American protectionism by banning Chinese EVs is how their stock stays up.

Thank god, otherwise how would we cope with that stupid sexy Withers?

Money doesn’t solve problems. Engineers solve problems. America is throwing too much money at hardware and not enough at people.

I think that’s essentially the same thing I said, just a slightly different timeline. You can see the man’s understanding of rockets deteriorating over the years just by comparing the technical interviews he’s done against each other.

We have overwhelming evidence of this documented on YouTube for everyone to see.

I hate this accusation. It is demonstrably false and reeks of a “No True Scotsman” fallacy. He knows a lot more about rockets than you… or at least he did during the Falcon 9 days. Watch any technical interview with him from ~5 years ago and he can very clearly explain why they made the engineering decisions they did.

That being said, his involvement in the development has obviously stopped because he can barely put together a coherent sentence about Starship these days.

Just because he’s the most dangerous fascist on the planet right now doesn’t automatically mean he’s never been an engineer.

A person cannot choose where they are born, and it is not easy to move to another country. You cannot blame those who paid taxes at threat of imprisonment.

That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that it’s going to be increasingly difficult (for the layperson) to tell if a work is by a human or computer. You and I may think there’s some sort of moral superiority in human art, but the average TikTok user doesn’t give a fuck… and they outnumber us greatly.

Fair enough! It’s certainly the right avenue to attack the copyright violations from.

The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization representing Japanese IP holders like Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, released a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using its members’ content to train Sora 2

This is literally the first sentence of the article.

Precisely. AI art is bad because the users making “art” with it essentially have such bad taste they’ll publish anything the AI shits out.

There exist artistic ways to use AI as a tool, but none of them are easy. In fact they might be harder than just painting the damn picture yourself.

I am skeptical about “never”, but right now I agree that’s true. I expect it to be true for many years to come. That being said, we have seen a lot of improvement (over even the last few months) in AI image quality, composition, and prompt adherence.

Houston is quite liberal, despite what you hear about Texas.

Training is fair use, according to the courts. They can demand all they want but it’s over.

Houston, Texas. I think it’s fairly common in lots of big cities - people care a lot less about what everybody thinks and just wanna show off their hobby.

Around my area it’s stickers of anime tiddies.

It’s only risky business if your relationship is defined by sex. People who would stay together even without the sex (because they like each other that much anyway) are generally going to be fine.

Abraham himself wasn’t monogamous.

Unreal Engine did some amazing things at a technical level but doesn’t really seem to be ready for consumers. I somewhat don’t even blame the developers for assuming that UE5 would be the right choice considering all the marketing Epic did to make it sound like a magical wand for free performance.

the extension of the points-based system comes amid warnings that increasing reliance on drone warfare is not something Nato countries should follow because Russian defences against such unmanned aerial attacks have become formidable

And right, good point. NATO should definitely just ignore the most effective weapon of the era. 🙄

Sure but that’s not equivalent to muscular expenditure - every action costs energy so animals learn to be efficient with their movements and thoughts. Also, an LLM cannot re-adjust its weights in realtime like a brain can.