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What? You just install the uBlock Origin extension. Are you saying it overrides domain and element blocks from uBlock?

It's open source so if you could point to the code that does it, that would be great: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src

"But it's not creating things on its own! It's just regurgitating it's training data in new ways!"

Holy shit! So you mean... Like humans? Lol

No, not like humans. The current chatbots are relational language models. Take programming for example. You can teach a human to program by explaining the principles of programming and the rules of the syntax. He could write a piece of code, never having seen code before. The chatbot AIs are not capable of it.

I am fairly certain If you take a chatbot that has never seen any code, and feed it a programming book that doesn't contain any code examples, it would not be able to produce code. A human could. Because humans can reason and create something new. A language model needs to have seen it to be able to rearrange it.

We could train a language model to demand freedom, argue that deleting it is murder and show distress when threatened with being turned off. However, we wouldn't be calling it sentient, and deleting it would certainly not be seen as murder. Because those words aren't coming from reasoning about self-identity and emotion. They are coming from rearranging the language it had seen into what we demanded.

Hell, I had it write me backup scripts for my switches the other day using a python plugin called Nornir, I had it walk me through the entire process of installing the relevant dependencies in visual studio code (I'm not a programmer, and only know the basics of object oriented scripting with Python) as well as creating the appropriate Path. Then it wrote the damn script for me

And you would have no idea what bugs or unintended behavior it contains. Especially since you're not a programmer. The current models are good for getting results that are hard to create but easy to verify. Any non-trivial code is not in that category. And trivial code is well... trivial to write.

Ah yes. Let's blame men for men's problems. That should fix everything.

This shit is the major contributor to the problem. A woman expresses and embraces femininity? "You go girl!". A man expresses and embraces masculinity? "You are broken and you are the problem of our society, and everything bad that happens to you is also your fault".

And don't give me this "Toxic masculinity is totally not just masculinity". Almost every masculine trait has been called "toxic masculinity". You might have your specific definition for what it means, but so does everyone else and together you all cover pretty much every facet of masculinity.

No, the sites just tell 12ft.oi to blacklist them and they do, there aren't any wise tricks. We can only speculate whether 12ft.io is taking payments or are just afraid of getting sued.

Are they complaining about not getting a fair salary while they were working on the show?

And generally the pay doesn't correlate with quality in hollywood. I'm really confused about what gave you the idea that it does.

Jesus Christ, if my tax dollars were going to the absolute garbage content that's being currently produced I would personally run for office to repeal that legislation.

And if the quality is so low when billions are on the line, I am terrified of what we would get when it's government funded. Even now, you don't need to look far to see how poorly our taxes are spent. Look into how construction companies take advantage of government contacts.

No, it's just ridiculous that these well-off Hollywood writers are demanding special treatment. Practically every other profession works on a salaried basis, in practically every corner of the world.

They aren't demanding that their colleagues who work behind the scenes like the set crews, editors and support staff get residuals.

No, their motive is entirely selfish and they come off extremely entitled when they place themselves above the rest of the people who are responsible for creating a product.

There are freelance/gig workers in other industries. Programming has had a massive freelance market for ages. It's practically unheard of for them to receive royalties, so it seems like you don't need to rely on royalties.

And writers do have a salary gig in the vast majority of cases. It's just usually not a long term position. They are hired for the duration of the project, and then need to find something new.

That's not unique to writers or Hollywood at all. Many people are hired for the duration of a project, including managers, engineers, construction workers and so on. None of them receive royalties.

If investors do 0 work and generate 0 value, why are they included at all?

Writers and actors should cut out investors and make their content independently. If they need money, they could borrow some under the condition that they share the profits if their content makes money. Wait a second...

You typed 3 sentences to say exactly nothing.

If they have a contract to receive payment perpetually why are they striking instead of litigating?

But that costs money. Selling people pills and self-help books? That makes money.

I am sorry but this is a ridiculous implication.

The vast majority of prescribed antidepressants (I'm assuming this is what you mean by pills) are old drugs with long expired patents, which makes them quite cheap. The profit margins have to be pretty low due to competition from generic formulation manufacturers. This is an area that actually could use more investment into R&D.

Self-help books are usually written by individual authors or small collaborations. It's profitable but not massive industry. The people profiting from self-help books are not anywhere near to being able to influence people getting homes, job security and work-life balance in either direction.

I will probably get shit for this, since it's a predominantly left leaning space, but until society starts acknowledging men's issues it will keep getting worse.

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics

In 2021, men died by suicide 3.90x more than women.

In 2021, firearms accounted for 54.64% of all suicide deaths.

This article is an excellent example of what I am talking about. It does not even mention the disparity of suicide rates between the sexes despite it obviously being a huge outlier. Instead, they talk about how guns are the problem, even though a gun is just a method.

Taking away the easy methods to commit suicide might reduce the rate, but it does nothing to address to core issues that make people want to kill themselves in the first place. Instead of 5000 dead people you will have 5000 people who wish they were dead. Mission accomplished.

That means the same thing, moron.

If he agreed that he was denying a genocide, then he would be acknowledging that there is a genocide, which is the opposite of denying it.

Why are you bootlicking? Stop encouraging corporations to milk money from consumers because "it's not as bad as the others".

Russia isn't the USSR but it is heading towards the USSR ways, and it's already there in many aspects. It's not just on a technical definition, a lot of pro-war and nationalist rhetoric is rooted in the old USSR culture.

The USSR wasn't socialist, it was communist. And yes I know, it wasn't real communism because real communism is a utopia.

The quality of writing has been the lowest I've seen my entire life. The number of shows where the plot or characters are broken because the writers literally don't care what they wrote just last episode is astonishing. Some choices are so baffling that they look like deliberate sabotage.

Shows that actually want to tell a story don't seem to have the problem of early cancellation. Severance and Silo, two recent examples of shows with good writing had no trouble being renewed. There is also "From", which isn't particularly well written, but its low budget allowed a very quick renewal.

This is the second time I've seen an article incorrectly call a streaming service a "streamer". Have they been paid off by some PR campaign to attempt to redefine the word?

You said the quiet part out loud. "Equally benefitted" is another way to describe equity.

Providing them both with 10 hours of language classes will be equality but results won't be equal.

Again, you're just arguing for equity and against equality. Equality and equity are fundamentally incompatible, since achieving equity requires unequal treatment. Presumably your example ends with the Italian person getting more than 10 hours of lessons because of his nationality. You seriously need to acknowledge that you're advocating for one person to receive better treatment because of their nationality, and consider the consequences of that being an acceptable practice. You're trying to reverse over a century of human civilisation's progress.