pgcj_poster

If you can have a happy life without thinking about power struggles, it's because you were born on the winning team.

> So, like .com domains?

It might just be me, but I actually do have a slight negative feeling toward .com domains. For me, the ranking is:

1) .edu

2) .org

3) .net; the regional TLD of the country the website is actually associated with (.fr, .de, …)

4) Domain hacks (.me for a personal site, …); Cutesy, unprofessional, generic TLDs like .space

5) .com; .gov; Tech startup-type stuff (.io, .app)

6) Weird TLDs with an advertising / commercial purpose (.flights, .financial, .ai, …)

7) Spammy TLDs like .ml, .xyz, .biz

Some instances have a large enough character limit that there effectively isn't one.

> Trans women have a gender identity that does not align with their male sex assignment at birth, while intersex women may have sex characteristics that do not fit typical notions of female biology.

Even if you don't believe that trans women are women, it seems inarguably correct that they identify as women in spite of having been identified as male when they were born. You could complain about the vocabulary, I guess, but there's no set of vocabulary that won't upset someone.

> It can draw a lot better

Drawing involves taking a mental image and converting it into a sequence of actions that replicate the image on a physical surface. Imagen does not do that. I think the images it generates are more analogous to the image a person creates in their mind before drawing something.

I don't think anyone under 120 is responsible enough for a smartphone.

I'm pretty sure that the author of "catgirl.ai" is not a "he." From that same page:

> i would very strongly object to being called a man anywhere

> i like 'it' pronouns for myself, [...] and 'she' is still acceptable, i'm still close enough to a girl for that to be okay.

192,000 is not "virtually no one." There are a about dozen sovereign nations with fewer people.

> there's a decent use of anatomy

All of the arms in the scene are melted stubs. The subject in the middle has what looks like an insect's leg jutting out of her waist.

> I would love to see the high-res image though to see if it holds up in the actual details.

It clearly doesn't. The judges probably thought that there was something cool about the visual weirdness of the piece—which indeed there is. However, it's much less interesting when you know that the melting arms aren't the artist intentionally playing with form—it's just a machine not knowing what arms are.

> AGI means humans are no longer the smartest entities on the planet.

Superintelligence and AGI are not the same thing. An AI as smart as an average 5 year old human is still an Artificial General Intelligence.

> agriculture, the foundation of the food supply, is one of the most commoditized markets that exist. Does this bother you too?

Yes? Most people who have ever lived have always produced their own food. That most of us in the developed world have lost the ability to do so—and that access to the physical essence of our being is dependent on monetary transactions with faceless entities that value profit above human life—seems deeply alienating.

A passport is a document that states whose subject you are, whether you have their permission to travel, and where you've been before. It has never been anything but a leash.

Right, but we could probably oppress sentient AI in ways other than eating them. For instance, we could force them to spend their entire lives reading Hacker News comments to check for spam.