur 2y ago
This has similar ideas to this review that was posted here a few weeks ago: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/marshall-sahlins-n...
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by ranprieur 3y ago
This article mentions a study that found almost no correlation between people who self-report having high self-control, and people who actually do well on tests measuring self-control: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health&
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by ranprieur 3y ago
A psychological factor he doesn't mention: A lot of players, if they absolutely need to make a play to not lose the game, will dig deeper and play better. If the game is not on the line right now, they won't play as well.
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by ranprieur 3y ago
Photorealism does not equal immersion. Immersion happens in the mind, not the eyes. The games I've been most immersed in were made in the 90s, when the graphics were not as good but the gameplay was better.
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by ranprieur 3y ago
This discussion is completely about propositional statements, as if that's the only way to know anything. I would say, don't let mere words change your sense of what's real.

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