An AI should never make a decision for child welfare. It simply isn't black and white and can just be tied to logic. Child welfare involves a lot more than just behavior, it involves emotions, something AI currently lack and probably will for a long time. The fact it is already in use is terrible. You can't just be like "Parent has X, so their children needs Y", there are maybe hundreds of factors in play on their children's welfare and a disability doesn't mean a child can't thrive nor does it mean a child's welfare is in danger. People who has no disabilities can be terrible parents too and a disability doesn't necessarily make one a bad parent. There are simply too many factors in a child's upbringing that their welfare isn't solely based on treatment from a parent. While parents play a large role in the welfare of children, then disabilities of the parent can be treated and almost be of no harm to a child's welfare.
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hackerman123469 commented on Twitter is censoring journalist critical of Tesla twitter.com/stevanzetti/s... · Posted by u/martingoodson
2022 really was the year of Elon Musk turning into Trump in real time.
I guess this is what happens when you have a huge following. You become intoxicated and think you can do no wrong because legions of fans blindly follow you.
Not to mention your net worth kept increasing from 2020 - 2022.
I think one reason Elon supports crypto is because he gets a high from having the singular power to pump a coin to the moon and then getting the love and adoration from holders. The more coins (Doge, Shiba Inu, BTC) he pump, the more love he gets online. It's this adoration that he seems to be addicted to. It's similar to a social media influencer's number of likes and follows or a Stackoverflow member's upvoted answers.
Though it seems like Elon has taken a step back in 2023. Probably more to do with falling TSLA stock price more than anything.
I don't think he realistically have any huge impact on BTC, on the rest maybe, but BTC is too big and independent that he has no real impact on how it is valued. At least that is my impression.
I wonder if the locations researchers are staying at are located on top of the land or if it's just randomly located and could be either. Like if all (or a majority of) the ice melted how big of an impact would it have on the locations?
hackerman123469 commented on VALL-E: Microsoft’s new zero-shot text-to-speech model mpost.io/vall-e-microsoft... · Posted by u/cbeach
My god...I haven't really thought about scamming at all, I was "just" worried about manipulation of media and politics. New nightmare unlocked.
"Okay, let me just video call you because I also need to show you something" and then the scammer hung up and was to never be seen again.
hackerman123469 commented on AI Voice Generator: Text to Speech Software murf.ai... · Posted by u/9woc
Human voice is a carrier of emotion, it helps co-regulate our nervous system. It is extremely rich in signals. It is known in modern trauma therapy for example that people who are emotionally disconnected or in a state of shock have less "prosody" in their voice - the voice becomes more monotonous.
In my opinion this tech is bad - and the more we spend time listening to artificial voices I would bet it can have a disregulating effect on the listener's nervous system.
There is also a unhealthy trend on YouTube where creators actually voice their content, but they speak really fast and they cut all the pauses. It's really stressful to listen to in my experience, and I believe also unhealthy for listeners on the long run.
It's no wonder that some creators who are just chill in their videos, sometime attract a wide audience, become a father-like figure almost - they could talk about anything - because younger people nowadays are just starving for this co-regulation effect.
Like I'm watching a certain "Dwayne" and I don't need to agree to everything he says.. but the delivery is so calm and grounded , and there's none of that speeding up / cutting pauses non-sense, that it genuinely helps me as I am recovering from trauma. It calms me down.
It's kinda unfortunate that at same time modern trauma models are gaining ground on YouTube, all about vagus nerve, fight/flight/freeze etc, the concept of capacity in the nervous system... at the same time you have an increasing assault from this really disregulating content...
I guess all I can say s more than ever you have to be really aware of what you consume.
It's necessary in some things, for example I made an app for myself where I have words/sentences spoken by text to speech, something like 12000 words/sentences, both in a normal speed and a slow speaking speed. That would be very difficult for me to do with natural voices as that would require some human to read these words/sentences, not to mention how expensive it would be, when I was able to do it for free with AI.
There are some things where AI voices absolutely ruin it, but it's not always a requirement for "emotions" to be felt in the speech we're listening to.
hackerman123469 commented on The State of HTTP in 2022 blog.cloudflare.com/the-s... · Posted by u/harporoeder
GET requests with a body (unspecified in HTTP/1.1) reminds me of a similar case I encountered years ago: URL query params in a POST (an HTML form whose action attr contained a query string).
It's fairly common to have POST requests that have both a body and a query string. Or maybe not "fairly common" but it isn't really rare.
hackerman123469 commented on Netflix: 30% bitrate saving using Film Grain Synthesis waveletbeam.com/index.php... · Posted by u/tosh
I know this is a little off-topic, but I would like to say that I read "Netflix: 30% birthrate saving" and was very confused at first.
hackerman123469 commented on Are super-rich people just better at making money? pudding.cool/2022/12/yard... · Posted by u/dncosta
To solve all this, it's pretty simple, and the U.S. actually used to do it: heavily tax the super rich. Heavy taxation and then appropriate use of those funds for education, R&D funding, infrastructure, etc. is actual trickle-down economics. And mega corporations should be heavily taxed instead of holding the country economically hostage. They jumpstart their companies off of government funding and R&D and then act abused when asked to help give back.
Right now, the middle class is getting slammed with taxes. They make almost all their money through salary and get taxed heavily, while the super rich pay either no tax or a maximum of capital gains, so almost 40% or less than upper middle class in terms of percentage.
Corporations and the super rich have bought out democracy, and what is crazy is that they are supported by the very groups they intrinsically hate and hurt through their policies.
But tell me, how are you going to tax the super rich? It's incredibly difficult to tax someone who's actually poor on paper. Most super rich people actually don't seem to have much wealth officially declared, all of their wealth is sort of like "pseudo" in that it's all tied up in assets, and sometimes assets that aren't directly owned by them but their companies etc. and they have a lot of shortcuts for tax breaks on the stuff that can be taxed. With the current system in place then it's impossible to actually tax the rich.
hackerman123469 commented on D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML d2lang.com/tour/intro/... · Posted by u/dcu
In many peoples interpretation D3 will be https://d3js.org/.
It's fine in that case since that's a framework and not a language.
Not a single identity but a very well defined set, a household, I believe. So if you know you are not part of that allowed set (and you do know) that is still obtaining a service by deception, IMHO.
The way it is defined, fraud is quite an extensive offence under British law if you start carefully looking at what people do.
What is not an extensive offence under British law at this point?