noindiecred (u/noindiecred)

noindiecred commented on Are Plants Farming Us? inleo.io/@gentleshaid/are... · Posted by u/signa11

noindiecred · 8 months ago

For a wonderful scifi novel on this very theme, check out Sue Burke’s excellent Semiosis:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/semiosis-sue-burke/7103931

noindiecred commented on Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits rockefeller.edu/news/3624... · Posted by u/marc__1

bravura · a year ago

Alternately, we could amplify the gene in the entire population, so that allism becomes a disorder.

From DSM-2300:

https://www.fysh.org/~zefram/allism/allism_intro.txt

edit: "The underlying trait that makes people allistic is a dysfunction of the parts of the brain dealing with emotion. Allistic people lack the capacity to independently experience emotions. That is not to say they lack emotions: far from it, the allistic mind experiences emotions just like any other. The dysfunction is that the allistic person's emotional state is not determined by eir own thought processes but instead is borrowed from other people that are expressing emotion nearby. Emotional cues in tone of voice, posture, facial expression, and so on, cause the allistic person to automatically and unavoidably experience the same emotion being expressed."

noindiecred · a year ago

This is amazing, thank you for sharing!

noindiecred commented on Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits rockefeller.edu/news/3624... · Posted by u/marc__1

cogman10 · a year ago

It's a spectrum. Anyone that is advocating that it need not be cured is someone that is on the less severe side of the spectrum. The severe side implies significant mental handicaps.

I don't think that it will ever be "cured". But I'm happy for research that helps with symptoms and improves the quality of life of those with autism.

noindiecred · a year ago

Please read the essay "Don't Mourn For Us" before discussing the possibility of an autism "cure." It's short. Do yourself a favor.

https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/SinclairDontMournForUs.pdf

noindiecred commented on The worst AI-generated artwork we've seen: Symphony Orchestra's Facebook ad fail theguardian.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/beardyw

TeMPOraL · 2 years ago

Or, it's just a sign of things to come. Advertising is a negative-sum race to the bottom. If generative AI is cheaper than stock photos, then that's what will be used, first by few to gain momentary advantage in costs, then by everyone else to undo said advantage.

Today, it's enough of a novelty to warrant some outrage and a news article. But people will slowly get used to shitty AI art over the months to come, just as they get used to diminishing quality of everything in life. And then, nobody will be complaining about some orchestra's marketing intern playing with image generators; they'll be built into tools and done automatically anyway.

Resistance is futile.

noindiecred · 2 years ago

We are in agreement that the image is shitty!

noindiecred commented on The worst AI-generated artwork we've seen: Symphony Orchestra's Facebook ad fail theguardian.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/beardyw

soared · 2 years ago

> It is inappropriate, unprofessional and disrespectful to audiences and the musicians of the QSO,” they added. “Creative workers and audiences deserve better from arts organisations.”

> At QSO, we encourage exploration, innovation, experimentation and the adoption of new technologies across all facets of the business. From time to time we will use new marketing tools and techniques as we are an orchestra for all Queenslanders

> I’m also sympathetic. That shoot in real life would cost many thousands of dollars to turn it into reality

Sounds like boomers getting mad that the social media intern didn’t have thousands of dollars to spend for a photo shoot so they used AI instead.

noindiecred · 2 years ago

No one is blaming the social media intern. This is a failure straight from the top of the orchestra's business office. The orchestra should have an ad budget allocated for each season, and that ad budget should include photographs of the orchestra on stage. The marketing department can definitely hire a few models - or season ticket holders! - to pose for a few hours for a shoot. Stock photography also exists. These are all solved problems and this is simply poor leadership.

noindiecred commented on Chicken hypnotism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi... · Posted by u/jakogut

atleastoptimal · 2 years ago

I wonder if superintelligent AI will discover a tactic that works the same way on humans.

noindiecred · 2 years ago

RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES

noindiecred commented on Why is "pineapple" in English "ananas" in other languages? (2013) english.stackexchange.com... · Posted by u/godelmachine

kencausey · 2 years ago

loo-uh-vul

noindiecred · 2 years ago

lull-vull

noindiecred commented on Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses GPT-4 to write medical records theregister.com/2023/06/0... · Posted by u/beardyw

noindiecred · 3 years ago

> Generative AI models aren't perfect, and often produce errors. Physicians therefore need to verify the AI-generated text. Carbon Health claims 88 percent of the verbiage can be accepted without edits.

So the AI is only wrong 12 percent of the time!

noindiecred commented on Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback twitter.com/sterlingcrisp... · Posted by u/rmm

noindiecred · 3 years ago

Oh so now the hot new thing is a computing device that actively tries to guess its user’s emotional state (using various methods, including introducing new stimuli) and then then CHANGES ITS BEHAVIOR based on the results!

The Free Software people were right - a device this intimate needs to have publicly available, verifiable source code.

noindiecred commented on Microsoft Designer designer.microsoft.com/?h... · Posted by u/syrusakbary

hiisukun · 3 years ago

I feel a deep sadness, a sympathy, or sense of loss for the countless artists who have toiled to produce beautiful works over the decades (centuries?), just for them to be approximated by a single click as a vector mashup in an AI generative search space. And without so much as a by your leave.

I'm not saying it's logical to be against AI image generation, but definitely have a feeling that something has gone wrong here. When Microsoft, a billion dollar global software firm, can profit by generating these images I must ask if they are the ones that worked for such reward.

noindiecred · 3 years ago

As soon as I saw that part of page I thought, "oh shit." All I can think about these days is all the parts of my job that will be automated away by AI, until there's no longer a reason to employ me.