Evinceo

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[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

His initial premise is so damned stupid that there's probably nothing to salvage so I'm not reading it. He gives zero credence to the idea that whatever metric he grabbed for men should be a linear correlation to IQ might... not be? Then ploughs on with an explanation that allows him to do Trans discourse. Fuck off with that.

Here's an alternate theory: you only know about out trans folks. Trans folks will only come out if they think they're likely to not be beaten to death. Therefore you will see more trans folks at IT jobs and fewer at construction sites, because IT workers sit in chairs all day and many couldn't beat someone to death even if they tried. Plus having lots of money helps insulate you from the risk of ending up living on the fucking street. Seriously if this guy just thought about it for like ten seconds he'd realize his data was skewed.

Also, anyone who's ever experienced being a teenage boy probably understands exactly how dumb Testosterone makes you firsthand, complete with specific stories.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

It's probably half the training set, considering it's based on scraped web and of all the web, there is the most web of internet atheist debating. Acres and acres of such web.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How much do I need to smoke to get in this level of naval gazing?

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

e-commerce is better than the moon landing

Most reasonable PG fans

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

I still don't think cortical electrodes should even be described as a direct interface. A direct interface would speak action potential and connect to your spinal cord, like Ghost in the Shell or The Matrix. I do not see a lot of people lining up to test what would probably entail having your brainstem dissected!

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Nostradamus play.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The all‐enveloping tactile environment is now widely available and fully convincing. Its resolution equals or exceeds that of human touch and can simulate (and stimulate) all of the facets of the tactile sense, including the sensing of pressure, temperature, textures, and moistness.

I'm picturing the VR dildo-suit from Upload.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Judging by my extensive arguing with people like this on reddit they fall into one of two camps:

  • Once bigcorp creates panicea AIs, they won't need to pirate anymore because they will be able to ask ChatGPT to make all the movies and music they need.

  • They don't think that additional copyright protections will ever be able to touch Microsoft and can only ever hurt the little guy.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

Poof, species extinct.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Gravity and Juiceros

Gravity is what allows a cinder block to replace tour Jucero.

Thanks for reminding me about Jucero.

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago

Cory, who claims to be a leftist

I read one of his books and I gotta tell ya, his idea of scifi was 'what if the people negatively impacted by DRM were oppressed minorities instead of just first world complainers.'

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago (19 children)

Suppose Universal et al. gets a precedent-setting ruling and slays OpenAI. LOL, LMAO even, but then what? What’s to keep the current entertainment cartels from making deals with Microsoft or the husks of the AI companies to rev up their own (now) fully legal and licensed bullshit engines?

I think it remains to be seen if you can train a base model without something as big as common crawl. A precedent that Universal needs to give you permission could also be a precedent that everyone must give you permission for you to scrape them.

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