Zompist Bboard Again

Has everyone forgotten that the real problem is capitalists cutting costs by exploiting machines that don't need to be paid instead of exploiting people that do need to be paid? If we weren't living under capitalism, the invention of sophisticated generative networks would not lead to this kind of d...

linguistcat wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 9:58 pmBut assuming that they will take the most actively hostile course of action by default

Haven't you learned that this is malloc's entire worldview?

furry porn It's interesting you should bring this up, because I can say with quite some certainty that it's quite unlikely that generative images will break into the furry art scene, for the simple fact that half the time, commissions are being bought because of the artist . Even if generative netw...

The words "fictional future history" seem to indicate that it's from the perspective of someone quite some ways in the future. That is, they'd know because that's how things turned out in their world.

I'd like you to pick out where I've defended generative networks. As I recall, I've been ridiculing it.

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:39 am

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Sun Sep 10, 2023 1:35 am Do you mean marijuana?

Most likely or i think its possibly an alternate spelling of it.

I did find an obsolete spelling "mariguana" but I'd never seen it before I double-checked the spelling of marijuana.

I do feel that LLMs are a huge step toward AI-- a hundred times more than earlier attempts. And I suspect that human brains are more like LLMs than we really like to think. I believe they're going to be huge in linguistics. It seems very likely human brains process language in a very similar way. I...

Do you mean marijuana?

Extrapolating the current trajectory of the technology... no. So unlike pretty much every other technology in history, this one has reached a dead end in improvement right after being introduced? Airplanes went from barely flying to fighting in WWI in the space of one decade. Firearms went from mis...

Give them another decade and they could well match even the best human artists and writers or even exceed our abilities altogether. Extrapolating the current trajectory of the technology... no. The biggest hurdle is something that at least WeepingElf has already pointed out: the generative networks...

Another detail - I had a look at the entry again, and Kloekhorst glosses it as "yoke, pair", which (together with the fact that the base verb means "join" rather than "yoke") may indicate that it was only specialised into a technical term post-PIE. That Anatolian and La...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:27 amHittite has a reflex of PIE *yugom 'yoke'

Hittite appears to actually reflect a neuter root noun *yéwg- (cf nom-acc.sg i-ú-uk) which was only secondarily thematised in Hittite and Late PIE separately. This doesn't really undo the argument, but it's a good point to note.

That makes me think more that the cast changes every time, and the location stays fixed. In particular, that the audience already knows what the location is, but does not know who the cast is.

KatTheDragon: Good point. I should correct what I said to "when your shopping list is fairly short", so you can keep track of what you already bought inside your head. Can you not simply consult your trolley/basket? Either way, you underestimate the power of ADHD to make having to consult...

I do all my mathematics workings on paper. But if you haven't, than IMO nothing on your phone could beat a small piece of paper in your pocket in terms of accessibility and ease of use once you're actually in the supermarket. I dunno, having to have a pen as well to mark things off, not to speak of ...

Reconstructed languages are not good evidence for phonological restrictions.

malloc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:31 pmthat this forum skews white and male and wealthier than average with many working in tech.

Hi, I'm female and currently absolutely broke.

Getting back on this point... I think one point about degrowth that is often overlooked is that it makes a lot of sense for some countries, and no sense at all in others. Typically developing countries need economic growth and their energy consumption will increase. In the West, though... GDP per c...

The idea of companies owned by the employees who democratically elect their management is very attractive, but it is not without problems. Each employee joining the company would have to buy into it, [...] What? I've never heard of a plan for worker management that requires that workers pay to join...

I have the feeling that socialism, rather than leading to post-scarcity, requires it to work. And how do we achieve post-scarcity in a finite world? We are already over-exploiting our planet now. I don't know if this is a full solution, but a good start would be to stop imposing artificial scarcity...