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threevox | 2 years ago

I think there should be explicit penalties for passing off movies with special effects as movies. There are externalities to society when you create something that isn't real! There should be a "MadeWith" stack for all special effects you use - no more undisclosed animatronics, makeup, or miniatures! Soon, all our trust in film will be destroyed from everyone making stop-motion movies!

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Not by AI

This is monumentally stupid lmao

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT

Can someone leak the weights please

threevox | 3 years ago | on: MusicLM: Generating music from text

Google: kings of releasing papers but never shipping anything

threevox | 3 years ago | on: AI startup Scale lays off 20% of its staff

I interviewed with them a few months ago, got rejected, and then was contacted by the SAME RECRUITER to interview again a month and a half later. He'd forgotten who I was or that I interviewed. From what I could tell, they're a mess; this doesn't surprise me at all

threevox | 3 years ago | on: AI startup Scale lays off 20% of its staff

I interviewed with them recently, they've brought on lots of (expensive) new MLE type employees to provide ML SaaS services. Open-source might be putting pressure on them as these things become more commoditized

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Stability.ai sent a take down request to Runway ML's SD v1.5 citing IP Leak

Yeah suuuure, Emad

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens

Just call yourself diverse if you have a problem with this. It's dumb and illiberal, but there are easy hacks to get around it

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Image generation ethics: Will you be an AI vegan?

Clothing manufacturing ethics: will you be a textile manufacturing vegan?

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla departs Musk-backed startup

Pretty big red flag that Max Hodak and now Merolla have departed

threevox | 3 years ago | on: The Case for a Confederal Europe

Yeah idk what OP was on about, the EU is huge for allowing Europe to punch at the level of the US, China etc

threevox | 3 years ago | on: The Case for a Confederal Europe

Counterpoint: not necessarily?

threevox | 3 years ago | on: Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis

Only on HN do you only get like 2 "nice" comments smh

threevox | 4 years ago | on: CDC reports increase in human rabies cases linked to bats in the U.S.

Sounds like Michael Scott is going to need to organize another fun run

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

That's a lot of words to rationalize away what is very clearly and obviously a cloaking device at work!!

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

You'd need negative mass either way. Bending spacetime is the most plausible implementation of FTL travel a la Star Trek; doesn't matter a whole lot if you're using the negative matter to keep the wormhole open or create an Alcubierre drive-style spacetime wave on which to surf

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

He discusses it extensively in The Physics of Star Trek.

Also, supposed locally FTL travel for subatomic particles is pretty different from locally non-FTL but globally FTL travel a la Star Trek, Alcubierre drives, etc

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

Generally I'm suspicious whenever anyone seems to imply that an entire field is barking up the wrong tree

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Numerics applied to Casimir geometry generates intersection with Alcubierre warp

Probably a pretty good analogy! Even now, it's not known whether time has directionality in any way that is meaningful in physics. FTL travel would resolve the "Arrow of Time" question (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time) but this wouldn't invalidate much/any of physics because the arrow is essentially non-observable at the micro level

threevox | 4 years ago | on: Viagra Is Linked to Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's

I don't know if 69% seems suspicious as much as it seems...nice