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My problem with things like this is that companies expect to sell a product to me and then steal it back from me without compensating me.

that's because unsaid social rules are part of the structures that keep rich elites on top, and help them filter out "pretenders" to nobility.

Before getting all excited that your ML model runs on your brand new 2024 macbook, before you run off to create earbuds / hearing aids with it, please try to run it on-target and see whether your model runs within your runtime budget / power budget / device size budget / battery life budget.

And make sure if you're going to do bluetooth + wireless, remember that both bluetooth and wifi transmit on 2.4 GHz, and need to coordinate in order to coexist in the same IoT device. There are interconnects and wire protocols to connect the bluetooth and wifi chips together - or, preferably, you buy a chip that does both.

I think the idea that our lives are a set of branching paths, where once you go down one path you can't go down others, is partly a consequence of how the academic path of many careers is designed to "weed out" promising students from others. This "branching tree of time" illusion is created by the elitist, rejecting attitude of the gatekeepers of our society... and by our sensitivity to taking rejection personally in our young and formative years.

And maybe secretly we all wish things could've worked out with our first love... when in reality our first loves are those we are least likely to be compatible with in the long term.

If that's the case, then Tesla has a certain number of children their FSD solution can run over every year, below which its cheaper to settle with the parents out of court instead of improving their FSD solution.

The luddites didn't destroy the power looms because they were some kind of handcrafting purists - they destroyed the machines because they took away ownership of the means of production from individual craftsmen to big businesses. The problem wasn't the machine, it was the factory and its owner.

Sorry but what is [good_platform] ?

The anti-corruption movements on the right get co-opted by fascists. The anti-corruption movements on the left get bombed by the police and sniped by the FBI.

If any industry needs a union it's gamedev.

Comcast and AT&T are plenty willing to cut off my internet if I pirate popular shows. Don't see why they can't just cut off infringing AI companies... and nations.

And yet, Comcast and AT&T will gladly terminate any customer on their network pirating copyrighted works from large corporate owners. It seems to me like we very much can do something about AI infringement.

Hey, sorry, I read your profile briefly before replying... do you play bluegrass as your main gig or as a side hustle? Your new album is a bop.

Anyway, I don't think there's much I can say to change your mind - talk to other artists, especially those who are artists as their main hustle.

The understanding you're missing is that artists benefit when they are credited for their work. Let's say you drew concept art for a videogame, and your name appears in the credits. You can now go to recruiters and hiring managers and say "I worked on a game that shipped" and get hired.

Let's say, during hard times when you don't have a job, fans of the game you worked on notice you on twitter and say "hey I loved your work, here's $5 for your patreon." Now you can pay your medical bills this month.

Their livelihood was taken from them. Midjourney is theft.

Those of you who are desperately trying to soften the blow - "they're talking about facebook, not OpenAI", "it's fair use, the license terms are irrelevant", "nothing has been taken from them" - you need to allow yourself to think the thought that maybe your AI startup's business model is only valuable because of theft. You need to let yourself entertain the idea that maybe you are only getting paid a cushy tech salary because you're aiding and abetting theft. You need to at least try to learn how to draw hands, the hard way, before hopping on Midjourney and saying "art is easy, why do these artists think they deserve to get paid for this?".

Homelessness will stop being a minority endeavor once AI-driven job automation becomes widespread.

I think Three Fingered Fox is trying to explain the PA artists' behavior. The message seems to be: 1. Three Fingered Fox understands why they think self expression is a greater virtue than not making rape jokes, but, even so, 2. The PA guys need to cut it out.

But maybe that doesn't answer your question? I still think TFF's stance on the rape joke drama is that the jokes shouldn't have been made in the first place, and that PA can't close them off from criticism if they want to call themselves legitimate satire.

My take: this was the single best description that I have ever seen anywhere of how at least one type of "geek" is made - forged by constant early-life bullying and deprivation of a social life, sexuality, and belonging. With this in mind I feel like I have a better understanding of why so many industry big-shots seem to have such a hard time dealing with bullying.