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WhatIsDukkha··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
If your proceduralism doesn't generate easy to hard solvable problems (ie from geometry constraints etc), its not really adding to the gameplay, only the visual experience.
WhatIsDukkha··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
You should start a timer every time you get into the car.

For most Americans it might add up to 7-10 hours a week or more.

That's a lot even over a few weeks.

That's not time walking with your kids or dog sniffing the flowers, that's the opposite.

WhatIsDukkha··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The US has very low standards for its lifestyle.

We're told we are number ONE in everything but in fact its usually 40 or 20 when you actually go look at things that matter.

We never really notice because we think filling a big house in the suburbs with garbage from Costco is living the dream.

WhatIsDukkha··on Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)
Thats not on htmx to decide what html to resend that's your engineering work...
WhatIsDukkha··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
Aider for me

Very successful by just being careful and walking it forward.

Yes its about 2 years, August 2024 from git it looks like.

WhatIsDukkha··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
>I don’t really understand what the value prop of cursor is, it must be the data and models.

The simpler answer is that there is almost no value outside of buying some customers.

As you've proven to yourself the engineering work is doable on your own.

I've made my own agent and wired it to emacs via ACP... 60 billion in value, ok... sure...

https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/clients

WhatIsDukkha··on Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
Everyone has a lot of "feelings" about their llm model.

No prompts/promptchain/context provided.

No model provided.

No attempt to show how to reproduce the issue.

No attempt at even confirming it themselves.

Just feelings.

and now a thread full of more feelings from others.

WhatIsDukkha··on Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Saruman was already rotted by lust for the ring when he began to use the Palantir and then came into the presence of a dominating and corrupting will.

So yeah... plenty of real world versions of that.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Yes exactly.

They make a constructive IP assertion with the watermark claim of origin that persists across mutation. (ie the "artist" signs their work)

They then quitclaim the IP assertion via TOS.

These are not equivalent rights and reversions though and now you have an IP encumbered and weird legal state because of the DRM.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
I don't actually care about AI images?

Most people put so little effort into prompting them that they come out statistically "average" which makes them blatantly ugly.

Most of them are pretty bad just like 90% of everything is bad. Humans create bad art all day long too.

I gave a specific example of a making a texture for a videogame? How does that change what you actually said to me very specifically despite maybe not reading what I said?

To the extent that I'm upset its at peoples capitulation at this DRM nonsense over being overly reactive to ... internet images which dont matter.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Lmao I said that in my original post, lmao not that hard to read.
WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Against MILLLIONS of legitimate uses which you don't seem to care to protect?

You should also think about whether, suddenly, courts can now trust images they see because this technology exists?

I think thats not even basically plausible.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Yes I did read it years ago and again today?

If you read my original point you'd see I said "weird DRM glorp" which you and other have tried, and failed to only closely parse "DRM" so that you could nitpick poorly.

It is integral and part of DRM systems and certainly "weird DRM glorp" for an actual close reader.

DRM is not just "I cant watch X movie because DRM" even if that is the statistically prevalent understanding of DRM.

Its a suite of technologies of which watermarking is one of.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
You are asserting that the existence of metadata in other venues to be proof that this form of watermarking metadata is just fine with you and should be for everyone else because... nope don't see any reason listed here.

I have an IP address so therefore this is all fine?

"Every accusation is a confession" also seems like an insinuation that I have something to hide but you have "nothing to hide, nothing to fear"ie the very generic privacy right fallacy.

As for "vibes driven"... this whole technical "fix" is a result of the reactionary "vibe" of the ai moral panic, your "notes" don't seem to be providing any perspective there?

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
You are making a category error --

"this image made by OpenAI" is a drm assertion

You wont be able to assert copyright of the picture that you added an OpenAI red bowtie to, thats a DRM issue.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Yes... they do matter, perhaps using care in your understanding before attempting to nitpick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#Wate...

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
and you need the watermark to tell you the fish with the mustache is fake...

What image is going to change your worldview so radically that the drm saves you?

edit - to be clear you are watermarking 100,000 fishes with mustaches because of your concern over 1 image that "matters" (and you don't even have an image that matters in mind)

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
So you are in the"nothing to hide, nothing to fear" school of privacy rights?

Only criminals and bad actors want private defaults?

The burden of proof is proving there is some harm or problem that needs solving and noone has managed that in this thread or generally.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
billions? of "fake" images not generated by ai but just photoshopped and ... not really harmful.

There is no case that any of its particularly harmful outside of things like CSAM which is illegal.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, ok? It's, like, incredible." — Donald Trump

So what does a deepfake matter?

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Its 2026... people are deliberately choosing to live in their own realities with no care about objective facts or moral choices.

So weird images are a big problem? No they don't matter at all.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
What value does "strictly speaking" bring to the discussion?

So that you don't have to address any of the issues?

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
So 999 people that are just making an image need to be DRM'ed so that you might catch the 1 person making "realistic but deceptive" images... like this is some kind of special case of ... internet images.
WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
The main difference is we are in the middle of a moral panic and people have lost perspective.

Its a tool with different modalties and affordances.

WhatIsDukkha··on OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
This is just performative nonsense.

As someone that creates things with tools with different media I would just hard avoid this tool that adds...

arbitrary metadata not of my choosing.

Should I seriously make a texture for a videogame with this weird DRM glorp in it?

How old is photoshop and why is it exempt?

WhatIsDukkha··on Dav2d
Thank you for mentioning this.

I wonder IFF Rust had an effects system that a Jasmin MIR transform (ie like SPIRV is for shaders) would be useful?

https://github.com/jasmin-lang/jasmin

WhatIsDukkha··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Pretty good metaphor.

Limited space to work with, highly context dependent and likely to get confused as you cover more surface area.

WhatIsDukkha··on European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp
This is helpful because it makes the criminality stand out.

Because, yes, in democracies we have public records laws.

WhatIsDukkha··on The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
At some point this existential doubt about your own work and others seems pretty weird.

Go ahead and figure out ways to interrogate on your work with technical means, that's a critical part of the process with an LLM or not.

WhatIsDukkha··on Are LLM merge rates not getting better?
Human cultures are remixes all the way down...
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