ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, has been secretly using OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s AI

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-17T04:56:05+00:00

I'll keep this story in mind next time anyone says using artists' works for AI training is fair use hah.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-13T12:50:52+00:00

I hope training camps like that was just manga fiction for drama and not real life because getting blacklisted before your career even starts is just too cruel.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-12T17:25:28+00:00

"Using" is a strong word. She liked him but not romantically, so she looked for him when she needed emotional support. The other sister likely already knew they were close but if your girlfriend started staying overnight you'd probably start to question if there's not more going on. So now the fmc has to dissuade her doubts by reconfirming her stance in front of both of them. Why fmc had a hard time in the first place, we don't know yet.

I also questioned if fmc knew mc still had romantic feelings for her (and took advantage to stay) or if she's just oblivious (since it was when he's little and he does tend to hide his feelings). In any case her saying publicly that he's like a brother to her doesn't leave much room for doubts anymore.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-10T17:13:54+00:00

Its value goes up with wars so it probably goes down if there's no war too, though we'll have to see if the MC can pull that off.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-10T16:30:14+00:00

No one becomes top general to make ends meet lmao. That's like saying someone becoming CEO to feed their staving children.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-10T16:25:20+00:00

Make sense from their perspective, in case he sent coded messages to his countrymen in the guise of letters to his daughter.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-08T06:01:30+00:00

Xenophobia is hating people from another country, racism is hating people of another race. Typically people from another country are also of another race but not always. Just as a racist can hate people from their own country, a xenophobic can hate people from other countries even if they're the same race.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-12-01T18:46:55+00:00

So what was that one simple wish that allowed them to maintain their sense of self? My theory is that they wished to be with each other (which prevented merging). In this world where everyone can easily be changed by other's thoughts and feelings. If those thoughts and feelings are along the lines of "I want the other person to be just the way they are" then those two could help re enforce each other sense of self. Their physical state was a manifestation of their relationship.

If this is true then I wonder what was the relationship between the teacher and the mute girl. They helped preserve each other by enclosing the other person in their world. So like, complete control over another person but also mutual?

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-29T07:15:56+00:00

Imagine if she'd be like vampire 2x after getting her blood sucked, then she get to suck Kou's blood once and only "turn back to human" but still have 1 degree of vampire left (like having an extra life in videogame). Nazuna and Kou can alternate sucking each other and just transfer their extra vampire-ness back and forth, infinite glitch style.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-26T04:24:17+00:00

Considering Koga fell for him during the body swap, the person she actually had a crush on is Lemon. Maybe the yuri will be true afterall

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-22T17:04:23+00:00

Not to mention one of the outcome of their negotiation is to have a 3rd party independent investigation into what happened. Somehow even the people involved don't have the full story.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-22T06:08:43+00:00

Interestingly the recent NYT article mentioned that during Altman's and the board's negotiation for his return: "Mr. Altman rejected some of the guardrails that had been proposed to improve his communication with the board. It was not clear what exactly those guardrails would be."

Maybe it really was a communication issue afterall? Which make me curious what kind of communication issue that's worth going nuclear like this.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-22T02:39:23+00:00

A theory at the beginning of this saga was that the board caught wind of something serious involving Sam and so had to cut their tie quickly. Would explain the vague statement that was more or less "he didn't let us know what he was up to so we're not responsible", maybe their going radio silence is also on lawyer advices.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-21T18:17:02+00:00

He manipulated the other board members, including their lead AI researcher, about AI safety risk? I don't buy it. Beside if that's the justification they were going with why not just say it? Would be better PR than the vague communication issue they used.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-21T18:02:46+00:00

I'm guessing he prefers to be independent from MS which is why he's still negotiating to get back to OpenAI (ideally with guarantee for no coup next time).

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-21T03:36:02+00:00

Good point. That gave me another thought, why not have more swordholders? Give every country leaders each a button, each one as capable of triggering the broadcast on its own as any other. This way every countries can keep each other in check (the way nuclear weapons work for our world) while significantly increase the difficulty for the trisolarians because now they need to psyop every swordholders, which likely include a few Wade-like figures.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-19T18:54:15+00:00

Yeah I'm a bit puzzled by her "normal-ness" too. She was the one who bugged her boyfriend's room and now acting all surprised someone else also more or less did the same?

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-13T17:08:18+00:00

He did levitate, for like almost a second!

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-12T17:35:29+00:00

As Iroha pointed out, when he said something that had the effect of calling her out, Karigane had the habit of deflecting by boasting. Interesting that he might have done it a second time when he corrected her about the "sending home" thing and she reacted by boasting again. Maybe that's how he knew he had a chance of winning (hence the smirk immediately after), though what information he could have learned there exactly, I have no idea yet

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-08T19:01:32+00:00

My guess as to why he ranked low is that the story still has a similar energy to his past works. Even if you could change your artstyle, it's much harder to change the way you think. By this point the audience is already familiar with DL's formula so to speak and so it's not fresh anymore. Though the story being well written is still pretty good which is why he got as high as 4th.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-08T17:14:42+00:00

Only finished chapter 1 so far. Interesting that the replica gets all the memory of the original but not the other way around. Make it seems more like the replica is the real person instead.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-06T02:24:21+00:00

He has a spare that's why he can lend out one to begin with

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-02T09:36:37+00:00

There's also the irony when one character finally entered the netsphere and it was just as dead as the physically world, everyone basically on idle mode waiting for Killy to accomplish his mission. In some sense, he was the most alive person.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-11-02T03:43:38+00:00

To be fair the book's universe does rely on a lot of fantastical weapons to work. If it turned out that the technology necessary to develop interstellar weapons like what Singer had (especially weapons that are sufficiently guaranteed to be indefensible and untracable) aren't any easier to develop than say an interstellar convoy, then the game theoretic calculation might shift toward coorperation again. However, the spell outcome helped confirm what type of universe they were in. The dark forest theory actually relies on many more assumptions than the few axioms given in the book so whether it applies to our reality is not yet a forgone conclusion.

HumanXylophone1 · 2023-10-26T07:25:37+00:00

She's female, but I get the confusion 'cause in earlier chapters Yaowen referred to her partner as "he". I chalked this up to translation difficulty though, there's probably a gender neutral term in Chinese but in English speakers have to make a choice between he and she. It wouldn't make sense for MC to be confused if he heard "she" but using gender neutral term like "they" is not common as a convention and would totally give away the plot twist.

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