Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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Food doesn't simply erupt out of the ground on its own, not in quantities necessary to feed any kind of significant population. Farmers do in fact have to do labor to produce crops.

The bit about food not simply erupting from the ground on its own in quantities sufficient to feed a significant population goes double for cities where you have lots more people and lots less growing land.

You have to eat food to eat. That’s it.

...and that food has to come from somewhere. Someone has to work so you can eat.

“Brianna Wu is a fucking idiot”

Ahh, I remember when saying anything less than utterly complimentary about Wu was considered transphobic and misogynistic.

She got an awful lot of free passes and clout from "these people are mad at me, and they are mostly right wing" about a decade ago.

And holy fuck was her game terrible. Like bad enough that when I got to try it at PAX East it stood out how awful it was, to the point that when she popped up in other contexts my immediate reaction to the name was "the dev behind that terrible mobile game from PAX". You always expect some indie stuff to not land with you, but usually that sort of thing is at worst forgettable. But this one was so bad it circled all the way back around to memorable, but in the bad way.

Meh, no process is perfect and sensitivity and specificity are often enemies. Basically, in a lot of cases the more sensitive you make a test to detect something, the more likely it is to accidentally catch false positives.

Sounds like they've vastly improved it's ability to detect, hopefully that didn't come with false detections for people running unusual hardware or software combinations.

Yeah, but quoting an antifascist song and writing "hey fascist, catch" on your bullets is one of those things that feels suggestive of the rarer lefty shooter. There was also something initially reported as pro-trans symbolism, but it didn't sound like a trans symbol I'd seen before.

To quote Marilyn Manson:

"If you die when there's no one watching,

then your ratings drop and you're forgotten.

But if they kill you on their TV,

You're a martyr and a Lamb Of God. "

If some alien species asked you to draw part of it's anatomy that can move into a wide array of configurations, but you are required to do so based only on pictures the aliens sent you that they tell you shows that part among other things, would you do better?

Like, what you said is specifically why it's bad at hands and table legs and the like - they can appear in many different ways and it's only reference point for them is pictures of them it's seen. You understand hands and think logically about them mostly because you have a not just wider but deeper set of experiences to work from. Even then, 4 fingered hands have been common in cartoons because even having hands, being surrounded by other beings with hands and in a culture that makes heavy use of hands a lot of artists have trouble doing them quite right.

It’s not magic.

It's closer to black magic than tracing. It's really closer to sculpting. You take a machine, show it a few million pictures of dogs to teach it what dogs look like, then hand it a big block of white noise and ask it to show you a dog. It then carves away all the parts it doesn't think look like dog, repeats until the result doesn't change much and shows you the dog it essentially hallucinated out of the noise.

A surprising number of people don't know that it's essentially Twilight fanfic with the names changed to protect the author from being sued.

It’s also important to remember these models are trained by sampling (imitating aspects of) images they don’t have the rights to use directly.

So is basically every human artist. Basically any artist out there has seen tons of other art prior and draws on that observed corpus to influence their own output. If I commissioned you to draw something you didn't know what was, you'd go look up other depictions of that thing to get a basis for what you should be aiming at.

The way AI does it is similar, except that it's looked at way more examples than you but also doesn't have an understanding of what those things actually are beyond the examples themselves. That last bit is why it used to have so many problems with hands, and still often has problems with writing in the background or desk/table legs.

Now lie detectors don’t work at all…

Meh, they do work. They just measure stress response, not truthfulness. The idea being that you'll have a heightened stress response to a question you are lying about the answer to, which may or may not be accurate depending on individual and situation.

Breath analyzers aren't exactly accurate. There's a bunch of things that can give them false positives, they often aren't properly calibrated, and the science behind them is kinda shaky. They got challenged often enough in certain states that in at least one state if an officer has you breathe in a machine and that machine produces a number higher than the legal BAC limit, that's proof of DUI regardless of what the machine may or may not do to result in that number.

Homelander, from the comic then Amazon Prime series The Boys. He's basically Superman, if Superman were raised in a lab by a literal Nazi super-soldier program, then used as the face of a giant corporation with massive influence in the media, biotech and social media spaces, to start with that also buys up contracts with the highest profile superhumans (and also on the sly are responsible for creating them). Then just think what the realities of that would look like. And yes, he is at least as horrible as you think.

The eponymous Boys are a group of normies trying to take down superhumans, with the main POV character's inciting incident being when A-Train (think the Flash) runs through his girlfriend directly in front of him.

That and their cops are paranoid as fuck and would rather overspend than risk getting a scratch.

Police can get decommissioned military equipment on the cheap, so long as they can basically write a grant proposal justifying why they want it.

I was thinking more or less the same thing - if you are here illegally it's probably both cheaper and easier to pay you $1k per person and a free flight back whence you came than to track you down, go through the legal process, and remove you against your will.

Dark Sun had them. Called Muls.

3 is best. And also ISO. Most notably because if you have dates in that format, alphabetical.sort and sort by date are the same thing. You can also continue from there to increasing degrees of precision, like 2025-09-01 23:02:35 and that remains true.

I mean, if you get em knocked up before they can really develop any independence and your Christian theocracy demands shotgun weddings, that's going to reduce the labor pool and increase wages due to scarcity. It also sounds like hell on earth, but it would be hell on earth with a somewhat higher median wage.

No, it's real, but much like most of his other ideas it's something that wellness industry types blame on everything that isn't responsible for nearly as much as they claim, is actually pretty rare, can't be treated in the ways they suggest and definitely can't be diagnosed just by looking at you. Like "inflammation" or "toxins".

A lot of the stuff he talks about like "inflammation" and "mitochondrial challenge" are like that - they're things that are real, but are also not responsible for nearly the variety of illness suggested, can't be treated in the means wellness industry types like to suggest, aren't as common as stated and can't be diagnosed just by looking at someone.