Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzoops
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    2 days ago

    Cool.

    But the reason you’re being downvoted, is that instead of commenting this, you made a comment that sounded like you were dismissing the dangers of PFAS, and dismissing it as the modern-day equivalent to lead, asbestos, and the like.

    Which is what it is, and you clearly agree that it is.




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    Did you at some point read about how some of them, such as the ones used in frying pans, are unlikely to cause problems in the human body, and then completely stopped looking into it further?

    It’s a massive group of compounds, some of which currently look to be quite safe, but a significant number of which also have fully verified dangers (especially some compounds required for production).






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    This person does comissions.

    While it’s possible they don’t want reposts of any kind, I imagine people sharing their work with a link straight back to them is exactly what they want. As that is how they get eyeballs on their talent, and potentially work.

    Pixiv, deviant, and other platforms have lots of users who pass the work of others as their own, or post a bunch of art entirely uncredited to amass followers. These people don’t want users finding the original artists, because they want users coming to them for more, not the arists.

    This is not how I want art on the fediverse to work. Every post should immediately and conveniently allow someone to look up and support the original creator.

    If and when an artist comes to me and wants their content removed from the moe communities, it will be done. That is another reason why I require everything be credited. It will allow me to find every post featuring the art of a particular artist.












  • Superpowered lying is already a thing, and all we needed was demographic data and context control.

    Today, it is possible to get a population to believe almost anything. Show them the right argument, at the right time, in the right context, and they believe it. Facebook and google have scaled up exactly that into their main sources of revenue.

    Same goes for attention hacking. AI generated content designed to hook viewers functions in entirely predictable, and fairly well understood ways. And the same goes for the algorithms which “recommend” additional content based on what someone is watching.

    As for why doctors can’t do things AIs are pulling off, I’d suggest that’s because current systems are using indicators we don’t know about, which they aren’t sentient enough to explain. If they could, I have no doubt a human doctor, given enough time, could learn about, and detect, such indicators.

    There is no evidence that what these models are doing, is “beyond our scale of thinking”.

    But again, I do think the machine will be faster.

    Current models display “emergent capabilities”, as in abilities we don’t know about before the model is created and tested. But once it is created, we can and have figured out what it is doing and how.