GoofAckYoorsElf

GoofAckYoorsElf t1_je9ln12 wrote

Reply to comment by ulmen24 in Kabul’s only library for women closes due to Taliban threats and harassment by SinbadMarinarul

Biden was president when the last soldier left the country. Trump was the one who initiated the withdrawal and negotiated the contract with the Taliban. A contract that isn't worth the paper it is printed on. And it was Bush who initially sent the troops there. So stop blaming Dems for something the Reps fucked up!

What should Biden have done? Send them all back in?

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j9gnoe7 wrote

Reply to comment by jarlvk in World to face wars over food and water without climate action, EU green deal chief says by YoanB

No. I'm just realistic. Mankind is not going to adapt over night. If change comes over night, mankind will riot. That's how we are. The individual can do something about it. The masses won't. It has happend. Only recently even. During COVID. We all know how people reacted on only a very brief risk of having to change their lifestyle. With looting and foraging.

"Imagine it's war and nobody goes" does not work! Collective action would be required. However that does only happen if sitting on our butts becomes more inconvenient than acting. We are lazy bastards. Like everything in the universe we always strive for the lowest possible level of energy. Or in our case, the lowest level of inconvenience. Thus, alas, things have to become way more inconvenient for us to act as a collective, not just as individuals that cannot change anything alone.

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j6whme3 wrote

Reply to comment by Ulfgardleo in [R] Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models by pm_me_your_pay_slips

There is no simple answer to that. It clearly depends on the person whose work I use, on the purpose (fair use, inspiration), on the credit that I give, on the way, society benefits from either them clinging to their business model or me being allowed to use their work, on so many different things that there simply is no simple answer.

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j6wbljw wrote

Reply to comment by Ulfgardleo in [R] Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models by pm_me_your_pay_slips

Both, actually. I can easily echo this question back to the people I call copyright warriors. Do they care about what is right or what they like? Right would be that everyone took an objective and unbiased look at the new technology and how to incorporate it into their work, instead of seeing only and aggressively clinging to their crumbling business models.

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j6vnsh9 wrote

Reply to How to be a sceptic | We have an ethical responsibility to adopt a sceptical attitude to everything from philosophy and science to economics and history in the pursuit of a good life for ourselves and others. by IAI_Admin

Especially now that we have developed tools with which everybody can perfectly fake reality (ChatGPT, Diffusion models, generative AI in general). It has always been possible to convincingly fake facts, but it used to be a bit of a challenge. Now basically everyone can easily do it with a little bit of reading and tinkering around.

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GoofAckYoorsElf t1_j2o5j6c wrote

Reply to comment by DreadPirateGriswold in In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if "canned music" was preferred over live recordings. by Profanion

This argument continues everywhere where new principles, techniques and technologies emerge, and people only see the dangers for themselves, not the benefits for everyone including themselves.

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