Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Is it just because the word “SUV” is somehow tainted with evil? Because as I understand it, the main beefs people have with SUVs is that they’re big and have poor gas mileage. The “small” and “electric” parts of that description counter those problems.
Do you know how much electricity your comment just wasted?
But then the 1% would hoard all the food and cheer and song, leaving none for the rest of us.
Fortunately (at least from a brutally utilitarian perspective) Putin is still dead-set on the notion that if he bombs civilians enough he’ll “break their spirit” and they’ll just give up.
Far greater terror campaigns along those lines have been tried in the past and they don’t succeed. So Putin is “wasting” those bombs. Yes, it’s tragic and awful when a kindergarten gets blown up, but it doesn’t impact Ukraine’s warfighting capability and if anything it only strengthens Ukraine’s resolve to never live under Russian domination again.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is surgically dismantling Russia’s military industrial complex with their bombs. Far more efficient military use of resources, and has the added bonus of not being monstrously evil and therefore brings a lot more support from the world at large.
That’s why I blocked her.
Many people with positive sentiments towards AI also want that.
Yeah, one-hole boats seem like it’d take away what little “strategy” there is in this game. It’s pure randomness whether you hit one, and as soon as you hit it it’s over.
I think WWI and WWII could be considered “World War Part 1” and " World War Part 2."
A lot of the griping about AI training involves data that’s been freely published. Stable Diffusion, for example, trained on public images available on the internet for anyone to view, but led to all manner of ill-informed public outrage. LLMs train on public forums and news sites. But people have this notion that copyright gives them some kind of absolute control over the stuff they “own” and they suddenly see a way to demand a pound of flesh for what they previously posted in public. It’s just not so.
I have the right to analyze what I see. I strongly oppose any move to restrict that right.
Streaming involves distributing copies so I don’t see why it would be. The law has been well tested in this area.
“Exploiting copyrighted content” is an incredibly vague concept that is not illegal. Copyright is about distributing copies of copyrighted content.
If I am given a copyrighted book, there are plenty of ways that I can exploit that book that are not against copyright. I could make paper airplanes out of its pages. I could burn it for heat. I could even read it and learn from its contents. The one thing I can’t do is distribute copies of it.
The act of copying the data without paying for it (assuming it’s something you need to pay for to get a copy of) is piracy, yes. But the training of an AI is not piracy because no copying takes place.
A lot of people have a very vague, nebulous concept of what copyright is all about. It isn’t a generalized “you should be able to get money whenever anyone does anything with something you thought of” law. It’s all about making and distributing copies of the data.
No, because training an AI is not “pirating.”
Breaking: Two people whose fortunes depend on the existing world order urge lawmakers to ban something new that could disrupt that order.
Some years back I was in a D&D campaign where doppelgangers became a major ongoing concern. It turned out that in that case doppelgangers built up their image of the person they wanted to mimic through careful observation, but thanks to the general prudishness of society doppelgangers rarely ever caught glimpses of peoples’ genitals. So we ultimately came up with the “crotch check” system. Doppelgangers usually couldn’t form plausible genitalia.
There have been stupider border disputes between Canada and the US.
Frankly, I think symbolism is useful here. If the Americans are going to play stupid games then I’m fine with a little pageantry to draw attention to those stupid games.
Biden says he could’ve defeated Trump — and wasn’t surprised by Harris’ loss
Ah, so he thinks the thing he did that went so badly was bowing out of the race and letting Harris try?
Huh, “only” 69 years old. He’ll likely be around for a while.
Electric vehicles are very much not top-heavy. They are typically built with the batteries as a platform along the bottom, lowering their centers of gravity significantly. If anything this has become somewhat of a problem, road barriers aren’t designed with such low centers of gravity in mind and testing has shown that some EVs tend to go under barriers when they hit them.