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An out of control train is full of 70 nuns each carrying an orphan baby to the childhood cancer ward to be cured. You stand at the switch. If you do nothing the train will derail into a local puppy sanctuary, but if you change the track a can of refreshing Pepsi™ will have it's brand ruined as the train crushes it. Do you change the track?
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Hmmm I pick up the tortoise but instead of placing it right side up, I will sacrifice it to the brand!
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Feb 13, 2022 20:34
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tokin opposition posted:An out of control train is full of 70 nuns each carrying an orphan baby to the childhood cancer ward to be cured. You stand at the switch. If you do nothing the train will derail into a local puppy sanctuary, but if you change the track a can of refreshing Pepsi™ will have it's brand ruined as the train crushes it. Do you change the track? Will changing the track twice make me definitely responsible for saving the brand? Because I don't like inaction in service of the brand, I'd prefer to work hard, whether or not the work has any meaning.
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Feb 13, 2022 20:44
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tokin opposition posted:An out of control train is full of 70 nuns each carrying an orphan baby to the childhood cancer ward to be cured. You stand at the switch. If you do nothing the train will derail into a local puppy sanctuary, but if you change the track a can of refreshing Pepsi™ will have it's brand ruined as the train crushes it. Do you change the track? 70 nuns and 70 babies with cancer hmm that's about $1.2 billion in value or so, but you have to consider that a decent chunk of the babies probably won't make it and that nuns don't in particular create economic value and you have to consider the damage to the immortal pepsi brand from one of their cans being brutalized and the compound interest generated from profit the puppies, too, will generate a lot of value from their sale which will benefit the immortal corporation running the hmm in the long run, the compound interest from profit will be worth way more than any number of lives let the babies and nuns die
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Feb 13, 2022 20:47
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BonHair posted:Will changing the track twice make me definitely responsible for saving the brand? Because I don't like inaction in service of the brand, I'd prefer to work hard, whether or not the work has any meaning. [promotion to middle management unlocked]
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Feb 13, 2022 20:48
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Complications posted:70 nuns and 70 babies with cancer This is based on a super gross assumption that all profit is the same. Some profits are morally superior to others. Specifically the profits of the corporation that it's currently employing you. So I guess, to answer the dilemma, I have to know about the ownership of each of the involved assets.
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Feb 13, 2022 21:13
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Woah, woah, woah. Why are we saying that Nun and child death are a bad thing? In the inevitable aftermath we have Pepsi sponsor the relief effort and pocket the earnings! "Pepsi Cares®"
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Feb 13, 2022 21:58
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Have you considered cancer babies contribute more to the local economy than normal babies?
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Feb 13, 2022 22:25
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That's why our "Never forget dead cancer babies Pepsi" will contain carcinogens and be marketed to babies
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Feb 13, 2022 22:34
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monetize the tot rot
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Feb 13, 2022 23:54
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Feb 14, 2022 09:38
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That reminds me of the time we told an intern on our game that he should ask to get paid because he was doing final textures for several of the main characters. We literally never saw him again after he went to talk to the Producer  somewhat off-topic: what are those Normal 2%/Unknown badges in the screenshot?
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Feb 14, 2022 13:54
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greazeball posted:somewhat off-topic: what are those Normal 2%/Unknown badges in the screenshot? https://botsentinel.com a browser add-on that supposedly scans twitter accounts for “quality” based on what they’ve said recently and who they follow, and rates them on a scale of Normal, Satisfactory, Problematic or Disruptive it’s pretty useless because it doesn’t tell you anything you can’t glean from looking at the account yourself but there’s a certain segment of twitter posters that like using it anyway
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Feb 14, 2022 14:00
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It's clearly useless because it has labelled a twitter post as Normal
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Feb 14, 2022 14:06
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The Chairman posted:it’s pretty useless because it doesn’t tell you anything you can’t glean from looking at the account yourself but there’s a certain segment of twitter posters that like using it anyway It's unobtrusive and sometimes reveals someone is a bad faith account without me having to check them out. 
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Feb 14, 2022 15:56
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theres a book called how to be an illustrator and a whole chapter in it is about how to not let a company gently caress you. the author mentions how many companies will try to get you to draw roughs for less than half the agreed cost and the just give those to in-house artists to finish up once they’ve got their hands on them.
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Feb 14, 2022 15:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U required viewing for any creatives out there
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Feb 14, 2022 17:05
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what are they complaining about? think of all the exposure they got paid in
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Feb 14, 2022 19:41
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https://store.google.com/intl/en/discover/realtone/ Happy black history month, we've finally invented a camera that can see black people. It's available only on the flagship, most expensive phone. quote:Face detection We fixed our broken-rear end algorithm that was only tested on pasty white google boys around the office, like a decade after it was first pointed out as a problem. It's a new feature. You're welcome.
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Feb 15, 2022 15:40
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Will it be able to see blue faces?
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Feb 15, 2022 15:48
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Spazzle posted:In physics we call this the critical grift. if you compress enough venture capital together, it eventually starts to collapse on itself forming a money event horizon from which no investor can escape
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Feb 15, 2022 15:59
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that seems like fraud?
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Feb 15, 2022 16:04
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Shame Boy posted:https://store.google.com/intl/en/discover/realtone/ This was announced/released in October last year and has nothing to do with Black History Month.
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Feb 15, 2022 16:05
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ArmZ posted:that seems like fraud? You can charge for work done regardless of whether or not the "employer" thinks they were employing you. Fait accompli and all that.
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Feb 15, 2022 16:14
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blunt posted:This was announced/released in October last year and has nothing to do with Black History Month. I'm aware the phone was released then, however the ad I got on the chrome (it's mandated by work, ugh) new tab page for this specific feature didn't appear until this month, and are you really gonna give google the benefit of the doubt? Regardless, selling "we fixed several long-standing problems with our software not acknowledging black people as real" as a premium new feature available only on the flagship phone is pretty lol.
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Feb 15, 2022 16:15
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ArmZ posted:that seems like fraud? paid in exposure
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Feb 15, 2022 16:18
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camera software not working well with dark skin tones is actually an industry-wide problem and google is the first major company to significantly correct it google is bad for a lot of reasons but this is good
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Feb 15, 2022 16:45
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why are cameras so racist
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Feb 15, 2022 16:51
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Wheeee posted:camera software not working well with dark skin tones is actually an industry-wide problem and google is the first major company to significantly correct it I'm aware of that too, it goes back to the early days of photography, there was a whole exhibit about it at the George Eastman house museum when I visited it a while ago. And I still feel like y'all are missing what's making it funny to me, that this is supposedly a software thing (presumably that can just be applied to any other phone). They'll probably apply it more generally later, who knows, but still "we fixed this long-running problem with our poo poo that un-persons you" as anything other than a shameful patch note, let alone an exclusive selling point of their flagship product, seems very This Thread.
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Feb 15, 2022 16:53
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Shame Boy posted:And I still feel like y'all are missing what's making it funny to me, that this is supposedly a software thing (presumably that can just be applied to any other phone). They'll probably apply it more generally later, who knows, but still "we fixed this long-running problem with our poo poo that un-persons you" as anything other than a shameful patch note, let alone an exclusive selling point of their flagship product, seems very This Thread. Remind me what the big difference is between the Pixel 6 and the other phones Google has launched is?
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Feb 15, 2022 16:56
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blunt posted:Remind me what the big difference is between the Pixel 6 and the other phones Google has launched is? I'm not sure what you mean, are you trying to say they're all more or less the same, or that there's a big difference I'm not getting, or are you genuinely asking about the new hardware features?
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Feb 15, 2022 16:59
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Shame Boy posted:I'm not sure what you mean, are you trying to say they're all more or less the same, or that there's a big difference I'm not getting, or are you genuinely asking about the new hardware features? https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-google-tensor/ The skintone thing isn't a pure software fix, it's enabled by the ML stuff that Google grafted onto the Exynos chip that Google/Samsung turned into Tensor. That's why it's not available on other android phones.
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Feb 15, 2022 17:01
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blunt posted:https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-google-tensor/ I mean the previous pixels had ML coprocessor... things... I just assumed this was more of that with lower power use. Is there a fundamental difference between that and like the one in my pixel 3 that makes it capable of seeing black people?
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Feb 15, 2022 17:04
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Looking into it myself, the older ones were more domain specific to just image processing (which doesn't really change anything in this case I guess) but I'm gonna assume they'd require different algorithms or tweaks to make poo poo work on them as a result, or maybe you could only run a scaled-back version cuz they're not powerful enough, idk, regardless there's not really any reason to invest time and money in that when all it would realistically do is cannibalize sales of the newer phones. Which still feels very This Thread but whatever.
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Feb 15, 2022 17:11
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blunt posted:Remind me what the big difference is between the Pixel 6 and the other phones Google has launched is? Weirdly  way to obliquely refer to a specific chip on the motherboard of a particular smartphone with like 1% market share. Like I own that phone and read android leak blogs and I still wasn't sure where you were going
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Feb 15, 2022 17:11
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duz posted:why are cameras so racist Nikon is a Japanese company, and even they couldn't do it right?
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Feb 15, 2022 17:28
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How good are cameras at recognizing blackfaced white people? My guess is better than they are at actual black people, either because what matters is the facial features (and the algorithm was only trained on white people) or because training on racist white people seemed more important than training on normal black people.
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Feb 15, 2022 17:39
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has anyone ever considered just having the camera take a loving picture instead of this CSI zoom enhance face recognition bullshit
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Feb 15, 2022 17:40
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ArmZ posted:that seems like fraud? Welcome to the Economy
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Jazerus posted:has anyone ever considered just having the camera take a loving picture instead of this CSI zoom enhance face recognition bullshit The one thing I will say in its favor is the night sight feature where it takes a bunch of long-exposure images and combines them / cleans them up is pretty neat and works incredibly well. I have the face recognition turned off because it just messes poo poo up.
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