hellothere
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- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 3 days ago:
It’s almost like low quality mechanisation is something that should be resisted. I wonder where I’ve heard that before…
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 1 week ago:
As yes, because that will solve poverty. Bring back debtors prison I say, and we’ll party like it’s 1824!
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 week ago:
It’s an old, bad, joke on the two definitions of revolting.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 1 week ago:
And they smell bad too!
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
I’m not moving the goal posts, I have consistently been talking about workers resisting the capture of their income by businesses mass producing items at lower qualities.
Your previous comment characterising individuals as only consumers is what I was continuing to challenge within the above context.
Either way, have a good weekend.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
I think we’re talking past each other. You seem to be addressing a point I have not made.
A piece of technology is not something that exists outside of a political context. As an example, your repeated use of consumer, as a term for individuals, is interesting to note.
Why do you view these people as consumers, rather than producers? Where is the power in that relationship? How does that implication shape the rest of your point?
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
AI is a tool that should be kept open to everyone
I agree with this principle, however the reality is that given the massive computational power needed to run many (but not all) models, the control of AI is in the hands of the mega corps.
Just look at what the FAANGs are doing right now, and compare to what the mill owners were doing in the 1800s.
The best use of LLMs, right now, is for boilerplating initial drafts of documents. Those drafts then need to be reviewed, and tweaked, by skilled workers, ahead of publication. This can be a significant efficiency saving, but does not remove the need for the skilled worker if you want to maintain quality.
But what we are already seeing is CEOs, etc, deciding to take “a decision based on risk” to gut entire departments and replace them with a chat bot, which then
inventshallucinates the details of a particular company policy, leading to a lower quality service, but significantly increased profits, because you’re no longer paying for ensured quality.The issue is not the method of production, it is who controls it.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
So, I didn’t downvote you because that’s not how I operate.
The Luddites were not protesting against technology in and of itself, they were protesting against the capture of their livelihoods by proto-capitalists who purposefully produced inferior quality goods at massive volume to drive down the price and put the skilled workers out of business.
They were protesting market capture, and the destruction of their livelihood by the rich.
This sort of monopolistic practice is these days considered to be a classic example of monopolistic market failure.
There is a massive overlap between the philosophy of the Luddites, and the cooperative movement.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
I want my Lucy Liu Bot as much as the next guy, but I don’t see why you feel this challenges the ability of technology to “take over” sex and relationships.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
You clearly have no idea what the luddites actually stood for.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 week ago:
Be part of it, sure.
Take over? No.
It’s already fairly easy to pump out 2D and 3D generated images, without using “AI” to do so, but there is still a large demand for real people doing real things.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
From his own About page
My work is organized around a simple mission: to challenge and then overthrow the left-wing ideological regime that has dominated American life for a generation.
During the 1970s and 1980s, conservative intellectuals started a revolution, pioneering free-market economics and successfully implementing those ideas during the Reagan boom. Today, however, we are faced with a new challenge: to defeat an ascendant activist class that has sabotaged America’s institutions with a toxic combination of socialist economics, cultural chaos, and identity politics.
Typical fash apologist.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 week ago:
Check out the Fairbuds from Fairphone.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 2 weeks ago:
It would increase the wages in India and at some point the pay would equal to the person who lives in the USA.
Are you in the market for some prime riverfront property? I have a lot you may be interested in. Unique, one of a kind.
- Comment on Two charged over Sycamore gap tree 2 weeks ago:
Fucking Cumbrians, coming over 'ere, taking our trees!
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 4 weeks ago:
Using ML to research potentially more efficient, in a BigO sense, packing algorithms makes sense.
But that isn’t what they are doing.
They are using image recognition and text analysis to identify the product being packed, and then adjusting the packaging requirements, e.g. more protection = greater volume.
The point I’m making is that they already know what the item is, because inventory codes, so doing visual checks is pointless. They should already know the packing instructions for fragile, etc, items as these are provided by the manufacturer and have already been proven valid by virtue of the product leaving the factory and getting to the Amazon warehouse.
If amazon are ignoring those instructions - and it sounds like they are - then that is a problem they are creating for themselves.
Fitting the items in to the box is still the same problem domain as is taught to first year CompSci students, and is NP-complete. First Fit is extremely efficient when dealing with a relatively small number of items, while optimal solutions are NP-hard, the performance first fit is O(n log n) so not great but not terrible either. Given the myriad combination of item and box size, I’d expect there is a decent amount of triage which can be done and identify “easy to pack” orders (1 or 2 items, no special requirements) which would be essentially a table lookup with O(1) performance.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 4 weeks ago:
How to properly wrap fragile objects, etc, is again a solved problem.
Best case scenario this is PR nonsense.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 4 weeks ago:
Trolley/Bin packing is a solved problem and NP-complete, this is yet another totally pointless use of AI.
It’s literally a module in the first year of any computer science programme.
- Comment on Thames Water has six weeks to agree survival plan with Ofwat 5 weeks ago:
Lenders to Thames argue that forcing them to incur losses on their debts would also drive up the cost of borrowing for all UK water companies, and potentially other utilities such as gas and electricity.
Lol, get fucked.
- Comment on The Great Sink of Thames Water 5 weeks ago:
Oh absolutely, Ofwat are also unbelievably shit. The point is however is that fundamental market failures like natural monopolies cannot be solved by regulatory bodies.
That’s not to give Ofwat an out, they have utterly fucked this and can be argue to have been captured, but even if they were perfect a privatised water system would still fail.
- Comment on The Great Sink of Thames Water 5 weeks ago:
If owners want to load their companies with debt (and they did), equity and debt holders should know they are gaining higher potential returns at the price of greater risk. These are decisions the private sector is well placed to make.
I love the FT, they are so absolutely blinded by capitalism being the only possible method. This is a crisis literally created by capitalist greed and assets stripping / debt loading, demonstrating that risk is not taken seriously because of limited liability. Get the money and get out, simple.
A natural monopoly is one of the most basic forms of market failure, and to suggest otherwise is a laughabe level of economic illiteracy.
- Comment on Thames Water ‘blackmailing’ customers as firm reveals £500m funding gap, GMB says 1 month ago:
This is super simple.
They either find the money from their previous dividends, or they go bust and we seize the assets as part of the bankruptcy for £0.
Refusual just speed runs to option B.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 1 month ago:
It’s almost like people’s behaviour worsens as society crumbles, funny that.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
Brute force is AI now?
- Comment on OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion 2 months ago:
Are you in the market for key transport infrastructure? I have a few lots you may be interested in.
- Comment on OpenAI Completes Deal That Values the Company at $80 Billion 2 months ago:
Definitely not a bubble…
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
I don’t, that would be another good example of how context changes the impact of speech.
Thank you for adding it.
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
They are different examples. If you wanted a proper comparison it would be graffiting outside the Israeli embassy. That isn’t antisemitic because it’s literally the country you would be protesting.
The monarchy example is a protest being in a location where everyone there is definitely a monarchist. You’re not going to have ardent republicans queuing to pay respects to some old dead woman, or see an old man in a fancy hat.
The Golders Green example is going to a British community, who practice a particular faith, and asserting that because of that faith they must support Israel, because that country has the same faith. That is what makes it antisemitic, saying that British people just think X because of their faith.
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
Because context is important.
If you live somewhere, and your neighbours coincidentally are British Jews, and you want to put a Free Palestine poster in your window, that’s perfectly fine.
If you live somewhere, and you put the same poster in your window purely to antagonise your neighbour, then you’re being a dick but it still probably isn’t illegal in and of itself, but could over time be considered harassment.
If you life somewhere and you’re campaigning in your community for a Free Palestine, and you put flyers through everyone’s door, that’s OK.
If you live somewhere, and post the same flyers only through the doors of people you know to be jewish, that’s antisemitic, because you are presuming that just because a British person is Jewish, they support the actions of a different country.
If you don’t live in that place, and you know it to be a predominately Jewish area, and go and spray paint Free Palestine on a wall in that area, you again are presuming that just because a British person is Jewish, they support the actions of a different country.
It’s the presumption that just because your Jewish you support Israel that makes it antisemitic. In the exact same way that presuming that just because someone is a Muslim, they support Hamas. Or that they’re Irish they support the IRA, etc.
- Comment on 4,000 antisemitic incidents in a year in 'explosion' of hatred against Jews after Hamas attacks 2 months ago:
From the article:
Some of the incidents included “Free Palestine” graffiti being sprayed on a bridge in Golders Green, which is home to one of London’s largest Jewish communities; the defacing with swastikas of a poster in London of a baby kidnapped by Hamas; and a visibly Jewish man being verbally abused and threatened by people who were attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration.