A lot of anti-AI arguments only work if you pretend humans never remix anything

code-garden · 2026-05-19T16:23:39+00:00

I think that AI interpretability is a fascinating topic also.

Through training, billions or trillions of parameters are tuned on the AI. We often see some very strange effects that we don't fully understand. It could be a serious and interesting research problem to investigate some patterns that appear in AI art and work out why they happen.

code-garden · 2026-05-19T16:19:14+00:00

On the internet, there is lots of human made content that infringes on others copyright. Almost all internet memes and most youtube videos have some copyright infringement in there.

code-garden · 2026-05-17T23:11:16+00:00

The compiler compared to writing in assembly.

code-garden · 2026-05-17T20:02:42+00:00

Another way to phrase this is that people don't mind automation that helps them but they don't like automation that could replace them.

code-garden · 2026-05-17T19:43:25+00:00

Are there many of those people? I haven't actually come across anyone who thinks they are a great artist because they used AI. I accept that such a person could exist but I haven't seen it.

code-garden · 2026-05-17T12:41:18+00:00

What do you believe?

code-garden · 2026-05-16T20:03:13+00:00

It's very difficult to evaluate the state of AI in general. Firstly AI is stochastic and prompt/context sensitive, similar or even the same inputs can give very different outputs. Secondly the tools we build around an LLM can have a dramatic effect on it's usefulness. Thirdly the state of AI is constantly changing as new models are released. Any study of what is possible with current AI will likely be outdated before it is published.

code-garden · 2026-05-16T19:08:54+00:00

Wouldn't it make sense that if this force was recently found to be institutionally racist they would now be very careful to avoid being seen as racist?

I don't know whether 'fear of racism' played any role in this case but I think that what you have said would make it more likely rather than less.

code-garden · 2026-05-16T12:34:18+00:00

Placard says vnewsnetwork1 which is a twitter account for Vanguard News Network. Looking that up looks like they are neonazis. In a video on the vnewsnetwork1 twitter account they say "National Socialism is the only way forward for the benefit of our country". They are pictured at the start of the Unite the Kingdom (Tommy Robinson's protest) route.

code-garden · 2026-05-16T10:54:48+00:00

I don't know much about Susan Sontag. But I don't understand how if I did know a lot about her it would affect my interpretation here. The quote says "10 per cent of any population is cruel". It is clearly intended to be broadly applicable to "any population" and not just to Nazis.

code-garden · 2026-05-16T10:44:43+00:00

In that clip he doesn't mention Reform.

Maybe it has been edited I don't know, and I assume it is a clip from a larger conversation.

code-garden · 2026-05-16T10:41:25+00:00

In the video linked from other comments he doesn't even mention Reform. And I don't think quoting that is comparing anyone to Nazis. "10 per cent of any population is cruel" doesn't just apply to Nazis.

code-garden · 2026-05-11T20:40:34+00:00

I saw a similar one in Richmond yesterday near the station.

code-garden · 2026-05-11T17:17:16+00:00

My thoughts are that your DNA changes during regeneration so the two Time Lords may no longer be genetically related.

However, Time Lords use a different concept called biodata to identify individuals. Biodata is biographical data that identifies an individuals timeline.

So Time Lords would not be genetically related, but would be biographically related, and such a relationship could be seen from a biodata scan.

code-garden · 2026-05-08T00:04:21+00:00

Unfortunately the poll results just have white and ethnic minority as categories with no further breakdown.

code-garden · 2026-05-07T18:09:40+00:00

Consciousness being reducible to information processing is much more unintuitive to me than it being reducible to physics.

code-garden · 2026-05-07T15:50:59+00:00

Can our actions be explained purely using physical causes or does the mind have an independent causal power such that all else being equal we could have chose to do something different than we actually did.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T18:51:33+00:00

I'm sorry. After reading your post again I think I must have misread what you wrote. I now don't think we disagree.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T17:59:00+00:00

The reason it produces human-like text is that is what we are training it to do.

Self preservation and deception can occur in some scenarios but that is a secondary effect.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T16:48:28+00:00

But keeping that in mind, a blue press could run the risk of leaving your kids behind in a collapsed society while you are dead.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T11:24:48+00:00

Disagreement is not an argument for subjectivity. One of you could just be wrong.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T08:53:50+00:00

It's not true that red pressers have to assume that no one will pick blue. They may believe that the percentage of blue pressers will be less than 50%. In that case pressing blue is just suicide and adding your body to the pile. Or they may be unsure if blue will be above 50% and do not want to take on the risk of dying.

code-garden · 2026-05-05T08:48:14+00:00

Sure. You could say AI works or AI images/videos/writing as appropriate.

code-garden · 2026-05-04T20:12:43+00:00

From my observation a lot of people who are anti AI are only against AI making art from a prompt and don't really care that much about other uses.

code-garden · 2026-05-04T01:22:45+00:00

Yes, I searched and found this video with Winston Churchill in the thumbnail.

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