kerrigan778
@kerrigan778@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Ethically and logically it seems like output based on training data is clearly derivative work. Legally I suspect AI will continue to be the new powerful tool that enables corporations to shit on and exploit the works of countless people.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
That license would require chatgpt to provide attribution every time it used training data of anyone there and also would require every output using that training data to be placed under the same license. This would actually legally prevent anything chatgpt created even in part using this training data from being closed source. Assuming they obviously aren’t planning on doing that this is massively shitting on the concept of licensing.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
The business strategy wasn’t remotely proven though, it was still just an idea, no part of the car was designed yet. It was two people who had no idea how to design a car doing the groundwork to start a company working with Lotus and AC Propulsion and then a few months later it was three with Ian Wright lending some business work with the relationship between Lotus and AC Propulsion, then a few months later it was four with Elon who lent money and knew about as much about designing a car as the previous three, then a few months later it was five and they finally had a CTO at least.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
This meme hurts me physically every time it gets reposted. It is not a complete picture of anything, it’s just easy to make people thoughtlessly accept stories if they shit on Elon, who to be clear deserves it. Those two guys were the main guys who made Tesla and decided to bring the work of AC Propulsions to market. They are first and foremost tech millionaires (now quite likely billionaires) and do not deserve idolization either. The engineers of AC Propulsion ie Wally Rippel who also helped design the EV1 are the ones who actually made the technology happen.
The Tesla guys had the idea to put the tzero concept and tech into production shoved into a Lotus Elise and to market it to silicon valley investors as essentially a tech company. Elon was the main investor who went for it, the rest is pretty well documented history of Elon being a huge asshole who accomplished very little if anything off his own merit while pushing out everyone around him.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 2 weeks ago:
Engineering a practical prototype for an electric sports car in the year 2003 makes you pretty cool, if nothing else.
Yeah that was AC Propulsion though, and in 1996, and a completely different group of people.
The Tesla guys had the idea of shoving it into a Lotus Elise and marketing it as a tech company.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
Dude, I was there for when Vine was born and for when it died, and Vine didn’t even getpicked up for mass disinformation, and y’know what? Life moved on.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
I see this as a win win
- Comment on An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary 2 weeks ago:
I for one vote everyone just be done with public internet media and stick to outside, known person to known person interaction, and info from reputable news sources that vet their sources and maintain a high standard of accuracy.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 weeks ago:
You absolutely set up sniper teams to protect people, such as every US president in a long time and most major sports games. Obviously there is a risk in taking someone out like that and that risk is weighed before giving an order to fire. And I’m not comparing 308 to 7.62x51NATO arbitrarily, they are virtually identical rounds like 5.56 and .223
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 weeks ago:
There are a million low pen rounds, they’re called expanding hollow points or fracturing rounds. They are designed to dump all their energy in soft targets, they are ubiquitous in hunting.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 weeks ago:
I think you either overestimate overpenetration at range or underestimate the training a sniper has on that very subject.
- Comment on Education 3 weeks ago:
The whole album Ashes of the Wake also about half of Rise Against’s discography.
- Comment on Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage. 3 weeks ago:
The legal framework known as “we all had to see it so you have to too”
- Comment on It is truly magic 3 weeks ago:
Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
Well that’s just the piracy magpie collector instincts lol. I dunno, I’ve never paid for that kind of porn, just AVNs
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
I mean, you know how there are a million free indie games and lots of slightly shady websites where you can download free copies of paid games? But lots of people still buy games because it’s a better experience or they like to feel like they’re supporting people who are making the kinds of games that they like? It’s a lot like that, but with stigma.
- Comment on The later books are really something 2 months ago:
He had one death yes, what about second death?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Essentially all electrical devices are, in addition to whatever else they do, also basically 100% efficient space heaters. A PC running on 300 watts is doing things with that 300 watts but it all ends up as heat, the vast majority of which stays in the room. A light bulb puts out light, but little of that light leaves the house, it’s all getting reflected and absorbed until it’s mostly a heater in your house.
- Comment on Lol 2 months ago:
Haha, okay
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 3 months ago:
I mean, a lot of meh too but I thought Bridges Not Walls was a great EP
- Comment on Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. 3 months ago:
We’re broke you assholes! We can’t give you money for gadgets with money we don’t have!
- Comment on What game fits this? 3 months ago:
I’ve spent 200 hours on just this building and I’m almost done making the working parts of my item storage facility lol
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 3 months ago:
Billy Bragg is still making bangers
- Comment on Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ 4 months ago:
For the record, you mean the NTSB, NHTSA is for highway safety.
- Comment on Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ 4 months ago:
Just to be clear, US domestic, major carrier flying is still staggeringly safe compared to essentially all other means of travel. The NTSB is not messing around and Boeing will have a lot to explain and answer for and the issue will be corrected.
Even in this exceptional case, nobody was injured.
- Comment on Wearable solar-powered gadget automatically regulates body temperature 4 months ago:
Why is your mattress exposed to direct sunlight?
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
Honestly people who insist on using Celsius for their daily lives rather than just for science have way more comfort than me having to deal with fractions of a degree on a regular basis. But I guess that’s the point of metric, dealing with precise decimels constantly rather than just having a unit conveniently sized for the thing you’re doing.
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
What the heck are you talking about? I work in the meat industry, non-medical antibiotics is extensively used in poultry in the US and many other countries to cause them to grow larger. It was discovered in the 50s that continuous antibiotic use in poultry caused them to grow substantially faster. This is also done in many other livestock animals.
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
Sorry what about in humans ?
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
It’s not hormones, non-medical antibiotic use is absolutely a contributing factor though.