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James Lindsay retweeted
It's really worrying to see power brokers from Europe push uncritically and ideologically for Bitcoin in El Salvador and the authoritarian regime being implemented by Bukele. Imagine if she did the same for Erdogan (who Bukele openly supports)? What happened to your politics?
What AI art needs is more control over the process.
In music production, keys, knobs, sliders, touch pads, etc. give an interface for the human, enabling more expressive and tweakable experiences.
AI art needs more stuff to tweak than a text prompt.
James Lindsay retweeted
i would love it if one day a conservative could come onto my stream and explain to me personally why i should care about this
BREAKING: A huge migrant caravan of over 1,000 people crossed illegally into El Paso, TX last night, making it the largest single group we have ever seen. The city of El Paso reports Border Patrol now has over 5,000 in custody & has released hundreds to city streets. @FoxNews
Realign the incentives
Imagine if you could fine politicians $2,500 for misinformation. The national debt would be paid for in one election cycle.
Just gonna make up nonexistent realities to prove a point, like a child would.
Better still, he tries to make one of the characters a woman, so that the issue becomes about oppression of women/minorities, and not really about actual democracy.
Democracy involves dialogue.
Gotta agree.
The move from Reddit to Twitter brought rampant blocking of outside perspectives.
On Reddit, we had actual discussions related to things like protocol upgrades and living without a bank account.
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James Lindsay retweeted
I think the "is AI art really art?" question is a lot less important than the "is AI art based on stolen work ethical?"
James Lindsay retweeted
I’m sorry but this is so fucking funny
ALT At one point in early April musk appears infatuated with his own idea to replace Twitter with a blockchain based payment and message system. In a string of texts to his brother, kimbal musk, he manages to convince himself that the idea would be a huge way to crush spam while preserving free speech. In this preposterous scenario users would have to pay a fractional amount of the cryptocurrency dogecoin to post or retweet. Roughly 10 days later musk sends a different text noting that “blockchain Twitter isn’t possible”
James Lindsay retweeted
What actually happened: During a suicide call, a Detroit cop shot their partner while aiming *at a dog,* who did not even belong to the person police were there to see.
Detroit cops do this a lot. You would not know from this article.
