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  1. Comment on Introducing ChatGPT Pro in ~tech

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    Great post! First hand experience using AI as a force multiplier instead of a labor replacement. I have not really had a chance to talk to anyone that uses AI for work. Mostly it has been doom and...

    Great post! First hand experience using AI as a force multiplier instead of a labor replacement. I have not really had a chance to talk to anyone that uses AI for work. Mostly it has been doom and gloom about it replacing people jobs, but nothing concrete.

    Full disclosure I have a lot of concerns around AI safety and where this all could end up. I less often considered what AI might do if it is not a humanity ending event. In this case AI is helping by giving you the ability to offload part of the "thinking" in your work. For example, when you talk about word smithing. It's kind of like the hand written card vs a hallmark card idea. It is much faster to choose the prewritten card that matches what you are thinking, but without having to come up with every words yourself. Like the AI generated Email. It's easier to tell it the general theme and have it pick the words, then you can just "buy the card." By not having to spend as much of your time doing the communication part of your job, you free up more time to do the actual work.

    I could see this saving huge amounts of time in my day as well. Most of my day is trying to make sure the the person getting my email/communication will understand what I'm trying to say. Speeding up effective communication could have huge potential gains for productivity.

    I can also see your point about this being like the internet though. Nothing is free and everything has a cost. The internet gave us the ability to really connect and learn from each other. Now it seems to be more of a way to divide and distract us.

    So let's look at that side of the AI coin too. What do we lose to gain this effective communication tool?

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  2. Comment on AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community in ~anime

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    These are interesting and thought provoking points. I've been thinking a lot about this since that piece made by Midjourney AI was used to win the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition. They...

    These are interesting and thought provoking points. I've been thinking a lot about this since that piece made by Midjourney AI was used to win the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition. They question I have to ask myself is "what is the point of art?" The answer I have come up with is that art in all its forms and in its broadest sense is a way to take stuff from inside your head and find a way to share it with other people. This answer has come to shape how I see this issue. In this way I cannot agree with you more art IS social. Right now, in my opinion the way we see the AI being used, diminishes the craftsmanship of art, but not art itself. And I emphasis right now, because I can see this changing in the future. However how I see these tools being used is to allow a greater pool of people access to the ability to share their ideas with other people. Before cameras only those with immense skill and craftsmanship could convert the beauty that they saw in the world into images that could be enjoyed by others. Now almost anyone can capture a moment of personal significance in a way that can be shared with others. Cameras took a slice of art that was previously locked behind years of skill crafting and gave it to the masses. Now we have AI coming in and allowing anyone to using only a few words, and a selection process the ability to construct an image from their mind into something that can be shared with others. When does art stop becoming art? Is there some level of mechanization in the process of creation that invalidates the results? In this way I go back to where I started, and to your words that resonant with me "Art is inherently a social process." I think as long as a person is involved, as long as it's human ideas being given form, as long people can be connected through it, it is art.

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  3. Comment on D&D 6th Edition announced (but they're calling it One D&D for now) in ~games.tabletop

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    I think the counter point that TheRtRevKaiser was bringing up is that you shouldn't have everyone roll for the check if only the two of the five players have a chance of success. Instead of having...

    I think the counter point that TheRtRevKaiser was bringing up is that you shouldn't have everyone roll for the check if only the two of the five players have a chance of success. Instead of having everyone roll and using an impossibly high DC to exclude people from succeeding, only allow people who can succeed the option to roll. Maybe you shouldn't let everyone roll to look for tracks in the forest, maybe you only give that roll to the druid and ranger.

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  4. Comment on Mechanical watch in ~engineering

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    Very clear and easy to understand. I didn't know I was interested in mechanical watches until I started reading, but could not stop till the end.

    Very clear and easy to understand. I didn't know I was interested in mechanical watches until I started reading, but could not stop till the end.

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  5. Comment on Even four-year-olds dislike freeloaders. Young children expect cooperation and are willing to work to sustain it. in ~science

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    Yeah, sorry about the actual paper being behind a paywall, sadly I have no way to access it either. About the rest, I think that everybody wants what's fair. Even chimps don't like freeloaders,...

    Yeah, sorry about the actual paper being behind a paywall, sadly I have no way to access it either.

    About the rest, I think that everybody wants what's fair. Even chimps don't like freeloaders, and punish it during activities that require cooperation to succeed. Maybe at some point you realize that life isn't fair, that despite you working harder, other kids might have more things than you. Or else you see that the those that cheat seem to get further ahead. I wonder if it's even possible to pinpoint any one thing, it might just be lots of little things.

  7. Comment on What if you detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench? in ~science

  10. Comment on Leo Moracchioli - Sultans of Swing (metal cover feat. Mary Spender) in ~music

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    Yeah, never heard of him till like a week or two ago, but I think his Toto cover really got him a lot of popularity, it is really well done. I also really like his cover of feel good inc.

    Yeah, never heard of him till like a week or two ago, but I think his Toto cover really got him a lot of popularity, it is really well done. I also really like his cover of feel good inc.

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