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It's also an accountability issue. If you create something in GIMP or whatever everyone agrees that you did that and are responsible for any copyright issues or defamation or whatever else arises from that work. That becomes fuzzier when people start saying "Grok made this!" Especially because Grok does operate according to a model that can and does go beyond whatever it's been instructed to do, so you might be able to plausibly argue that if you craft the prompt right.

And I can guarantee that the cesspool formerly known as Twitter will try to play whichever side of that is more advantageous to them. Copyright infringement? That's on the user. Unique IP? Well, Grok had a profound and independent creative role and so we deserve a piece.

What exactly do you think the alternative is here? Not voting just surrenders what little power the electoral process does give you. Even if electoral politics aren't a meaningful way to advance your vision of a better country, this is still an opportunity, however small, to reduce the harm that will be done under a Trump presidency. Like, even if you don't expect Harris to meaningfully improve things (and there are a lot of areas where a former cop probably shouldn't be expected to), the alternative is someone who continues to actively promise to make those same areas even worse.

This is broadly true, though there can be some wiggle room in the exact definitely of "immediate life-saving care" depending on where you end up. In particular, a condition like appendicitis that will inevitably lead to a crisis may be turned away until it actually becomes one, even if that makes things riskier and costlier for everyone involved.

I'm actively offended by 5. Would you forget Douglas Adams so blithely?

Given how it was marketed I'm surprised we didn't see cybertechnicals out of some stateside militia group somewhere, though I guess not currently having dictatorial power forces them to have better opsec.

Either way this things gonna light up FIRMS like it's a one-vehicle ammo depot if/when it goes up.

That's the state of the job market these days: even the pick-up artists have STEM degrees.

Nah, this is the kind of non-attack that Elon and friends are perfectly comfortable acknowledging. It helps their internal messaging at this point to have a public opposition who they can point to to say "these people hate you specifically and you should further consume our content and products to show them we mean business."

I always want to point out how there are never specific metrics attached to these criticisms. Whenever I've seen actual numbers checked there doesn't appear to be a significant impact between before and after companies started WFH during the pandemic.

Of course I also haven't looked to close because I've been too busy enjoying my life rather than pretending my boss is funny at a water cooler.

Oh this sounds like a dog I used to have as a kid! They needed more enrichment during the day or else she'd bark into the void all night and get super excited when another dog barked back.

Have they tried taking the waymos out for walkies?

Ned Ludd told me to do it.

No it's okay they're using an AI model, so inevitably they can point to the huge jumble of math and say "computer did it" when asked to defend the gouging. That's basically transparency, right?

Gah! That's the word I was looking for!

It's actually not legal to freeze someone who's still alive, because the freezing process is decidedly lethal. They have to replace your blood to try and minimize cell damage from ice crystals and so on. Then there's the "budget" option where they just chop off your head and freeze that rather than mess with your whole body, for people with a very specific level of magitech in mind for their resurrection.

Now, there is a time in history where we got good enough at resurrection that they legally redefined death. In like the 70s they changed the definition of legally dead from having your heart stop to a cessation of brain activity because we got really good at restarting people's hearts. But it's a weirdly specific leap from "we can restart your heart" to "we can reconstruct you from just a head in a way that will have a meaningful and tangible connection to your current life", but not all the way to "we can reconstruct you ex nihilo by retracing the quantum echoes your life created in the Force or whatever".

There's one things these models can never understand: Family

This is like asking what your probability is of being run over by a car while sitting in your living room in your high-rise apartment...

I actually remember a 2015 study from Toretto et al. showing that this is a really more plausible than you might think. Other than that this is a great piece. I particularly appreciated one of the better breakdowns of what people mean by "ChatGPT is just a giant table of numbers" for someone who doesn't have technical background in the area.

That's certainly one approach to commenting on someone's picture. Pretty sure it's better to stick with the standard "Wow! 😍😍😍" but this certainly sticks out from the crowd?

TESCREAL is a useful acronym for explaining things but I'm disappointed in how little impact it has outside of the terminally online. How can this cult turn into something that sticks to Musk, Altman, and Vance the way Scientology does to Tom Cruise? Do we need South Park to make an episode talking about the fucktillions of unborn robots in distant galaxies?

A useful metaphor perhaps, but more accurately the brain is an intricate series of clockwork gears and linkages that connect the machineries of the body to the levers and knobs of the soul.

I think a more likely takeaway is that the brain doesn't remember a dollar bill as an image, but as, y'know, a dollar bill. The color, rough dimensions, picture of a dead president, and numbers in the corners were probably right, but it's more important to remember the social, emotional, and cultural context of it (e.g. that money can be exchanged for goods and services) rather than the specific details of the anti theft patterns, which are intentionally designed to be "noise" and hard to replicate. In the IP metaphor, we could talk in terms of lossy compression of visual data.

And that's why I think the IP metaphor is useful. It's all well and good to talk about the brain as being fundamentally different from a computer, but in terms of discrete functions we know how computers work at a level we don't for the brain, and so it's useful to be able to analogize.

Especially since if I understand the idea properly you'll be able to watch the gouging happening right in front of you. Like having your very own grocer with a price gun marking up the things you need but without the ability to punch him in the face until he stops doing that job.