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mengibar10 commented on Sora: Creating video from text openai.com/sora... · Posted by u/davidbarker

jiggawatts · 2 years ago

Video can convince people to kill each other now because it is assumed to show real things. Show people a Jew killing a Palestinian, and that will rile up the Muslims, or vice versa.

When a significant fraction of video is generated content spat out by a bored teenager on 4chan, then people will stop trusting it, and hence it will no longer have the power to convince people to kill.

mengibar10 · 2 years ago

You don't need to generate fake videos for that example. State of Isreal have been killing Palestinians en masse for a long time and intensified the effort for the last 4 months. The death toll is 29,000+ and counting. Two thirds are children and women.

Isreal media machinery parading photographs of damaged houses that could only be done by heavy artillery or tank shells blaming on rebels carrying infantry rifles.

But I agree, as if the current tools were not enough to sway people they will have more means to sway public opinion.

mengibar10 commented on Sora: Creating video from text openai.com/sora... · Posted by u/davidbarker

mihaic · 2 years ago

This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger.

Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how to manage the situation.

mengibar10 · 2 years ago

This is a similar problem manuscript duplicating workers in the Ottoman realm. The printing machines would take their job, but they resisted and lobbied against it in the courts of the sultan. They succeeded in delaying the adoption of printing for some time for the detriment of the people. Unfortunately, this has been the history of man and technology destroying something for the better or worse.

Some twisted the story as if the underlying issue was the religion but economic concerns were the real reason.

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mengibar10 · 3 years ago

All companies strive/want/expect/hope/conspire for one thing for cost: When purchasing for the input it would like to operate with terms of a market economy but when selling their goods/services they would like to be monopolistic. It's very a fundamental and natural desire. Desire to kill competition is just a manifestation of this fundamental rule.

mengibar10 commented on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com/en-au/newsroom... · Posted by u/infrawhispers

rbera · 3 years ago

I won’t pretend I know what the ideal solution is, but lowering salaries across the board doesn’t seem like a great choice. If someone is a high performing employee and then sees a cut to their paycheck, that’s an incentive for them to leave, and that’s also extra bad for the company because of course better performing employees will be more capable of finding another job. With layoffs, companies remove their “worst” employees instead, which theoretically improves productivity, assuming of course the rest of the company doesn’t think they’ll get laid off too.

mengibar10 · 3 years ago

Last statement is actually the gist of what I wanted to mean. The moment you make a mass layoff that sends a message to all employees.

Please be mindful of measly 3% decrease in your salary, you wouldn't even see the difference.

The more open the management is to their employees the more they become loyal. It's all about honestly sharing burden.

You can always layoff not performing employees, a company has all the right to do so. We are talking about a mass layoff.

mengibar10 commented on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com/en-au/newsroom... · Posted by u/infrawhispers

radu_floricica · 3 years ago

No offence, but they're not putting anybody in the electric chair. They're letting people go with pay until almost March - if you can't find a new job in 4 months, it's on you, and maybe they weren't wrong to give you up.

A dynamic job market includes hiring and firings. At most they have to apologize for some disruption, and they more than made up for that with the severance packages.

And about the language - "fire" has a connotation of it being your fault. Being terminated or let go suggests a business decision first, and your performance second. They used the right word.

mengibar10 · 3 years ago

If a well position and well oiled company is in fear of losing business and firing people how come you expect to find jobs let alone stable jobs.

You give your 4-5 years to a company and the company dumps you at the first sight of hardship.

I think Stripe made a bad choice when firing people. They should have decreased salaries, percentage wise more at the management level and try to keep their workers. I wouldn't want to work such company ever.

mengibar10 commented on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com/en-au/newsroom... · Posted by u/infrawhispers

jesuscript · 3 years ago

They are doing what any company does whether the slow down in the economy impacts them or not. They lie and say it impacts them and use it to do a purge.

I worked at companies that were in no way impacted by the 2008 financial crisis (in fact, business was booming). Leadership managed to use it as an excuse to do a hiring freeze and plead with existing employees that they are the lucky ones and they need to work harder during “this difficult time”. Facebook and Google just turned to that page recently in the “ruthless business playbook: version 1 (it never needed to be updated since the dawn of time)”.

It’s kind of psych 101 stuff. Never underestimate the true nature of business: Amorality.

There is some genuine bullshit going on now days because we have record low unemployment and open job positions. If they say it’s all in the service and labor sectors, well, that just means you gave more people an opportunity to earn money. Those people will then go online and spend it, so how the fuck would Stripe get less business? Unless Stripe is genuinely retarded, in which case I wouldn’t blame the 14% layed off, I’d look to replace leadership. But you see, Stripe isn’t retarded.

Be ready for your company that’s in some booming industry to use the recession and inflation as an excuse.

mengibar10 · 3 years ago

Speak volumes for the character of the people who are managing the company. Lay off people who helped you get where you are the moment you feel you won't need them in the future.

What avenues have they exhausted before laying off workers?

For example my company during COVID chose to make a temporary 3% reduction to salaries rather than laying off the people. That was that year's minimum salary increase. Basically they took what they gave that year.

Many companies are very disloyal to their workers, vice versa.

mengibar10 commented on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com/en-au/newsroom... · Posted by u/infrawhispers

benjaminwootton · 3 years ago

“On Tuesday we set a new record for total daily transaction volume processed.”

How does a company breaking records 36 hours ago conclude they need to lay off 14% of the workforce? Even with economic storm clouds on the horizon that seems very jumpy.

mengibar10 · 3 years ago

Speak volumes for the character of the people who are managing the company. Lay off people who helped you get where you are the moment you feel you won't need them in the future.

What avenues have they exhausted before laying off workers?

For example my company during COVID chose to make a temporary 3% reduction to salaries rather than laying off the people. That was that year's minimum salary increase. Basically they took what they gave that year.

Many companies are very disloyal to their workers, vice versa.

mengibar10 commented on Users report Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs with melted 16-pin power connectors videocardz.com/newz/first... · Posted by u/tehnub

joshvm · 3 years ago

Is there a reason you can't use Colab? That would be the first suggestion. A pro license costs about 600 a year.

Next question is what are you training?

The latest cards are almost certainly faster, but you're normally concerned by VRAM than absolute speed. The 3090 (or the older Titan series) is unique in consumer cards in that you get almost double the RAM of the next cards down. I've had no problem training models on an 1080ti 8GB card but I wouldn't want to go smaller than that. System RAM is cheap in comparison, you can easily spec a 128GB machine, M.2 SSDs are a must for fast data loading, etc. Most CPUs are quads now, but more cores and lots of RAM means you can run more parallel dataloaders.

Otherwise there are plenty of guides that do a cost analysis of which cards to buy. If money no object then the 3090/Titan series, but maybe you don't need that much RAM. I saw a sibling comment mentions issues with heat - the stock 3090 has terrible VRAM cooling. I water cooled mine and it works well, but it's not cheap at all.

mengibar10 · 3 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Also, I have the tendency to become very conscious when I use a paid service and kind of messes my mind. I think in the long run it will be cheaper to own a machine.

Actually I am more into RL than DL. But DRL use DL.

I don't need a machine at the moment, I am in the learning state at the moment. But eventually I will need something and passively want to learn on building my own machine. So trying to avoid costly mistakes.

It will be NVIDIA cards for sure. It does not have to be the latest, but I would like to be able to upgrade the cards without need to change the rest of the machine, at least not more than 10% of initial cost. I am very ignorant on this that's why asked how to build a machine starting with cheaper graphics cards but then be able to upgrade to latest and the best if I need to. I guess motherboard is the most important component but which one? Also, size of the box. Any article that discuss these in depth? Not videos, I prefer reading.

Money is not an issue unless I don't make the mistake of buying wrong components that does not fit both physically and compatibility.

I would like to build a compact machine yet able to upgrade, for example 2 graphics card eventually.