“Claims about a gap between consumer preferences and behavior serve a capitalist
system, putting responsibility on the individual when markets currently rely on
unsustainable growth rates.”
posted Thursday, January 16, 2020, 8:28:18pm PST
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Also
“Ogbogu wasn’t familiar with Hollie Mengert’s work at all. He was helping
another Stable Diffusion user on Reddit who was struggling to fine-tune a model
on Hollie’s work and getting lackluster results. He refined the image training
set, got to work, and published the results the following day. He told me the
training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai,
and cost less than $2.”
posted 11/19/2022 8:00pm ∞
“When [Ron] DeSantis says that the people of Martha’s Vineyard are ‘virtue
signaling,’ it’s in part an accusation of hypocrisy. But more broadly, it’s a
wholesale attack on the very idea of virtue.”
posted 10/15/2022 8:00pm ∞
“I’ve never felt so conflicted using an emerging technology as DALL·E
2 , which feels like borderline magic in what it’s capable of
conjuring, but raises so many ethical questions, it’s hard to keep track of them
all.”
posted 10/11/2022 8:00pm ∞
“If you approach the 2017 [Astros] scandal with this data-driven model of team
success in mind … Luhnow’s job in Houston becomes just another McKinsey
engagement.”
David Roth ,
The Smartest Guys in the Clubhouse
(The New Republic ,
December 3, 2019 )
posted 3/7/2020 10:00pm ∞