Pent | 9 months ago | on: Community Is Motivation on Tap
author likes community over any given hobby or game, they should reflect on that and consider that it's all centered around group-activities for them
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Pent | 9 months ago | on: The Problem with AI Welfare
model welfare is a concern because it displays a broader concern for care, despite it being possibly silly to believe a model can be conscious, the intent is what matters
Pent | 10 months ago | on: Thoughts on thinking
I feel the same way as the author but also notice that many in this thread are projecting their personal motivations for why they might think or blog onto the author, interesting from a psychological POV
Pent | 2 years ago | on: Judge pares down artists' AI copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, Stability AI
as a third party observer, you never defined genuine creativity,
you've been called and it turns out your argument was merely a bluff
Pent | 2 years ago | on: DALL-E 3 Is So Good It's Stoking an Artist Revolt Against AI Scraping
evidence of future shock, this comment is outdated by at least 2 major iterations
Pent | 2 years ago | on: Why Is Everyone Watching TV with the Subtitles On?
my speakers have never been good enough for crisp vocals with normalized background music and sounds
I just assumed I didn’t pay enough, so subtitles always
Pent | 2 years ago | on: The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
as the current economic situation accelerates,
the resource owners do not need consumers,
that is why the workers are increasingly devalued
Pent | 2 years ago | on: No one wants to talk to your chatbot
I don’t want to talk to your customer service either, just do the job
Pent | 2 years ago | on: The past is not true
blame is a sin
Pent | 2 years ago | on: Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules
>the act of being in public is public
the act of being in public may be widely distributed
Pent | 2 years ago | on: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
it's been about mindshare for awhile now, you just mentioned <brand> so you're inadvertently advertising for them for free on hn
Pent | 3 years ago | on: Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
People just don’t take care of their bodies nor have “good” senses to even tell, I mean half these comments are admitting to no taste, don’t be surprised when they mean that literally
Pent | 3 years ago | on: The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020)
the color red is a matter of perception, not a "law of physics"
Pent | 3 years ago | on: The radical moral implications of luck in human life (2020)
>Free will is no more an illusion than the qualia of red. If what you think is outside your control, then who is the "you" that is not in control? Where is it?
If you can't choose to swap the color red to blue, then what makes you think you have any other choice with other things in your mind?
Pent | 3 years ago | on: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened
It worked for Oprah I guess
Pent | 3 years ago | on: SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom
Opening a private phone number and email solely for the purpose of banking and identity, would be one solution
Pent | 3 years ago | on: A fully open-source and end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote
drafts optimizes for startup time, I use that for on-the-go and then review it later to be put into a long-term system
looking for one-tool to do it all is a mistake
Pent | 8 years ago
What's the third interpretation?
Do you understand language?
Pent | 8 years ago | on: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin
It's obvious that he writes for a specific audience
Pent | 8 years ago | on: African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (1999) [pdf]
The primary purpose of language is communication which does not imply understanding.
Understanding is a subtle insult if you think about it.
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