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When it goes good, it goes good.

Haha for sure. Good thing I don’t need to do it for a living, is all I can say, in agreement.

Which makes sense because most things that are greenlit, their biggest weakness is in dialogue and dialogue-driven shows (or even consistently good dialogue) is rare IMO even with the best writers doing it, so stands to reason bots can do it yet.

I understand your position and it makes perfect logical sense. I posted this on the Movie thread but this is interesting because you see people in a) the free market and b) the creative industry actually push to “cheat” by allowing AI to do work and have the humans take credit for it. I do wonder if we don’t, as a society, start moving to a more blended acceptance of man/machine, student/digital assistant model like we see with worker/digital worker? This week the Writers Guild of America, a labor union that reps film and TV writers, proposed that AI be allowed to help write scripts. The idea arose during routine negotiations between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which reps studios, over writers’ pay. And while letting ChatGPT in the writers room sounds like a job threat, the details of the WGA’s proposal could ensure we won’t see a robot giving an Oscars speech anytime soon. AI could do some of the work but get none of the credit The union tweeted that it considers AI to be merely “research material,” noting that “AI software does not create anything. It generates a regurgitation of what it’s fed.” Therefore, the WGA proposes that AI could be used to help write scripts. But the writer who turns AI-generated text into a show or movie would get all the credit—and compensation. Zoom out: Creative industries everywhere are discussing what guardrails should be established around using AI to produce content. While the WGA’s proposal could set a precedent for materials created with AI, some are wondering…what happens when AI gets good enough to write a screenplay without a human co-writer? Spoiler that. Trigger warning for PTSD at least.

Bringing the conversation back to the negotiations and potential strike from page 1…I read this today and found it interesting because I would have guessed the Union would have taken the opposite position and been opposed to AI versus pushing to embrace it. Probably really smart and forward thinking of them though?

I read somewhere that a $100k salary in NYC feels like $36k when adjusting for all the factors, etc. I’d be curious to see that same treatment for cities like Austin and even Houston and Dallas, where nominally on paper it seems like you make a lot of money, but it doesn’t “feel” like it at the end of the month or year. edit to add: link https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-15/new-york-city-prices-make-100-000-salary-feel-like-35-000#xj4y7vzkg

Lol right? I read that and thought that’s every paper that is not an independently researched and published keystone or capstone or faculty supervised thesis of original scholarship.

I probably started all this when I posted the articles on the science of the diabetes drugs (ozempic etc.) and the newer theory/science around how fat people are fat, so for that I apologize, because clearly being fat or a former fat is very personal and emotional for a lot of you. If you are being triggered one way or another (e.g. defensive and hurt like Wulaw or offensive and mean like aqua Buddha), this is probably not a healthy thread. However, I still think it’s very interesting and worth discussing.

Watching John Wick 3 on USA and they had a cut screen honoring Lance Reddick with his death date and the caption "RIP, you did the Continental Proud". 🤘

Nobody knows your first questions, but to your last question: never lol

It's going to be Uconn vs UT

Huge 3. Hahahahaha yes

What's interesting is that it is both obvious and hard to prove when something is AI-plagiarized, as you say. In order to harden into a process, you are going to have to define a framework for failing and adjudicating cheaters, I would think. Otherwise it's subjective and you open yourself up to problems. I'm sure there will be lawsuits within the year claiming discrimination where a professor wrongly thought a student cheated, or something, and that will scare administrations straight for a while.

Also, I posted this on the hobbies/books/reading thread, but I don't get the sense a ton of people go there, even if they are readers, so I'll share here: This is an interesting, and very short, treatment on a well-worn AI-cum-evil master trope from the 60's called "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". If you fancy yourself well-read or transgressive or a technologist (like one of those guys who quotes Snow Crash when talking about Metaverse), it's worth your 20 minutes: https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I-Have-No-Mouth-But-I-Must-Scream-by-Harlan-Ellison.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

This is an interesting, and very short, treatment on a well-worn AI-cum-evil master trope from the 60's called "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream". If you fancy yourself well-read or transgressive or a technologist (like one of those guys who quotes Snow Crash when talking about Metaverse), it's worth your 20 minutes: https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I-Have-No-Mouth-But-I-Must-Scream-by-Harlan-Ellison.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

What's wrong with the plagiarism tool that you used to have to upload your essay to, and it would search the internet or archives to see if there was a % match and spit back if it was an original or not? In theory wouldn't that work for something like ChatGPT or not?

I've been a noisy critic as of late, but I thought this episode was fantastic.

Ahhhhhhhh I’ll start it tonight after TN/FAU

It’s Matt Levine (quoted below; long read): BNY tried to extend its cutoff, but: It did get the money the next day, but by that point the FDIC had already seized it. Now, again, even if it had gotten the cash, it was facing continuing deposit flight, it seems to have been economically insolvent and it probably would not have survived the weekend. The Journal notes: I do not actually think that the banking crisis of the last two weeks — in which SVB and Signature Bank of New York have failed, other US regional banks have teetered, the Fed and FDIC have provided extraordinary support to the banking system, Credit Suisse Group AG disappeared over the weekend, etc. — all could have been avoided if the Fed had said “hmm, normally we do a test transaction first, but you seem to be in a rush and it’s getting toward closing time so we’ll just skip that and go straight to lending you the money.” SVB’s problems were bigger than the Fed’s 4 p.m. transfer cutoff. And yet! Man! What the heck! A lot has beenwritten about how SVB was a bank run for a speedier, modern age. Instead of hearing a rumor at the coffee shop and running down to the bank branch to wait on line to withdraw your money, now you can hear a rumor on Twitter or the group chat and use an app to withdraw money instantly. A tech-friendly bank with a highly digitally connected set of depositors can lose 25% of its deposits in hours, which did not seem conceivable in previous eras of bank runs. But the other part of the problem is that, while depositors can panic faster and banks can give them their money faster, the lender-of-last-resort system on which all of this relies is still stuck in a slower, more leisurely era. “When the user interface improves faster than the core system, it means customers can act faster than the bank can react,” wrote Byrne Hobart. You can panic in an instant and withdraw your money with an app, but the bank can’t get more money without a series of phone calls and test trades that can only happen during regular business hours. And so sometimes a bank that theoretically has a lot of liquidity can just run out of cash.

Was reading today how the older and archaic infrastructure and process/policies of the Fed was one of the reasons SVB couldn’t use the mechanisms in play to save itself, to save itself, which is kind of funny.

Reminds of The Joker in that way, but I agree. I think I like The Wrestler and Black Swan better but this movie was dang good. It felt like a play— you can tell it was adapted from a play from the small set and cluster of characters. I liked some of the stylistic turns; I thought the whale tail sweat stain on the back of the shirt as we got introduced to Charlie was fun and was impressed and moved by the size and weight of Charlie when he’d get up and you’d see his full form. It was great camera angle and you got the same feeling as a whale breaching. And I got Birdman vibes from the ending, which was fun. The least believable thing after seeing his topless body shape was the opening scene where he could find and reach his anatomy from a seat-back position.

it does feel like, from Aqua Buddha and pearland who are self-described former fatties, that there is a lot of disdain once they've gotten all hot and skinny like the rest of us. You don't have to make up for lost time and you can have empathy and compassion for those still suffering and struggling with food abuse or food injury or any other reason for their obesity. Y'all know that right? It's also pretty telling that you probably thought and talked to yourselves in such negative and harmful ways when y'all were fat, if y'all think it's just fat people can't put food down and stop eating and "they just don't understand it's basic math, more calories out than in!", which is kinda sad. I guess that is where the body positivity movement was born out of, to help people's mental health while struggling with something that might be a lot part genetic and brain injury related rather than just income-based and will-power related.

Thank you for this response. God bless you, brother.

Mexico to the US:

Dany is the best character. His "yay Trent Crimm, I mean, F off Trent Crimm!" was the best part of that scene.