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4 University of Idaho students killed in home - Suspect in Custody
Goredho replied to Helobious's topic in Daily Texan
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Some of those in exec offices, are the same that burn crosses And now you do what they toldja
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Is this an actual quote? “We are at the cutting edge of AI,” Kennedy said. “We’re implementing it in all of our departments. At FDA, we’re accelerating drug approvals so that you don’t need to use primates or even animal models. You can do the drug approvals very, very quickly with AI.”
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The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. https://www.theverge.com/politics/695495/senate-drops-ai-moratorium-budget-bill
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Goredho replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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What, no "Poop Cruise" yet? If you liked the Fyre Fest stuff, you'll probably enjoy it. I didn't think it was as/that good. Maybe because this one is more "there but for the grace of God go I" or because there just weren't as many spoiled and hateable people involved. Less schadenfreude. They try to play up a cruise line conspiracy angle, but it falls flat. It just seems like this is what would happen if a cruise ship's engines and electrical systems fail in the middle of the ocean, and it could happen again tomorrow and would play out the same way. So think hard about whether you want to board a ship with 4000 other assholes who are all full of shit.
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This hits dark now.
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Yeah, I certainly hope AI ushers in a golden age for the most people. It's definitely not going away, and if anyone wants to take a principled stand against it, they better be financially independent.
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Yep, at this point it's all conjecture and theory crafting about what the actual effects will be. The only thing we have to go by are the hints of intent from people like CEO Tamay Besiroglu who has created a business with a mission statement to "fully automate away all human labor" while citing the collective cost of world wages as his company's total market cap potential. So, while it's cool you are excited about the possibilities, I'm wary. So are a lot of others. And given that no one knows definitively how things are going to shake out, I think it's asinine for the government to bar itself from any form of correction through regulation.
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Yeah, your perspective might be different from where I sit, and vice versa. I think one issue at play that makes an analysis from a historical perspective insufficient is that the pace and scale of disruptive change is accelerating at an exponential pace, while the general cognitive ability of the human brain is not. At the very least, technological advancements can far outpace evolutionary advancement. How humans adapted to the scope and velocity of technological disruption in say the 15th century when scribes started being replaced by the printing press (a process that took over a century) is not necessarily applicable to how humans will adapt to the far greater velocity/magnitude of change that AI disruption will bring in the 21st century. But do I think AI is the end of the world? Absolutely not. Life will certainly go on. Do I think it could be the nail in the coffin of the period of democratized wealth enjoyed by most in the U.S. in the 2nd half of the 20th and early 21st century? A period you enjoyed to be in the position you are today as a retired angel investor intrigued by AI? Absolutely. I am not naive enough to think the AI genie is going back in the bottle. What I hope happens is that we collectively choose to ensure the investor/board/executive class has to take into account the rest of society in their plans revolutionize the world with AI. So I hope the attempted ban on AI regulation fails. I don't think its in our best interests for the government to abdicate any ability to ensure something other than profit motive is governing the powers that be.
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Do you mind sharing what you do for a living? I'm curious. I'm a software/devops and data engineer.
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I mean, did you read the article Brisket was responding to? It's an AI company whose mission statement is literally to automate away all human labor. Not an industry. All industries. Starting with white collar jobs, and then manual labor when robotics catches up. And their launch is coming at the same time that there is a push for cementing zero regulation of any AI efforts for a decade. The new avenues opening up you posit? That's just another human labor target for them to automate away. That's not hyperbole. It's their stated intent. Will they succeed? I certainly hope not.
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You assholes left me no choice. Could be worse though, I couldn’t get the AI to put PRS headstocks on the guitars.
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Quoting you again, as one of the experiments I tried with AI was to see how it might work at creating a graphic novel from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian". I gave it this prompt: Generate a graphic novel scene from this description of a commanche war band: A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools. This is what it spit out: But, if I told it to generate two separate images of The Judge based on two different paragraphs from the book, the Judge would not be consistent across the images, even if I took the first image and used it to guide the generation of the image from the 2nd scene. But once that is improved to the point of indistinguishability, you'll see AI entertainment take off. There is a whole lot of creative work that is either un-copyrighted or in the public domain that could be used as prompt sources for AI generated entertainment.
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We're only human, after all.
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As an indy musician, I've been using AI a lot for cover art and I am experimenting with AI generated videos. The biggest issue I see right now is that it's hard to have a central or recurring character across images or scenes with video. The stuff that looks great now are mostly collections of scenes of random humans doing or saying something. It's difficult (maybe impossible given current state of AI?) to have something like a singular protagonist or villain that is present throughout a bunch of different scenes in a more comprehensive work. When that can be overcome, that is when you'll wind see movie making disrupted.
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I hear you. An attempt is certainly being made, but that does not meant it will succeed. Fight against the provision in the big beautiful bill that aims to bar states from regulating of AI for the next 10 years. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-big-beautiful-bill-ai-regulation-ban-tech-2025-6
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I mean, it is the logical end to a game of capitalism.
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One interesting (to me, anyway) use I have for AI is when I cook. Take a pic of the contents of your fridge and pantry and tell it to give you a recipe that matches what you have on hand. I'll typically know the main ingredient, so I'll say something like, "I have 4lbs of chicken breasts. Analyze the images of ingredients on hand and give me an interesting recipe for the chicken." Have had 3-4 new recipes that people raved over. Now those people speak in binary, but hey, they got a good meal out of it.
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Just FYI, you're losing this argument and might want to quit digging the hole.
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There are really two things being discussed here. 1. Damage to Iran's nuclear weapons program and how far back they have been set 2. Our President's wish-casting assertion that the damage was complete and total before any such assessment could have been made. You can hope the answer to #1 is "complete and total" while also feeling like #2 is stupid, not in anyone's best interests and quite possibly dangerous. I mean, the Ocean's Gate CEO certainly assured everyone that his sub's carbon fiber hull was da bomb, people took him at his word and there was no harm from his bullshit... until it imploded at a depth of 4000 meters. That's where I'm at. I sincerely hope the President is right. It's in our best interests that he is. Because if he's not, and we wind up conducting ourselves as if Iran's nuclear program has been obliterated when they have in fact escaped that fate, then we certainly are not safer than we were a week ago.
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/19/famed-ai-researcher-launches-controversial-startup-to-replace-all-human-workers-everywhere/ Teaser: Mechanize was launched on Thursday via a post on X by its founder, famed AI researcher Tamay Besiroglu. The startup’s goal, Besiroglu wrote, is “the full automation of all work” and “the full automation of the economy.” Does that mean Mechanize is working to replace every human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wants to provide the data, evaluations, and digital environments to make worker automation of any job possible. Besiroglu even calculated Mechanize’s total addressable market by aggregating all the wages humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year,” he wrote. Besiroglu did, however, clarify to TechCrunch that “our immediate focus is indeed on white-collar work” rather than manual labor jobs that would require robotics.
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I was thinking Benjamin Netanyahu shows up presenting Trump with a gold foil covered chocolate medallion telling him he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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