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@dcjohnson

So that is a viewpoint…

Truth and usefulness are not the same thing. A toy model doesn’t have to be hyper accurate if it makes faster and better predictions than a more realistic one.

Modeling business entities as if they were intelligent agents IS useful to predict what a company will do. It may not be strictly true: but it doesn’t have to be to be useful.

The egregoric cycle is a thing to look into for modeling behavior. They don’t have human motivations.

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@dcjohnson

So that is a viewpoint…

Truth and usefulness are not the same thing. A toy model doesn’t have to be hyper accurate if it makes faster and better predictions than a more realistic one.

Modeling business entities as if they were intelligent agents IS useful to predict what a company will do. It may not be strictly true: but it doesn’t have to be to be useful.

The egregoric cycle is a thing to look into for modeling behavior. They don’t have human motivations.

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@MartyFouts @eblu opt in, yes. Not spying - no covert action.

Unknown telemetry: spying. Informing the party of information being taken is the key distinction between spying/theft and consensual transactions. Informed consent: not uninformed assumptions of consent.

Your diction makes me want to make that clearer, as it was an apparently missed point.

Telemetry when optional, opt-in, and well informed… that’s kosher. Anything else is a dark pattern.

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@MartyFouts @eblu opt in, yes. Not spying - no covert action.

Unknown telemetry: spying. Informing the party of information being taken is the key distinction between spying/theft and consensual transactions. Informed consent: not uninformed assumptions of consent.

Your diction makes me want to make that clearer, as it was an apparently missed point.

Telemetry when optional, opt-in, and well informed… that’s kosher. Anything else is a dark pattern.

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Instead of ignoring all the protests. Maybe stop arming a genocide…

Kamala: no, it’s the progressives that are wrong.

How about we just simply stop sending over bombs…? It would be that easy - and messaging super easy - we are going to stop exploding kids because they were born in the “wrong” location because that’s just shit.

Seriously: it’s not that hard. Don’t support genocide.

You support genocide if you are quiet and accept it. Doing nothing is actively harmful.
#progressive #politics

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Instead of ignoring all the protests. Maybe stop arming a genocide…

Kamala: no, it’s the progressives that are wrong.

How about we just simply stop sending over bombs…? It would be that easy - and messaging super easy - we are going to stop exploding kids because they were born in the “wrong” location because that’s just shit.

Seriously: it’s not that hard. Don’t support genocide.

You support genocide if you are quiet and accept it. Doing nothing is actively harmful.
#progressive #politics

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@eblu personal definitions are not definitions.Any information taken is a form of spying…
The ethics of it being a good thing or not is a different conversation than about the semantics.
PII isn’t a requirement for spying. That’s not mentioning that in aggregate such ‘simple’ queries easily compose into a clear picture of the user/behavior.
Don’t defend dark patterns.

Reporting automatically without the users awareness or ability to turn it off is a dark pattern. Don’t justify it.

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@eblu personal definitions are not definitions.Any information taken is a form of spying…
The ethics of it being a good thing or not is a different conversation than about the semantics.
PII isn’t a requirement for spying. That’s not mentioning that in aggregate such ‘simple’ queries easily compose into a clear picture of the user/behavior.
Don’t defend dark patterns.

Reporting automatically without the users awareness or ability to turn it off is a dark pattern. Don’t justify it.

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@MicroSFF dream entities don’t understand consent: informed consent is needed. Only with that information would the protagonist be able to even consent properly.

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@MicroSFF dream entities don’t understand consent: informed consent is needed. Only with that information would the protagonist be able to even consent properly.

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@jvkus
Absolutely, not everything has to be pretty. I do think the pipeline for artists will start to include a AI layer (for time sensitive commercial work) to enhance speed.
I also think there will always be purists, and people that prize that...

I just don't see the bogyman other people see. I see capitalism as the bogyman - sure, but not AI... AI is literally both just a fancy calculator, and a learned latent space (of human creativity) we can explore.

Curiosity is the opposite of fear.

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@jvkus
Absolutely, not everything has to be pretty. I do think the pipeline for artists will start to include a AI layer (for time sensitive commercial work) to enhance speed.
I also think there will always be purists, and people that prize that...

I just don't see the bogyman other people see. I see capitalism as the bogyman - sure, but not AI... AI is literally both just a fancy calculator, and a learned latent space (of human creativity) we can explore.

Curiosity is the opposite of fear.

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@jvkus

I haven’t picked up a pencil until I started playing with AI. I feel you - traditional study is required to be drawing/painting at a proficient level.

I hear lamenting from people still learning: why bother…

Why bother learning chess? Why bother learning go? Why bother playing the stock market? Why bother with art? - if a machine could do it better…

Well: maybe that’s not the point of art - to make money - maybe it’s to express yourself. Can a machine do that yet?

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@jvkus

I haven’t picked up a pencil until I started playing with AI. I feel you - traditional study is required to be drawing/painting at a proficient level.

I hear lamenting from people still learning: why bother…

Why bother learning chess? Why bother learning go? Why bother playing the stock market? Why bother with art? - if a machine could do it better…

Well: maybe that’s not the point of art - to make money - maybe it’s to express yourself. Can a machine do that yet?

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@jvkus

Have you tried a workflow with ai in the pipeline? Because without that the first dismissal a critic would give is to question if your gripe is actually your unwillingness to learn a tool to integrate into your workflow giving others a competitive advantage who do.

Capitalism is the enemy: corporations will try to capture AI to replace artists. A possible answer is artists harness AI instead of soulless corporations (or ai bros with no eye or patience).

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@jvkus

Have you tried a workflow with ai in the pipeline? Because without that the first dismissal a critic would give is to question if your gripe is actually your unwillingness to learn a tool to integrate into your workflow giving others a competitive advantage who do.

Capitalism is the enemy: corporations will try to capture AI to replace artists. A possible answer is artists harness AI instead of soulless corporations (or ai bros with no eye or patience).

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“No one would vote for Bernie”

*behind the jeperdy podium* What is: gaslighting?

Well… if the elites are against him, and he’s been fighting since the goddamn 60’s… it’s time to cut the crap with ‘wouldn’t have worked’

AOC: for the next presidential race - with UBI and ranked choice voting as a platform - it’s a sure thing. Let’s get an actual progressive at the helm. Aim this country to get back on track to explore the stars and clean up the environment.

#dnc #politics #progressive

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“No one would vote for Bernie”

*behind the jeperdy podium* What is: gaslighting?

Well… if the elites are against him, and he’s been fighting since the goddamn 60’s… it’s time to cut the crap with ‘wouldn’t have worked’

AOC: for the next presidential race - with UBI and ranked choice voting as a platform - it’s a sure thing. Let’s get an actual progressive at the helm. Aim this country to get back on track to explore the stars and clean up the environment.

#dnc #politics #progressive

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@jeffjarvis I still maintain to this day: Bernie winning the presidency is the prime time line…
I mean: look around *gestures everywhere”.

I wish the democrats ran on a ‘we the people’ platform and give us an actually representational democracy. When up to 49% of votes per state are completely disregarded… when 80% of the states are locked due to gerrymandering a color… that doesn’t sound very representational to me… that sounds orchestrated to be dependent on a small crowd in select states.

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@jeffjarvis I still maintain to this day: Bernie winning the presidency is the prime time line…
I mean: look around *gestures everywhere”.

I wish the democrats ran on a ‘we the people’ platform and give us an actually representational democracy. When up to 49% of votes per state are completely disregarded… when 80% of the states are locked due to gerrymandering a color… that doesn’t sound very representational to me… that sounds orchestrated to be dependent on a small crowd in select states.

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#aiart #ai #cat #programming #humor #meme

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#aiart #ai #cat #programming #humor #meme

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@docpop
I don’t want artists to lose jobs. I don’t want companies to control AI locking out individuals. I don’t want companies to use AI to replace artists…

I can’t control if a human or a robot sees my artwork, and to try to deny access based on status (of machine or human) is authoritarian and dystopian.

Output may be a violation of copyright… but ‘just looking’ can’t… even if the thing doing the viewing is a machine. Only the output is a problem. Not the input. Training is fair use.

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@docpop
I don’t want artists to lose jobs. I don’t want companies to control AI locking out individuals. I don’t want companies to use AI to replace artists…

I can’t control if a human or a robot sees my artwork, and to try to deny access based on status (of machine or human) is authoritarian and dystopian.

Output may be a violation of copyright… but ‘just looking’ can’t… even if the thing doing the viewing is a machine. Only the output is a problem. Not the input. Training is fair use.

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@SleepyCatten agender here: waves!

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@SleepyCatten agender here: waves!

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@esther pine phone?

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@esther pine phone?

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@m_correa_m I assume they got banned from Reddit. There seems to have been a silent purging (of left leaning folk) from some of the popular mods.

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@m_correa_m I assume they got banned from Reddit. There seems to have been a silent purging (of left leaning folk) from some of the popular mods.

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@Chrishallbeck I think it’s funny due to its nebulous nature: you can’t be sure of who is missing which message.

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@Chrishallbeck I think it’s funny due to its nebulous nature: you can’t be sure of who is missing which message.

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@charlotteclymer the owner of cnn switched in 2021 to a maga republican trump supporter.
CNN has fallen. CBS is the next target probably.

Fascists don’t fight fair.

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@charlotteclymer the owner of cnn switched in 2021 to a maga republican trump supporter.
CNN has fallen. CBS is the next target probably.

Fascists don’t fight fair.

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@QasimRashid how do houses not raise in price by about 25k?

I would love the solution to be this simple… but I raise you one even simpler: seize empty assets from the bank and coordinate in state parks free distribution to new home owners.
Can’t raise the price of a house if it’s free. Sellers don’t get tempted by bad incentives, buyers get homes, homes get filled… what’s not to love?

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@QasimRashid how do houses not raise in price by about 25k?

I would love the solution to be this simple… but I raise you one even simpler: seize empty assets from the bank and coordinate in state parks free distribution to new home owners.
Can’t raise the price of a house if it’s free. Sellers don’t get tempted by bad incentives, buyers get homes, homes get filled… what’s not to love?

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@QasimRashid why do houses not get 25k more expensive

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@QasimRashid why do houses not get 25k more expensive

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Just had my first encounter with another karaoke driver/singer. I could not hear what they were singing: like two deer meeting eyes at opposite ends of a lake: we parted ways.

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Just had my first encounter with another karaoke driver/singer. I could not hear what they were singing: like two deer meeting eyes at opposite ends of a lake: we parted ways.