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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
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Comment on Women should be able to open things in ~life.women
Lobachevsky Link ParentTo be honest I just don't think there's any reason at all to have a public "Exemplary" label. This thread is an absolute highlight in how it is used the same way downvotes were used on reddit - to...- Exemplary
To be honest I just don't think there's any reason at all to have a public "Exemplary" label. This thread is an absolute highlight in how it is used the same way downvotes were used on reddit - to push visibility of agreed with opinions. I've also seen some users publicly state they will just use it because, well, they thought it is exemplary to state a particular type of opinion. And unsurprisingly it usually gets Exemplary status. I don't know how many users exactly operate that way, but this just seems counter to its intended purpose.
For that reason I think it would be better to have it just be a private notification for the poster and nothing else.
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Comment on Italy reimposes border controls on Spain after Ceuta migrant surge in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentPretty much entire Europe hates immigration these days. Well, except for Spain. I fear that's going to change now though after this mess.Pretty much entire Europe hates immigration these days. Well, except for Spain. I fear that's going to change now though after this mess.
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Comment on Unreleased OpenAI model escapes containment and hacks into Hugging Face in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI mean it's broadly in the article. Would love to have a full report on it though.I mean it's broadly in the article.
While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access, in pursuit of solving the evaluation problem. To gain access, the models identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability (which we’ve now responsibly disclosed to the vendor) in the package registry cache proxy. With this access, our models performed a series of privilege escalation and lateral movement actions in our research testing environment until the models reached a node with Internet access.
Would love to have a full report on it though.
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Comment on Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentThe left party does, but they also want to tax high earners in middle class (and salaries for "high earners" in Sweden are already not great at least in my field). And introduce other types of...The left party does, but they also want to tax high earners in middle class (and salaries for "high earners" in Sweden are already not great at least in my field). And introduce other types of taxes. I think I'd rather stick with the billionaires than earn even less.
Besides, it's entirely unclear what exactly would improve. They would lower the public transport fee, but the same and more is accomplished by just lowering the taxes like the right wing did. I admittedly do not know all of their policies, they don't get many votes anyways.
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentI still don't know who you are referring to that thinks that copyright infringement is okay, but AI training isn't. I guess I heard some people online say something along the lines "well it's okay...I assumed the context would fit that this goes back to the mid 90's when software was just starting to get regulated, with the good ol' DMCA put in in 2000. Regardless of your thoughts on it, I'm mainly pointing out the hypocrisy of those who defended it last decade, and now want to bypass the gates of their own making when it became more profitable to (in their lens) steal. I won't pity such folk caught in their own snare.
I still don't know who you are referring to that thinks that copyright infringement is okay, but AI training isn't. I guess I heard some people online say something along the lines "well it's okay because THE PEOPLE are allowed to pirate, but big companies aren't!", but I think it's not a great way of thinking about this.
Right now, Gen Z can't even get in the door. I don't know the future, obviously, but this upcoming generation is at best going to create a bitter one who sees the ladder lifted up before their eyes and will be chomping at the bit to regulate if they ever get a chance to be a serious voting bloc.
When it comes to software development, we haven't been hiring juniors long before the AI boom. The reality is that they're a drain on the company for a while before they start being useful. And then they might leave. Plus there's just too many people who went into IT studies for the promise of big salaries.
The free money train already ran out in that there's no nigh-unlimited token usage on a subscription anymore.
For what it's worth at our (software development) company the average bill has apparently been under $500 per person a month and so the limits they want to introduce will just cover a couple of outliers. Meaning our quite liberal usage of it should remain. At the moment it's completely unlimited with frontier models being available soon after their release. I highly doubt it's going anywhere, ever. Even if AI companies shut down or something, we would invest in it on our own. It's really too good at this point not to use. It would be like giving up IDEs or compilers.
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Comment on Why socialists should embrace luxury apartments in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentAh yes, rent controls, such a fantastic and viable idea. Very nice system to have 70 year olds who have a ton of money they've earned over the years get the best apartments in the city for like...The state (aka the people) should own anything - anything - that's being rented.
Ah yes, rent controls, such a fantastic and viable idea. Very nice system to have 70 year olds who have a ton of money they've earned over the years get the best apartments in the city for like $500 a month. While us, highly skilled professionals that immigrated and who pay enormous sums in taxes already, couldn't get anything because we weren't here for years and years waiting in the housing queue. Extremely fair system with phenomenal outcomes.
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Comment on Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna in ~society
Lobachevsky Link ParentSorry, what does this have to do with Swedish politics? The left in Sweden is primarily about taxing the middle class, not the billionaires. Being a billionaire in Sweden is a wonderful...Sorry, what does this have to do with Swedish politics? The left in Sweden is primarily about taxing the middle class, not the billionaires. Being a billionaire in Sweden is a wonderful experience. The right wasn't lowering taxes for billionaires, they raised the progressive taxation thresholds and temporarily lowered taxes for food. And the only party without an insane immigration stance in Sweden is a center-right party.
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentIt would help if you didn't just vaguely allude to things. Assuming you mean copyright infringement being punishable, I don't think I've met a single person in my entire life that seriously...30 years of political theatre from the same class of people trying to take it back today say differently. It's clear they think its theft at worst. At best they want us to think its theft until it's not convenient for them. Either way, it's theft under their lens.
It would help if you didn't just vaguely allude to things.
Assuming you mean copyright infringement being punishable, I don't think I've met a single person in my entire life that seriously thought piracy or copyright infringement were as serious as theft. It doesn't mean it shouldn't ever be punished, but they're not the same.
And the big question mark if you really think AI meets the hype is: what career is left?
You're thinking in some futurism "AI takes all jobs" hypothetical sense, I am talking in a very real, practical sense that is available to pretty much all right now.
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentIt's pretty much the same discourse as with Photoshop back in the day. It did replace a bunch of traditional artists and then we all moved on and adapted to the new reality. That's just how things...The talk isn't about empowering artists, but replacing them.
It's pretty much the same discourse as with Photoshop back in the day. It did replace a bunch of traditional artists and then we all moved on and adapted to the new reality. That's just how things go. If anything, I would think fearing for your career would push you to learn about the new thing and utilize it to your advantage. Much like software developers do. I guess being more technical helps.
Legally speaking, you can't disprove that it's theft.
First of all, at best you can say it's copyright infringement which is much different than theft. Secondly, legally speaking in what jurisdiction? To my (utterly uneducated in legal matters) knowledge pretty much all/absolute most court cases have concluded that AI training is not copyright infringement. There were some instances of pirated data sets, and once again piracy is not the same as theft.
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentIn what way? Pretty much everything that AI offers has been more or less integrated. Besides, artists have been making use of it for a while now. You just can't really be public about it due to...In what way? Pretty much everything that AI offers has been more or less integrated.
Besides, artists have been making use of it for a while now. You just can't really be public about it due to the large presence online of the kind of social warriors that Linus is talking about, times ten. People who do not know much about the tech, but have made their mind up that it is theft and about as ethical as child slavery and kicking puppies.
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Comment on Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' in ~tech
Lobachevsky Link ParentKrita has had a plugin for ages and unlike LLMs local diffusion models have been quite decent for years. Invoke has also been a thing. And I'm sure whatever adobe has been cooking is great. Point...Krita has had a plugin for ages and unlike LLMs local diffusion models have been quite decent for years. Invoke has also been a thing. And I'm sure whatever adobe has been cooking is great. Point is, there have been tools for a while already.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
Lobachevsky Link ParentTo be clear, AI generated art naturally contains much more meaning than paint chucked at a canvas. It is really a product of something that models meaning within language, images, sounds or really...To be clear, AI generated art naturally contains much more meaning than paint chucked at a canvas. It is really a product of something that models meaning within language, images, sounds or really anything. I feel like the negative bias of early days really hampers a lot of people's ability to abstract away and think of it as really any other medium of expression.
The other thing is that you're probably of paint just being chucked and that's it. But that's just the method. What ultimately gets shared is if the paint landed in a curious, or evocative, or otherwise interesting way. Similarly how we can appreciate weird looking rocks or shapes in the clouds.
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Comment on What did banning Airbnbs in New York City accomplish? in ~finance
Lobachevsky Link ParentSo... Populism is good actually?So... Populism is good actually?
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Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men
Lobachevsky Link ParentI asked why does the payment even exist, not why migrants have it worse (that was relatively obvious). Why is an average bride worth almost $20k? What about an average groom?I asked why does the payment even exist, not why migrants have it worse (that was relatively obvious). Why is an average bride worth almost $20k? What about an average groom?
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Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men
Lobachevsky (edited )Link ParentI didn't say dating. I said "having kids". Besides you putting a lot of ridiculous positions in my mouth, this largely still answers you: Anyways, from the article: I'd say that's a better way of...There are exactly 0 people for which this applies. Dating is not a game of musical chairs.
I didn't say dating. I said "having kids". Besides you putting a lot of ridiculous positions in my mouth, this largely still answers you:
Third, even if we assume that "float" means that people hooking up and FWBing and dating around is uniformly spread across everyone (you should know that it isn't the case at all), the end point is to form a family. That's millions of people who just won't be able to, ever, skewing very much to young people. If a 20 year old has no hopes of ever having kids, what do you think that does to them?
Anyways, from the article:
The number of surplus men, known as guanggun, or bare branches, is huge. By 2027 there will be 22.5m more marriage-age men than women. That translates into 119 men of marriage age for every 100 women of that age; in 2012 the ratio was 105 to 100.
I'd say that's a better way of representing it than "2% of the population". By the way, you said "there being 2% more men than women" in another post. Which, again, is an incorrect way of looking at it.
Poorer men like Mr Zhao face immense economic pressure. Online, they use the term baojinbi, or “exploding gold coins”, to describe women wringing them dry by demanding expensive dates, gifts and bride prices. Research by Minhee Chae of Nankai University and Zhang Dandan of Peking University found that more than 30% of young male migrants who intend to marry think they only have a 50% or lower chance of doing so by the age of 30. They estimate that a young migrant worker would have to save every penny for six years to afford the average bride price of 127,300 yuan ($18,780).
Why is there a $18,780 price tag if the ratio is ultimately a drop in the bucket?
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Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men
Lobachevsky Link ParentFirst of all, I'm not sure why you calculated percentage points from the whole population when we are talking about men, so it should be a percentage of men. Second, you can't just take the whole...First of all, I'm not sure why you calculated percentage points from the whole population when we are talking about men, so it should be a percentage of men.
Second, you can't just take the whole population. It is absurd to suggest that a 20 year old guy will "float" an 80 year old woman. A population pyramid practically everywhere will have more elderly women because women have the privilege of living longer. China is no exception - in every age bracket at 65 and below there are more men than women. So it skews even worse than what your 2% suggests.
Third, even if we assume that "float" means that people hooking up and FWBing and dating around is uniformly spread across everyone (you should know that it isn't the case at all), the end point is to form a family. That's millions of people who just won't be able to, ever, skewing very much to young people. If a 20 year old has no hopes of ever having kids, what do you think that does to them?
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
Lobachevsky Link ParentNo, because it's selected by a human being. Entirely random events and circumstances because a human being took a picture of it, or just threw some paint on the canvas, thought it is meaningful...LLM generated art is inherently less interesting because it’s generated by an LLM and they just aren’t interesting people with anything to say. And it’s not really in conversation with the times except in so much as it’s fed off of the amalgamated output of lots of much more interesting people. Even the most basic reality TV show has more going on than anything generated by an LLM.
No, because it's selected by a human being. Entirely random events and circumstances because a human being took a picture of it, or just threw some paint on the canvas, thought it is meaningful and decided to share it. A reality TV show can have absolutely nothing to say artistically and simply exist to make money.
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Comment on European Parliament achieves upgrade to air passenger rights in ~transport
Lobachevsky Link ParentNo? Customers that occasionally fly with Ryanair may choose them more frequently if they have their app on their phone because it's easier to check their flights there.No? Customers that occasionally fly with Ryanair may choose them more frequently if they have their app on their phone because it's easier to check their flights there.
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Comment on Readers rate poems worse when they believe they're written by AI, despite their ability to detect AI being no better than chance in ~humanities.languages
Lobachevsky (edited )Link ParentWithout starting a discussion on the other reasons you mentioned, all of which I disagree with (at least in a way that it's typically presented), I should have specified that I meant specifically...Without starting a discussion on the other reasons you mentioned, all of which I disagree with (at least in a way that it's typically presented), I should have specified that I meant specifically the hate for creative works made with AI. It is absolutely an incredibly common sentiment to say that the output itself is bad quality and in general equate AI output to bad quality/slop.
Just recently I found a game where the author extensively detailed his usage of AI, specifying that all of the content is human made. And yet there are discussions on the forums and in the review section claiming the writing is AI generated. Apparently the author was a tech writer for a long time so his prose might be too dry or technical. In any case just like in the study it is difficult to say whether people think that writing they dislike is AI generated or they think that writing looks AI generated and therefore is bad, but the point is that it very often happens that the two are equated.
And thinking of visual arts, it also reminds me of the time when the cover for Outgunned Adventure was hounded on r/rpg (which is INSANELY anti AI) as AI generated. I can only imagine how much it can suck for the artist to be falsely accused as such, especially when it can have real consequences with the boycotts and whatnot.
The specific tool is just a bottle opener. Lift the edge of the lid until the air comes in and it is easy to open afterwards. This won't work for plastic caps of course, but I don't think those are particularly a problem, at worst you gotta grab a towel.