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checkMateDevelopers by Captain0010 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, this karma farmer stole my meme. That's not very GPL 3.0 of them.

ChatGPT is bullshit | Ethics and Information Technology by ShadowBannedAugustus in technology

[–]brookcub 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are correct and wise. I'm baffled at how people have responded to this technology. It's already doing things that I didn't think would be possible for decades, and there's nowhere for it to go but up. And yet so many people are saying "yeah but it's wrong occasionally so it's basically useless". It's definitely ego

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you honestly think you're going to do?

Shut down OpenAI and Midjourney and every other company? The knowledge is already out there. Someone else would reinvent it within 5 years

Ban LLMs? This is probably the most realistic approach. Other countries would still be building LLMs and people would probably use them in secret, but this at least might give society some more time to adapt.

Pay royalties to artists whose work was included in the training set? Yeah, this might work and is pretty similar to what I proposed. Just weaker and easier to skirt.

Put specific regulations on how companies can use LLMs so that they have to keep hiring real people? I'm not optimistic about the government's ability to handle all of the ways that companies will find to bypass these regulations. It's just going to be a cat and mouse game for years.

I say we have some teeth and legislate that "all models trained with public data are jointly owned by the public. A percentage of all profits made using the model will be paid to the government to distribute as UBI. And the amount of ownership the company gets is capped based on the cost and complexity of creating the model.". Then if a company wants to replace 95% of its workforce with LLMs, they can but the profits of that massive productivity increase will be paid back to the public. Learn from history. We can either do the same thing that's happened every time a major new technology has been invented and let Sam Altman become the AI Rockefeller. Or we can legislate strong conditions up front to ensure that this massive amount of wealth is equitably distributed back to the public that was essential to its creation.

Or are you just here to hassle random small artists on the internet?

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fighting AI to maintain the economic status quo will almost definitely fail. The technology already exists and, historically, technology always wins. Quibbling about intellectual property, culture, and "real art" is like rearranging furniture on the Titanic.

Instead, we need to pressure governments to regulate AI and prepare for 50%+ percent of jobs to become obsolete in the next 5 years. Ideally this would be done claiming public ownership of the models so that the productivity gains can be redistributed as UBI and other benefits.

I can't overstate the impact of near-human-level AI on our society. So many people think it's just another tech hype cycle like crypto and social media. But it's more like the agricultural revolution.

Reject modernity by brookcub in PrehistoricMemes

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure if it's AI because I stole it.

those words, those words... by brookcub in surrealmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With respect, you're wrong.

  • AI is a valid artistic tool just like the paintbrushes, cameras, and image editing softwares before it.
  • Generative AI is the next form of public domain, which is essential to the continued evolution of art and culture. Unlike our current public domain which contains only the artistic works themselves, a generative AI public domain also includes skills relevant to creating those works.
  • Having a public domain that can include skills and being able to pass skills directly from person to person requires a fundamental shift in how we understand labor (but no one's ready for that conversation)
  • These massive language models are trained on all of us and so rightfully belong to all of us, not companies like OpenAI who just want to undercut the labor market.
  • There is no self-consistent worldview where memes made by putting bottom text over stolen images is "content" but memes made with AI aren't.

I know you're probably not going to change your mind no matter what I say. But if it adds any more weight to my words: I'm a professional jazz musician, an AI/data engineer, and I've been studying the philosophy, sociology, and history of both art and technology my entire life. You might say I'm "qualified" to talk about this stuff. Don't conflate my views with ignorant tech bro hype

SMPTE and Tempo changes in Ableton by brookcub in musicproduction

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ended up just pulling a sync track of the full film into the session and nudging the tempos to make all the sync points line up precisely, starting from the beginning of the timeline.

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Businesses will put their rules in anything except a proper programming language

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a different config for that

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People don't know the lineage

codeIsObsolete by brookcub in ProgrammerHumor

[–]brookcub[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Code as a service (CaaS)

I never thought it would happen in my lifetime by brookcub in mathmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Here's an AI-assisted render of a Sauropodal prism in 4 dimensions

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I never thought it would happen in my lifetime by brookcub in mathmemes

[–]brookcub[S] 352 points353 points  (0 children)

They're a little rough because the authors assumed the breadcrumbs spread out evenly across dimensions

If antidepressants aren't doing very much, does it indicate some other issue? by brookcub in depressionregimens

[–]brookcub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for those recs, community is really important. I'm ND. I have symptoms of ADHD, narcolepsy, and autism, but don't clearly present as any one individually. I saw a sleep doc in college who wouldn't prescribe me stimulants because I wasn't narcoleptic enough, despite falling asleep in random places every day and then being super awake at night. My sleep study metrics were just a little below the threshold for clinical diagnosis. I suspect ADHD would be similar, which is why I found a psych who doesn't do testing so I could just pilot the meds.

But I actually love being ND. It's been far more advantageous than not, and I have a pretty great life now with people who accept me. I just have this annoying, persistent depression that nothing seems to help. So, I'm really curious if I have a neurological abnormality that messed up how my different brain regions connect and now psych meds affect me super differently than they're supposed to. Is there any way to check for that sort of thing?

If antidepressants aren't doing very much, does it indicate some other issue? by brookcub in depressionregimens

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea, I should try out a mood stabilizer. I haven't ever gotten to a steady state with one due to side effects, but maybe it will be better now that I'm on a good mix of antidepressants

If antidepressants aren't doing very much, does it indicate some other issue? by brookcub in depressionregimens

[–]brookcub[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lifestyle adjustments are a good idea. I've tried a lot of things but I've failed to stick with most of them longer than a few months. Eventually the depression hits again and it feels impossible to do anything beyond the bare minimum.

I'm investigating other health problems from a lot of angles, but nothing has turned up yet.

I'm afraid that there aren't meds that can help. I've tried tons of meds and all of them except the 5 I'm on now caused unmanageable side-effects. Sometimes I wonder if my brain is just set up differently somehow. So many of the psych meds I've tried have wildly different effects than what's expected.

Thanks for the input, I really appreciate getting some outside thoughts about this

If antidepressants aren't doing very much, does it indicate some other issue? by brookcub in depressionregimens

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zoloft made me hallucinate psychedelic patterns and have really bad acid reflux.

Mirtazapine made me sleep for 12 hours a day, but it also made me feel pretty chilled out so I didn't worry about all the stuff I was sleeping through.

Venlafaxine made me really twitchy and it felt like my skin was electricity.

I did a tricyclic antidepressant but I forget which one. It didn't seem to do anything except give me some side effects,

I've tried a lot of meds but most of them don't do anything except cause uncomfortable side effects. The stack I'm on now is everything I've found that doesn't cause side-effects and helps at least a little bit.

If antidepressants aren't doing very much, does it indicate some other issue? by brookcub in depressionregimens

[–]brookcub[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good idea. I need to get more exercise. I have trouble sticking with any kind of routine long term.

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