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marcellus23··on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands
I see that position, but also, almost everyone (99% of people?) generating fetish content with AI would not otherwise be paying artists to commission that content.
marcellus23··on The Swift SDK for Android
"native" is a term that has meaning, and Flutter is not native.
marcellus23··on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands
> And how do you stop people from making fetish content of purely AI-generated characters that aren't cameos of real people? Does OpenAI want to stop that? Maybe OpenAI thinks it's fine for people to make belly-flation or foot-fetish videos as long as they're not of a real person.

I can't figure out the tone here. Is the author suggesting we should stop people from creating fetish content of purely AI-generated characters? OpenAI might want to for business reasons, but surely there's nothing inherently wrong with using AI for fetish content. Should we also stop people from drawing fetish content with pencil and paper?

marcellus23··on Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
Naked singularities lack event horizons, not accretion disks. By definition, black holes are not naked singularities.
marcellus23··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
Entirely AppKit? Do you have a source? I'm skeptical because it seems to behave like an iOS app ported to the Mac and has the exact same interface layout as the iOS app. Beside that, maintaining a separate AppKit implementation would be a lot of extra work that doesn't seem worth it (though of course, if anyone has money to burn on that, it's OpenAI).

I suppose it's more likely that the main chat interface and other highly custom views have separate implementations on macOS and iOS, while the Settings view is shared SwiftUI code (since it's just a lot of buttons and toggles).

marcellus23··on The Swift SDK for Android
Kagi News is definitely a well-made app but it also definitely does not look or feel iOS native.
marcellus23··on The Swift SDK for Android
This seems like a pretty defensive comment in response to pointing out some objective flaws in Flutter. It’s fine to admit it’s a trade off, but a trade off necessarily means there are some downsides.

Flutter apps on iOS just do not feel native, that’s a fact. It doesn’t mean you’re a bad person for using Flutter.

marcellus23··on Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
Not every black hole has an accretion disk, especially not isolated ones.
marcellus23··on OpenAI acquires Sky.app
The ChatGPT app for Mac seems to be based on the same codebase as their iOS app (either using Catalyst or SwiftUI), so the lift to bring it to Mac was probably much less than creating a fully-native Windows app. Even today their "Windows" app is a wrapper around a web view.
marcellus23··on Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
It's not skimmed over, they cover it near the end in the "Requirements and challenges" section:

> The most challenging phase of the mission may be related to how the nanocraft can transfer from an unbound to a bound orbit and start orbiting around the compact object. All possible solutions should be considered carefully. In the case the transfer is not possible, we may redesign the mission to perform the scientific tests when the nanocraft passes close to the black hole. For example, when the nanocraft is close to the black hole, it may separate into a mother-nanocraft (with a wafer and sail) and a number of small nanocrafts (without sails). The nanocrafts could communicate with each other by exchanging electromagnetic signals. The mother-nanocraft could compare the trajectories of the small nanocrafts to those expected in a Kerr spacetime and send the data to Earth.

Light sales can theoretically be used to not only accelerate away from Earth, but also decelerate at the end of an interstellar journey (see Robert L Forward's work). The practicality of that is another matter.

marcellus23··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
> That does seem to be the trend these days

These days? The space race was 50 years ago.

marcellus23··on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission
We have to start at some point don't we?
marcellus23··on AI has a cargo cult problem
Maybe you're seeing this argument come up all the time (and maybe everyone else in this thread is disagreeing with you) because your experiences actually don't reflect everyone else's. I guess the other alternative is we're all morons and you're the only smart person here.

Also: if it's so trivially reproducible, then can you provide a ChatGPT transcript link of this happening?

> I'm sorry to be so blunt but this is a massive cope

Coping for what? I don't work for an AI company. If AI vanished tomorrow I wouldn't particularly care.

marcellus23··on AI has a cargo cult problem
I wonder if, in any of those legal cases, the users turned on web search or not. We just don't know -- but in my experience, a thinking LLM with web search on has never just hallucinated nonexistent information.
marcellus23··on A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal
You're more worried about that than having it in the hands of the US government?
marcellus23··on The government ate my name
But do American English typewriters have a ü?
marcellus23··on Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
It's explained in the first bullet point, even before the fold:

> Helix: Figure 03 features a completely redesigned sensory suite and hand system which is purpose-built to enable Helix - Figure's proprietary vision-language-action AI.

marcellus23··on Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
Do you mean "I, Robot", not iRobot the vacuum company? And if so, I'm guessing you're referring to the movie with Will Smith? The original book of short stories isn't really dystopian, it's more just an interesting exploration of Asimov's concept of how robots would work.
marcellus23··on Reasons to Not Use ChatGPT
What are your thoughts on the Chinese room thought experiment?
marcellus23··on California governor signs AI transparency bill into law
The AI bubble is a thing but so was the dot com bubble. It doesn't mean the technology is useless.
marcellus23··on Patagonian Welsh
Yeah, unless a modern Welsh speaker could go back in time to 1 AD and talk to native Britons, it doesn't make any sense. You may as well say that Italian is older than English because the Romans spoke Latin.
marcellus23··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
You're right. The sense of wonder and exploration I got playing ME1 was just totally absent in ME2. But it was nonetheless a pretty good game in its own right, and for many people, a game they enjoyed more than the original.
marcellus23··on Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
I don't understand what point you're making exactly. What categories do you mean? What do you mean by segmentation not necessarily being "an inside-out process inherent to perception"?
marcellus23··on I'm leaving Ruby Central
I see nothing in the post that suggests it was written with AI.
marcellus23··on What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
How does that solve the downtime issue? In my experience company-run instances tend to go down just as often, if not more often.
marcellus23··on What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
How exactly can you run GitHub or Slack locally? Their entire purpose is being a place where people can communicate, they need to be centrally available on a network to have any function at all.
marcellus23··on Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft
No, not NYC. They have a testing permit but it's not even listed in "coming soon" on their site.
marcellus23··on That boolean should probably be something else
huh? The LED isn't true or false, but whether the LED is on is true or false.
marcellus23··on LLMs aren't world models
Sure, but if you're making a point about LLMs in general, you need to use examples from best-in-class models. Otherwise your examples of how these models fail are meaningless. It would be like complaining about how smartphone cameras are inherently terrible, but all your examples of bad photos aren't labeled with what phone was used to capture. How can anyone infer anything meaningful from that?
marcellus23··on LLMs aren't world models
I think it's hard to take any LLM criticism seriously if they don't even specify which model they used. Saying "an LLM model" is totally useless for deriving any kind of conclusion.
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