@benni elend, katastrophe und autoritarismus ist doch immer die gleiche scheiße. viel interessanter währen die lösungen, wenn wir sie denn finden und wie es dann weitergeht.
gerade wo KI mal richtig spannend wird, find ich es ziemlich bizarr so welt-lebensmüde zu sein…
imagine you have a chessboard and on the first you place one grain of rice on the first tile, and then you place twice as many grains on the next tile than on the previous.
you may think this is easy to imagine, but even on the second tile there is already more than twice as much rice than has ever been grown on the entire sun 🤯.
@Ivy i appreciate that. i will try to keep it civil as well.
first, marxist try to root their LTV in classical economics. especially Ricardo. Adam Smith was more clear that this was not how he saw things, i think his elaborations make him a sort of proto-marginalist.
the fundamental problem is: if value is the same for both parties, then they have no reason to trade.
i think economical purpose of LTV is to "explain" prices.
imagine you're just doing your thing, making pastries, and suddenly a tall man in a black suit with sunglasses shows up behind you, and then you're like "oh shit, it's an anti-caking agent 😰".
> this is not "they found a beam of the true cross" type of apologia.
yeah, but it is creationism, doesn't seem that far off. i may watch the video, but i'm calling loads of special pleading for god, "X is impossible, also god can do X". i also suspect he provides no actual model of god, which is what you would need if you want to make predictions from it. otherwise you don't have an explanation, just an outcome-independent backstory.
@lain i also don't know what your criticism on Laurence Krauss' argument is. he basically just points out that the the beginning of the universe seems to have needed no energy to happen. i don't know how to do the math, but i from what i heard physicists tend to agree.
it's only tangentially related to god claims, of course. it's just that theist tend to believe that "creation" was a big effort, and if the universe can easily just happen, it's not clear what role god played in it.
@lain "Nothing means different things to different people", well, yes, obviously. he just talks about a zero energy state, but he constantly got confronted with concepts like "an absence of physics", which seems a pretty misguided idea. to the best of our knowledge, physics is pretty damn universal and doesn't just go missing sometimes.
if people want to put forward some concept of "physicslessness", maybe they should first explain how that would be a possibility…
@lain i watched the video now. and i think for the most part it's just that special pleading i mentioned.
one thing else that seems worth commenting on is that "christians invented science" claim. i want to write a more in-depth post on this, but looking at ancient philosophy (check out the presocratics), it's pretty clear that people were long looking for universal principles before the idea of some god-given "law of nature".
i think to create generative #AI models based on public domain data would probably be a worthwhile experiment. but i think it's even more interesting philosophically for what it says about #copyright.
first of all, there is a lot of data you can get with fairly little effort, the existing pool of public domain data first of all. next, a small fleet of camera drone can easily gather terabytes of pictures of nature and historical sites.
next you can just pay artists to liberate their art or create new public domain art. same for journalism and science. how willing people are to do that is uncertain, some will be strictly opposed, to me it would be a dream come true. a unique collaborative effort, stacking shoulder on shoulder to build a giant. a giant that may expand the capabilities of billions of people (including me) in ways i can't even start to predict. and i might even get paid for it 🤑?
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