sofal

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by sofal 3mo ago
Why is it that we still enjoy music despite not knowing how it was created? Why is it that we still enjoy visual art despite not knowing how it was created? We can keep throwing counterexamples at each other forever. You can find an endless
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by sofal 3mo ago
I guess since we're not talking about art anymore, and are instead talking about the veracity of information, we can safely agree. If I read a news story, I do value that information higher to the extent I am convinced it is actually t
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by sofal 3mo ago
Your entire argument hinges on being able to tell the extent to which generative AI was used in the creation of any given piece of art, which capability you will not have. You therefore fall into the category the commenter mentioned in that
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by sofal 7mo ago
I'd question your assumption that the software would be "great". I think we're seeing the volume of software increase faster than before. The average quality of the total volume of software will almost certainly decrease
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by sofal 1y ago
Well, yeah. I like getting computers to automate things and solve problems. Typing in boilerplate and syntax is just a means to that end, and not even remotely the most interesting part. I don't like managing my own memory garbage coll
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by sofal 1y ago
I don't think this is why. I listened to a recent podcast with Michael Truell and he made clear they think the TUI is an inferior form factor. This feels more like a reactionary move than a visionary one.
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by sofal 1y ago
I can't tell whether I'm supposed to be the technical type or the artist type in this analogy. In my music making hobby, I'd like a good AI to help me mix, master, or any number of things under my direction. I'm going to
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by sofal 1y ago
I don't acquire skills and apply them just to be able to apply them. I use them to solve problems and create things. My learned skills for processing audio are for the purpose of getting the audio sounding the way I want it to sound. I
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by sofal 1y ago
I'm constantly disappointed by how little I'm able to delegate to AI after the unending promises that I'll be able to delegate nearly 100% of what I do now "in the not too distant future". It's tired impatience
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by sofal 2y ago
Exactly how broke do you think this guy is that taking a career break is a sign of instability?
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by sofal 2y ago
You can get burned real bad by this if the specific product SKU gets discontinued and the price spikes 10x because now they're called Tide Pods Original.
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by sofal 3y ago
I mostly agree with you, or at least I think you're providing important pushback that needs to be considered. Porn is largely a weird religious boogeyman, and scary stranger kidnapping stories seem to be a form of lucrative fear porn t
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by sofal 3y ago
Exactly. Actually funny jokes from amateurs tend to have risen out of an order of magnitude more failed attempts. You can't encourage the funny one without inviting a ton of bad ones.
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by sofal 3y ago
The idea that politics in academia are so fierce because the stakes are so low is a meme that has been around for many years, so perhaps it's just the first time you heard it? I'm not convinced of the meme despite its cleverness o
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by sofal 3y ago
How about: I'd like to know what's happening during an active shooter event at my son's school. Is there a loudspeaker for that? This actually happened to me, and guess where all of the official police updates were posted.
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by sofal 3y ago
So the tradeoffs are proven, but not necessary?
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by sofal 3y ago
Do you think the tradeoffs discussed in that article are unproven?
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by sofal 3y ago
If I see someone with a little shrine to kids movies, I think, "I have different tastes than this person." If I see someone write a comment like this, extrapolating that to some sort of general societal ill wherein children don&#x
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by sofal 3y ago
I don't think anyone actually does counting like that, or at least if they did I agree it would be silly. If I have my eye on a character I'd like to get to, I usually just 'f' + character and then ';' if neces
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by sofal 3y ago
There's no evidence for that whatsoever, it's just bullshit conjecture stemming from hope and a tenuous idea that third party app users are "power users" and therefore must be eminently important.
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by sofal 3y ago
Being a good moderator is a lot of work. There will be no lack of people that would line up to have moderating powers in a large enough subreddit.
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by sofal 4y ago
Would you demand the same amount of reverence if the people who were murdered by their fellow citizens were not "devout, pious Christians" and were instead "people who are serious about practicing witchcraft"?
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by sofal 4y ago
> Almost nobody is against LGBT characters or show that have woke politics in them. I’m not sure why you would think this. There is a huge segment of society that is very much against everything that could possibly be considered “woke”
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by sofal 4y ago
I think it's because most of the time the "politics" that are objected to tend to be things like having an LGBT character in a show. While it's probably not true that everyone who complains about "politics" o
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by sofal 5y ago
It's also not necessarily competing with meatspace. It's competing with other technologies that connect remote people together where there is no meatspace option. And it's all going to serve the purpose of selling influence o
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by sofal 5y ago
Very telling that the first two proposed ideas in response to your comment are: memes are valid news sources, and we should stop public education entirely.
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by sofal 5y ago
You have it exactly backwards, and I think it gets to the core of why people get so unnecessarily confused about git. The underlying data model is both much simpler than the interface and crucial to understand. If you treat git as a collect
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by sofal 5y ago
Do you also think we are past the point where treating people like pathologically gullible buffoons by peddling wild and easily debunkable conspiracy theories in order to get votes could succeed on a national scale?
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by sofal 5y ago
And my view is: if you're not paying attention to what is going on around you, you will be taken advantage of. There is a balance here.
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by sofal 5y ago
I'm curious about how portable your setup is. Currently at home I have a giant dynamic mic (EV RE20) on a boom arm, but that's not going to be something I can use at the actual office when I hop into a little enclosed pod for a Zo

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