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sebzilla posted:
Yeah, it's absolutely poo poo. Just snivelling cowardice and bad faith. Never voting for them again.
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Jan 28, 2024 20:29
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I've been thinking about trying to find common ground on the ai art thing as we've established you can't entirely cream the genie back in his box. What about if we made it so the ai had to physically produce the artwork? Like it had to use those old primary school turtles with paint brushes shoved up them? Or just leave it up to it to highjack whatever means of physical production it could find I guess and get creative (which I believe it capable of) as to what that might be. That removes the worry about things happening too quickly and proliferating. I mean in theory the ai can still paint faster than a human. I think there's a scene in short circuit where Johnny 5 does this. But also the ai never sleeps. But it does level the playing field a little.
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Jan 28, 2024 20:57
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Generative AI dislikers can take heart in the fact that the current technology is a dead end. To badly approximate one thing that humans can do - forming coherent sentences - requires the cutting edge models to "read" an appreciable portion of the entire English language corpus. Humans can learn to do the same task, alongside a thousand others, from a tiny fraction of the examples. You can make similar arguments based on the power consumption and processing requirements of training these systems compared to the kilo of meat running on 20W that humans use, but I think the difference in learning methods - absorbing the entire Internet vs following along the Ladybird Read It Yourself series - is the strongest evidence that the current approach is doomed.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:11
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NotJustANumber99 posted:cream the genie back in his box Cram the genie, cram
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Jan 28, 2024 21:13
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Genie: you may have one wish Me: I want to cream your box Genie: 
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Jan 28, 2024 21:33
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This is the future that AI people want.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:37
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Large Lactation Model
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Jan 28, 2024 21:48
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I'm more worried about those poor turtles.
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Jan 28, 2024 21:53
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Jan 28, 2024 21:58
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This is the kind of thing my terminally ill mother is doing. It's an act of miserable desperation, not an admirable quality.
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Jan 28, 2024 22:10
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You make it a legal requirement for anything fed into an AI to have permission and attribution, that's literally all we need right at this exact moment. Anyone feeding their own work in is covered, people can easily contribute their own work to a specific AI, and the general use models that scraped the entire internet then started poisoning everything with garbage immediately die.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:45
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/disposable-vapes-banned-to-protect-childrens-health Posting from the future  quote:Press release
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Jan 28, 2024 23:49
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fuctifino posted:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/disposable-vapes-banned-to-protect-childrens-health When though? I mean cool, kid’s health and stuff and whatever but I seriously need those stupid vapes taken away from me
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Jan 28, 2024 23:53
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:models that scraped the entire internet so like just shut your eyes whilst your on the internet?
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Jan 28, 2024 23:54
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I thought they already banned them last year?
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Jan 28, 2024 23:54
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1751672931103408461?s=20 Saw a similar commercial for this Holocaust Memorial Day before a movie today and noted that at the end it listed several other genocides commemorated, with one notable contemporary example omitted… it seems she deliberately included it in her retweet, and so has been punished? Also really bothers me how this holiday only explicitly mentions the Jews killed, as if the millions of other victims don’t count. I hate that in this current political climate it feels as if you have to be skeptical of every invocation of the Holocaust, because a hell of a lot of them are made in bad faith.
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Jan 28, 2024 23:55
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MeinPanzer posted:this holiday eh?
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Jan 29, 2024 00:01
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I've never smoked so I don't have the compulsion to puff away on a vape but someone introduced me to nicotine pouches a couple years back and gently caress me I am absolutely addicted to Velos. Not sure how harmful nicotine by itself is. I know cigs are bad for obvious reasons and vapes are also (less) bad because popcorn lung but the purely synthetic zero tobacco oral stuff? No idea. Mouth cancer risk maybe? Cardiovascular effects? I have no clue and the internet seems unsure too, which makes sense given how recently they've appeared and the lack of data. They're sure morish though which I assume means they can't be great for you.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:01
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I figure if I make it to my 80s I might as well take up cigar smoking because I'll not exactly be dying young at that point.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:04
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The pouches can give you the ol’ mouth and throat cancer if I remember right. They’re nice like Thought 8 pints deep on a Saturday evening nothings better than sucking down a Marlboro red
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Jan 29, 2024 00:14
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cigarettes are horrid
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Jan 29, 2024 00:16
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I'd have the odd cheeky cig when I was being cool and drunk in my 20s, now the idea makes me feel mouth-sick. Gross habit and you should feel bad about it imo
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Jan 29, 2024 00:20
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fuctifino posted:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/disposable-vapes-banned-to-protect-childrens-health Even in a smallish village there is so much disposable vape related litter lying about. What's the theoretical advantage of them rather than a more long-term device you top up with weirdly flavoured liquid?
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Jan 29, 2024 00:20
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'd have the odd cheeky cig when I was being cool and drunk in my 20s, now the idea makes me feel mouth-sick. Gross habit and you should feel bad about it imo Having never been cool I always thought it was gross  Do always feel a bit sad for the folk in a nearby council house who you see huddled on the front step in gales and snow and rain because apparently you're just not allowed to smoke in council houses anymore. Like, i get it, my folks had to paint the living room walls every few years as they'd get discoloured from smoking but it does seem cruel folk can't smoke in their home anymore
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Jan 29, 2024 00:26
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forkboy84 posted:Do always feel a bit sad for the folk in a nearby council house who you see huddled on the front step in gales and snow and rain because apparently you're just not allowed to smoke in council houses anymore. I don't see how that can be true.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:30
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forkboy84 posted:Having never been cool I always thought it was gross I'm sorry for them for their addiction to nicotine personally
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Jan 29, 2024 00:30
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I don't see how that can be true. It isn't, though they've been talking about banning smoking in council properties for a few years now. There's a good chance the house forkoy notices is an ex-council property that's being let out by a private landlord, and many of those parasites do ban smoking inside.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:35
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'd have the odd cheeky cig when I was being cool and drunk in my 20s, now the idea makes me feel mouth-sick. Gross habit and you should feel bad about it imo Be careful of cheeky smokes! In my twenties I probably puffed on about 10 cigs in 10 years. My non-smoker boyfriend and I used to buy a packet of 10, try and smoke (to look 'cool' I guess), didn't inhale, had a coughing fit every time. So that is the sum total of my smoking. Went to get holiday travel insurance about 3 years ago using a "specialist" given my ongoing leg problem, quizzed about all the various smoking, drinking etc so told the guy exactly what I just wrote here. Given that I am now in my 60s, and haven't even attempted to smoke since my 20s and barely did then, they have me down as an "ex-smoker". I mean, yes, technically, but makes my premium bigger. So just a bit of an experiment in my 20s affects me financially in my 60s. "Everyone" says "why did you bother telling them?" Well because insurance cos will do anything to wriggle out of paying so I don't want them not paying out a claim for 2 weeks in hospital with a broken leg on the basis that 40 years ago I half-smoked 10 cigs.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:36
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That does seem like the sort of thing you should just lie about as I don't imagine the insurance companies have deep cover agents taking incriminating photos of you 40 years ago smoking.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:38
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i tell my insurance companies I've always been a non smoker but remind them so was roy castle and look what happened to him and insist on paying slightly higher bills.
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Jan 29, 2024 00:40
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The Marsh Family just parodied 'Starman' to rip into Keith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ReQ4Nd-JI 
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Jan 29, 2024 00:43
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fuctifino posted:It isn't, though they've been talking about banning smoking in council properties for a few years now. You might be right, although apparently the landlord is fine with the garden being used as a dumping ground but no smoking inside? Seems odd. Slightly less grim if it's a private landlord, except I just get mad at the fact they arex-council houses.
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Jan 29, 2024 01:00
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OwlFancier posted:That does seem like the sort of thing you should just lie about as I don't imagine the insurance companies have deep cover agents taking incriminating photos of you 40 years ago smoking. Lol yeah, always lie about poo poo they can't check. There are no photos of me smoking in existence
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Jan 29, 2024 01:11
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My Granny smoked pretty much her whole life, she lived to be 86, qed smoking is probably slightly good for you but certainly does no harm 
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Jan 29, 2024 01:13
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Lady Demelza posted:This is the kind of thing my terminally ill mother is doing. It's an act of miserable desperation, not an admirable quality. A friend of mine is currently on day 16 of fasting. Apparently it has amazing health benefits for them, reduced fibro/chronic fatigue symptoms, reduced asthma and allergies  Kinda makes sense given how important the gut and digestion is to body regulation. Don’t think it would work for me!
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Jan 29, 2024 01:14
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They haven't eaten for 16 days?
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Jan 29, 2024 01:19
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fuctifino posted:The Marsh Family just parodied 'Starman' to rip into Keith If anyone has a burning desire to transcribe this do feel free to post it here. I’d like to know the words but don’t want to listen to it any more than I want to stop smoking
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Jan 29, 2024 01:21
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My mom (not mum sorry) has finally completed her threats of marrying an old tory and moving to a resort town in Devon. It has turned her into a raging rear end in a top hat almost overnight. Can any of y'all confirm if this is normal?
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Jan 29, 2024 01:25
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The lyrics are in the description.Edgar Allen Ho posted:My mom (not mum sorry) has finally completed her threats of marrying an old tory and moving to a resort town in Devon. It has turned her into a raging rear end in a top hat almost overnight. I would suggest that marrying an old tory is an indicator of already being a raging arsehole but it probably also exacerbates the condition. No idea about devon specifically.
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Jan 29, 2024 01:26
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My mom (not mum sorry) has finally completed her threats of marrying an old tory and moving to a resort town in Devon. It has turned her into a raging rear end in a top hat almost overnight. Yeah I’ve seen perfectly nice people who don’t really care about politics get with tories who do and very rapidly become awful little hitlers. They usually end up worse than the person that influenced them I’m sorry to say. Good luck with your mum and her arsehole hubby
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Jan 29, 2024 01:39
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