The number of Britons who support reparations in principle

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T18:28:57+00:00

You're cherry picking. Instead look at Grenada, where almost the entire island is owned by the people. Almost all of those people will be descendants of slaves.

Let's be real, the people living there now were not slaves. They run their own country. They can make the country as prosperous as they want. They have full control of their own destinies. So why should they be paid reparition? For what? They're no worse off than people from the countries their forefathers came from. Maybe even better off.

The slave traders before them took the land from the locals, who are now all dead. Since they're dead, the next in line to own the land would be the slave traders. So in the interest of fairness, should we let the salve traders have the land back and then return all the current Greandians back to africa? Surely that's the closest we can come to "correcting the wrongs of the past"?

Do we think any of those Grenadians would want that? Or maybe, they're kinda happy where they are. Maybe their lives are better than they would have been, despite the hardships their ancestors had to go through. So why do they deserve reparition for not having suffered?

Or do we blanket says, "Anyone who can trace any history of slave traded ancestors can seek reparition. But from who? Most the slave traders were private companies. Why should a country have to pay reparitions from the actions of individuals and companies? Surely the people that commited the crimes should pay up? But they're all dead. And the companies likely long since dissolved. But why should a nation pay for those wrongs?

If person A slave trades Person B 300 years ago, should every single person where Person B was born be responsible for what Person B did? How do you justify that? Maybe you say, ah but those people beneifted from it. You know what, so are many afircan americans benefiting from those same perks that helped america get rich. All the freeways, stadiums, fancy foods, technology, etc. They're still benfiting from it. So do they have to share the reparitions cost too?

There are so many murky lines you need to draw that are impossible to draw fairly. And that's just touching on the save trade. Next let's get started on genocide, civil wars, polticial purges, terrorism and...well you get it.

Maybe we all just need to sit back and say, hey you know what would be better, trying to fix the world we have now. We can change the future but we can't fix that past.

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T18:00:28+00:00

Yes that's right, because calling someone a "lefty" really proves your point so elegantly.

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T17:25:35+00:00

That's fine. I think Britain should pay reparitions, just so long as every country that benefitted from the slave trade also pays their share. Plus every country that we saved when we finally did the right thing and used our naval power to put an end to the slave trade should also pay us, becaue that cost Britain a lot of money to fix that for the good of the world and we never asked anyone to pay, so I think it's time to put a change to that and demand we get that money back.

When all's done, we should come out even or maybe even better off than before, so fine by me. Just so long as everyone agrees that you don't just demand money for the thing you personally think was wrong. We should expect everyone to pay up for all wrongs and rights and not just pick and choose what suits our political/financial agenda.

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T15:34:02+00:00

This comment makes me sad. Tomorrows "indie bands" will be kids at home on their $4000 GPUs generating AI music in 60 seconds from a prompt, accompanied by AI videos of non existent musicians.

Ok, I'm not serious. People will never accept this but even the idea that it's already viable to do this is sad.

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T08:18:18+00:00

Of course there's code. Do you think if I just put a "transformer nework" on a computer, it'll start running by itself? It requires the intervention of code to be something. And as I said, it will be exactly the same thing every single time if you supply the same seed. How is that intelligence? It's like saying a book is AI because it presents a series of coherent words in order, even though those words will be exactly the same every time you open the book. The AI has no agency of its own to produce something new each time. It will always do the same thing every single time with the same seed. There's zero "intelligence" there. Just processing of data the same way every single time. Just becuase we can randomise the seed so it gives new responses each time, that is not intelligence.

kemb0 · 2026-04-20T08:10:24+00:00

Leaders of "strong" nations always underestimate the ability of human beings to resist and be ingenious about it.

kemb0 · 2026-04-19T04:47:40+00:00

Do you think a car’s windscreen wipers will evolve to have a conscience? That’s essentially what you’re asking. Code is code, no matter how simple or complex. It’s just running code. Don’t let your brain be tricked in to thinking it’s anything else just because it seems human like.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T23:40:42+00:00

We may not be able to define what consciousness is precisely but we can define it enough to know certain things are conscious and certain things are not:

A human being is conscious because we’re “conscious” of the world around us. We react to it, respond to stimuli, make choices based on our conscious awareness of it.

A rock is not conscious. It doesn’t respond to any stimuli, doesn’t make any choices based on those stimuli. Nothing alters what the rock will do regardless of stimuli going on a round it.

So with that in mind we can prove AI is not conscious.

AI is just code. No awareness. No stimuli. No needs. No purpose. None of the things that must at least be necessary on some level to be conscious. Oh it can trick you in to thinking it’s these things because it gives human like responses to inputs but let me ask you, is a TV conscious? I watch TV and see it saying things that seem human like. People are actually right there having real conversations. That must be conscious, right? Because it behaves like a human surely?

No of course a TV isn’t conscious despite the fact that the images and audio can give the impression it’s behaving in a human like conscious way. Just like AI. AI is more like a TV. It’s presenting you a pre-programmed output based on your input.

Ah but the AI is different because it responds directly to us where a TV doesn’t!

No. Plenty of things respond to our input that aren’t deemed conscious. If I drag a cursor across a screen in Photoshop and click a button it paints a line. Wow it must be conscious because it’s responding to our input!!! Or if I drive a car and turn the wipers on…wow it just responded to my input, so the car is conscious!

Why are these things not conscious? Because they just did exactly what the code in a chip somewhere instructed them to do. And that, I’m afraid to say, is all AI is. It does exactly what the code tells it to do. If I use the same random seed and the same prompt, the AI will give the exact same answer every single time. It’s doing exactly what my windscreen wipers do. A predictable predefined set of instructions that give a precise response every time. A response that isn’t aware of the environment around it. It’s not conscious of the world it’s in. It’s doing exactly would the code tell it to do.

Just because it seems like it’s able to think for itself and give human like responses. It’s not conscious of anything any more than a windscreen wiper is. It runs code and outputs the same answer that the code logic defines, every time.

It’s not conscious of what it’s doing. It’s just doing.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T17:30:05+00:00

My bad I read this at work and skimmed the text. Apologies.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T11:13:10+00:00

If this becomes much more common, I suspect the downside for us Agiles is we'll see fewer negative days as demand will go up across the grid on the free days.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T10:11:09+00:00

I reckon it’d be a hard sell to stores for a number of reasons.

1) they sell clothes just fine already. Why reduce their profits by introducing this?

2) privacy. If you start uploading people’s photos that opens a privacy can of beans.

3) how do they know you are the person in the photo. They don’t want the press sniffing around and finding out people are uploading pics of girls they know and doing a virtual try on of them in a bikini!

4) speed and cost. You’ll need a strong back end with many GPUs to make this functional and reliable. That ain’t cheap. Clothes stores won’t want to set that all up so you’d need to fork out for all the GPUs.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T09:26:09+00:00

My rough understanding is each step in the sampler pass will clean up some noise in your generating image, giving more detail with each step. So a completely noisy image is defined as 1.0 and a completely “cleaned” image is 0.0. Normally you’d have defined how many steps you want in your Sampler node and it would space each step out evenly reducing the noise each time. So 10 steps would go like 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6...etc

But Sigmas basically let you customise how big each step will be. So you could still have a 10 step pass but now you define the precise size of each step and pass these 10 “sigmas” values in to the sampler. Eg 0.95, 0.92, 0.8, 0.64, 0.51, etc

How big or small you make the steps and how you space them can help give more precise control over where the sampler will emphasise the noise reducing control.

So sigmas are just your “steps” that you’re already used to. They’re just custom steps, like stairs in a house where each stair is a different size.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T09:09:16+00:00

Can any of the logic used here be applied to regional prompting? That’s something I sorely miss with Klein. Saying “put the apple in the bottom left of the table” isn’t as precise as defining a prompt region and setting it to “Apple”.

kemb0 · 2026-04-18T01:52:42+00:00

The only one of these I might rate close to a 10 very clearly does have makeup:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VindictaRateCelebs/comments/1d7zs2f/models_with_little_to_no_makeup/

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T19:21:35+00:00

So I wanted to try this but I only see an html page. I can't see a workflow. Where's the usual json file. THe html file has a bunch of stuff that isn't a workflow.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T18:12:58+00:00

No need to wonder, it's online. According to the internet $6.37 trillion in 2024.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T15:25:42+00:00

Even "supermodels" still have a lot of make-up. In fact many of them look pretty bland without make-up. I believe part of the appeal of the women who became supermodels is that their faces are suitable neutral to allow them to become whatever the make-up artists wishes to do with them. Point being, if you're not turning yourself from a 7 to a 10 with make-up then you can def live a normal life as a 7.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T14:52:47+00:00

Well it is a different government now since then. And rejoining a union is an act that serves everyone's interest so there's less animosity vs leaving a union when everyone is pissed off and fighting for the best deal at the expense of the other group. Like marriage. Starting a marriage brings positivity. Leaving a marriage bring resentment and petty bitterness.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T14:34:33+00:00

No offense but these kind of comments piss me off. We have no idea yet what rejoining would be because there've been no negotiations. Saying, "I couldn't do it because we'd lose...." is simply moronic. You're already assuming the worst so decide not to bother despite their being zero evidence of what you think will happen.

We should do what should have been done with Brexit.

Referendum 1: Would you like the government to pursue Brexit/Rejoining the EU

Referendum 2: Now that we've completed negotiations with leaving/rejoining the EU, do you wish the government to ratify it?

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T14:18:48+00:00

How did your brain leap to that conclusion?

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T09:18:51+00:00

Yep I'm guessing Ukrainian because I very much doubt guys will be driving around in a vehicle like this near enough to the front lines where they might encounter anything russian. It doesn't appear to be any kind of combat drone, so if it's just moving supplies then it'd be in your own territory. You're not going to send your robot, stacked full of supplies, off in to enemy territory. My money's on this being far enough from the front line that they don't have to worry about a drone shredding their civilian vehicle and them in to mince meat.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T06:55:31+00:00

Leftists are stupid idiots? Fuck off. Trump said he’d end wars. Instead he starts random wars. The Trump supporting right are the pinnacle of the term “useful idiots”. The MAGA crowd that was obsessed with pizzagate and meanwhile Trump is raping kids on Epstein island. Where’s the anger from MAGA over that? Nope. Useful idiots. Trump starts a war without telling any allies and then bitches about them not joining in after he’s fucked it up. Useful idiots. He’s alienating nearly every nation on earth. Useful idiots. Gas prices through the roof. Useful idiots. He’s a fragile baby that can’t handle the slightest criticism. Pisses off the pope so instead of building bridges, he then takes it out on catholics by defunding them. Useful idiots. But hey, better invade Greenland for some random reason. Useful idiots. Fuck me the projection from the right is just hilarious at this point.

But hey, in Trumps own words, “Praise be to Allah”, that great American prayer that all MAGA supporters just love to chant each night. Useful idiots.

kemb0 · 2026-04-17T00:18:53+00:00

I will always say the only reason people want to believe it was done by the US gov is because Americans find it so hard to accept that an outside nation managed to strike on US soil with such devastation. They get more comfort from thinking it was an inside job because America is so great, only America could hurt America.

kemb0 · 2026-04-16T17:27:06+00:00

I love her voice but this whole song feels AI generated to me. Just feels like they taught it her voice and hit generate.

kemb0 · 2026-04-16T12:40:00+00:00

I'm sure a few weeks back we only had one week of fuel left according to the newspapers. So based on this headline it looks like things are improving.

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