Zompist Bboard Again

Considering how rapidly the first wave of AI has advanced, it seems quite plausible that AGI will arrive very soon. The development of AI has advanced far more quickly than I could ever have imagined even several years ago. Ok, but you're not just making an assumption about the development of AGI. ...

First of all, DeviantArt is where we as a society keep our anime titties. I'd actually point out that DA has somewhat of an algorithm to show you things similar to things you already look at. By and large, a lot of people on there do look at anime titties. I see occasional animated breasts myself, ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:42 am

KathTheDragon wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 11:16 amthe generative networks (I have decided to stop referring to them as AIs, given they are demonstrably not intelligent)

Exactly.

Cosigned

First of all, those technologies did devastate traditional craftsmen and painters. How many professional painters and sculptors do you know and how many handcrafted products do you own? I know a lot actually, because I have taken the time to find people who are into crafts and art. I own several ha...

I haven't noticed any uptick in AI art on deviantArt but maybe that just means I'm bad at spotting it. Or that I've told the site so many times that I don't wish to see AI art that it just doesn't show it to me. But AI art still has some obvious tells, and I've been trying to get DA to stop showing ...

Emphasis mine. Fries in tacos? Wut? They were imitating american cuisine. I think ‘cuisine’ may not be quite the right word in cases like these… TBH I figured it was based on something from the USA. We have a few Mexican places that add fries to certain burritos. It's pretty tasty, but not an every...

I've found it's very hard to make paper crafts like origami with a phone

How likely is it for a language game used for obfuscation in a small population to become it's own language with changes to grammar and separate sound changes from the main language it was based from? Or basically could something go from being actively used to hide the meaning of conversations in o...

Thanks both of you this gives me a few more options and I'll see what works for my conlang ^^

How likely is it for a language game used for obfuscation in a small population to become it's own language with changes to grammar and separate sound changes from the main language it was based from? Or basically could something go from being actively used to hide the meaning of conversations in on...

malloc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:31 pm But just to confirm, does anyone here not recognize the word "malloc"?

I am a second person who assumed it was likely a word from a conlang you had created and not any word in a specific irl language.

Just got a horrible burn on my finger from handling a microwaved bowl before it had time to cool. Typing is really hard now and it will leave a horrible blister. All that on top of a grueling work week. I can hardly enjoy my time off now with this painful injury. You may not know this: if you get a...

I just don't have an inherent sense of time so I don't feel anything like that. It's either started or it hasn't, no feeling to it. Lock downs for Covid only made that worse and I still can't believe it's been two years since a couple dear friends died (separately and unrelated to Covid) and almost ...

Literally saying "August 7-10" at the head of a sentence does not sound right to me, but saying "August seventh through tenth" does in that same position. Oh come now. If you got a business e-mail, would you even blink at this? August 7–10, I'll be in Topeka. Some very quick Goo...

Does anyone else find it weird how the English word "bruise" can mean anything from something that just changes your skin's color a bit in one specific spot to something that effectively leaves you unable to walk for a while? I'd argue that the bruise that keeps you from walking is pretty...

Imagine if all the resources wasted on AI had gone to stopping global warming or curing cancer. In my opinion, it really lays bare the true nature of capitalism that they chose to destroy art rather than save the world from catastrophe or heal the sick. The oligarchs of the world place no value on ...

(For the record, I'm probably less anti-nuclear power than most people I know. I don't think you have to be evil, stupid, or corrupt to support nuclear power. I'm just not entirely convinced by the arguments of its defenders. Especially not the ones along the lines of "It's perfectly safe as l...

Personally, I'm not saying "We should only use nuclear and nothing else". I'm only pointing out that based on the overall harm they cause, even including catastrophic failures of nuclear plants, coal and by extension fossil fuels as a whole are by far a greater danger. I would love if we c...

Also doesn't coal at least release a lot of radio active compounds into the air and water anyway? Both when mined and when burned? Like a nuclear plant going critical is bad but for the most part it's still local. Coal burning, and possibly using other fossil fuels, is a global problem both for clim...

Does anyone else with a modicum of scientific knowledge get really riled when people talk about "carbon footprints" and "carbon capture", when they mean carbon dioxide , which is something very different? I've been thinking about this all day but does it only mean CO2? Or do you...