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[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago

the internet is just... Such a shitty venue for these conversations. I have friends in the real world who disagree with me. If someone is being nasty online I feel no compunction to spend the brainpower on them. Especially as I continue to struggle with the deluge of bad news and it's affect on my mental health.

Block away, for your own health and well-being.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't you want to buy more during a plunge anyway? But low sell high and all that

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago
[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 26 points 1 month ago

"This image was generated anywhere between 3 and 3 million years ago by an AI"

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

Aphantasia is neat. I have to wonder how it affects the way we see the world. I'm 1. It doesn't really take concentration, which I see on here? it's not any harder than just a simple internal monologue anyways. But that's always in motion whether I want it or not so 🤷

That's including lights and reflections, but like that's constructed by me, and so I might imagine a light reflection incorrectly. again just like I might have a definition incorrect for internal monologue.

Anyways, sure. Imagining is part of it. Like placing yourself in the situation in front of you. I don't need adult videos to do so though. But like, having full HD imagination doesn't replace videos of any kind, or else I wouldn't watch YouTube either ya knoe

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

Right, I recall news from years ago where a bunch of celebrities' very private photos backed up to iCloud were leaked. They may or may not have known they uploaded those to iCloud, I dunno. But imagine what's up there if you don't realize you're doing a backup. Not just photos, but like scanned documents with vulnerable information. And all that personal info in a centralized server is a big ol honeypot for a malicious actor.

It's not hard to see why this is a vulnerability, is what I'm getting at.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I would question the efficiency claim. Uber and the like claimed incredible market dominance, driving local food delivery and taxi services out of business. They're only now really being forced to find profitability.

I wonder if AI is going to be similar. The powerful models right now, as I understand it, have ludicrous power requirements. I don't know their balance sheets, but in the current race to market share, I'm skeptical that most of these services are in the green.

What that ultimately says about the future I don't really know. Like it could be we reach some point where the models get better, or more specialized, or something and profit arrive. Or maybe theres a point of diminishing returns where the profit just can't be made, and once the hype falls off (and investors stop clamoring for AI) these companies will ask what they're getting for the money spent.

(And of course I could just be straight up wrong about profits today not being there.)

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago

It comes from the case against Henry Ford after he saw his company was making gobs of cash and decided to give some of that to his employees. Shareholders successfully sued him to stop this on the grounds that he has a fiduciary duty to shareholders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

As with anything legal, there is nuance, but the basic assertion that there is fiduciary duty to shareholders is not wrong.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

Why would you say that? Do you think everyone is just really jazzed about death? I think you seem to have missed the point of the outcry.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 3 points 4 months ago

You really can. Right to work, + free speech is only applicable wrt the government.

The fact that it's legal does not make it moral.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 6 points 5 months ago

Not the person you responded to, but: left economically is not left socially.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 18 points 5 months ago

Also, it's cheap to speak total bullshit, but it takes time, effort, and energy, to dispel it. I can say the moon is made of cheese, you can't disprove that. And you can go out and look up an article about the samples of moon rock we have and the composition, talk about the atmosphere required to give rise to dairy producing animals and thus cheese.

And I can just come up with some further bullshit that'll take another 30 minutes to an hour to debunk.

If we gave equal weight to every argument, we'd spend our lives mired in fact-checking hell holes. Sometimes, you can just dismiss someone's crap.

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