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@vampirdaddy @davidrevoy latine est "tace!" (vel "tacete!" pro pluribus)
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tacere, silere: quid est differentia?[edit, added]
Gut feeling:
tacere is more like not-speaking,
silere more like not making any sound?But then again my last serious brush with latin was over 30 years ago.
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@davidrevoy It was probably difficult to resist casting “power word: sap” on the guy.
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@davidrevoy I wonder if you could make one about the recent hardware price hikes.
Something like magic ingredients getting more expensive because they are all bought up by whoever makes these birds. 🤷♂️
@fell @davidrevoy Well, the amphora certainly has had a lot of books and arcane material dumped into it…
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@davidrevoy please please please make it so that the maker of the Avian Intelligence runs away with a huge pot of gold after his giant cauldron explodes and an angry mob chases him for swindling everyone.
That would be the perfect ending to this arc.
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@davidrevoy I need that for the "leadership" in my work meetings.
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@davidrevoy please please please make it so that the maker of the Avian Intelligence runs away with a huge pot of gold after his giant cauldron explodes and an angry mob chases him for swindling everyone.
That would be the perfect ending to this arc.
@davidrevoy Or perhaps it would be more appropriate if the parrots started talking gibberish and the giant AI pot had all its books turned into a giant letter soup that can't be fixed. That would make it a two-part comic 😅
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@davidrevoy
Oui bonjour c'est pour savoir : cette magie est bien sous licence GNU GPL v3 ? -
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Oui bonjour c'est pour savoir : cette magie est bien sous licence GNU GPL v3 ?@gub
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@davidrevoy Or perhaps it would be more appropriate if the parrots started talking gibberish and the giant AI pot had all its books turned into a giant letter soup that can't be fixed. That would make it a two-part comic 😅
@yuki2501 🙂 Lots of good ideas here, thank you for sharing, I'm taking notes!
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@davidrevoy, we're definitely losing something with that (mis)use of “super”. This loss looks ungood, possibly even double-plus ungood…
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@davidrevoy @jesuisatire - Hi David, I'm a big fan of your comics and I know they are all made by you without AI.
But deep in my heart I'm also a big AI fan and like to generate images that I wouldn't be able to do on my own - am I a bad person now? Anyway, I always feel bad when I get hate comments for AI images that I have generated.this is what I think about AI - please feel free to write your comment 😀
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@davidrevoy that's a goofy way to spell ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 :D
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@davidrevoy So true ! This week especially, I was called "a dinosaur" (by a person older than me) for not wanting to use AI in my work (no need, it's better to learn and understand what you're dealing with), I was somehow scolded by ma colleague who told me also that she is usually trying to avoid people like me who are cautious with AI (What the fuck of the coconut ! 🤪 - she is a "linkedin"-kind of type, she uses it to create applets without understanding them. Her website is a patchwork).
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@davidrevoy The advantage of being on a social medium instead of in the Forgotten Realms is that you have access to both the Silence and Banish spell from level 1.
The disadvantage is that casting Fireball is considered to be illegal 😞 -
@davidrevoy @jesuisatire - Hi David, I'm a big fan of your comics and I know they are all made by you without AI.
But deep in my heart I'm also a big AI fan and like to generate images that I wouldn't be able to do on my own - am I a bad person now? Anyway, I always feel bad when I get hate comments for AI images that I have generated.this is what I think about AI - please feel free to write your comment 😀
RE: anonsys.net/objects/bf69967c-5…@scriptkiddie @jesuisatire
Thank you for your words.
I don't think you are a bad person: feeling empowered by AI gen and LLMs was made addictive by design by companies. It's a very consumerism approach of ordering or prompting a quick result in order to short circuit your own ability to learn or feel able to do so. (Eg. citing your words "[...] I wouldn't be able to do on my own").
Making art is "to be", not "to have". You are the art. But with AI gen only, what are you? -
@davidrevoy So true ! This week especially, I was called "a dinosaur" (by a person older than me) for not wanting to use AI in my work (no need, it's better to learn and understand what you're dealing with), I was somehow scolded by ma colleague who told me also that she is usually trying to avoid people like me who are cautious with AI (What the fuck of the coconut ! 🤪 - she is a "linkedin"-kind of type, she uses it to create applets without understanding them. Her website is a patchwork).
@tbzhg Yeah, I've come across something pretty similar at a conference. What a nightmare!
It's wild how confident and self-assured this type of person is. The one I met was impossible to even start a discussion with, because for him, I was a threat to the illusion of empowerment and productivity he had with AI. -
@davidrevoy Birds are human too tho
@pecet @davidrevoy `Birds Aren't Real`
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Oh, also, I have skin in the game. I'm not just randomly dismissing the ethical concerns, I'm right in the middle of them.
A book I wrote was among those pirated by Anthropic. I'm getting ~$1500 (and my publisher is getting the other ~$1500) from the settlement. And, since I have a bunch of code in Open Source projects spanning decades, I'm sure my code is also in the training data for all of them.
I'm not ecstatic about it. But, it's where we are and I don't imagine I can do much about it.
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- I can't ignore the environmental cost or the cost to our democracy, but I don't see a way out of it. Me being out of work isn't going to stop it.
- Also, it's fun. Sorry, it is. It's not programming, anymore, it's managing...but, it's management with near instant gratification. I can do experiments I've wanted to try, but never had the time or energy for and toss the failures. I can launch a smallish project in a weekend that would have taken a month of weekends before.fin...probably.
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Torino, 20 febbraio: Guerra civile in Messico. Sulla cosiddetta “guerra al narcotraffico”
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Riceviamo e diffondiamo: Il primo di una serie di incontri internazionalisti Venerdì 20 febbraio, ore 18, Radio Blackout, via Cecchi 21/A Guerra civile in Messico. La cosiddetta «guerra al narcotraffico», le operazioni di polizia interna e internazionale:
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- It sucks to have a significant portion of the folks I look up to in tech absolutely trashing folks who're using AI. I understand that sentiment, I was trash-talking AI and its users until a few months ago (and I am still repulsed by AI prose, imagery, and video...it's nauseating). But, most of those folks don't have to worry about money...they were millionaires in their 30s by being in the right place at the right time with the right skills. I wasn't in the right place.
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- I'm pretty sure the option to say "no" is rapidly fleeing for everyone making a living in tech. It's too powerful a tool for a tech-related business to opt out of...they'll be killed by companies that spend the $100/month on Claude or whatever.
- And, I mean, it's not all bad. Part of my "OK, let me give this an honest try" experiments led to me knocking out a half dozen projects on my todo list. Some of it was finishing projects over a weekend that I'd been tinkering with for months.
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- It's difficult for me to say I "like" it. It smooths out the creativity of what I've always thought of as at least partly an art. Even while I can see my productivity skyrocket when using it.
- It is even more difficult for me to say, "no, I won't use it". I spent the first 25 years of my tech career living on sub-poverty wages trying to make a living in Open Source software and my own businesses. I am aging without notable savings. I need health insurance and a good salary to catch up.
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Speaking of AI. We're in a tight spot. "We", as in, tech workers, I mean.
A bunch of things are true and they all pull in different directions.
- It works. I'm not really willing to entertain the argument that it doesn't, anymore, after having built several large and small projects with it. For coding, it is a lever that can provide a dramatic productivity increase. I'm comfortable saying 3x+, overall. Maximalists are saying 10x or 100x. Even if it's only 3x, that's industry shaking.
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This video is amazing...so amazing, I am skeptical. This is unbelievable dexterity for a robot. There have been huge leaps in the past couple decades, true, but this feels like it's too far, and out of nowhere.
But, there's another technology where China is kicking ass: Generative AI video, especially motion capture/application.
I assume there must be human witnesses, so it seems like word would get out at some point if it were fake, maybe I'm just overly skeptical.
