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Sasha

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Yes, that Sasha

Non-binary 🏳️‍⚧️ They/them

Definitely an anarchist, and an egalitarian

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Sasha , (edited )

They do it because the stuff you’re asking for doesn’t work that well, but this does (that said they do still engage in those actions as far as I’m aware). Activism is about making noise, there aren’t many tools beyond that and they’ve worked for all sorts of issues in the past.

The point is that JSO doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

wagingnonviolence.org/…/the-method-behind-just-st…

Sasha ,

This isn’t minimal publicity, minimal publicity is what they got when they directly targeted fossil fuels by blocking the supply lines.

wagingnonviolence.org/…/the-method-behind-just-st…

Sasha ,

That’s true, this appears to be a light rail crossing. But then again that’s a pretty large station for just light rail so I’m not sure.

Where I live there are generally no gates for light rail but there are for all pedestrian crossings over ordinary train tracks, which honestly just makes me think we probably should be installing more safety measures for light rail.

Sasha ,

Yes. Almost no one smokes in Australia because of them

Sasha ,

I can highly recommend symfonium as a front end for a jellyfin music library on android, it’s super clean and has tons of nice features.

Sasha ,

Well, they are doing both

Sasha ,

Not all of us get downvotes, I see them pretty much daily…

Sasha ,

We have similar drains in Australia, I don’t think it’s particularly common but I have seen them get completely clogged in a big storm. Nearly flooded our friends house because they lived at the bottom of a hill.

Sasha ,

Capitalism means companies aren’t gonna do shit, but you’ve got a choice to not participate in a flawed system.

I’m not one to tell people what to do, but pretending that someone else doing a bad thing justifies another bad thing…

Sasha ,

NAB did the exact same thing after the banking royal commission

Sasha ,

This post left me very confused for a good 30 seconds, why would a bunch of car enthusiasts install solar panels? … Oh

Sasha ,

Use smart tube

Sasha ,

I know someone who religiously follows it, because he constantly discloses when he’s doing it (all the time). It’s very real

Sasha ,

For when you’ve got really bad aim

Sasha ,

HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE MOST AWFUL THING I’VE READ ABOUT CAN WE NOT PLEASE

Why can’t we just fucking treat animals nicely instead of doing insane shit to them, I’m literally going to go and throw up now

Sasha ,

Power move

I’d totally do this on purpose

Gen Z boys and men more likely than baby boomers to believe feminism harmful, says poll (www.theguardian.com)

Boys and men from generation Z are more likely than older baby boomers to believe that feminism has done more harm than good, according to research that shows a “real risk of fractious division among this coming generation”....

Sasha ,

I can’t believe I actually had a full on moment of, “thankfully that’s not me” before realising I’m not a boy or a man anyway.

This is sad and concerning though

Sasha ,

As someone who has absolutely no desire to ever own or drive a car, I’m getting my licence based purely on the off chance that I might need to anyway (but I’d probably just hire for a day).

Sasha ,

How many more years of these news stories do I have to read before we actually do something about this?

I’m so fucking sick of this happening constantly.

Sasha ,

Did you even read the summary? They’re literally both being pursued

Sasha ,

Effective altruism is just capitalism camoflauge, it’s also just really bad at being camoflauge

Sasha ,

I can’t spell, don’t blame me for relying on an ordinarily quite useful tool.

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Sasha ,

Imagine having to work out self driving in 3D traffic though. I guess at least you won’t have pedestrians, mostly.

Sasha ,

Aren’t other flying cars going to be the dynamic part of the environment? Is what I’m asking

Sasha ,

How about fast trains?

Please?

Sasha ,

Yeah true, I guess if you can enforce that as a standard there’s already tons of research on swarming behaviour with drones to work with.

Sasha ,

Or your protection broke, it happens…

Sasha ,

Perhaps getting married is technically why the others end?

Sasha , (edited )

I don’t use it, but I know companies checkout my profile whenever I apply so I made my profile look really good, added a ton of skills and completed a bunch of the certification test things.

Up until recently when jobs in my industry dried up, I would get recruiters contacting me weekly at a minimum. I’ve never actually used it as a social media platform, and I don’t understand why people do tbh.

Sasha ,

The pro strat is to first post something extremely controversial on twitter

Sasha ,

That was one of Louis Theroux’s phenomenal docos.

He was super confused at the end when he was met with “but we want to hurt them” it was a bit funny how jarring it was, but also really sad.

Sasha , (edited )

Cool, another step in the ruining art with AI saga

These are all short clips because they look like ass if you get enough time to actually look at them. But even still, can people just stop with this shit?

Let people do the one truely human thing ffs.

Edit: Let me be clear, AI has good uses. My only argument here is that generating art is not one, especially when the training data is stolen and used for profit.

Sasha ,

I’m more concerned about the fact that shitty companies will use this sort of thing to put graphic designers out of a job.

This isn’t good progress. Even soulless corporate bullshit puts food on the table for someone, soon it’ll just make another company a bit richer.

Sasha ,

I do not like theft laundering machines.

I like people.

AI actually has good uses when embedded within technology, a great example being natural language processing, it’s capable of so much good especially for the disabled. But so much effort is being focused on creating junk, using stolen data. People are not being paid for their work which is then being used to replace their jobs.

Sasha ,

Except that this is entirely unecessary, and doesn’t create a product we need, and it’s certainly not one I want.

I want to support people, I want people to do beautiful incredible things. I don’t want a higher production rate of souless art statistically generated by taking the work of thousands of people without their consent, for no good reason.

Replace CEOs with AI, that would be good progress.

I also mentioned in another comment that this technology has some very very good uses, I am convinced creating art is an evil use. I’m a big fan of projects like Talon Voice, you can donate voice samples to help improve their language model to help people who struggle to use a computer with their hands. It’s amazing stuff and I love it.

Sasha ,

No, this is a tool that does all of the work of an artist. It is absolutely not an assistant.

That’s a bad faith argument, and it’s actively harmful. Artists are struggling yes, and this just makes that worse, it won’t be a separate market that somehow doesn’t impact them.

If you think we should actually work to make it harder for artists to do things, that it’s actually good that they struggle, then you have some messed up priorities, friend.

Sasha ,

In what world is it a bad thing for someone to get paid for their skills? That’s a bizarre spin to put on it.

And yes, UBI should definitely happen, but we shouldn’t start painting the world with crap to do it.

Sasha ,

Do you understand that there’s a choice about what purpose to make these for?

That yeah, you can just ignore all the harm you’ll do? That people do just ignore all the harm they are doing?

No, I’m not one to call people stupid. I’m calling people and corporations greedy, there’s an insanely long history of that and I’m sick of it ruining this world.

People do choose to make good AI, ones that will and currently are benefiting people. This is not one of them, I’m not calling all AI bad, I’m calling theft and soulless art generation bad.

What if a solar flare hits? What if the world was made of pudding?

Sasha ,

I can kinda get behind that, but only if it’s done right (which I’m absolutely convinced it won’t be, thanks to history).

Even just paying the people who lose their jobs, and helping them transition to other work is bad because voice acting is probably a dream job for a lot of people. We also have to ethically source training data, and I don’t really see that happening. After all, who would want to contribute to losing their own job?

If we could do all that, I think we can agree as a society to protect those jobs instead. I legimately think we can have only the good, but I understand that doing so requires a fight. I’d much rather fight for that than lay down and accept the worst possible option.

Edit: I’ll add further, that this is probably already happening, just for the CEOs. They have the power to create tools capable of replacing them, and to prevent them from replacing them.

Sasha ,

Modern society was partly possible due to the printing press. Yep, it sucks that people had their jobs replaced and if it were happening now I’d be fighting for them to be looked after, as they should.

Generating art is not some amazing world changing technology, it’s trash. We do not need to replace artists, and frankly we just fucking shouldn’t.

Sasha ,

I don’t understand your argument.

I’m in no way convinced that this will lead to new cool jobs, and I have never heard anyone suggest how that could happen. In all honesty, I’d hate to lose my job as a dev and suddenly the only option in my industry is now “debugging AI mistakes.”

If you want to create cool new jobs, how about doing it without disregard for the people you’re hurting? That’s entirely possible, but the current system doesn’t care about people, it cares about money.

If we saw the potential in these tools, and decided as a society to just let the machines do all the stuff we don’t want to do, and we all got to do whatever meaningful beautiful things our hearts wanted, then sure. But that isn’t happening. The system isn’t broken so it won’t fix itself.

“Maybe something good will come of all this pain” is a bad philosophy, imo.

Sasha ,

My guy, they stop being an artist because someone stole all their work and fired them for it

Sasha ,

Hello, we have the same job.

It is not something to be proud of, but it is a part of progress and it is vaguely justifiable if it actually has a worthwhile purpose. We should also be helping the people whose jobs we replace, but we don’t. I joined a union to try and help those people, to secure their jobs and to get them the pay they deserve.

AI art is not a worthwhile thing to create. Stealing from people is bad. These are my points.

A solar flare is entirely unrelated to anything I’m talking about, hence the pudding.

Sasha ,

Yep, then we have nothing to argue about. I’m an idealist, I’m just angry about the way these things are going instead of accepting them.

Sasha ,

You just described the problem back to me, artists should get paid for creating, I don’t think being paid for something you love takes away from it, but that’s an opinion and I understand people have their own. I think that’s just an extension of the beauty of art (having our own opinions about it). Profit motives are the exact problem here, not a justification to make it worse.

If Adobe is doing that, then that’s awesome. If they’re making tools to replace artists, instead of tools to help them, significantly less awesome.

My problem is that lots of tools do exist that replace artists, and most do steal their training data. I would love for these things to change, maybe we’ll make it out okay, but we need to make noise.

Sasha ,

Is it our responsibility to help people? I think it is if we’re helping to hurt them. While we can technically throw the blame up the corporate chain, I think we need to have personal responsibility for our actions, I understand that you, as I do, likely rely on your job to exist, but we can still push for the least harm possible.

If you advocate up said chain on behalf of others, then that is good too.

I’m aware of what this technology can do, I actively use some to help with my work. But I make sure it’s as ethical as it can be.

And AI art is not really all that useful. Just because you can automate art doesn’t mean it’s a waste. I think that’s a dreadfully bleak view.

Helping funding research is great and all, but maybe they should pay all the people they’re stealing from? Or at the very least get consent.

Sasha ,

Ah I understand.

I’m not talking about that either, and I’m not against automating jobs. I’m more talking about preventing unecessary harm, I don’t really want to say who I work for but our company will shutdown entire storefronts and just lie about why. The union works to ensure this sort of thing doesn’t happen unfairly, and that people have access to the legal support they need when it does, among other things.

The reality is that they aren’t working bullshit jobs, and we don’t automate everything they do. Even the things we do automate require their constant help to support, but the business doesn’t care and will just fire them because they see some vague report suggesting they can.

Creating jobs is much harder, of course, but there are things we can and should do to make sure transitioning people out of those jobs is as painless as possible. I’m honestly of the opinion that we shouldn’t have to have jobs to survive, and that pushing for good social support is a necessary part of increasing automation.

As a loosely related aside, even though my job doesn’t qualify for being bullshit, I definitely feel like I’m wasting my life doing it, but I have no other choice except dying.

YSK : Moral values of being nice, forgiving and generosity are justified by game theory to be successful strategies (youtu.be)

Prisoner’s dilemma is a problem commonly featured in game theory. Each player is given an option to be either nice or nasty. Each combination of player plays multiple number of rounds. When tested against different strategies, it is found that the best performing strategies are :...

Sasha ,

Take away the power to tit for your tats, and now you can be almost as nasty as you want.

The prisoner’s dilemma is of course, a highly simplified model. If you could just submit a strategy like “my opponent doesn’t get to play, so I take all the points” then yeah, that would beat tit for tat.

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