blazera

blazera , 3 months ago

Capitalism just has a feedback loop bug. In capitalism, resources are distributed based on capital. But capital is a resource. So you get more capital for having more capital. In any business, who gets the most money that business generates? Whoever had the most money to buy into it. No work, no expertise is involved in the equation.

blazera , 3 months ago

the guy that outlawed collective bargaining?

blazera , 3 months ago

Rail workers tried to use their collective bargaining power in negotiating with rail companies, Biden made it illegal and forced them to accept the rail companies terms.

blazera , 3 months ago

all Im thinking of is how payment processors have been acting as legislators lately to outlaw porn.

blazera , 3 months ago

what issues do people here have with buying a phone not made by Apple?

blazera , 3 months ago

Yes. A laundry list of reasons to not buy an Apple phone. I had no trouble finding plenty of great alternatives, what problem are you running into?

blazera , 3 months ago

Show me a car free neighborhood and I'll show you insane real estate prices due to demand.

blazera , 3 months ago

Personally I believe in free will. Nothing should take any responsibility away from the one that chose to kill.

blazera , 3 months ago

sure, if there were multiple shooters

blazera , 3 months ago

US is a great example that guns dont stop guns. they just turn escalations into dice rolls for who gets to die

blazera , 3 months ago

Im pretty sure Japan is sharing software and ideas all the time

blazera , 3 months ago

this is moving goalposts, they specified sharing software and ideas. But check out this list of suicide rates if you think our gun culture is beneficial at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

blazera , 3 months ago

Im not a fan of AI content, but I wanna do a bit better than just old man yells at new thing. If the AI content was indistinguishable from human made there wouldnt be any outrage, how would we know? AI is distinguishable, and I think the main distinction is the lack of human goals in creating the content. AI is computer, it doesnt feel joy for creating, it doesnt have fun, it isnt trying to express itself, just mimicing expressions.

So Im watching some of these AI videos, and comparing to kids shows from before AI was a thing. It's a lot of shared elements, and any given few seconds from the AI videos seems normal. But watching it scene to scene is bizarre. It's really bad about continuity, and there's no story whatsoever or any worldbuilding. Which you might not associate with kids shows, but they were present, just simplified along with everything else. Shows like Dora and Blues Clues had overarching quests for the characters every episode, a continuity of events to follow, and recurring elements to remember in the next episode. These are all good learning elements for developing brains I feel, Swiper shows up and that's activating memories, he's an obstacle to this continuity and needs dealing with, and how to deal with it was explained last time. The AI content Im seeing has none of this

blazera , 3 months ago

Im pretty sure all of that was AI too, at least algorithmic in some way. Like plugging in google trends as some twisted madlibs or something. That shit definitely wasn't human either.

blazera , 3 months ago

I wonder how many people here never saw porn before they were 18.

blazera , 3 months ago

ah yes, another anti-environment tax. More barriers to fossil-fuel free adoption. As you would expect, Mississippi already has this tax. Don't be like Mississippi.