LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 10 hours ago:
I see this exact mental non-process in so much social media. I think the endless firehose of memes and headlines is training people to glance at an item, spend minimal brain power processing it and forming a binary opinion, then up/downvote and scroll on. When that becomes people’s default mental process, you’ve got Idiocracy, and that’s what we’ve got. But I see no solution. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it spend more than two seconds before screaming at the water and calling it EVIL.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 10 hours ago:
None of the above. Every professional in the world, including me, owes our careers to looking at examples of other people’s work and incorporating those ideas into our own work without paying a penny for it. Freely copying and imitating what we saw around us has been the norm for thousands of years - in a process known as “the spread of civilization” - until relatively recently, when it was demonized (for business reasons, not moral ones) by people who got rich selling copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittance for the privilege, known as a “royalty”. That little piece of bait on the hook convinced our whole culture to put a black hat on behavior that had been standard for millennia. If angry modern enlightened justice warriors want to treat a business concept into a moral principle and rant about it, that’s fine with me, but I’m more of a traditionalist.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 day ago:
You are being douchevoted because on lemmy any comment that isn’t negative about AI is the Devil’s Work.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 day ago:
Is there ski mask recognition software that will work on ICE?
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 day ago:
Lawsuits are multifaceted. This statement isn’t an argument for innocence and doesn’t support that, it’s what it says - an assertion that the proposed damages are too high. If the court agrees, the plaintiff can always propose a lower damage claim that the court thinks is reasonable.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 days ago:
“We’ll fix the knowledge base by adding missing information and deleting errors - a task only an AI trained on the fixed knowledge base can do.”
- Comment on Maybe not nursery rhimes about balloons 3 days ago:
Anything metal between two pieces of different metal is a sandwich
- Comment on The Elder God 3 days ago:
Actually a hypothesis, but it’s interesting.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 4 days ago:
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete 5 days ago:
Sure, he says concrete but 2 to 1 it’ll end up being steel plates.
- Comment on lik lik lik 5 days ago:
One of my cats fell asleep that way in somebody’s lap.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 5 days ago:
“Ok, pass the chicken please.”
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 5 days ago:
Putting the Bang back in Big Bang!
- Comment on Absolute unit 5 days ago:
About 1.2 womp rats.
- Comment on Absolute unit 5 days ago:
How many football fields is that?
- Comment on Scientists discover a materials maze that prevents bacterial infections 5 days ago:
I wonder if they could develop this into a tooth coating. Preventing biofilms would go a long way to preventing cavities.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 6 days ago:
Seeing a lot of flags in the No Kings marches was very satisfying. We have to take genuine patriotism back from fake MAGA patriots.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 1 week ago:
I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance, it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot of sense. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 1 week ago:
Pointing out inaccuracies and giving countrary opinions are fine, but calling OP disingenuous is calling them dishonest - and you’re not even using it correctly - the term usually implies that they’re playing dumb or innocent.
And this comment genuinely isn’t aimed at you, I’m just venting about people acting like they magically know somebody’s state of mind.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 1 week ago:
I find that stuck-on stuff comes off my stainless steel pans very easily: just get the pan very hot and add enough water to cover the black residue. The crap will now come off easily if you dump the water and scrub with the rough side of a wet scotch-brite sponge and a little Dawn dish soap.
- Comment on YSK some cities in the US are starting to build an affordable community built wifi network that goes around big telecom companies 1 week ago:
Thank you, because it’s vitally important to devote half of these threads to arguing about the terminology in the headline.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 1 week ago:
Makes perfect sense to me, but I’m both a structure and ingredients anarchist.
- Comment on If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich. 1 week ago:
Can’t believe this isn’t already here…
- Comment on Dear Kevin 1 week ago:
Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought it started with Kingdom, which consisted of Animal and Plant. There’s like 20x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
I am in the US, but it’s mostly that I just don’t messenger apps. I send ordinary text messages on my phone or make voice calls.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
I don’t even remember what it’s for. Somehow life goes on.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 week ago:
Depends on who you talk to. I always thought the atmo was pretty chill. When I was there around 2010 as a contractor for a couple years they had a strange work schedule: 9-hr days Mon-Thurs and half day Friday - which was almost universally regarded as a screw-around day, along with at least half of Thursday.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 1 week ago:
Shoutout to Chris Perkins! I got to help playtest parts of 5E back in the day and he was the DM. Getting paid to play D&D is nice work if you can get it!
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Eating and drinking are almost entirely habit. I would say the main driver is parents not teaching kids to just fucking drink water. You don’t need something with fizz, color or flavor. Water’s been keeping humans alive forever.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
I feel like we’re not even having the same conversation here. I explicitly object to the argument that medical measures are necessary to validate a trans concept. You say I’m focusing too much on that, then explain that being transracial isn’t valid because of exactly that.
Saying you can’t make your body change in the various ways you list invalidates being transgender - you can’t make your body naturally produce the hormones you want, you have to artificially take them. But again, I don’t think that’s relevant - if you’re trans then you’ve always been trans, you just might not have understood it. To me the transracial concept seems equally valid, and I don’t see your biological objections differentiating them. I mean, you’re not even being accurate - people do modify themselves in all the ways you list. Cosmetic surgery and body mods are more than a $100 billion/year industry in the US alone. I just don’t see how you’re making a point.
