3472 pts ยท September 29, 2013
It's a 20% reduction in hours per person, so employers would need to hire 20% more people to backfill. But unemployment is about 4%, there aren't that many people out there looking for work. They'd need to increase wages enough to attract people who aren't currently looking for work. Win-win for the hourly workers. The real risk is employers just cutting hours of operation, so hourly workers just get 32h of pay per week rather than 40h. That would be worse for workers.
Worst (and most likely) case is that it's mixed: some people become more likely and some become less likely. Then the harm reduction question becomes really challenging: if some large fraction of pedophiles would be satisfied with CGI porn, destroying the market for real child porn and thus reducing the number of children exploited, would that be better? Even if it leads to some people acting on urges they wouldn't have otherwise?
Serious question, is there evidence of this? People say the same thing about violent games and BDSM porn, but it's just as plausible to me that people can "get their fix" for their potentially antisocial tendencies virtually, and thus wouldn't progress to taking action in real life.
Are you thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad?
The "short clips crossfaded together" format is typically a good signal that it's AI, but I don't think any current AI video generators could maintain the consistency of the grass in his fur, including the physics of the piece that falls from his left arm to his right, then back to his left forearm when he brushes himself, then dropping to his left bicep. If it's AI, then someone has made a big breakthrough.
But each copy has subtly different subtitles that actually change the overall plot of the movie.
This is really cool, and also a really nice demonstration of how to make a video that couldn't (currently) be generated by an AI (I'm pretty sure). Move the camera around on all axes, demonstrating consistent parallax, focal depth, and object permanence.
What in the world are you talking about? AI generates video frame by frame from scratch, there's no 3D rendering involved. Anyway, it's not real video unless Inspector Gadget is holding the camera; the "zoom" is actually the "camera" moving much closer to the dog. Look how the perspective changes. And the guy's earring grows like a mushroom out of his ear lobe. It's AI.
Probably that a critical reply by some twitch streamer got more than twice as many hearts as the VP of the USA.
A new example of a garden path sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence). Wasn't sure about "will power" vs "willpower" but it turns out the former is well attested: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=willpower%2C+will+power&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3#
The smooth panning probably is in-phone AI stabilization, but I don't think an AI would be able to make that many fish without any merging or splitting or other artifacts, and I can't spot any.
That's because there is no "way it arrived at the answer" it just generated likely tokens. Any retrospective explanation from an LLM is also just a sequence of likely tokens with no connection to reality. The interesting question is: how different is that from what humans do when asked to explain anything they do without thinking it through first?
Yes, this is normal. The sound isolation is better than you'd think (drywall on both sides with dead air between), you might be able to tell someone is having a conversation on the other side but you won't be able to understand it without pressing your ear to the wall, and maybe not then. Durability: you can make a hole with a hammer easily, but it stands up to most accidental impacts, and it's easy to repair.
The wings can't fold back so they have a bigger footprint and can't fly through small holes or hide in small places. But given their habitat it's probably not a practical problem most of the time.
"With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them." - John C Calhoun, pro-slavery politician pre-civil-war
It depends on elasticity of demand. Elastic industries will see their customers' spending shift to inelastic industries that have tariffs and to industries that can get exemptions. That incentivizes those industries to do whatever it takes to get themselves exempted from tariffs.
This made me think a bit, thanks. I still think the "Why is it OK for Elon to get gender affirming care?" argument is potentially rhetorically effective, but it's easy for that to shade into something that sure seems transphobic. It's possible that the point was supposed to be "Elon deadnames people so let's see how he likes it" and the OP didn't think it through.
"We have been voting the lesser of two evils for years and years. Yet, no one is listening to our cries. So we decided to vote for the greater of two evils this time."
I just finished it and I agree. It uses the medium in so many clever ways I've never seen before, and the story is so humane and relatable for a nominal superhero comic.
Only one organization has been blocked. Anyone else can still use the law to sue people.
Speaking as someone who has sculpted a few octopuses for casting, after the 5th arm you start to wish it didn't have so many arms.
Not for much longer... https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/on-accident-versus-by-accident
So where do you think money comes from, if the government can't print it?
Where do you get a pistol that shoots a half pound bullet?
Later: "Your entry (or entries) may be original or may quote another source; if an entry quotes another source, you must state the source. "
It's a 20% reduction in hours per person, so employers would need to hire 20% more people to backfill. But unemployment is about 4%, there aren't that many people out there looking for work. They'd need to increase wages enough to attract people who aren't currently looking for work. Win-win for the hourly workers. The real risk is employers just cutting hours of operation, so hourly workers just get 32h of pay per week rather than 40h. That would be worse for workers.
Worst (and most likely) case is that it's mixed: some people become more likely and some become less likely. Then the harm reduction question becomes really challenging: if some large fraction of pedophiles would be satisfied with CGI porn, destroying the market for real child porn and thus reducing the number of children exploited, would that be better? Even if it leads to some people acting on urges they wouldn't have otherwise?
Serious question, is there evidence of this? People say the same thing about violent games and BDSM porn, but it's just as plausible to me that people can "get their fix" for their potentially antisocial tendencies virtually, and thus wouldn't progress to taking action in real life.
Are you thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad?
The "short clips crossfaded together" format is typically a good signal that it's AI, but I don't think any current AI video generators could maintain the consistency of the grass in his fur, including the physics of the piece that falls from his left arm to his right, then back to his left forearm when he brushes himself, then dropping to his left bicep. If it's AI, then someone has made a big breakthrough.
But each copy has subtly different subtitles that actually change the overall plot of the movie.
This is really cool, and also a really nice demonstration of how to make a video that couldn't (currently) be generated by an AI (I'm pretty sure). Move the camera around on all axes, demonstrating consistent parallax, focal depth, and object permanence.
What in the world are you talking about? AI generates video frame by frame from scratch, there's no 3D rendering involved. Anyway, it's not real video unless Inspector Gadget is holding the camera; the "zoom" is actually the "camera" moving much closer to the dog. Look how the perspective changes. And the guy's earring grows like a mushroom out of his ear lobe. It's AI.
Probably that a critical reply by some twitch streamer got more than twice as many hearts as the VP of the USA.
A new example of a garden path sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence). Wasn't sure about "will power" vs "willpower" but it turns out the former is well attested: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=willpower%2C+will+power&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3#
The smooth panning probably is in-phone AI stabilization, but I don't think an AI would be able to make that many fish without any merging or splitting or other artifacts, and I can't spot any.
That's because there is no "way it arrived at the answer" it just generated likely tokens. Any retrospective explanation from an LLM is also just a sequence of likely tokens with no connection to reality. The interesting question is: how different is that from what humans do when asked to explain anything they do without thinking it through first?
Yes, this is normal. The sound isolation is better than you'd think (drywall on both sides with dead air between), you might be able to tell someone is having a conversation on the other side but you won't be able to understand it without pressing your ear to the wall, and maybe not then. Durability: you can make a hole with a hammer easily, but it stands up to most accidental impacts, and it's easy to repair.
The wings can't fold back so they have a bigger footprint and can't fly through small holes or hide in small places. But given their habitat it's probably not a practical problem most of the time.
"With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them." - John C Calhoun, pro-slavery politician pre-civil-war
It depends on elasticity of demand. Elastic industries will see their customers' spending shift to inelastic industries that have tariffs and to industries that can get exemptions. That incentivizes those industries to do whatever it takes to get themselves exempted from tariffs.
This made me think a bit, thanks. I still think the "Why is it OK for Elon to get gender affirming care?" argument is potentially rhetorically effective, but it's easy for that to shade into something that sure seems transphobic. It's possible that the point was supposed to be "Elon deadnames people so let's see how he likes it" and the OP didn't think it through.
"We have been voting the lesser of two evils for years and years. Yet, no one is listening to our cries. So we decided to vote for the greater of two evils this time."
I just finished it and I agree. It uses the medium in so many clever ways I've never seen before, and the story is so humane and relatable for a nominal superhero comic.
Only one organization has been blocked. Anyone else can still use the law to sue people.
Speaking as someone who has sculpted a few octopuses for casting, after the 5th arm you start to wish it didn't have so many arms.
Not for much longer... https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/on-accident-versus-by-accident
So where do you think money comes from, if the government can't print it?
Where do you get a pistol that shoots a half pound bullet?
Later: "Your entry (or entries) may be original or may quote another source; if an entry quotes another source, you must state the source. "