Leon

The AIs we want vs the AIs we got. :(

My work computer has 32 gigs, it’s the only computer in my home with Windows on it. If I sit with teams and a browser open it’s sat at 12,2GB.

Lfmao. Good luck running Windows 11 with that.

I love Adrian Tchaikovsky’s books, but the Shadows of the Apt felt pretty slow to me. I’ve read through the first three books (I think) and I don’t remember much other than the setting being neat. Haven’t read Echoes of the Fall at all.

Highly recommend the Children of Time series, the third book in particular gets me sobbing every time. The Final Architecture was great too, and I enjoyed Cage of Souls.

I think there’s a difference between say a sequencer that has a machine learning model behind it, and a model that’s trained on stolen music that takes words as input and outputs slop.

If you look at Synthesizer V for example, the voice providers were compensated and aware of what they are signing up for. The providers in the past back when it was concatenative synthesis who didn’t feel comfortable with a machine learning library, haven’t gotten one (e.g. Cangqiong). It’s also a much smaller company operating on a different scale. You won’t find Kanru Hua or Dreamtonics lobbying the American government bribing the U.S. president so they can be above the law. Sure, nowadays I’m sure they rent a server farm for their training, but I recall Hua training the initial models on his PC in the late 201Xs.

I think for me personally that’s where the sweet spot is, machine learning used to be a helpful tool in a creative process. Whether it replicates a voice, or an instrument, or helps filter noise. It can be done in a manner that doesn’t involve theft or the ruination of communities.

You can just not and say you did. Then again Nazis get really angry about anything. Say you enjoy spicy food as a white person. Date a person of a different race. Kiss a person of a different gender. Be not-white. Be a woman. Fucking say that people that aren’t white men deserve equal rights.

My dear mother did this too! We don’t speak.

I guess I just don’t see what vegans have to do with it if they’re essentially saying “it baffles me when meat eaters are surprised by predators predating.”

You think vegans are more likely to be surprised that predators eat other animals? I don’t see the relationship there.

We have a really small wolf population here in Sweden, so small that we’ve had to fortify it on multiple occasions. Even so, you have these useless careless animal keepers that get really up in arms when a wolf (or a fox, even) goes and kills some of their animals, even though they often don’t even have proper fencing set up.

It’s ridiculous, because there are organisations that will help you fence your animals, there’s monetary aid to be had for it too. Not keeping your animals safe is a choice, and I don’t think it’s fair to put the blame on the wild animals.

Even so, there will be animals lost to predators, and that’s just part of the business. If you don’t want to lose animals, don’t get them.

I know. It’s how what China and the Soviets had wasn’t communism. A relatively small group of people climb up top and ruin everything, as they always have.

This was my initial reaction too. I am making the assumption that less than ten still means not zero.

I rarely leave reviews so I’m surprised that 50% of all releases even see a single one.

But you know that capitalism is so good because the free market ensures that there’s so much variety and choice in quality and innovation.

When I read “injured hammerer” I initially read hammer, which made me think of an ARK Survival Evolved bug from years back. This was more unhinged though.

Regardless; vehicles, I believe, are basically just dinosaurs without a lot of the dinosaur-ish abilities, as far as the code is concerned. At least that used to be the case. When rafts were initially implemented, they’d forgotten to disable the hunger functionality on them, because over time your raft would starve to death.

Only if it’s for eating later.

Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.

Personally, nothing on PornHub.

What is even the point of these robots? Like, will he provide the operators as well? Do I have to employ someone to work my robot? Am I supposed to use a robot as a proxy? I don’t get what’s being sold.

It’s not just a writing quirk — it’s a blatant signalling of poor ethics.

I’d forgotten that he’s not Ben Shapiro.

And Trump.