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> If I want to be an artist I shouldn't have to practise or educate myself. The simple desire to be an artist should be enough!

IMHO this is absolutely the case, and has always been the case. Being paid as an artist, on the other hand, is something entirely different, or having one's art recognized as good by other people. But I am sure everyone remembers other more popular artists telling them they're "doing it wrong" in art class, on forums, or even all the way back to preschool coloring books if someone would deign to color outside the lines.

There have always been those who seek to gatekeep what art is and who they view as legitimate participants in it. I suppose everyone does in some sense. But I am very excited by the prospect of art as a personal developmental journey becoming more open to everyone.
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> I wonder if this is a bad as everyone thinks.

I think it is. If they actually do end up finding a problem to solve, that would be serendipitous but I imagine the vast majority of the time they find themselves in the business of trying to convince the rest of us to buy a thing that we don’t need. And while the latter may drive the economy to some degree as I get older I detest it more and more.
I had to make a service for myself to get me to do just that. Just one text file and I add to it. No ceremony whatsoever, so no excuses not to write: https://post.mw
From the article we are discussing:

“You passed the biggest financial regulation in a generation. Then you went to work on the board of directors of a bank, and then after that you supported weakening certain requirements.”

“No, no. Wrong. Wrong on sequence. I supported [weakening certain requirements] before I even heard of the bank. I decided that there was one area where we had been mistaken and began advocating, correcting this. … The events are that I made an independent decision, without regard to being on a bank board, that I had made a mistake. When I went on a bank board, I should stop believing the conclusion I had come to?”

Also from the article and already reproduced in a sibling comment is the first statement Barney made in the interview, to the effect that he is on public record pushing for these weakenings in 2012, long before he joined (or was even aware of the existence of) Signature Bank.
I don't understand: it is not a fashion thing but a work equipment. Battery life: why isn't there an option for a battery pack on your belt and a wire under the cloth? If it is uncomfortable, than with a (different hardware design) that battery pack could carry most of the hardware too.

This let me think that google never intended this as a real product, just for the media attention.
Looking forward to mj six! Giving the doubters the finger edition
My point was that the geological process is ancient, and hardly news.

Of the 3 items I mentioned, by far the worst (given that we've been burning it for centuries) is plausibly coal. For example - https://phys.org/news/2020-01-shutdown-coal-fired-crop-yield...
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How long until we get an ESG-like board of bureaucrats and oligarchs labeling companies as "AI-safe" or "AI-friendly"?
So... what do y'all actually do with your hundreds of thousands of photos? I just bulk delete everything older than a month when my phone is low on storage. Do you ever actually go back and look at any of the hundreds of thousands of pictures? When do you do this?
The whole idea of "there is no such thing as an original idea" is utterly stupid. It's just a hyperbole and some people are taking it literally.

Of course there are original ideas. "C is not an original idea, because it's just mixing A and B..." ok so there are only two possbilities:

1. Someone else did mixing A and B before. Okay then we can recursively find the first person who mixed A and B.

2. No one else did mixing A and B before. The "Mixing A and B" is a new idea.

For some incomprehensible reasons, people seem to accept "mixing A and B is not a new idea because A and B already exist." Like... why? Since the four basic nucleobase existed, there haven't been any new DNA creatures?

The real reason that it feels like there isn't new idea is simple: the "mixing" process happens gradually. Even if you come up with a really good "X + Z" idea, people (read: market) might not accept it because what they're familiar with is "X + Y".

So you put a bit of Z to make "X + 0.9Y + 0.1Z", and another person who is as smart as you makes "X + 0.8Y + 0.2Z"... then when "X + Z" is officially a thing, people outside think you smart-ass guys were all just copying & pasting each other.
From a scalability standpoint how does one accumulate, and then utilize, a quarter million photos?

I'm a bit older than most, but that would be a photo every other hour since the minute I was born...

Kind of a digital hoarder moment. Which is relevant because my entire archive fits on a flash drive and I have a couple flash drives and its no big deal at that small of a scale. But a quarter mil pics will take some serious storage.

Now I could imagine if you owned five security cameras and stored a snapshot every minute for a month, that's about a fifth of a million photos, but that's all autogenerated and if you lose your complete set you'll have a new set in a month anyway.
Reasoning, an easier thing to prove, we can literally go ask bing chat to determine something and it will follow a logical thought process to answer your question (this is reasoning). They've confirmed it was running GPT4.

Humans are very irrational but are still very good at this when they want to be but not always. A limiting factor for GPT4 is probably computing space/power.
It has been already, for quite a while now (at least a month or so).

have a look at various twitter accounts that post AI images: e.g. https://twitter.com/PLAawesome/media

these have had progressively better and better hands over time. You can clearly see that they've been using various model merges (this Lora merging techniques like https://github.com/cloneofsimo/lora) to get two different models to combine and get the best of both. Many have done better hands and contributed it out. NSFW, but this is one i found that has very realistic hands now: https://civitai.com/models/2661

It is faster than i can keep up. This is open source collaboration at heart. I am very glad that Stable Diffusion was released publicly. Now if only openAI would do the same with their GPT models.
I mean, in some sense these are creative.

But they mostly read like someone churning out monster manual entries by pairing animal names with adjectives then putting in the obvious two sentences of description.

Nothing about it engages my brain or strikes me as brilliant, insightful, or what I'd usually mean when I say "creative".
there's another way to look at my comment : all the other jobs we "automated" transformed, but kept existing under one form or another.

And so will ours.
> Could I have become an official of a gay-rights organization? I spent more of my time during my years on gay rights than on financial reform. What about housing? I created programs to support affordable housing. I continue to try to work with that. Is that wrong?

No, these are totally different things. Congress does not "regulate" gay rights organizations and affordable housing charities, and you presumably are not being paid to do these things. If you are, then obviously stop that. If you feel strongly about the cause, do it for free. On the other hand, Congress (and you personally) does (did) regulate Signature Bank heavily and have (had) lots of opportunities to shape public policy to benefit /specifically the officers and shareholders of this bank, which also employs you/. The suggestion that these things are equivalent is obviously an argument in bad faith.
An excellent book on yojijukugo is "Kanji Idoims." from the "Power Japanese" series:

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27733147W/Kanji_idioms?editi...
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Yes, it's more accurate to say that ideas exist on a spectrum of novelty, with varying degrees of originality.
Doing this is not actually that complicated -- check out https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ for more information.

I have a camera pointing due south in Massachusetts and I didn't record it -- I think it was too far west from my position.

This was my meteor stack for that night: http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/stack/1678618383.jp... Yes, some of these tracks are planes, and there are a bunch of planes (see http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/captured_stack/1678... for the unfiltered set!)

Total cost is certainly under $150 for the camera, housing etc. The bigger challenge is finding a good place to install the camera that has a good view of the sky.
I wish this would happen. But, looking at the current world where publication and distribution are dirt cheap and simpler than ever with the internet, most people's media curation is "What's free" as opposed to "What's good." If the new torrent from the firehouse is AI-generated content, careful curation will lose more. The time and money cost become harder to justify.
I can only recommend the fantastic "Everything is a remix" series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2GuvUWaP8
My rough understanding is that it is not a problem affecting Midjourney alone but pretty much all other engines as well and that it is not related to drawing hands per se but figuring out hands in the context of a human body. In other words, drawing an individual hand is not a problem, drawing a hand attached to a body could be challenging depending on the scene and drawing multiple human bodies with hands is virtually impossible to get right in one pass.
Prefer functions that return things over void methods, prefer immutability over mutability, prefer pure functions that declare (and require) their dependencies as inputs etc etc.
I guess the social aspect makes the community stronger and the fact that you generate images (usually) in public channels is a way to stop most people to generate weird stuff.
Big solar flares are one thing to worry about, and big EMPs are another.

https://spp.fas.org/starwars/congress/1999_h/99-10-07wood.ht...

Note: reader mode on Firefox Mobile makes this more legible for me.
> It doesn't touch on which humans wield that leverage, naively assuming it'll be all of us in a cozy democracy.

Bingo. We don't know the answer to these questions yet, and to assume they are solved in a way that is generally equitable to humans is utterly insane.
It is a tool only when used as a tool, in the sense you're talking about. For example, I can write a sentence, and being a non-native English speaker, I can tell there's something wrong with it but I just can't place my finger.

So I ask the AI to rephrase it for me. Now I can pick and choose an option from those the AI offered, or I can just keep my version if it turns out it's good enough. I feel this is an acceptable use, and you can still maintain authorship, just like book authors maintain authorship after an editor has overhauled their writing.

Your DAW example would work if DAWs could generate samples, beats, and whole songs by the click of a button. But are you truly the author, then?
That "1%" original is almost always just 1% uncited/unknown inspiration.

If you listen to the stories of how things like major inventions came into being, it's almost always some domain expert visited some domain in which they were not an expert and inspiration struck on how to combine the domains.

Otherwise, the rest of invention is either human imitations or improvements to things found in nature or not inventions at all but discoveries stumbled upon by accident/experimentation.

Nothing is just willed into existence by pure "thought". Every thought you've had is a product of the things you've been surrounded by.
There's vertical spacing of 1/24″ in some places, which is twice the usual Selectric precision (6lpi with half-line motion). To me the most likely explanation is a Selectric variation with twice the detents, or even a third-party add-on, made specifically for technical reports.
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I agree if we're talking about humans, but it's an AI, it should be able to perform as I command.
Yes, exactly.

Managers are too much focused on new thing, because it is much easier to see impact on new thing.

Quantifying impact on support is much difficult and it seems big tech mostly gave up on trying to quantify it, hence people get praise when they are incident commanders, but when you go above and beyond to avoid it from happening at all, you are just doing labor work
They could be a photographer. Often they'll take numerous photos in a very short time span to capture a bunch of movement and angles just so they can pick the best of the bunch later

Why do they keep everything? Idk, /r/datahoarder is a subreddit that exists though so the mindset is out there
Yeah, my imagined likely scenario involves that too. Maybe stuff at Bell Labs was really picking up and he's trying to finish the thesis, but it still has a few minor typos. He can't abide knowing about these and turning it in, but even with his formidable diligence, he can't stomach reprinting the whole damn thing and thoroughly reviewing it for the 27th time.

I completed a very interesting postdoc to start a new job, and even then, it took me a couple years to tie up loose ends and give them the finished deliverables I felt I owed them.
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Good artists create based on their experiences, not based on the content they have consumed.
It almost makes Discord envious.
I disagree on the "entering a prompt" part. By a lot. I've been managing to get myself lost (and somewhat unlost) in latent space. Let me tell you, a latent space can be a big place all by itself, even if you stick to 1 seed.

Ultimately though, I realize that trying to get everything what you want from a single prompt won't work. Tokens have implications, and they influence each other too much. Long term, one needs more than just single prompts, and the tools are still evolving to support that.

Still, you'd be surprised at how much you can express even now.
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ok but can it do hands, hands, hands in my hands, hands, hands? Because I bet that's difficult.
> Philosophical food for thought: if all content is recycled / mixed from the past, when did innovation and creativity stop?

Somewhere around 2016, when the golden Age of Internet-Content ended, as the last undiscovered part was added to the mix...

But jokes aside, does innovation really need to be new? Or would it still innovative if you don't know it when you create something you for you? Take for example all the retro-waves which regularly come back, where people discover something for them completely new, and make up some for them completely new things, which the generations for them already did long ago.

> In other words, if there is truly no such thing as an "original idea"

Does Original mean 100% new? And would it demand that all parts are new, or would it still original if we just arrange old parts in a new way?
I use Insync since this seems to be one of the few softwares that works on both Windows as well as a Linux box. But it has crazy privacy concerns. I have been able to view documents uploaded on someone else's account on my Insync app! I have no idea how many folks have seen my documents/data.
Already happening. See https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad6359
Man Group is an investment firm. I wonder what they gain by releasing this.

Btw a former quant from Man, Robert Carver, has several books and a GitHub project https://github.com/robcarver17/pysystemtrade on quant trading.
Amazon have been sending me repeated email telling that it’s photos service is shutting down for over a year now. Have you not been getting those?
Except that what's fatal is high relative, not absolute, speed.
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Yeah, expansion type DLCs are at the border here. But the overall experience with scammy stores has left me leaning away from trusting any game with any significant DLC.

For example. Dirt Rally 2 honestly feels like a complete scam. The base game comes with 6 rally locations (not counting some rally cross tracks). And there are 7 more available as DLC. The base game feels intentionally slimmed down to make you feel you need to buy the DLC. it pads in extra junk content to make it seem long without actually having much there (like for example the rally cross tournaments make you compete in about 6 rounds of heats on the same short track to make it seem like there are lots of events, but in any other game all the rally cross tracks would have been a single event with perhaps one qualifier and one final on each track). Lots of the daily challenge type activities use the DLCs so are unavailable if you don't by them. All the locations are listed in the menus along with the not-included ones with just a small "DLC" flag across a corner. In addition there are perhaps dozens of cars available as DLC. And several very unclear things like the "flat out pack" which incorporates some of the other DLCs It very much feels like they've taken one game, a split it up into small parts to make you pay more for what would have been one purchase in the 90s. And the multiple small packs with overlapping content seem designed to make you accidentally pay more or buy the same thing twice through confusion. I completely refuse to engage with this and despite being a bit fan of rally games I won't touch this DLC, and tbh if I'd known the game was like this I wouldn't have even touched the base game.

On the other hand, Mario Kart 8 on switch comes with 12 "cups" each with 4 unique tracks, so 48 tracks in total. They have a single DLC which adds a further 12 cups and 48 more tracks for £22. (About half the price of the base game). 48 tracks in the base game feels substantial, I was happy with the game and didn't feel short changed. And the DLC that doubles the number of tracks also feels worth it without being a scam. But I have to be honest, because of the scammy nature of the rest of the business my default stance is to avoid DLCs so it was a while before I purchased this one, despite it being on the better end of the spectrum.

So there's a good way and a. And way to do DLC. But the bad way is poisening the whole market and putting me off considering the DLCs that are done well.
However great you think your backup strategy is, it probably doesn't seem so great when you lose your primary.
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The "writers" who can benefit from AI are not artists. They might be bloggers or journalists or researchers. But there is no way that a generative AI can produce, say, your memoir for you. How could it? You have to say what happened. Your life experience can't be generated. Ditto for any sort of novel above the level of the most basic imitative genre stuff. I'm certain AI could spit out a perfectly passable airport paperback romance, for instance—but how could it possibly write Infinite Jest?
> remember, the end game of escalation, however remote is nukes

This is Russia not the Soviet Union. With Putin and cronies ransacking the Russian treasury for more than 20 years, what are the chances there's enough left to maintain the arsenal? Of the 5K+ nuclear warheads Russia inherited, how many even work? Remember that the Soviet Union was a rusting shell years before it dissolved in 1991. I just have a sinking suspicion the US could win a nuclear war against Russia with a single, low yield strike, with no response. But then again, why would we waste a nuclear warhead when we can use Rods from God to cut the head off the snake? The ethical considerations have a lot of wiggle room here, as Russia is a mafia state with a government that is an assassination society, so an assassination exception for Russian heads of state is then only ethical.[1] But honestly, it would be so much cooler to arrest and extract Putin, and take him alive to face justice at The Hague.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Russian_ass...
Nice, makes my VW E-up look a bit outdated, but I bet it won't be as light (1160kg) or as efficient (~12Kwh/100km).

Expected in 2025, interesting they announce the price so far ahead, especially given the current inflation level.
The problem honestly has nothing to do with SWE/PM incentives. The problem here, as noted, isn't going from 0->1. The problem is business strategy and leadership, and the ability for multiple stakeholders to rally around a xfn initiative to ensure it receives dedicated care & feeding to take it from 1->100.

When you step outside the eng bubble, the incentives problems absolutely apply when discussing issues Google has creating mature products.
Fair enough. Sorry for accusing you of equivocating.
That's happening already: https://www.sigstore.dev/

Anyone who talks about supply chain and doesn't mention/integrate with sigstore hasn't done their homework, IMO.
In college I read (parts of) the big computer standards -- USB, PCIe, SATA (rip), and Bluetooth. PCIe was consistently head and shoulders above the rest.

This was true on an editorial level and on a structural level. They defined terms before they used them, they didn't use the same term to mean two different things, they foresaw and sidestepped problems that other standards blundered into, they didn't go on architecture astronaut tangents, they weren't stingy with bits when they could buy simplicity/clarity/separation of concerns but they spared no effort when performance was on the line. These were all frequent sins in the other standards.

I've always wondered what human factors led to this. Good leadership? Fewer cooks in the kitchen? More time? There is probably a lesson in there, but I didn't stay in computer engineering long enough to gain industry contacts and figure it out.
I don't believe US employees generate 3x the value of their European counterparts, but the justification is right there -- they're paid 3x (or whatever multiple) more.

The actual problem is how you measure "value". We're used to valuing technical work on technical merits, but the market just thinks in money, dollar/euro amounts. And of course it's no fault of European employees that their "value" is significantly lower than their US counterparts -- it's probably due to company leadership, differences in regulatory environment, geopolitical and macro-economical factors, and history (the fact that modern computing started in Silicon Valley is significant).