Learning from prior work is foundational to free expression.
You're taking extremely broad license with both 'learning' and 'expression' in that sentence. A parrot isn't learning to comprehend words and sounds, it's repeating back certain noises for a reward, with no comprehension of content or ability to construct something new. Making that a billion times more complex didn't change how it works, just proved how expensive that dead end to AGI is.
Expression isn't valued for being easy, if anything we have far too much low effort mediocrity to wade through as it is, and the outputs of generative AI seem to be solidly fixed there: a calculated, smoothed average of pure mid, devoid of meaning or value. It can produce a greeting-card level image of a generic family, but doesn't comprehend relationships, can't tell me why anyone is looking at each other a specific way, there's no backstory or humanity. Artists and creatives often speak of the layers and drafts that go into their work, and the learning process that comes about from having the labor be a part of their life and world, it can't help but interact and breathe with every sentence, brushstroke, and melody.
An important concept in medical treatments is the minimum effective dose, and it helps conceptualize how dosages should work. We're trying to achieve some kind of goal, ideally a measurable and quantifiable one, and to do we should always try and use the least amount of medication possible, because it reduces the risk of side effects and tolerance, and costs less too. If you've got a bunch of vague ailments and no measurable goals, you fall for treatments like this, where the quacks trying to sell it seem to push for far larger doses than any recommendation, rather than trying to minimize the dosage and thus potential side effects. It might be harmful for your child in such high doses, it might not, but it definitely helps their balance sheet.
Since the late 1980s, federal law has shielded those companies from legal liability to encourage development of vaccines without the threat of costly personal injury lawsuits.
This is one of the most intentionally misunderstood points by the modern right wing, and yet again something where once you dig in, it's almost the diametric opposite of what they're claiming. The law they reference also includes the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Since the risks are so incredibly well studied and laid out in detail, if you or your child suffers one of these side effects (including allergic reactions), you can file a petition and receive compensation based on their established standards. Comparing this to attempting an individual lawsuit against a multi-billion-dollar pharma corp with teams of vicious lawyers, that might take years and cost hundreds of thousands in lawyers and court fees, this is a far less punishing and more favorable option.
If you're still unsatisfied, Part B of H.R.5546:
Provides that a manufacturer may be held liable where: (1) such manufacturer engaged in the fraudulent or intentional withholding of information; or (2) such manufacturer failed to exercise due care.
Equating mass surveillance, big data, international laundering, and intentionally backdooring laws meant to protect American citizens with the primary rights to free expression is quite a leap. If anything, this mass collection and sharing of data should be more obviously chilling, so that more people feel the need to speak up and fight back. Right now the immensity of data that could be used for targeting or outright blackmail is terrifying, and advancing AI takes more and more of the legwork out of leveling that data at an individual or small group. We've mostly been safe because we're not personally worth the effort of collating all that data, but that's quickly changing.
The bonds of society rely on innocence being upheld.
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.” -John Adams
even if it theoretically meant they'd be killing their own brothers in blue if Obama finally sent someone for the guns.
This far into the thought process doesn't seem to have occurred to these "bloody armed revolution" 2AF types. While they think the government is going to hand out SS-style uniforms with red armbands so the Evil Empire is a clear target, they're actually going to be taking up arms against local law enforcement, other citizens unironically defending their lives and freedoms, and in a genuine disaster the National Guard. Like the always-awful retail shoppers that like to quote "The customer is always right" while leaving off the "...in what they want", these TactiCool Ballistic Barbies skip right over the "A well regulated militia" part that actually involves the work of training, organizing, involvement, and community outreach that makes a militia a supportive force everyday citizens can fall back on in times of crisis (ie of any use to anyone rather than a gun fetishist conspiracy club). Their lack of trigger or any other discipline makes it harder for sane gun owners who may need one for protection or just enjoy one for sport to be taken seriously.
Couldn't they accomplish crowd-sourcing a ton of data by setting up a speed test, like Speedtest.net / Ookla / Speakeasy, the same tools we use? Combine that with voluntary zipcode info and tying speed data to each ISP's netblock, you could get a real picture of speed and availability, even digging down to primetime network congestion (that 100Mbit doesn't matter if it doesn't deliver when you're actually home).
Oh no, the snowflake globe that is Parler turns out to be yet another tool of conservative misinformation and control? Well, fool me 6,783 times, shame on you, fool me 6,784 times...I can't get fooled again.
But at the end of the day, with our creativity, adaptivity, and millennia of technological advancement, all we use the pinnacle of human ingenuity for is to tell each other stories and share pictures of our naughty bits. Give a shaved ape a new way to communicate, whether it's a high-end smartphone or a cave wall, and we do the same things we always have.
Their numbers are even further skewed by the nature of many vinyl purchases. They're like the collector's edition Blu-Ray boxed set of the music world: much more expensive per unit, purchased almost exclusively by the most dedicated and wealthiest fans (often as a second purchase of the content), and meant more for collection than consumption. They're also scarce (large, fragile) physical goods, which are always going to come at a huge premium compared to the fraction-of-a-fraction-of-a-penny cost of sending out a stream, but they're comparing apples and kale.
This is the equivalent of Toyota complaining that people who fly in their helicopters aren't spending enough on Camrys. Sure, in a reductio ad absurdum way they're the same thing (music/transport), but they're trying to conflate two tangentially related segments of a market that are used in very different ways by different people.
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Learning from prior work is foundational to free expression. You're taking extremely broad license with both 'learning' and 'expression' in that sentence. A parrot isn't learning to comprehend words and sounds, it's repeating back certain noises for a reward, with no comprehension of content or ability to construct something new. Making that a billion times more complex didn't change how it works, just proved how expensive that dead end to AGI is. Expression isn't valued for being easy, if anything we have far too much low effort mediocrity to wade through as it is, and the outputs of generative AI seem to be solidly fixed there: a calculated, smoothed average of pure mid, devoid of meaning or value. It can produce a greeting-card level image of a generic family, but doesn't comprehend relationships, can't tell me why anyone is looking at each other a specific way, there's no backstory or humanity. Artists and creatives often speak of the layers and drafts that go into their work, and the learning process that comes about from having the labor be a part of their life and world, it can't help but interact and breathe with every sentence, brushstroke, and melody.
Minimum Effective Dose
An important concept in medical treatments is the minimum effective dose, and it helps conceptualize how dosages should work. We're trying to achieve some kind of goal, ideally a measurable and quantifiable one, and to do we should always try and use the least amount of medication possible, because it reduces the risk of side effects and tolerance, and costs less too. If you've got a bunch of vague ailments and no measurable goals, you fall for treatments like this, where the quacks trying to sell it seem to push for far larger doses than any recommendation, rather than trying to minimize the dosage and thus potential side effects. It might be harmful for your child in such high doses, it might not, but it definitely helps their balance sheet.
Equating mass surveillance, big data, international laundering, and intentionally backdooring laws meant to protect American citizens with the primary rights to free expression is quite a leap. If anything, this mass collection and sharing of data should be more obviously chilling, so that more people feel the need to speak up and fight back. Right now the immensity of data that could be used for targeting or outright blackmail is terrifying, and advancing AI takes more and more of the legwork out of leveling that data at an individual or small group. We've mostly been safe because we're not personally worth the effort of collating all that data, but that's quickly changing.
The bonds of society rely on innocence being upheld. “It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.” -John Adams
This far into the thought process doesn't seem to have occurred to these "bloody armed revolution" 2AF types. While they think the government is going to hand out SS-style uniforms with red armbands so the Evil Empire is a clear target, they're actually going to be taking up arms against local law enforcement, other citizens unironically defending their lives and freedoms, and in a genuine disaster the National Guard. Like the always-awful retail shoppers that like to quote "The customer is always right" while leaving off the "...in what they want", these TactiCool Ballistic Barbies skip right over the "A well regulated militia" part that actually involves the work of training, organizing, involvement, and community outreach that makes a militia a supportive force everyday citizens can fall back on in times of crisis (ie of any use to anyone rather than a gun fetishist conspiracy club). Their lack of trigger or any other discipline makes it harder for sane gun owners who may need one for protection or just enjoy one for sport to be taken seriously.
Re: Re: clawback...
Give him a sentence equal to the time he took from his victims, and a civil suit over lost wages for that time. Then make that a standard.
Speed Test?
Couldn't they accomplish crowd-sourcing a ton of data by setting up a speed test, like Speedtest.net / Ookla / Speakeasy, the same tools we use? Combine that with voluntary zipcode info and tying speed data to each ISP's netblock, you could get a real picture of speed and availability, even digging down to primetime network congestion (that 100Mbit doesn't matter if it doesn't deliver when you're actually home).
Re: In other words:
Hold on just one second...grabs a napkin, hastily scribbles '7G!!'...yes, 7G will do all that and walk the dog, too!
Oh no, the snowflake globe that is Parler turns out to be yet another tool of conservative misinformation and control? Well, fool me 6,783 times, shame on you, fool me 6,784 times...I can't get fooled again.
But at the end of the day, with our creativity, adaptivity, and millennia of technological advancement, all we use the pinnacle of human ingenuity for is to tell each other stories and share pictures of our naughty bits. Give a shaved ape a new way to communicate, whether it's a high-end smartphone or a cave wall, and we do the same things we always have.
Their numbers are even further skewed by the nature of many vinyl purchases. They're like the collector's edition Blu-Ray boxed set of the music world: much more expensive per unit, purchased almost exclusively by the most dedicated and wealthiest fans (often as a second purchase of the content), and meant more for collection than consumption. They're also scarce (large, fragile) physical goods, which are always going to come at a huge premium compared to the fraction-of-a-fraction-of-a-penny cost of sending out a stream, but they're comparing apples and kale.
This is the equivalent of Toyota complaining that people who fly in their helicopters aren't spending enough on Camrys. Sure, in a reductio ad absurdum way they're the same thing (music/transport), but they're trying to conflate two tangentially related segments of a market that are used in very different ways by different people.