Great reply but... I was being facetious; making fun of the guy you were replying to π
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Why are you so scared of conflict?
We are currently living in an age of literacy. More people (as a percentage of the population) are literate than at any point in human history. Even if people get dumber over time I don't think overall literacy will change much.
In Idiocracy it seemed like most people could still read but only extremely simplified language. What I expect will happen instead--if we do indeed get dumber--is people will just become more easily manipulated. Basically, there will be a lot more suckers as a percentage of the population.
This means that as long as a political party or ideology is willing to adapt to current trends (e.g. accepting gay marriage or at least pretending to) it would become easier and easier to sucker people into voting for their candidates regardless of their actual plans or historical (voting) records. Basically, populism will take over but the specific kind where the candidates just say whatever TF gets people to vote for them and then they go do the exact opposite because the (dumb) voting base that elects them doesn't really pay any attention to their actions, only what the candidate says.
When a voting base becomes made up of extremely dumb suckers we're likely to see "populist" candidates that don't actually give a damn about what they say as long as they get elected and if they do get elected they'll go on a "government shopping spree" enriching themselves and their allies and doing things like appointing their family members to positions of power. The suckers will praise them for actions like this not because they like the results of these policies but because it's easy for them to understand that it hurts the people they've been suckered into hating the most.
Nooo! The whole point of having a cybernetic arm/hand is that you can just stick your hand in a great big beaker full of liquid nitrogen-cooled eyeballs and not have to worry about getting frostbite!
You can also just grab the hot pan from the oven and not have to worry about getting burned.
You want temperature sensing? Put a thermistor in one of the fingers and a little OLED display on the arm (or even better: in a HUD that can only been seen in the user's eye). A nice, high temp one π
I remember when the web didn't have JavaScript.
Honestly, though it was much worse back then. I prefer the variety and features of modern browsing over (mostly) plain text.
What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let's go back to just images and text, thanks. Animations are fine though π
In the 90s someone proved--mathematically--that invisible watermarks (e.g. hidden in metadata or in the pixel data itself) in photos would always be removable. I searched for it but I couldn't find it but it should be obvious: Merely changing the format of an image is normally enough to destroy such invisible watermarks.
Basically, the paper I remember proved that in order for a watermark to survive a change in format/encoding it would need to be visible because the very nature of digital photo formats requires that they discard unnecessary information.
Also, I'd like to point out that it's already illegal to remove watermarks (without permission) while simultaneously being trivial (usually) for AI tools like img2img to remove watermarks.
It's my humorous manipulation of famous quote by George Wallace regarding segregation in the US. Here's the original:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." -George Wallace, infamous racists prick
You can read all about his descent into racist madness here:
(It is quite interesting how he changed over time... Almost like regularly spending time with racists--who you view as close friends--can lead to absorbing racist views)
Lets not make this out to be like it's Kerberos (more complicated than rocket science)... Making available another, region-specific version of your app isn't difficult. It's just the developer equivalent of an extra one-time TPS report (you have to setup/modify some build scripts and make some additional tests).
It's the equivalent of having builds for .rpm and .deb and then adding a .AppImage build. It shouldn't be that big a deal for the Mozilla Firefox team.
In fact, I bet they're freaking excited at the prospect of being able to make a real build of Firefox for iOS.
You canβt have one rule for one group of people and different rules for everyone else.
"In the name of the greatest smartphone that have ever graced this earth, we draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and say separate rules now, separate rules tomorrow, separate rules forever." -Apple, probably
The AI clone wars have begun.
It's not the cable that goes bad it's the connectors on the ends: They wear out.
This wasn't a failure of AI. It was just a low-effort charade. If you want to put in the least amount of effort possible in such things, AI is there for you.
If they had put in any effort whatsoever they would've taken the first "draft" BS generated by the AI, made some minimal changes, then fed it back into the AI for further improvement.
Chat AIs are just that: Chat. You're supposed to go back and forth in conversation with the AI in order to get a good result. It appears the organizers of this event put together some terrible prompts and didn't even bother to spend an extra ten minutes refining things.
AI is a tool like any other. This pathetic event is a textbook case of how AI can't replace humans entirely (not yet, anyway). You still gotta put in some effort.