Peruvian_Skies @ Peruvian_Skies @kbin.social

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I enjoyed many parts the show but didn't love it obsessively like some people. I think that it's popular because

1. it's geeky and fourth-wall-breaky - which is where the "high IQ" idea comes from,
2. it's actually completely accessible to low-IQ people, as evidenced by the fact that it's popular with people who brag about having a high IQ,
3. it's silly and slapstick, which when combined with point (1) creates
4. constant reversals of expectation, which are a very effective form of humor,
5. it's in-your-face and edgy, which appeals to people who like to think of themselves as rejecting the mainstream, despite still being very mainstream, and finally
6. it is extremely memeable.

A winning formula regardless of the writers' creativity. And some episodes had a pretty creative premise. The Microverse Battery episode could stand side by side with The Simpsons before The Simpsons turned into a parody of itself.

There's an important difference: those guys are all dead, and so are their victims. Somebody's great great great great grandmother won't retroactively become more abused just because you look at a painting.

It isn't about enjoying art created by someone who did awful things, it's about continuing to reward that someone with fame and fortune and giving them free passes to do more awful things just because they have a talent that you appreciate. It's about valuing aesthetics over morals. By all means, continue to enjoy art made by scumbags. I do. Just don't continue to bankroll their abuse of others after you find out that they're scumbags.

That's the problem with crimes without witnesses. It's your word against mine, and the world is full of people who commit these crimes but also full of people who, knowing that this is the situation, will falsely accuse others of them. Without major privacy violations becoming the norm, it's a pickle I don't really see a way out of: somebody will continue to get the short end of the stick.

Oh, so it's not Mastodon itself that was rejected, just that the network effect isn't big enough yet. That makes a lot of sense.

I agree. Cartels, which are what we have now between Meta, Twitter and Google, are just as bad as monopolies.

Meh. Does it really matter which psychopathic, emotionally stunted billionaire steals your personal data and controls your access to information? It's not like they won't sell it all to each other under the table for the right price anyway. What people have to do is get out from under the thumbs of anyone in Zuck or Musk's position.

What's so bad about Mastodon that so many people gave up on it? Microblogging isn't really my cup of tea, but I had a look out of curiosity and it seemed to have all the right ingredients, including several large media/celebrity accounts to follow.

The concepts themselves are some 30 years old, but storage capacity and processing speed have only recently reached a point where generative AI outperforms competing solutions.

But regarding the regulation thing, I don't know what was said or proposed, and this is just me playing devil's advocate: but could it be that the CEO simply doesn't agree with the specifics of the proposed regulations while still believing that some other, different kind of regulation should exist?

On the flip side, the same battle is also fought between giant corporations that amass intellectual property and the people who want to actually use that intellectual property instead of letting it sit in some patent troll's hoard until a lawsuit op presents itself. Seeing as there are quite a few reasonably decent open-source LLMs out there like Koala and Alpaca also training on data freely available on the Internet, I'm actually rooting for the AI companies in this case, in the hopes of establishing a disruptive precedent.

I'd share your optimism if Zuck hadn't come out with Threads to the apparently very positive reception it's had. A lot of people who are on Twitter are also on Facebook/Instagram and the ease of extending those accounts to Threads means that most of them, when they get fed up with Musk, will just trade one giant social media corporation for another and nothing will change.

Joke's on you, I used math to exponentiate my last 12 cents by hyperbolic paraboloid and now I'm a billionaire.

probably

Citation needed

several examples of non-cryptocurrency Blockchain applications

lol North Korea and drug cartels

I'm sorry, I wrote my reply under the assumption that you were having this conversation in good faith. Now that I see that it isn't the case, I'll excuse myself. Have a great week.

My bank uses Blockchain to validate transactions. Yours probably does too. It also has applications in supply chain management, public and private record keeping of various kinds (such as patient records, real estate ownership records and basically any historical record where each entry is immutable and continues to matter even after several newer entries have been made), digital voting systems , energy trading/grid management and other DeFi applications other than cryptocurrencies, and more. I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty confident that its impact on the world economy has been and will continue to be much larger than generative AI's, at least of current-gen generative AI.

The real difference is in visibility. Blockchain is a background technology, running things silently, while LLMs are directly interacted with by the general public.

Great comparison. Like Blockchain, LLMs are an amazing technology with several potential applications. Like Blockchain, and every other technology, there is a lot more that they can't do than what they can. Like Blockchain, they're being hyped as the This Changes Everything that will finally bring us into "the future" (whatever that is). And finally, like with Blockchain, the people doing the most hyping are the ones that understand the least about the technology.

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I am an intelligent adult, as is demonstrated by my collection of overpriced cartoon dolls.

Anything with lots of fiber, especially darker leaves like kale. The less cooked, the better. But a warm enema can also help a lot in a dire situation.