Yeah. It’s more like this. If gamers had this kind of power things would not get worse every year.

Would we still find it weird if we didn’t know that is our own voice that is being played? Like if somebody plays a recording of me from last week where I said something general that everybody could have said?

You’re silly. “Good plastic surgery” is the kind of surgery that makes you more ‘pretty’ without people noticing that it’s actually fake. How are people supposed to notice that you got the money for plastic surgery if the surgery is so good that people wouldn’t notice?

Then this would be pretty shitty.

However, pixelfed is very straightforward about the fact that the focus is on image posts and even if they would not advertise that fact you should realize in less than five minutes of using it that all the posts you see are image posts.

Additionally there are enough apps out there that show all content (I use the default mastodon app to see image posts as well as text posts, etc.). If this is what you want just choose that app.

And if somebody makes an app that only shows text posts then this would be great for people who only want to see text posts. I really don’t get the authors problem.

Would you settle for a mail provider which silently drop all emails you receive if they contain the letter “P”?

Yes, if the mail provider is advertising the fact that they are dropping everything containing “P” AND if I’m currently not in the mood to read anything containing “P” AND if there are enough good alternative mail providers that do show me things containing “P”.

What a weird take.

Yeah sure. But compared to now it was basically empty.

Guess what? Wikipedia was empty as well when it was created. People like you had to fill it themselves.

“Code IS documentation”

The tree should be proud for still standing :>

I think that there is AI “art” that goes beyond typing a few words into chat gpt and waiting for a result.

I don’t know how popular this is today but about two years ago I watched lots of people go wild with stable diffusion workflows. It was a whole palette of tools: Control net, Inpainting, sketches with img2img for the composition, corrections in Photoshop and so on. It took hours or days of manual work until people “generated” the image that they initially imagined. I would say that this would count as art… Writing one prompt into your favourite llm and take what you get: not so much.

One example for reference: https://youtu.be/K0ldxCh3cnI

I believe those who deploy the machines should be responsible in the first place. The corporations who make/sell those machines should be accountable if they deceptively and intentionally program those machines to act maliciously or in somebody else’s interest.

I generally agree.

Imagine however, that a machine objectively makes the better decisions than any person. Should we then still trust the humans decision just to have someone who is accountable?

What is the worth of having someone who is accountable anyway? Isn’t accountability just an incentive for humans to not just fuck things up? It’s also nice for pointing fingers if things go bad - but is there actually any value in that?

Additionally: there is always a person who either made the machine or deployed the machine. IMO the people who deploy a machine and decide that this machine will now be making decisions should be accountable for those actions.

“‘Sleep more?’… No, I think I will not” sip on my fifth cup of coffee

“yeah mom… who said I wanted to go out tonight? I want to play video games with my friends all weekend. like I do every weekend” ~ probably the response.

yeah but if i stay there for a week why do I have to get up early every day?

They can simply say “please leave your room at ?? AM on the day of your departure” and I’ll do it.

So nobody cares that this dude sleeps at home without any pillow case? no duvet cover? i bet he’s also raw dogging his mattress without any sheets. are you out of your mind? whats wrong with you?

Why not import all code ever created by human kind just in case we might need some of it.

+1 for PrusaSlicer. It’s great and I like it’s tools for minimal editing of parts: cutting, placing and scaling…

You can get nutrients from the sauce. IMO tomato sauce is very tasty and can be pretty cheap as well. Probably the cheapest would be tomato paste and water as a base. Or canned tomatoes. Depending on how cheap you want to go you can add vegetables to your liking. Onions are always great but also carrots or peas.

It would be totally sufficient if those things are listed in search engines or maps. Not as ads for other searches but as actual results when you actually search for that stuff. If you like burgers it would be no problem for you to type “burger near me” into your favourite search engines once in a while if you feel like something new. Same for home repair etc.