One of my all-time favorite artists, his work inspired a lot of my writing.
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How do you make the jump from ants tending to aphids for sustenance to ants bringing the aphid eggs back into their colony and then putting the new-born aphids back? It's amazing how such sophisticated behavior can form through instinct.
Is "meaningness" as a philosophy worth checking out? Can anybody summarize it for me?
I could see creating a deepfake of someone you know on facebook and then extorting them a form of abuse. But is rendering a deep fake of Donald Trump jerking off really hurting anybody? (except whoever views it)
"No, I know you make $1000 a month like we all do, I'm not giving you money."
Speaking of which, I wonder how much money people give to homeless people each year...
Warzone 2100 had something similar happen and it gained a community revival.
Edit: I can't believe Amnesia is 10 years old!
"Although these are old, they are classified as zero-day attacks because there is no solution."
They are?
I never believed they were anything other than hallucinations, but they were still some of the most positive and meaningful events in my life. I hope one day we'll know enough about consciousness to understand why DMT causes the formation of these seemingly other selves.
Will there be a point?
My grandmother committed suicide. My mother has tried to commit suicide on several occasions, and I have suffered from depression for most of my life.
I'm happy to say that ketamine infusion therapy was a breakthrough for me, after decades of making no progress with anti-depressants, I am now virtually depression-free and have been so for years. I highly recommend it to anyone who suffers from treatment-resistant depression. That said...
> Every suicide is a tragedy.
Statements like that on suicide prevention websites have always bothered me because I find them disingenuous, and for me personally have always been counter-productive. I think it's obvious that not all suicides are tragedies. I think that as uncomfortable as it makes us, for many people suicide is the most responsible decision a person can make.
Not everybody has loved ones, and not everybody is a great person. My best friend's father was incredibly abusive and incredibly miserable, despite spending his whole life in various forms of treatment. His death marked a significant improvement in my friend's wellness. I suppose this man could have just left his family but...I wouldn't say his suicide is a tragedy. He's no longer suffering.
A lot of the arguments I see against suicide is that it hurts the people around you. Which is true, and this effect is difficult to understate. I'm still affected by the suicide of my grandmother, whom I never even met.
But that's not a reason to live, that's just a reason not to die.
I'm guessing that access to quality healthcare is one of the best ways to prevent suicide. (Luckily I could afford my ketamine injections and subsequent prescriptions.) I think that's obvious to everyone though. Strange in my country how access is still such an issue...
I can't imagine putting so much effort into the models only to cover them up.
It's an difficult ethical dilemma. How are we categorizing the harm done to victims of child pornography? Is it based on how many different people see the same image or just the number of times the images was viewed in general? Obviously the victim isn't getting some sort of electric shock every time somebody sees the image.
Do we include it additional harm if the identifying features of the child in question are unavailable? What if the victim doesn't know they were part of the training model or that there are even images of them on the Internet? Would it be ethical if training data from children in non-pornographic situations was used? What if somebody had child pornography made of them but allow their image to be used (donated?) after they were 18?
I'm not claiming to know the answers.
I wouldn't be surprised if you knew a lot of pedophiles personally, you just don't know they are pedophiles because they never told you, don't engage in illegal activity, and are otherwise indistinguishable from the rest of society.
I wonder, with the rise of deep fakes and CGI, why a company hasn't come up with a business model offering professional rendered synthetic child pornography. It seems to me that there would be demand for it, and if an ethically un-encumbered product is indistinguishable from the real thing, much of the demand of child sexual abuse imagery would evaporate.
I'm very interested in all this, but still pretty new to machine learning in general.