Yeah I feel like people are just upvoting the headline here. If they read what it actually meant they might not like it so much.

It is normal and yeah once they start it can be hard to stop. You can try cutting them back more aggressively to see if that helps, but ultimately basil is a short lived plant and eventually it will flower and die.

Yeah I’m not saying it’s barter, but OP’s comment didn’t mention it at all so I thought it was important to talk about.

I haven’t read his book but my understanding is that while there were means of exchange in many societies, the foundation of most pre-historic economies was the gift economy.

Unless you are counting that as a form of exchange? It was typically reciprocal in many ways.

I personally don’t think the concept of stolen IP is ethically coherent. Ownership of ideas is a ridiculous concept. So I don’t find this to be a very compelling argument for why AI is bad per se.

However, I do think it strengthens the argument that it should not be the intellectual property of tech oligarchs who did not create the vast breadth of knowledge that the algorithm is sorting through and accessing.

I will happily bark like a dog if you let my house join.

This is why if you’re going to put major difficult to reverse decisions to a referendum, you should require a supermajority to take action.

I’m not an expert but my understanding is most of the computation is in the training. The actual queries are not too difficult to manage. So I think that’s what makes it more difficult to monetize because you’re trying to position yourself as a digital gatekeeper for work that has already been done. Yes, some industries have survived in this position but it limits the amount of profit you can make because there are always ways to copy someone else’s homework. So if prices are too high people will opt out because they have other options even if they’re slightly less quality or convenience.

It doesn’t need to fully automate anything to make people more productive. And I think there’s ample evidence it can greatly increase productivity in some fields. We’re in the bumpy phase of finding out how much human supervision is needed in each field so you’re bound to hear about ways it has been misused but everyone I’ve talked to who uses it professionally thinks it helps them get a lot more done than without it.

I’m not much of an AI skeptic compared to most on Lemmy. I think the technology is incredibly useful and probably beneficial to society if we can remove the control of the ruling class.

That said I truly don’t understand how the AI business model is supposed to work. I’m sure there is some market for businesses, governments, etc., basically people who have too much money who may want to pay for the latest and greatest models.

But I don’t really see the average consumer doing this when slightly less good versions will almost certainly be available for free. And the above customers will not be able to support the level of investment that’s going on right now.

Good point, you should resign the presidency and focus on your mayoral campaign.

Typically they are set well above the speed limit.

Normal oral sex does not damage your voice or throat. Maybe if you’re doing really rough deep throat or something but most people don’t enjoy that anyway.

Yeah this feels more like a long-shot gamble by a hungry start up that the beginning of a new transformative tech.

Genocide lite is obviously preferable to genocide. Not that the state has much power over foreign affairs anyway.

You can see the consequences of your failure to acknowledge this in Lebanon and Iran, if you care to look.

Just because you’re to the left of the candidates (if you really are, I feel like a lot of larpers also make these kinds of comments) does not mean the election does not have consequences. There are significant differences between fascists, liberals, and progressives.

Seems like every state does it.

In an ideal world I agree with you, I just feel it will be easier to get people more comfortable with the existing architecture than to rebuild everything. And until one of those things happens, people will continue to be excluded from public bathrooms.

Frankly the best option that seems to be catching on right now is having private, gender-neutral bathrooms for those who desire them so that not everything needs to be rebuilt.

OK, well, I’m sorry that happened but given that it’s never happened to me nor anyone I know personally it can’t be particularly common.

I also don’t really care if people see me in the bathroom but I understand most people feel differently.

They could be for everyone already is my point. But apparently my opinion is in the minority here.

The issue is if we’re requiring every bathroom in the country to be upgraded before we accept everyone using them, that’s going to cause delays. And justice delayed is justice denied.