If you think I do this for the adoration of the community and the fuzzy feels, look at the vote counts on most of my posts.
So... is there a reason you asked how we could interact in ways other than criticism?
Saying that conservatives should have taken HR815 as a compromise is a coherent claim, just one you dislike and disagree with.
No, it is not. A coherent claim has to have some clear logical support. There needs to be an X thus Y component; otherwise it's just an ipse dixit.
And this sort of game is what drives me bonkers about HR815 getting used as a cudgel. You're not "specifically referring to that bill", and you aren't even saying it's an example or part of your example now, but you're also not going explain any level of specific support that could be falsified, to confront any of the reasons people might disagree, and you're not going to recognize that the people defending it here had to constantly lie completely miss details about every single section.
I understand why it's not persuasive to you, and frankly to the others with dug in positions on immigrants and American identity. Do you understand why 'we will never trust any legislation on immigration again' is also not persuasive as an argument, in addition to being rather stupid?
No, my position is not "we will never trust any legislation on immigration again". My position is that any compromise on immigration needs to have immediate, serious, and costly compromises paid by the group that has spent half of the last forty years exploiting and ignoring the law for their own purposes, instead of people insisting that it's a compromise because it's an immigration bill and Ezra Klien lied about it.
If you're done with the legislative process, go join the fedposters and leave me alone.
If you think fedposting is bad, you probably will do a better job arguing against it by arguing against it, instead of just going nuts shoving words in other people's mouths.
You think the rhetoric around muslim travel bans and shithole countries and building the wall with DOD funds rather than taking a DACA deal is the 'moderate' position? Stoking partisanship is going to win you elections and make your base love you, but it's not a recipe for passing laws in congress or winning in the court of popular opinion.
Trivially, as I demonstrated in the link that coincidentally wasn't worth responding to, it's actually pretty unclear how incompatible it is with winning in the court of popular opinion or passing laws in congress.
EDIT :/ Just as trivially, the DACA 'deals' had a different result than you might remember. /EDIT
More critically, if a policy someone in the media gives a bad name, mean words, and sketchy misuses of DoD funds are all that it takes to make someone not-moderate on that position, you're going to have to give up ever Dem politician on the national level in the last thirty years, especially on gun control. Trump's actual actions were, despite his best efforts, not that far from those of the Obama era... as evidenced by one of his biggest 'scandals' on immigration enforcement revolving around pictures from the Obama era. Didn't matter. Suddenly everyone thought kids in cages were worth crying themselves to sleep over, until Biden got elected and they forgot it was even a thing.
Time will tell, but however much people like to play rules lawyer about cars being lethal weapons, I don't think normies like seeing normie moms getting shot in the head.
... there's a minor quibble, here, about the 'normie mom' hobby of spending several minutes doing three hundred point turns in the middle of a bunch of federal officers trying to do their job. But it's a distraction.
In 1992, ATF agents trying to enforce a pretty arbitrary federal gun laws -- while operating off a bench warrant issued for a 'failure to appear' to a court date that was itself issued in error -- shot four people, killing two, including an unarmed woman holding a baby. Lon Horuichi, the sniper who killed the unarmed woman, had his state prosecution dropped after federal politicians intervened heavily in the state to unseat the only prosecutor willing to consider that a Bad Thing.
There was another thing, you might have heard about it in the context of charcoal briquettes for some reason? Oh, yeah, 82 people died, a significant portion of which were women or children. Many of them in pretty awful ways! Heavily motivated by the ATF wanting a big, high-profile win on a gun-related case.
And, of course, this had zero impact on Bill Clinton's then-active campaign for a federal assault weapon ban, which passed in 1994 and only ended when an unrelated Republican wave coincided with a sunset provision. Wasn't even controversial at a federal level until a couple complete nutjobs spent five-plus years digging into it and revealed that the official story in both cases had more holes than Ben_Garison's Lankford story, and even then you didn't get national television heads suggesting that maybe you can't shoot people or burn them on a pyre for being annoying and 'resisting arrest'.
(Not that one in a hundred normies could tell you what, say, LaVoy Finicum was protesting, either, but he didn't have a vagina, so he doesn't count.)
No one cared. Progressives don't give a damn about women getting shot. They care about what's politically useful, and what's on the television. And, hell, I'm not saying conservatives are different! (although I personally try to care; in addition to my IRL work, I've pointedly tried to stick to 'don't speak ill of the dead' for this specific example.)
Because Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul and a host of influential figures on the left admitting that illegal immigration is a problem and the Biden admin fucked up combined with shifts in the general population is the ideal time to pass immigration legislation. When else do you think it's going to happen?
After a sizable Republican trifecta, bluntly, if then. There is absolutely zero tolerance for any serious enforcement on immigration, there wasn't before Trump flopped his fat ass onto an escalator, and there won't be in my lifetime. There's not a single Democrat on the federal stage that can even credibly pretend to oppose sanctuary city policies hiding convicted murderers from ICE. Wasn't in December 2024, either.
Klein, Newsom, and Hochul 'admitted' a lot of things in the same sense that they admitted some trans policies were wrong or a Fieren villain admits anything: "words are a means for deceiving humans". And you can tell that, because Trump has not overstepped anywhere near as dramatically on trans stuff, and all three are bending over backwards for those at the same time they make mouth sounds about moderation, and that Newsom was promoting benefits for illegal immigrants in this supposed golden hour before Trump's second inauguration.
Now that Trump is calling blue cities warzones and making shitposts about Chiraq and we're seeing ICE raids in our neighborhoods? The opportunity for rapprochement and compromise was wasted.
The opportunity for rapprochement and compromise was before someone else had power over you. There may well be strategic or tactical benefits for moderation on the behalf of the victors, but you have to actually make them and support them, not just that it costs political capital to do things, or that you have things you'd rather the political capital be spent on (I agree with you there!), but actually demonstrate that it's not the BATNA.
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If you want to interact with me in some mutually beneficial way, then interact with me. I'm not chasing you with a cluebat and then disappearing into the wilderness after every bonk. Hell, the first reply I had to one of your comments I can find is nearly three months old, and it's not some harsh teardown of your every claim: it's saying that I wanted to believe you were right, but that being right wouldn't be enough to argue against malicious actors.
Or, you could comment on ways I'm wrong. Lord knows it happens enough. I'm not a gracious loser, but I like to think I can at least notice when I've lost, and you've got the domain expertise to do a credible contest in some matters.
I'm sorry that I'm not just pointing "this (up arrow emoji)" on the MMUD or tauren druid posts, but I generally try to avoid posting unless I either have further information or a correction, especially since this time of year is a clusterfuck.
Perhaps the way I wrote my comment misled you, but I wasn't specifically referring to that bill. The majority of Trump's agenda has been through executive orders that will be reversed the day after he leaves office, particularly since the center and center-left have soured on immigration enforcement after the last year.
That's more close to a coherent claim, though I'd quibble about how the start time works.
But you do understand why it's not that persuasive as a crux of your argument? There's zero trust that 'moderate' enforcement regimes would be tolerated or accepted -- not just because of the Lankford bill showing that 'moderate' meant no actual mandate, or that literal decades before that 'moderate' enforcement meant wildly net-positive illegal immigration, but simply that Trump tried that in the first administration, it was overwhelmingly not tolerated or accepted, and indeed its use was made to justify the massive uptick in tolerated illegal immigration under Biden.
Why do you think anything could be done about immigration on January 19th, 2025?
Award-Winning AIs
To be fair, "best isekai light novel" is somewhere between 'overly narrow superlative' and 'damning with faint praise', and it's not clear exactly where how predominately AI-generated the writing is or what procedure the human involved used. My own experience has suggested that extant LLMs don't scale well to full short stories without constant direction every 600-1k words, but that is still a lot faster than writing outright, and there are plausible meta-prompt approaches that people have used with some success for coherence, if not necessarily for quality.
Well, that's just the slop-optimizing machine winning in a slop competition.
It's a slightly higher standard than isekai (or country music), and Spotify is a much broader survey mechanism than Random Anime House, and a little easier to check for native English speakers. My tastes in music are...
badunusual, but the aigen seems... fine? Not amazing, by any means, and some artifacts, but neither does it seem certain that the billboard number is just bot activity.Well, that's not the professional use!
It's... hard to tell how much of this is an embarrassing truth specific to Studio Larian, or if it's just the first time someone said it out loud (and Larian did later claim to roll back some of it). Clair Obscur had a prestigious award revoked after the game turned out to have a handful of temporary assets that were AIgen left in a before-release-patch build. ARC Raiders uses a text-to-speech voice cloning tool for adaptive voice lines. But a studio known for its rich atmospheric character and setting art doing a thing is still a data point.
(and pointedly anti-AI artists have gotten to struggle with it and said they'd draw the line here or there. We'll see if that lasts.)
And that seems like just the start?
It's easy to train a LORA to insert your character or characters into parts of a scene, to draw a layout and consider how light would work, or to munge composition until it points characters the right way. StableDiffusion's initial release came with a bunch of oft-ignored helpers for classically extremely tedious problems like making a texture support seamless tiling. Diffusion-based upscaling would be hard to detect even with access to raw injest files. And, of course, DLSS is increasingly standard for AAA and even A-sized games, and it's gotten good enough that people are complaining that it's good. At the more experimental side, tools like TRELLIS and Hunyuan3D are now able to turn an image (or more reasonable, set of images) into a 3d model, and there's a small industry of specialized auto-rigging tools that theoretically could bring a set of images into a fully-featured video game character.
I don't know Blender enough to judge the outputs (except to say TRELLIS tends to give really holey models). A domain expert like @FCfromSSC might be able to give more light on this topic than I can.
Well, that's not the expert use!
That's a pretty standard git comment, these days, excepting the bit where anyone actually uses and potentially even pays for Antigravity. What's noteworthy is the user tag:
Assuming Torvalds hasn't been paid to advertise, that's a bit of a feather in the cap for AI codegen. The man is notoriously picky about code quality, even for small personal projects, and from a quick read-through (as an admitted python-anti-fan) that seems present here. That's a long way from being useful in a 'real' codebase, nor augmenting his skills in an area he knows well, nor duplicating his skills without his presence, but if you asked me whether I'd prefer to be recognized by a Japanese light novel award, Spotify's Top 50, or Linus Torvalds, I know which one I'd take.
My guesses for how quickly this stuff will progress haven't done great, but anyone got an over:under until a predominately-AI human-review-only commit makes it into the Linux kernel?
Well, that's just trivial stuff!
I don't understand these questions. I don't understand the extent that I don't understand these questions. I'm guessing that some of the publicity is overstated, but I may not be able to evaluate even that. By their own assessment, the advocates of AI-solving Erdős problems people admit:
So it may not even matter. There are a number of red circles, representing failures, and even some green circles of 'success' come with the caveat that the problem was already-solved or even already-solved in a suspiciously similar manner.
Still a lot
smarter aboutbetter at it than I am.Okay, that's the culture. Where's the war?
TEGAKI is a small Japanese art upload site, recently opened to (and then immediately overwhelmed by) widespread applause. Its main offerings are pretty clear:
That's a reasonable and useful service, and if they can manage to pull if off at scale - admittedly a difficult task they don't seem to be solving very well given the current 'maintenance' has a completion estimate of gfl - I could see it taking off. If it doesn't, it describes probably the only plausible (if still imperfect) approach to distinguish AI and human artwork, as AI models are increasingly breaking through limits that gave them their obvious 'tells', and workflows like ControlNet or long inpainting work have made once-unimaginably-complex descriptions now readily available.
That's not the punchline. This is the punchline:
@Porean asked "To which tribe shall the gift of AI fall?" and that was an interesting question a whole (/checks notes/) three years ago. Today, the answer is a bit of a 'mu': the different tribes might rally around flags of "AI" and "anti-AI", but that's not actually going to tell you whether they're using it, nevermind if those uses are beneficial.
In September 2014, XKCD proposed that an algorithm to identify whether a picture contains a bird would take a team of researchers five years. YOLO made that available on a single desktop by 2018, in the sense that I could and did implement training from scratch, personally. A decade after XKCD 1425, you can buy equipment running (heavily stripped-down) equivalents or alternative approaches off the shelf default-on; your cell phone probably does it on someone's server unless you turn cloud functionality it off, and might even then. People who loathe image diffusers love auto-caption assistance that's based around CLIP. Google's default search tool puts an LLM output at the top, and while it was rightfully derided for nearly as year as terrible llama-level output, it's actually gotten good enough in recent months I've started to see anti-AI people use it.
This post used AI translation, because that's default-on for Twitter. I haven't thrown it to ChatGPT or Grok to check whether it's readable or has a coherent theme. Dunno whether it would match my intended them better, or worse, to do so.
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