nebula42

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I personally hate the path that AI is going. Generative ai steals art and scrapes text to create garbage on demand using too much power and computing resources that could be spent on better purposes, such as simulating protein folding for disease research (see folding at home). u/[email protected] gave some good uses of ai.

To be honest, I think it's a severe mistake that AI is continuing to improve, as long as you aren't gullible and know what to look for, you can tell when something is ai generated, but there are too many people who are easily fooled by ai generated images and videos. When chatpgt released, I thought it was a nice toy, but now that I know the methods of which such large scale models are obtaining their data to train on, I can only resent it. So long as generative models continue to improve in accuracy of text and images, so will my hatred towards it in turn.

p.s: don't use the term "AI art" for the love of God. art captures human emotions and experiences, machines can't understand them, they are only silicon. Only humans can create art, nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I want to move to Germany in the future when I'm financially stable, and it could just be me being a pessimist, but I don't know if I can see that happening. I'll probably continue to study German out of the sunk cost fallacy because it's already way better than my Spanish.

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been studying german but lately have been thinking about switching to spanish, but considering the current state of things in the u.s it might not be a bad idea? idk

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yes this is toki pona

ni li toki pona

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I've been reading the conquest of bread and I can't understand this excerpt here:

We do not know whether the folk who call themselves "practical people" have ever asked themselves this question in all its nakedness. But we do know that they wish to maintain the wage system, and we must therefore expect to have "national workshops" and "public works" vaunted as a means of giving food to the unemployed.

Because national workshops were opened in 1789 and 1793; because the same means were resorted to in 1848; because Napoleon III. succeeded in contenting the Parisian proletariat for eighteen years by giving them public works—which cost Paris to-day its debt of £80,000,000 and its municipal tax of three or four pounds a-head;[3] because this excellent method of "taming the beast" was customary in Rome, and even in Egypt four thousand years ago; and lastly, because despots, kings, and emperors have always employed the ruse of throwing a scrap of food to the people to gain time to snatch up the whip—it is natural that "practical" men should extol this method of perpetuating the wage system. What need to rack our brains when we have the time-honoured method of the Pharaohs at our disposal?

Yet should the Revolution be so misguided as to start on this path, it would be lost.

ok, I understand doing away with wages, abolishing capitalism and the state and letting people have what they need to live regardless of their ability to give back to their communities (although they should if they are able and if there is a need). But what is the issue with public workshops? cuz that probably means something else in this context but I don't know what. And what's with all of these instances of "because"? I really don't get what he's trying to say here. Sorry if this was the wrong place to post this but I couldn't think of anywhere better.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes I know how bad (author redacted) is

 
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (20 children)

wait I'm confused how is the top middle picture anti-homeless architecture

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

mi kalama musi mute tan ni

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

how so?* also the full quote was "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am."

*I don't wanna argue, I just wanna hear your take

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What you do is you let them dissolve in your mouth, do that and they turn into at least an A tier candy trust

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ik it's a joke, but we were never men to begin with :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

kijetesantakalu

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I had one, besides, I dropped it down a flight of stairs, I think it would've been screwed regardless lol

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