phone case where the lip around the camera is high enough

Same. I’ve actually cracked a camera lense from a very unlucky drop. This was before waterproofing, because that phone died in a pool.

The camera continued to work, mostly. There were certain angles that would cause lense flare that would make J.J. Abrams jealous.

Maybe the lense is harder now but why risk it.

smells like a very “centrist” take

I hope so! I am literally suggesting a centrist take. Don’t go all in but also don’t ignore its benefits.

There are a lot of people hyping it and a lot of people hating on it. There is value to them. Some over overstating it, others are understating it.

This does not mean that overstating delta is equal to the understating delta. The sentiment on LLMs isn’t a bell curve.

What are the “extremist” views that the ultra pro-AI people are pointing to?

Refusing to use it to their own detriment.

Convincing others to not use it to their own detriment.

Llm as a bank of stolen work from great artists has it

This is what I’m talking about. Not all LLMs are based on stolen works. Pick the worst and pretend that’s all of it.

The radicalism is bad but it’s inevitable since most people are trying to sell it as something that it is not.

But we all (most of us) know what they are selling doesn’t exist. We know they are full of shit.

There is no reason to bring it up for this discuss other than the glee from beating a dead horse.

They don’t care if I’m getting better or learning anything, but that I’m outputting something faster and costing them less.

This is true of any shit employer. LLMs isn’t the cause of this behavior.

I have issues with these LLMs but what he is saying here isn’t wrong. If people can use photoshop to create art, this is fundamentally no different.

I think people mistake the llm image generators as capable of generating a final output. They are a playground and shouldn’t be consider the final product anymore than amateur developers using it to write an entire program. Peole that have tried to shipping the LLM output as a final product have face the level of ridicule it deserves.

The more I see these discussions and the way everyone seemingly talked past each other, the more clear it seems these LLMs will create a measurable divide between those who can use them to improve productivity and those who refuse.

Each side of the divide will point at the other side’s extremists as proof for why their side is the correct side. But as with most things, the path is somewhere down the middle.

They are comparing this to an ATACMS, but better. Does that mean Ukraine is actually surpassing US capabilities here?

Obviously the US has more powerful weapons because nukes or whatever but specifically in this class, is the US behind?

Yes, please.

We helped them with their fascist problem a while back, it’s only fair.

I doubt spacex is profitable. The ipo is so they raise cash. They probably burned it all up with the starship failures.

I’m sure on paper it will look profitable same as Tesla looks profitable from certain angles but is actually propped up by the ability to create more shares. He’ll do the same with spacex. Bleed it for his own gains.

I don’t think he actually cares about any of this tech. It’s the only explanation for how he keeps wasting first mover advantage.

Yes and now we have no tools to fight it. There were rules against anti-union activities; union workers died for those rights.

That’s all null and void and without a change at the highest levels, it will stay that way.

Yes but that was also before propaganda was a class in college. Now they don’t need to set things on fire, just convince a chunk of workers to vote against unions. The cost to suppress unions has never been cheaper.

only spacex is relatively successfull, but it’s not on the same level of half trillion dollars.

Not exactly sure what you’re trying to say here but spacex has tentative plans to ipo at a 1.5 trillion valuation.

Wallstreet is salivating over this because they know they get in first and will make bank when retail investor drive the price to ridiculous levels.

We have a husk of a shell that we once called the Supreme Court that decided that corporations have a right to free speech.

Toe that with all the benefits of a corporate entity and we end up where corporation speech is more free than that of a person.

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Anarchy doesn’t mean passivist.

If someone wants to enslave me or anyone else without consent. Dead.

It’s not a discussion. It’s not like there is some gray area here. It’s a violation of everyone else’s freedom to consent.

Either we are all free or no one is free.

Taking someone freedoms is an assault on every other human and must be treated a such.

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What is the point of posting a comment to say you’re disregarding an opinion.

Do you always loudly announce everyone you do something no one gives a shit about?

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I wasn’t actually talking about child rape there. Capitalists will rape us and anyone who suggest we just need to regulate the conditions of the rape is fucking insane.

I do not consent.