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There are crappy combination padlocks that can be picked by turning the combination wheels and pulling on the shackle. When you've turned a wheel into its unlocking position the sh…

>They're each extremely complex Yes. Now . Not when they first emerged. >but useless without the other two Unsubstantiated assertion. >How would evolution slowly build a heart with…

I mean, everything would seem to indicate that mitochondria were assimilated while our ancestors were still microbes themselves. But that aside, our species is the result of everyt…

>It's strange that [...] An appeal to incredulity is not an argument. >These explanations are always full of "must have" and "must have been". Any explanation that starts with "mus…

I believe I've already addressed it. You say: The fact that production in style S (of artist A) can exceed human consumption capability makes the fact that someone's style can be r…

>What I meant to say was clear I'm not privy to what goes on inside your head, I can only reply to what you say. >Then, instead of debating what I meant to say (you know, the actua…

Yes, someone can disagree on whether a fact is true. That's obviously true, but it has no effect on the truth of that fact. I'm saying something very simple: If a machine can copy …

I'm not sure what you've changed, but I'll reiterate: my copying your style is not fair use. Fair use applies to copyrighted things. A style cannot be copyrighted, so if you tried …

>You might believe they don't have the right to say "no," but they can say whatever they want. You have a right to say anything you want. Others aren't obligated do as you say just…

>the artists should still have the right to refuse their art being studies. No, that right doesn't exist. If you put your work of art out there for people to see, people will see i…

Whether it's irrelevant is a matter of opinion. The fact remains that a machine being able to copy the artistic style of a human makes it so that anyone can produce output in the s…

Tool improvements only apply a constant factor to the effectiveness of learning. Creating a generative model applies an unbounded factor to the effectiveness of learning because, a…

I'm using "implication" as a synonym of "effect". If a human learns to imitate your style, that human can make at most a handful of drawings in a single day. The only way for the r…

I'm not sure what you mean when you say different implications existing is subjective, since they clearly aren't, but regardless of who has more say in general terms, the author of…

And? Even if neural networks learn the same way humans do, this is not an argument against taking measures against one's art being used as training data, since there are different …

It's OK. They have mandatory military service, so he wouldn't have a choice on the matter anyway.

There's a difference between playing to win and being frustrated because your opponent can consistently steamroll you effortlessly without even giving you a chance to set your game…

So what's the actual relative difference? The absolute difference is completely useless in this context.

Couldn't this just be statistical noise? 2% isn't a huge difference, and if you partition stock funds into two arbitrary groups it's almost certain that one will on average perform…

I mean, it's hard to say whether two different actors really perform the same job; speaking for myself the only name I recognize in that article is Christian Bale's. Plus presumabl…

Or, more charitably, "I'll begrudgingly spend my time elsewhere".

What that article says is that one woman with the same job title as a man makes 1 million dollars less than the man. I doubt that's just a fixed salary, so it's hard to say how dam…

Doesn't SpaceX receive plenty of money from the US?

Perhaps there would be more water in total on land, but it doesn't mean it would be distributed evenly. Weather pattern changes caused by the rising sea level could mean that some …

You're tracking things at the content level? How will you deal with files that are purposely broken, or which cause the parser to take impractical (but finite) times to complete? A…