TheMiddleGround

I love people. #1 nuance fan. Currently non-denominational Christian.

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@thepedophileapp @OOsigma66829 @216thinker See, this is the issue. You use fancy terms like “false determinism” but somehow think antisocial behavior will cease because of distributing resources. No police force? Murder and rape just disappear? Oh but it’s because of class society. You’re no different than a libertarian.

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@ThickAngus90 @crierlon Are you talking about LLMs, or image/video models?

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@banterrealism @Ben_Sapo123 I’ve personally been using it to work on projects I would’ve never been able to do myself without spending years and years on. Right now I’m making a chess variant combinator.

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@banterrealism @Ben_Sapo123 If that’s what you’re worried about, just lead with that! “AI is going to worsen the wealth gap” is interesting, and opens discussion on an important topic
“AI is useless” is pretty disingenuous.

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@Putrid_H666 @_SpyDtroid_ If you’re a tortured soul, pushing that anger onto others only amplifies your negativity on yourself. How you treat others will always impact how you treat yourself, and vice versa.
Fictional characters included.

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@thepedophileapp @OOsigma66829 @216thinker No it’s because larger society makes extremely high trust societies unsustainable. The larger your civilization gets, the more you need laws, property rights, etc.

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@orneryostrich1 @meatballtimes That’s a fair point, but it doesn’t change how I feel about the companies. I think Australia banning social media for youth, for example, is actually great legislation.

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@tangofishion @flashytrans So? Beauty is beauty. Paintings of flowers wouldn’t exist without nature-made flowers, let alone without vision. Man learns from observing nature, machine learns from observing man, and I like to observe beauty.

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@tangofishion @flashytrans I can appreciate the beauty that comes out of a highly complicated algorithm just as well as the kind which emerges from nature—flowers and trees. Neither is man-made.

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@tangofishion @flashytrans You may say it’s bad or sloppy animation, but that’s attacking it on its grounds as a product. It isn’t competitive value, so to speak. But if I see a beautiful masterpiece on my timeline, what does it matter if it’s man made or machine? Beauty is beauty.

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@TheNeonGA Idk man, I don’t think it’s that deep. You’re assuming this is the very foundation of their experience and not just a fun little experiment.

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@comohology I think “good person” is more or less a state of mind. Somebody might believe they’re doing the right thing, but simply be mistaken.
That said, I really, REALLY don’t trust Sam Altman.

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@BAM_Studios1 @ai_for_success This is like saying human brains aren’t real because they just take input through their senses, and then just output through motor movements like speech.

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@tangofishion @flashytrans Not only is it already profitable for some companies (anthropic) but revenue is rapidly ramping up. You imagine that this technology is useless, when it is already surpassing humans in multiple white collar domains with real world applications.

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@Megaman2407 @SlimerSlimy It’s implied that you don’t suffer that effect pretty strongly, but air dash doesn’t really apply anything about landing. You can also just run in like. More open or unpopulated areas. Like imagine just trucking it down the Midwest across country.

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@coleisforrobot @Jn81993 then the natural state of man is slavery. never on earth has a civilization provided for somebody who does not work from cradle to grave for one simple reason: people wouldn't work. work is not only the necessary state of life, it is what turns us into stronger people.