Imagine not creating your own universe and going through nucleosysnthesis to create your own silicon. People these days have no sense of craft…

Given that photocopiers can do a scribes job (copy the text on this page onto a new page), more quickly and accurately to boot, I presume you are part of a pressure group to pay them pensions.

Should we also insist that archives dont use photocopiers and instead have scribes copy everything by hand?

Thats actually quite interesting, you could make the argument that that is an image of “a pure white conpletly flat pure white object with zero content”, its just taken your description of what you want the image to be and given an image of an object that satisfies that.

I didn’t say anything about how prices work in a shortage, but I also sincerely doubt a 4% increase in 6 years (so 0.7% annually) is going to cause any shortages.

The study this cites has data centre (so not just AI but all internet stuff) rising to 300TWh by 2030. Two years ago the USA’s power usage was 4000TWh a year. So in about 6 years time they estimate that data centres will be using about 8% of 2022’s electricity usage, up from currently about 4%. An increase sure, but hardly one that’s going to move electricity prices significantly.

You could make exactly the same argument for installing software onto your computer, it is an attack vector and going through microsoft’s store or your distro’s repos gives a level of curation. So should desktop users be prevented/scared off from installing what software they want because it’s a security issue?

Your grandmother (or great grandmother depending how old you are) had to spend hours of hard labour every day to wash clothes dishes and rooms with just a tub of water a broom and a mop. Now all that takes maybe 20 minutes of light labour with a vacuum, dishwasher and washing machine. Technology absolutely has reduced drudgery

Lots of people spout this conspiricy theory, but Ive yet to hear a good reason why he had to be sued into naking the purchace (after making price manipulating statements) if it was some sinister plan.

Far more likely hes just a fuck up.

woah woah woah, lets have less of this looking at reality here. We all know generative AI is a fad that never works for anything and anyone using it is an idiot, we don’t need to have our prejudices challenged

They might not make a profit, but Altman will be able to extract a lot of wealth by using 7% of a billions of dollars valuation. Even if he doesn’t sell any he can use it as collateral against loans to effectively turn them into cash.

But there’s nothing to stop a stalker just making another account to follow you if they really want to. I dont see blocking doing much good there as there is no such thing as being able to stop your public posts being viewed, because they’re public.

I still think its a bad idea to remove blocking just becuase people want to remove things they dont want to see (like right wing billionaire arseholes) but I dont think giving people a false sense of security is a good reason against it.

Feel free to enlighten me (and others who’ve said the same) with your superior knowledge of how timestamps of ads stay constant when they are of different lengths.

I presumed you were refering to this which was quite high profile at the time.

Thats was a. From years before proton, b. from a dev renowned for being linux hostile, c. ignores the fact that linux users are far more likely to be technical and likely to submit a proper bug report rather than shrugging and moving on.

Adtech? Fuck no I have self respect.

So then after one person has had 2 ads that last a total of 40 seconds and another has had 2 that lasted 70 the timing is completly off for how far into the videos the ads are

Right but the swedish pampers ad and the walmart as will be different lengths so the timings wont be the same

It was, originally. GPT-2 was eventually released after some push back from openAI and the models prior to that were fully released immediately. Its been apparent for quite a while that OpenAI have been transitioning from a non-profit org interested in pushing technology forward to a VC backed monopoly-seeking company. The big Altman putsch/counter putsch was just the solidfying of that.

No, stick rod in / pull rod out doesn’t really need deep learning to make work well :p