UltraMagnus

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[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't bombing civilians just make it more likely that the survivors will take up extremist stances, though? From a long term standpoint, attacking civilians is always a bad move if your goal is peace/stability. I feel like the last hundred years has been a lesson in this

Maybe I'm missing context, though, since the comment you replied to was removed by mod.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~The article is 5 paragraphs long. Is it really that hard to read it and answer your question?~~ Nevermind, I think I misread your comment. Sorry!

What Sony is specifically trying to do is see if any AI song can be traced to specific songs- e.g., if someone prompted "make me a song in the style of Lady Gaga", would Sony be able to conclusively determine this based on the outputting song?

I am a bit skeptical of this working, but then again, there were some image generators spitting out gettysburg watermarks.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you misread it - 71% said drive. 29% is still pretty bad, but it is kind of a "who is buried in grants tomb" question.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, it's disingenuous for him to bring up all the time used for humans to evolve as well. If we're going to go that far, we also ought to include the energy/time used by the engineers who created ChatGPT, and all the energy used by plants/animals in the evolution leading to those engineers. Not to mention all the time/energy/training of all the people who created the training data over the past few centuries.

Frankly, at that point, any human artist is more "efficient" than AI - they're able to master their field in mere decades.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I think if he meant it that way he would have said that, instead of talking about the energy that humans use and particularly talking about food.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think it's fair to expect students to use computers in a programming class. I don't know if there's a need for students to be using computers for the entire school day

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Yep - I've already been bugging my grandma to get a passport so that she will be able to vote if SAVE act passes (she changed her name when she married, but doesn't have a passport since she's never left the country). Gotta avoid doomerism and make the fascists fight for every inch we can.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm torn on this - Christianity (particularly evangelical christianity) has had an extremely negative effect on democracy in our country and has caused physical harm to others.

However, I think most people with a conscience subscribe to some form of philosophy or religion (even if atheists aren't "loyal" to any particular perspective and may not even use titles/categories to describe their value system) and I think it's fine for your morals/conscience to influence decision making. Even a purely scientific decision making process could be considered a form of philosophy.

That being said, most organized religion is about obedience to the tenets of said religion, not a method of asking questions about the world to try to find the most just way to proceed.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Exactly. I can understand being glad the mafia boss is dead, but it's a "change in management" not liberation

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think that's a fair perspective - though I am certainly concerned about Trump starting wars without going through congress, as well as the precedent this sets for invading other countries without cause. (Granted, historically, the US has done both, but that doesn't make it right). Additionally, this could just mean Venezuela swaps out this dictator for a US-friendly dictator.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a bad position to be in. If they crash it will be bad, but if they keep growing and then crash it could be worse.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 16 points 3 months ago

Worse, it's a few megabytes of selfhosted storage. Data on a server you own that you are not allowed to access.

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