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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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> Is there a better way? Yes, UBI. Then you can create what you want and your livelihood doesn't depend on it going viral.

How do we ensure that we don’t enter the failure mode of “not enough necessities get made”? Like it seems like people are ideologically for or against UBI, but I’ve never seen anyone discuss how the mechanism would avoid this outcome. Like I’m not saying it’s 100% the outcome that would happen on whatever time frame, just that even e.g. a 10% chance of that happening would make it too risky to attempt at scale. And l…

UBI discussion invariably is way off the mark. The only thing UBI solves is how to give out the money, which is a massive misdirection, the real problem is how to get the money. Do you gut the state and allow people who don't work to have enough money to barely survive as an underclass, or do you end billionaires and usher in a new renaissance where all needs are met and labour shall just be at our whim. These two vastly different visions are both UBI, but most discussion about UBI completely sidesteps that as it requires touching upon the more difficult issues.

Once you have control of the money to give out, literally every way of redistribution is as good as UBI. If you calculate how much money would be required for a reasonable UBI.. then imagine what could be done if that money was spent on communal, humane, services then it would be able to revolutionise the world every bit as much.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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How do we ensure that we don’t enter the failure mode of “not enough necessities get made”? Like it seems like people are ideologically for or against UBI, but I’ve never seen anyone discuss how the mechanism would avoid this outcome. Like I’m not saying it’s 100% the outcome that would happen on whatever time frame, just that even e.g. a 10% chance of that happening would make it too risky to attempt at scale. And l…

Necessities get made because there's someone to buy them. Only 5% of people are employed in agriculture and 15% in manufacturing. 80% of working people could do nothing and we'd still be fine when it comes to necessities. And we don't even have peak automation.

Could we perhaps include medical care in the necessities don't you think?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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OK this is too fun. I did Reverse Anti-Render on a dreary scene in Moscow: https://imgur.com/a/mqMEPUl

Love how the sign "Ulitsa" changes into something unintelligible but keeps different cyrillic characters.

Diffusion models struggle with text.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

Complete aside, but it's beyond infuriating I need to enable a VPN here in the UK to view this link.

It's ironic because it looks like a picture of a dilapidated 2000s "millennium park" type of location which are common in the UK.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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post #113

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Singapore does actually look like the renders. By and large.

Most of Singapore looks like the Soviet Union: https://www.google.com/maps/@1.3756813,103.9459007,3a,90y,26... Sun/Light has a lot to do with it. The place linked looks fine/tolerable but put that in the northern of Europe/America and you'll looking at the edge of depression (at least for myself).

Bearing in mind that is literally a construction site, I think it looks pretty good.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.

What would happen if you run it on a spacecraft? Blank image comes back?

There are plenty of grungy spacecraft images out there.

Buran in storage: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/baikonur-buran-soviet-...

Image link: https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/17103111131...

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.

> someone finally made Poland -filter The UK is feeling left out and would like a word.

The British invented Brutalism, the eastern block perfected it.
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