Saint [he/him]

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Cake day: August 11th, 2020

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  • I'm not sure where I fall on this. Couldn't you make the same argument about an artist who looks at thousands of other artists' works in the process of learning to draw, developing a style, etc.? And the same with musicians- there are such extreme similarities between different pieces of music, especially within a genre. Are the later musicians exploiting the earlier ones?

    I'm somewhat being devil's advocate there. It's a huge, very techbro-y, leap to assume that a human artist's brain is the right analogy for what these algorithms are doing. But on the other hand it also doesn't seem that obvious to me that it's not. Generally we accept that people can look at two pieces of art and decide whether one is flat-out copying the other or just inspired by it. Maybe that same test is right no matter whether the second piece was created by a human or machine?







  • Saint [he/him]tocovid*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    Also that last paragraph is a bit worrying. Do you or your wife actually think COVID will ever be "over"? I think it's going to be with us forever. The two of you should probably have an honest conversation about what that actually means for the two of you


  • Saint [he/him]tocovid*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    I kinda just straight up told her, I thought it was an objectively bad thing to do. Flying internationally during a pandemic for a vacation was an unethical thing to be doing. I told her I wasn’t stopping her, just that I wish she’d acknowledge that like… it’s an extreme privilege that puts other people in danger.

    I did think this way earlier, but it's now clear that most governments are going to make absolutely no attempt to stop covid from spreading. Controlling a disease takes coordinated national action, it's not something we should be putting on individuals and their choices as consumers.