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This is a good move. I teach a summer async remote course that's ending next week, but I'm giving all the students incompletes until they come back to campus and take an in-person …

I won't pretend to be an expert in the various systems of running these services, but to me it seems that GitHub's system is especially vulnerable to what AI is doing. I'll give yo…

> to the extent that top scientists basically had to learn German That reverberates even toady -- I had a physics professor who who learned German precisely because he wanted to re…

"US strikes..." Oh God, what now, we've finally bombed Cuba? "...$1.2B deal to pay..." Oh thank God! "...halt offshore wind projects" God damn it.

GitHub had 30 million users in 2018 when it was acquired by Microsoft. This year alone they added 30 million users for total of 180 million. So pre-Microsoft GitHub faced very diff…

Being a good programmer gives you special social status amongst people who value programming. You only have to look at how people talk about others as slop coders and seek to expan…

I mean, how do you explain the backlash then if their byproducts don't generally bother people? > Northern Virginia is one of the top locations for the kind of people who “can live…

That's why its so concerning.

I wonder if we could just tell it to invent itself without any description and see if it can I introspect enough through its own interface to figure out what it is.

A data center turns the whole town into an industrial zone because of the sound and water pollution. No one wants to live near one, especially not doctors and teachers with young f…

My sister dates a guy who works on these kinds of projects. He’s based out of Chicago, and goes to remote places like Idaho or Ohio to build them. They put him up in cheap temporar…

A school and hospital would do that more than a data center tho. Look at Merced California, used to be a nowhere destination. They built a UC there and now it’s a place students, P…

> The topic is "AI-generated images" in blog posts. Which, no, most of those aren't being generated with any of the more sophisticated techniques you're listing. And if they are, t…

You're acting as though the ordinary meaning of the words settle the controversy, but that's exactly what's contested here. Whatever definition you bring into scope will not resolv…

There's no debate over whether photography is art or not, and that's the point. Photons are neither here nor there. The AI debate will be settled the same way and for the same reas…

I told you why I won't, I'm not getting drawn into an argument about aesthetics. What I personally think has artistic value and whether or not you agree doesn't matter at all.

I pressed all the letters with my meat fingers to express my human thoughts and it's still not genuine enough. shrug

Right now your actual argument is just really your opinion. You can avoid actually examining it closely by claiming logical fallacies, but again we're just talking about your opini…

> Your lack of respect for art does not undermine the thing itself. Don't you see how this can be said for your feelings about AI art? Everything you're saying about AI art, someon…

Alternatively, consider that the people who are so against this are posting here with great conviction, and everyone else who isn't against it just reading the blogs rather than wr…

> What did they Photoshop? Probably some creative work that they or somebody else made.... If all you did was write a prompt for an image Most serious AI artist are not just writin…

Yeah if you want recommendation of things I like, drop a contact and I'll send you some. But I don't really want to get into a public debate about taste in art, because that's all …

Why do you presume people who use AI don't have some kind of idea about the intended output?