Jubilee
"The Biden administration is set to announce new tariffs as high as 100 percent on Chinese electric vehicles and additional import taxes on other Chinese goods, including semiconductors, as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter."
This will help out the global fight against climate change.
Most of the mods that had a problem with the new leadership have already dipped out. The rest, I guess, are just following along with the new rules because they hope Fandom's got the right idea for how to improve the community.
Literally a mass murderer who should be facing execution.
Antifanboyism is often just as sad as fanboyism.
You say that as if it wasn't already slowly dying for a decade before they even bought it.
Why bother? He can't win.
its even funnier when the Fandom links they do give isn't to the actual game/movie/whatever you're looking for but some fanfiction fandom for that particular series
Most of the people I know who voted for Trump barely talk about Trump. As opposed to most of the anti-Trump people online who seem to find it utterly impossible to ever shut the fuck up about Trump.
Well for those of us who know our history,
I've asked this question before years ago and didn't get much response back then... But with the AI explosion into the public sphere, I think now's a good time to revisit.
So. At any point, can an AI become 'human'? If it identifies or wanted to be recognized as such?
I personally say "No. Never." The thought of that even being a possibility scares me.
1) Does consciousness, awareness = life?
So. At any point, can an AI become 'human'? If it identifies or wanted to be recognized as such?
"No, because humans are born, not made"
Would also apply to clones.
It was never supposed to work. Only a moron would think "If we give all our money to the richest people in the nation they will use it wisely instead of just hoarding it"
The real metric is income inequality, which has skyrocketed since Reagan.
If they are creating art, they are, by literal definition, an artist.
You could argue to which degree they influence the act of creation, but that's one mother of a slippery slope because every artist uses tools. There is a significant difference between someone who fingerpaints on a cave wall using self-crafted pigments and someone who draws on a computer tablet or manipulates a photograph in Photoshop, but they're all still artists.
Someone creating AI art still needs to have the skills necessary to tell it to create the image they're looking for, and to at least some degree they're still impressing their intentions and mental expectations onto the work. One could argue that there's a difference between someone who is micromanaging descriptions and commands versus someone who just types out a single short sentence, but there's also a difference between someone who spends months painting a masterpiece and someone who doodles on a napkin for 30 seconds.
People get hung up on the idea of the tool, but ultimately we're liking going to reach a point as the tech improves where the end product becomes almost indistinguishable from anything a human could create. Which can actually open doors for people to become more creative (like, say, someone who has ideas for a comic but lacks the skill to draw it, who can now potentially use the new tools to provide art - in exactly the same way most sprite-art comics allowed people who couldn't draw to still tell stories).
There are already AI that can write and perform songs you'd never realize wasn't composed by a human. The limiting factor isn't "technology bad, no human soul", the limiting factor is the tech is still in its infancy, and WILL improve. The future is coming whether people want it to or not.For fun, go back and look at CGI animation in the early 90s and tell me if you think it had "soul" or would ever be anything other than a computer-generated abomination. Then think about the fact that nearly every cartoon today is animated via computer and hand-drawn cel-based animation is almost a dead art. Shit evolves.
AI, however, does all the creation for you. Conceptually, it's identical to commissioning an artist to create something for you: You come up with an idea of what you want, you take that idea to somebody that has the skills needed to express that idea, and you work with what they've given you to fine-tune it to your needs/desires. The only real difference is that you don't have to pay for the commission because it's not a person doing it for you.
I don't know how AI learning art works. Does it steal images or parts of images to create art?
I liked Strange World. I thought it was more successful in terms of world building and emotion than a lot of recent Disney movies, particularly Onward which I was very disappointed by.
Are they not equivalent? Certainly, China's censorship of foreign media is on another level, but it's still the same principle of "we don't want other countries being able to influence our people." I have pretty much no faith that Amazon, Google, or Meta wouldn't sell the same info to China for a sufficient price, nor do I expect that the American government is any less likely to abuse whatever data they collect or use platforms within their control to manipulate people than China is. This is solely a matter of "I'm more comfortable with people that are ostensibly on my side doing these things than people that aren't."
i have realized why they care about tiktok and not facebook/twitter, and it's because the us government is unable to actually solicit any information from tiktok like they can with facebook and twitter.
Probably Strange World, but no one's going to vote for it because no one has actually seen it.
Speaking as someone who has spent a ton of time in NYC, I would never trust the opinions of anyone from NYC.
Of course you'll have a bad impression of New York if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs.
I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.
I fully agree.
Just not for any of the reasons you've implied. And it started a looong time ago, not just recently.
I miss smoking. Time to get really drunk.
As a concept, a flat minimum wage will never work. It'll inevitably fall behind inflation,
That, or just do UBI and abandon the idea of minimum wage altogether. That's probably simpler, though it still runs into the issue that living wages are not universal and there'd need to be some regional variation there (with some kind of checks to make sure people don't just move to expensive neighbourhoods so they get more UBI).
Fun fact: If you took away 99.99999% of a billionaire's net worth, they'd still have $10k left. Musk and Bezos would still be millionaires. A billion dollars really is a ludicrous amount of money.
His both sides are bad shtick could tip the election in Trumps favor.
what'd he say recently that's a dumb?
I mean, I don't follow celebs much so IDK if he pulled a Rowling or something
custer's revenge
As much as people like to insist that you couldn't get away with such an offensive game in today's climate, there's really no shortage of such games being created. They just all pretty much invariably end up languishing in obscurity because they generally don't have any substance beyond their edgy shock value. Custer's Revenge is notorious solely because it was one of the first examples of somebody trying to sell a game on that shock value and because later platform manufacturers screened out such content for the sake of cultivating a more wholesome image for their systems (the Nintendo Seal of Quality being one such screening measure). In comparison to any number of porn shovelware games crapped out on Steam every day, it's nothing special. A remake would sell only to a handful of people who wanted to "own the libs," each of which would probably not actually play it for more than a couple minutes.
Does she support the genocide of the Palestinian people? If the answer is no, then yes she would be a better president than Biden who sponsors terrorism with taxpayer money.
i think that biden has been doing a decent job at salvaging the mess the trump administration left him
but she would do better than both of them, yes. her being better than trump is no contest, and just by virtue of being much younger, she would also do better than biden
japan is just what nihon translates to
If the earth tried to become one nation, fighting over where the capital should be would fragment it again.
The geographic center for the Earth's population would be in southern/eastern Asia, so the capital should be around there.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-population-lives-inside-this-circle
Basically pick any major city inside that circle.
Don't know why the fuck Asia wasn't even an option when over half the world's population lives there."Other" when you had like 4 other spots for poll options, lol
Ironically, a significant number of people complaining are actual New Yorkers who wish it would go somewhere else.
Atlantis
I don't see Palworld having any impact on Pokemon's bottom line. The only impact it has had is that it started a larger dialogue about how ass Pokemon games have become, especially in the past 10 years.
The franchise deserves to be so much better than they are, but The Pokemon Company has decided it wants the games to be shovelware.