Eatspancakes84 @ Eatspancakes84 @lemmy.world

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I know my way around the Jolly Roger myself. At the same time using copyrighted materials in a commercial setting (as OpenAI does) shouldn’t be free.

I am also not really getting the argument. If I as a human want to learn a subject from a book I buy it ( or I go to a library who paid for it). If it’s similar to how humans learn, it should cost equally much.

The issue is of course that it’s not at all similar to how humans learn. It needs VASTLY more data to produce something even remotely sensible. Develop AI that’s truly transformative, by making it as efficient as humans are in learning, and the cost of paying for copyright will be negligible.

Oh I mean, I am cynical as well. First about whether she’ll push through. Second, about congress agreeing. Just pointing out that the discussion on the rate is not so important.

Yes, but no. Yes if you sell your asset at a gain you pay taxes. However, if you don’t realize your gain and instead use your asset as a collateral in a loan, you don’t pay taxes. That’s why the rich pay no taxes whatsoever. For instance, Bezos has 2 bln in outstanding loans. As a collateral he uses his 200 bln share in Amazon. He never pays taxes.

The proposal by Harris would fix this and tax gains prior to realization. If she succeeds that is a much bigger deal than whether the rate is 20,30 or 40 percent.

The much bigger question is whether Harris will succeed in taxing unrealized capital gains (as her campaign plans). Currently all the gains of the very rich are unrealised meaning they don’t pay any taxes. It doesn’t even matter if the rate is 22 percent or 40 percent. I actually really like Harris’ proposal of first fixing the system before hiking the rates

Just to add, a healthy democracy has a first and second round where the second round has only 2 candidates.

Absolutely, but also when you consider ethical challenges (copyright, livelihood of artists), sustainability challenges (energy use) etc. The use cases that you describe are not nearly as controversial as LLMs like ChatGPT.

The current generation of data hungry AI models with energy requirements of a small country should be replaced ASAP, so if copyright laws spur innovation in that direction I am all for it.

Things will yet change, and they’ll change for the worse. All of the media prefer a close race. There will be October surprises and even if they’re complete BS, the few swing voters that will finally start tuning in, will once again conclude that both parties are the same. Anyway, what I am trying to say is, don’t believe the polls. Vote

Legalising cannabis is a slippery slope towards abolishing the DEA, which would be very detrimental… to the people working at the DEA that is.

Trump gives tax cuts to the rich. Rich people own the media. This has always been true, but with the extreme increase in inequality, it’s never been worse. There’s no longer a liberal media.

They are right wing. The main issue is that it’s just impossible to convince the MAGA crowd to vote in their own best interest. So instead the battle ranges around suburbanites, who are generally well off and don’t want to change the system too much.

Just another example that in Trump world only one thing counts: Trump. There are no principles . America does not come first. It’s really just him. Incredible how people can vote for someone like that.

This is really traditional media pretending to still be relevant. No one will tune in live for the interview who is not already addicted to politics. People will share clips afterwards, but some (many?) will be deepfakes.

The point is that progressives voted for her. The narrative that Bernie-bros stayed home has been debunked several times. Relative to Biden in 2020, she was indeed missing the votes of centrists.

Progressives always say this, and they are unfortunately always wrong. Face it, if you are progressive you won’t sit this election out. If you are centrist you might (or you’ll vote Trump).

Actually I heard this was happening with the Biden debate. No wonder he looked confused when an idiot is standing next to you screaming. I have to say, I hadn’t considered that issue before.

Watch NY Dems fuck it up (again). More seriously I think it’s very likely that the presidency and the house will move in the same direction. Gerrymandering and the electoral college both favor the GOP in the same way. Even in 2016 when Dems won the popular vote by a mile, the GOP still took both the house and the presidency.

There’s a huge difference between day/night storage which is sufficient for most locations in the world that are somewhat closer to the equator, and seasonal storage. We have no good solution for seasonal storage at the moment.

And that would totally also apply to white people, right? … right?