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I think there's a difference between brandishing a weapon and brandishing a recording device

Unlike the sword, the camera itself does not incite deeds of violence

My understanding at least is that cameras (or even signs) reducing/preventing crime by _some_ amount has been independently corroborated across multiple studies

Yeah that was my reaction too

If you're a pervert, you wouldn't want the victim to know you're recording them

If you don't want someone to know you're recording them, you wouldn't wear the famous Recording Glasses

But I don't know, maybe I'm overestimating the average pervert

If I was a pretty girl that gets stared at I think I'd want to record the ones doing the staring

People generally commit less crime if they think they're on camera

If they do commit a crime, at least there would be video evidence

Or if they just want to be creepy, I'd send those stares to their wife

Considering motivated perverts would use hidden cameras, as opposed to cameras literally on their face, I think the asymmetry here is in favor of recording the perverts rather than vice versa

You're right in that it's unreasonable to expect someone else work for you for free

But I would also say a quality bug report is a contribution in and of itself

Closing it without reason is also, literally, unreasonable

>Because I have a reason to believe it's fixed

What reason?

Even if you're not correct, I respect your positivity and constructive attitude

It's good to raise people's expectations of themselves

>what if the LLM gets something wrong that the operator (a junior dev perhaps) doesn't even know it's wrong?

the same thing that always happens if a dev gets something wrong without even knowing it's wrong - either code review/QA catches it, or the user does, and a ticket is created

>if it fails here, it will fail with other things, in not such obvious ways.

is infallibility a realistic expectation of a software tool or its operator?

>There is a lot of money to be made from paid cosmetics, ranks, moderator (demi-tyrant) status, etc on custom servers.

Anyone have any idea how much a 15 Tbps DDoS attack would cost?

Thousands of dollars? Tens of thousands?

The only GUI products that work are GUIs that you can interface with, or that perform tasks for you

Maybe the real value of AI, particularly LLMs, is in the interface it provides for other things, and not in the AI itself

What if AI isn't the _thing_? What if it's the thing that gets us _to_ the thing?

I use their app on Android and it blocks ads system wide

I would recommend it

I think that is an unreasonable expectation given the advice they received from their lawyer

Maybe it would have been virtuous to fight it tooth-and-nail from the start, but I don't think it was wrong to comply while investigating further

You make a good point

Though I wonder why it works with Linux, which I assume doesn't have code for a special handshake specific to AirPods

>Some skills, like framing, values, balance, etc. become even more important differentiators.

I agree. I think many artists in the future will be closer to directors/cinematographers/editors than performers

Many of the skills artists have today will still be necessary and transferable, but what will separate the good artists from the bad artists will be their ability to communicate their ideas to agents / other humans

Same with software developers I suspect - communication will be the most important skill of all, and the rockstar loner devs who don't work well in teams will slowly phase out

>AI has no intent or creativity, so it can be neither right nor wrong, neither good nor bad.

AI is just a wrapper around a tool - it doesn't need intention or creativity because those come from the user in the form of prompts (which are by definition intentional)

It's just a Natural Language Interface for calling CLI tools mostly, just like how GUIs are just graphical interfaces for calling CLI tools, but no one thinks a GUI has no intentionality or creativity even when using stochastic/probabilistic tools

Anything a user can do with an AI they could also do with a GUI, it would just take longer and more practice

>Either everything generative AI creates is slop or nothing is. So everything is.

But then how do you know something is slop before you know if it's made with GenAI? Does all art exist as Schrodinger's Slop until you can prove GenAI was used? (if that's even possible)