LarmyOfLone @ LarmyOfLone @lemm.ee

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Yeah the fascists can win even if they loose the votes by consistently whittling away at democracy. And they've already done a lot. The US needs some kind of reformation. But not just for the government, for the news and social media as well since that drives the whole constant shitshow and "loss of shared reality".

Woah way too many emojis already!

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Advertising / public relations is the science to reprogram human minds to do what you want. The technology is improving. So I see advertising as one of the great evils in our civilization which we aren't even able to discuss because every news or social media runs off of ads. It limits what content is produced by changing what content is profitable for the advertiser.

Sure there are legitimate uses to spread information - but that is not the same as "advertising". And it's also not true that we couldn't differentiate between the two.

It's also that marketing and distribution channels are increasingly important to get a "hit" making creativity less and less important. So there would also be a push to make music less "risky" and more predictable.

“displace the genuine human artistry that is at the heart of copyright protection.”

Please someone think of the poor humans... says the soulless corporate robot haha

There is a significant antipathy against AI at the moment and I fear that these emotions will lead to AI or the "tools of generation" being owned by big copyright holders forever and ever. Basically the common person won't be able to use these tools really. This makes all things AI much worse.

Of course, AI generated music will ultimately lead to the majority of the music business being entirely about marketing and capital, not about creative musical talent. Ultimately you'll have completely artificial "stars" that are simply IP and fully owned and controlled by capital. Which is not what we want, but that outcome is unavoidable. We see the start of this will this hololive stuff (which I'm too old to understand lol).

What is preferable though is that secondary artwork (movies, video, computer games) could use AI generated music without having to pay the music industry. Or that public domain "stars" that anybody can use.

EDIT: This argument assumes that AI will continue to improve and lets say in 10 years it will surpass the quality of music of 90% of human composers... basically that the quality of music will continue to rise until at some point in the future it will surpass the ability of any human composer.

Isn't the best opus audio stream from yt-dlp also basically transparent? So if you don't care for flac it's already optimal?

She’s also missing an arm in the one pic.

Does this make it abelism or disabelism? /s

Yes exactly! It's still very rare to see these arguments. I think 3D printers and things like patent trolls and video codec / av1 have made people realize the problems patents cause.

Maybe another way would be for the UN to push for legislation for some kind of "moratorium" on any patents relevant to climate change. So that the corporation people don't loose their shit.

And maybe a court system with a reimbursement scheme that is funded by many countries to reward R&D but only as something like 400% or even 1000% of investment costs - but not based on some hypothetical future loss of fantastical profits.

There is also the idea of a patentleft licenses but I don't think they would have significant impact, since not producing anything still allows you to sue and block progress.

Patents expire after 4 years; if a company came up with a patent that improves efficiency of something, keeping it behind massive fees will limit the adoption and advancement of that technology.

Wow I just ranted about this yesterday! I really hope this idea catches on. We really need to accelerate adoption of improvements.

But if there are differences, I hope you can explain them without involving any kind of “injustice” towards Russia.

Geography? Hey wait, you're trying to trick me! If I explain the differences I loose the debate!

My point is that from Russia's point of view (true or not) NATO is a hostile military alliance that has slowly been encircling Russia for the past decades. Russia's protests were ignored so after the 2014 coup supported by literal Nazis (from their point of view) they started to use military interventions. US / EU / NATO did double down on arming Ukraine with weapons so they saw themselves "forced" to invade.

I'm not excusing any of this - but these choices and events made this war predictable and inevitable. I'd go so far and say that if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine he would have been deposed by the militaristic powers he cultivated. It's like poking a bear and then crying foul when he eats your face.

Thus my example about China arming Mexico. The US would react in the exact same way, and we have ample historical evidence for that. And it's not my point that this excuses anything, it's that these things are predictable so we do carry a responsibility to deescalate, demand negotiations so Ukraine gets their land back while Russia gets security guarantees. But judging by the complete troll answer in Tuckers Putin interview that isn't in the cards right now.

But there was no resistance to this geopolitical "gambit". And now everyone is presenting a completely false version of history.

It's all the fault of anteeefa! /s

This really is accelerating.

Lol I just realized this is basically the story of Dune (God Emperor of Dune)

Thanks, good to hear!

Wow thanks I had not realized this.

Afaik Blink is a fork of WebKit. It's good there is some independent development but also safari is closed ecosystem.

Thanks that is what I was curious about. So good news!

Think of it as "throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks". That is the role of intellectuals or pundits, whatever you want to call the class that disseminates ideology / PR. There are lots of them and they spout all sorts of crazy stuff. Now basically it's like the theory of evolution through natural selection. Except as individuals we are intelligent and can make decisions like "oh that sold clicks" or "oh that helped pass that law". Who decides that? Well those who work for those that own everything and who see it as their job to increase profit.

So basically ideology is like a secretion of a specialized class that is filtered and selected to "work".

So my theory is that after decades of wealth transfer and increasing inequality, dwindling middle class and lowering of effective quality of life, you need "stronger secretions" to control the masses. Because the old ideology doesn't work any more. One word for it is late stage capitalism.

Another environmental aspect that plays into this I think is climate change - since we already failed to prevent what could result in our extinction or at least in countless genocides, what social contract remains? Why even pretend to be civilized when our civilization obviously has gone insane? Like a decadent indulgence in an orgy of hatred. Or just insanity like in "Don't look up".

How did India get like this? I imagine it's the TV and news and now internet sites that pushed a large potion of the population into this extreme right wing?

Do LLM or that AI image stuff run on CUDA?