Been there done that.

Allende was like 50-60 years ago. Let’s talk about today? Say the nineties and onwards at least? But I feel you’re stuck with the Kremlin whataboutism and cannot see a good thing if any kind of bad thing happens, even if it was half a century ago+. Again, the idea of a “country” is very prevalent in your explanations IMO, which discredits your ideas IMO.

The UN? Lol, yeah sure, a police for everyone except for the powerful veto countries, how do you even think it should be ran?

But I think you have your fundamental ideas, and they are incompatible with mine it seems, so thanks for the chat but I’ll stop here.

Cheers

Yeah the MNIST dataset, fun times.

I don’t even know if we’re on the same page or if there is something we dabate, everything you say is totally valid IMO.

I have 10 years of game dev under my belt, and I wonder where your idea that I think A* is AI come from.

Do you know how machine learning works? Please tell me about this new AI that isn’t based on it!

Don’t get me wrong, I think you’re not wrong, Dijkstra isn’t AI, techbros are trying to shovel “AI” into everything for the buzz, but you’re explaining yourself a bit haphasardly IMO.

I’m with you on a lot of things, but my angle is this:

If Russia, Iran, NK & China was democratic, the world police (the US, but now the EU is stepping up too because of the US president clown show) would need to do way less interventions in the world, just for the basic security of their people (they do bad things too I know that), and could like feed the people and so on.

I’m throwing in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, and a whole ton of other non democratic countries here. Before they let the people decide, we have to band together in the free world and do what we can to help them, if possible.

So no, we can’t become bohemian hippie countries just yet :-)

Or so I think.

No no, this is Super Power Shell (not compatible). /j

Interesting, my art friends, around 50% just love using generative AI for images to use, the other just don’t care. No one does digital art though, or not as their main style for what I know (acrylics, oil paint, gouache, aquarelle etc ).

I don’t like AI gen images because there is always tons of crap in colors and lighting, I guess for composition it could be useful but I don’t use images for that personally, so I like go on pinterest.co.kr with an ad blocker and use my imagination.

Yeah there is someone on a downvote spree lol, no problems & thanks for your post!

I just expressed that AI is good in some places, like research.

AI is machine learning. It was just called “machine learning” before every C-suit had to try to sell it.

I’m with you when it comes to shitty images, but there is interesting approaches too IMO, especially when they will get better, if they do. As for art, it’s just another tool in the toolbox. Painters treated photography similarly, and do you remember (if you’re old enough) when digital cameras became affordable and everyone and their grandma became “a photographer” and flooded the planet with soulless photos? I do 😅

Art is art, no machine will change that, but maybe it will help people get into the arts, with the cost of a lot of slop ofc. Which is cool IMO.

Soon to introduce Super Power Shell 4.0 (non compatible)

Well, it seems you only judge AI on large language models, not when it’s used in other ways like in research. I integrated AI (Tensorflow) in a massive project in 2016, it outperformed other AI at the time and makes real differences in particle detection. For example.

So just know that AI isn’t just chatgpt or midjourney, that’s the products people try to shove into everything and upsell.

I have to correct you here, machine learning (AI) is extremely important in research. There is just no doubt about it.

Is AI image generators beneficial for society? Probably, I have artist friends who use AI images to help them paint for example, but is it out weighing the cost? Dunno.

Is AI slop beneficial? Orobably not :-)

Well the USA is a democracy and Russia is and has always been an autocracy (with that little blip in the nineties). The USA doesn’t always value human life like you’d like but Russia outright uses, and has always used, people in slaughters, famins etc.

If you can’t see the difference then I do not want to try out your (anarchy?) solution…

Still interesting you can’t see your own country for what it is.

I don’t know about specific instances but AI has both good and bad sides, so it’d be stupid IMO to just go with a black’n white stance.

Most loudmouths don’t know what they are talking about too (on both sides).

Can’t answer your post, it’s too deep (I’m on Connect, it doesn’t handle deep posts very well) so I’m answering your latest post here.

After WW2 (that Russia started with Germany):

Russia occupied half of Europe by force, calling it the soviet union. Most countries didn’t have a say and didn’t want to be in the union, and no one was allowed to leave. Some were outright invaded like Czechoslovakia.

The USA has military bases all around the world yes, but most of them are wanted by the countries, and if asked the USA will leave (see France for example). The USA has not tried to annex one single country.

If you can’t see the difference we’ll then I just can’t discuss more subtle things with you like countries and borders and gouvernances. So yeah it took a turn there I guess, a shame if it ends, because it’s been interesting!

Dude, it’s always Russia. Hybrid war, hot war, cold war, it’s always Russia. Maybe you can find someone falsely blaming Russia for something, especially on the internet, but 99.9% of the time the trace goes back to the good old Kremlin.

BTW Finland was just an example, it mostly happened in the baltics.

Now, if you try to portray the cold war as some “both sides” you need to get your head out of the russian propaganda (kind of funny that you are protecting the country you live in).

BTW I grew up in a country between the NATO and the Warsaw Pact, so I was there and I saw it all. If I had to jump in a plane and go live in the USA or the URSS I wouldn’t have hesitated a second, no one would have. Russia is a invasive dictatorship hellhole and has aways been, we had some hope after the glasnost but yeah Russia blew it.

That was because they added ‘shorts’ and friend-lists to it.

Some don’t even know how to thumbs up. Or is this AI?

Oh fuck my comment disappeared 😑

Edit:

I’m trying to recreate the long post:

Russia boats/ships/buss people from Africa to the Finnish border while simultaneously doing “immigrants Violent & bad” psyops is what I meant as using immigration as war.

After peristroika we was relieved not because you were friendly with the US/ Europe but 1) no more hot or cold war (you’d be surprised how we saw Russia from our side, an agressive dictatorship on our border basically) 2) A shot at democracy/freedon for the russian people (that they blew.)

For the rest I’m quite on board, with some caveats ofc. We need a government because everyone can’t know everything, we need trusted people to run our schools, hospitals, nuclear plants and so on. For the rest? Yeah bring that power down to the people!

Oh fuck my comment disappeared 😑

Edit:

I’m trying to recreate the long post:

Russia boats/ships/buss people from Africa to the Finnish border while simultaneously doing “immigrants Violent & bad” psyops is what I meant as using immigration as war.

After peristroika we was relieved not because you were friendly with the US/ Europe but 1) no more hot or cold war (you’d be surprised how we saw Russia from our side, an agressive dictatorship on our border basically) 2) A shot at democracy/freedon for the russian people (that they blew.)