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The right has very little aesthetic. Their primary symbol looks like it took 14 seconds to make on a hat at RiteAid.

I mean… clown hall anyone?

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I think of it this way — at some point it surprised me that Microsoft doesn’t claim ownership in some way to the output of Microsoft Word. I think if “word processing” didn’t exist until this point in history there’s no way you’d be able to just write down whatever you want, what if you copied the works of recently-deceased beloved poet Maya Angelou? Think of the estate? I heard people were writing down the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s latest album and printing off hundreds of copies and sharing it with people at her concerts. Someone even tried to sell an entire word-for-word copy of Harry and Megan’s last best seller on Amazon that they claimed they “created” since they retyped it themselves until the publisher shut it down.

Obviously all of those things (except my speculation about them claiming any ownership of the output, but look at OpenAI and their tool) don’t happen, but also I think people can write down their favorite poems if they want or print out lyrics because they want to or sit around typing up fan fiction with copyrighted characters all day long, and then there are rules about what they can sell with that obviously derivative content.

If someone spends forever generating AI Vegetas because Vegeta is super cool or they want to see Vegeta in a bowl of soup or whatever, that’s great. They probably can’t sell that stuff because, y’know, it’s pretty clearly something already existing. But if they spend a lot of time creating new novel stuff, I think there’s a view that (for the end user) the underlying technology has never been their concern. That’s kind of how I see it, but I can understand how others might see it differently.

Turns out it was just someone who didn’t know how to change the setting.

yeah so if I looked at a log of all that, wouldn’t I have a “extra observer” detector, then?

bro move on, nobody cares about that anymore

If you make a byte-for-byte copy of something why would you think copyright would not apply? If you listened to the dialogue of a Marvel movie, wrote it down line for line and so happened that the stage directions you wrote were identical to those in the movie, congrats, you’ve worked your way into a direct copy of something that’s under copyright. If you draw three circles by hand in exactly the right way, you might get a Mouse coming after you. If you digitally render those circles in Photoshop, same idea[/concept, yes I know one is a trademark issue].

How is the unobserved state ever known about, then?

could a record like this be used as a presence detector? Like if there was any observer who collapsed the wave function then we’d get the collapsed lines in the log, otherwise it would have indicated no observers? (obviously even what the hell is an ‘observer’ anyway?)

Yeah well republicans are the party fighting to make sure that kid can have a job

I’ve read this headline like 5 times today and I keep coming back to the idea that, absent trump, just imagine that whole sentence “angering” anyone. What assholes.

I love how women and minorities get blamed for failures in industries they barely get to participate in. Get fucked super genius.

Turns out obvious plant was an obvious plant. huh

Listen, in JD’s defense, he’s very bad at this and kind of sucks.

I love you Fender Wisconsin

He should leave the race and get therapy before he goes to prison, that is the best I can hope for him. Get out.

That and all the people who say shit like “But I have to watch the ads to support the creators”, like there wasn’t 70 years of TV advertisements preceding this generation. I know I’m talking to a kid when someone says that. No one thought they were stealing from Burt Reynolds if they didn’t buy a Chrysler or tampons. It’s absurd.

Without getting into the politics of it, the idea of going “that guy looks like a couch fucker” is a perfectly cromulent insult, and if someone wants to avoid that epithet they should look less like they want to fuck couches all the time.

Googles response no one wanted to a product no one asked for. I hope Google buys plots in the graveyard in bulk at this point.

Not downvoting you, and I understand what you’re saying. What I think is different (because I don’t think I weighed too much in on the speculation around Biden, but I was concerned about potential options, too) is that the party is actually united (which I didn’t expect at all) and, particular with Harris, she is better as a politician and leader than she was 4 years ago. She is more seasoned, she speaks more clearly (for the most part), and she is running from a position of strength (she’s already done the VP job) and isn’t trying to convince anyone she can be a credible presidential politician. It’s a much different ballgame.

For the part about uniting the party, maybe many could have done that. In terms of presidential credibility, there are very very few people anywhere near as qualified. Federal prosecutor —> AG (I voted for her) —> Senator (I voted for her) —> VP (I voted for her) all are incredibly substantial on her resume. Oh, and she already passed the first test, which is elevating another politician to the level of credible presidential politics (Hillary didn’t do that). Overall I’m really really pleased with Kamala, hope she keeps it up.