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But OpenAI is not serving different responses to customers of different races. Anti-discrimination laws are about not discriminating against actual people.


Good point. I feel people who use the phrase "virtue signal" are usually signaling something themselves. "Well, I think all XYZ people are bums, and I bet everyone secretly agrees with me and just doesn't have the guts to say it!"

I've never heard anyone decry "vice signalling" and surely humans do that at least as much.


Which lawsuit are you referring to? I'm pretty sure GP is referring to the US Copyright Office guidance on copyrighting AI output in the US:

https://copyright.gov/ai/


I was referring to the recent case against the artist Stephen Thaler, which people interpreted [1] as saying that works created by AI could not be copyrighted. This wasn't what was shown, though. Rather, the judge was ruling about a strawman argument framed by Thaler, where he explicitly stated that he was not the creator, and that he was listing the AI as an "artist for hire."

I don't see where in your link it says, as GP did, that "creations of a machine [...] are not eligible for copyright protection."

The guidance says that the author must be human, but that "In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or instead of an author’s “own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave visible form.”

The latter is copyrightable.

"This policy does not mean that technological tools cannot be part of the creative process. "

1. e.g. https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/federal-judge-says-ai-gene...


Well, "Florida man" is an archetype in American culture for a reason (although some people say that reason is Florida's sunshine reporting laws).

I'd also argue a place where the state surgeon general posts anti-vax memes and the governor has made his national bones by gutting educational programs and rights isn't "well-run" by most definitions.

Would love to hear more about what you meant by "well-run."


They're not independent. (At least the last time I played,) they pull prizes out of the pool when you win them. So if there is 1 Peach in a 100-prize pipe, at most you have to buy 100.


Source? I searched around and the first source[1] seems to confirm what you say

>you can only receive a certain number of rewards from each rarity level per 100 Pipe uses

but further down it says

>Additionally, as long as you haven’t exhausted the quantity by rarity for its category, you can receive duplicates of a reward from the Pipe.

However, it also says

>In fact, you’re guaranteed to receive at least one reward of each type by the time you’ve used 100 Pipe pulls — though the exact reward you’ll get is random for all categories except High-End Spotlight.

I agree that each roll isn't independent and you can't model it as such, but I don't think there's any mechanism to guarantee you a prize given enough rolls, and I still suspect the author messed up the math.

[1] https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/600991-mario-kart-tour...


It took me a few attempts, but I have gotten this to work fairly well. I started with explaining my ideal app like this:

We're going to design a (language) application that performs the following tasks, delineated by semi-colons:

Then I listed about a dozen high-level user stories, separated by semi-colons, and ended the list with a period. Then I clarified my instructions like this:

We will design each step together, where you ask me for any specifications needed to complete the step and I respond with those specfications. When you feel we have completed designing a step, ask me if I have any questions before proceeding to the next step.

It started with a high-level recap of my user stories, asked if I was ready to proceed, and then began to describe the first step. Over about two hours of back-and-forth, I ended up with a 20-page document of high-level architecture interspersed with code samples, db schema samples, and answers to questions that popped up during the "discussion." And I got about halfway to a working prototype during those two hours.

BLEW me away how well it worked.


Floods, fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes only produce grave threats to the individual towns, cities, and maybe some multi-county regions that they cross. For individual incidents, we're relatively prepared beforehand and we know how to respond afterward.

There's no comparison to having nearly everything in multiple states obliterated to the point that rescue takes weeks or months to arrive. We're not equipped to instantly support millions of refugees in the US. Moving hundreds of thousands of people for Katrina was probably at the upper limit of what we can effectively do (for various definitions of "effectively"). A killer quake out west could have 10 million refugees.


Your power is making it all the way to adulthood, literate, apparently aware of the external world and at least some of its history, without ever noticing that you've been "[seeing] other races or genders described in that manner when a individual member of a group acts in a particular way" for your entire life.


I'll bite!

>>You can get an apartment for $500. Health Insurance is $30, utilities $200

Right off the bat, you're not "getting an apartment for $500." MAYBE you can find someone trustworthy who can rent you a bedroom for $500/month in some cities but:

As of 2020, monthly rent averaged $1,164 nationwide; median rent is $1,104.

-- https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/renting-statistics

Only 7% of US counties have 1-bedroom apartments affordable on the prevailing minimum wage.

-- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor

Also, you need first month's rent ($500), security deposit ($500-$1000), utility deposit ($50 - $500), and sometimes last month's rent ($500).

So now we're talking a few grand. Better hope you spent the past three months working that guaranteed-40-hours/week minimum wage job without spending a single penny of your wages!

I also hope that your job is very close to your new apartment because you're going to need to spend a LOT of time chasing all the benefits that you seem to think are easily handed out and you don't have money for transit. Nope, you can't afford to take a whole day off work to wait in line for a free transit pass -- after all, you're going to spend $700 of this month's $900 income on housing and utilities!

At least make up numbers from this century if you're going to pull this Horatio Alger stuff :-)


Fascinating to watch in real-time as somebody tries to convince us that Eastern European nations voluntarily joining NATO over 20 years was "aggression" and poor little Putin had no choice but to rain missiles and shells down on Ukrainian schools and hospitals.

Good luck "debunking" your "myth," comrade!


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