Because they are wild animals that don’t lend to domestication very well. All so called “tame” bears have been tortured to get them to behave. And even then they don’t always behave and leads to them getting killed because they are too dangerous. On top of that, they are so large and powerful, they can easily kill or severely injure humans by accident.
Domesticated bears is animal abuse and outlawed in most of the world.
I feel it’s a vaguely Australian term?
I got shingles at 40 and it was terrible. They don’t vaccinate people who are that “young” for shingles here. I was sick for weeks, it was brought on by stress from a surgery I had removing a tumor (luckily lab test confirmed not cancer). I was recovering from the surgery and the shingles hit my face. I had immense pain and high fever for weeks. The doctors did what they could, but set me down for the talk. I was most likely going to lose at least one eye and might lose both, I should prepare to go blind and be disabled for the rest of my life.
Turns out in my misfortune I was actually lucky, I didn’t end up losing an eye. My vision in one eye did degrade a little bit, but it was at above 130% of perfect before (probably even better, but they don’t bother testing beyond that). The right eye had issues for a bit, but in the end returned back to perfect vision. In my experience worse than it was, but still very good.
So imagine me laying in bed, super high fever, worst pain I’ve felt in my life and all the while waiting for the lab results to figure out if the tumor they removed was actually cancer. I might go blind and I might have cancer. Worst few weeks of my life right there.
Afterwards I was a lot better, but still had terrible nerve pains. It started as a tingle where I had scarring from the shingles blisters, then intensify into full pain. Over the years it has gotten better, sometimes it gets irritated or hurts a bit, but mostly it’s fine. I wouldn’t wish shingles on my worst enemy, that shit is hell.
Interesting point. I don’t really know what would be fair.
On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.
On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I’ve both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?
And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.
As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can’t help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?
But I don’t really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it’s not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.
I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.
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Also this length should be at most 25 years and 10-15 years is better. These 75+ year copyrights are total BS.
She was a pretty good Starbuck, but nothing comes close to Dirk Benedict to me. Hearing the name Starbuck instantly pops in an image of Dirk in his uniform, jacket unbuttoned, smoking a stogie and gambling.
Probably because I’m old.
Alexander Skarsgård carried that show so hard. If it weren’t for his excellent performance I would have given up for sure.
It’s because GPT5 was such a disappointment.
Partly because they hyped it up beyond belief and partly because the results are actually bad. GPT3 to 4 was a big step up and with all the marketing people expected 4 to 5 to be just as big of a step. It turned out to be mostly a step sideways and in many aspects even a step back. Energy consumption is rumoured to be up, hallucinations are up and user experience is way down. At the same time all of the very public and high profile promises made are being broken and for a change people actually noticed.
The sentiment in the market was down for a while, but GPT5 release really kicked everything into high gear. Earlier people were disapointed “AI” didn’t live up to the hype. Regular folks use it all the time as a replacement search engine, because Google had gotten so bad. But in businesses adoption was slow and where it was used the gains promised weren’t seen. If the product was given away for free, people would use it, but even modestly paid subscriptions weren’t taking off. But people thought: Hey, this is just the current level of tech, the next level is going to be so much better and improve a lot right? GPT5 proved that wasn’t really true, so people lost faith fast.
LLM system are rapidly running into diminishing returns with larger models not yielding better results and sometimes even worse results. They also run into the issue they’ve poisoned the well. They used to train on data from the internet, but with the internet being flooded by output from older AI models, it’s eating it’s own shit. That’s really bad for the performance of the newer models. Especially on things like coding and such, where it relies on code examples to produce new code. With Stackoverflow dying due to a lot of things, but AI being a big factor, there isn’t as much of that as there used to be. Same for other stuff on the internet, once you kill the internet that great source of data is lost.
Now I don’t think it’s as worse (or good depending on your point of view) as some articles make it out to be. Many companies still see AI as the infinite money well the marketing claims it to be. A lot of people use it all the time, even though they’ve had negative experiences with it. But it’s somewhat good to see some reality seeping in here and there.
I fully expect the shit to hit the fan and the bubble to burst in a catastrophic way. This will be bad, way worse than when the dotcom bubble burst. It’s not going to be good for anyone. But better it burst soon than keep pumping it up further.
I use a dongle and get better audio quality than I ever had on an integrated jack. I really don’t care if a phone has the jack. If I want something compact on the go, I use bluetooth ears. If I want to listen to high quality audio, I use the dongle with a quality DAC with proper headphones.
I hear this argument a lot and partly I agree, but partly I disagree.
It’s still your asshole, it’s never going to be clean. Sure it might be clean after using the bidet (if you use soap) or if you use the shower (you do clean your ass in the shower, right chat?). But it’s not going to stay clean, your asshole isn’t some hermetically sealed airlock. Bacteria are going to leak out. People also fart all the time, causing even more nasties to leak out.
So an asshole is never going to be a clean thing, that’s why people don’t mind cleaning it with just a bit of paper. Elsewhere on the body, people do try to keep clean (hopefully), so cleaning shit there with just some paper isn’t good enough. Although there are so many people that don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom and using a phone on the toilet is also pretty normal. And those disgusting people that keep their towels right above the toilet. So the standards might not be as high as I would hope.
Regardless, I still think bidets are a good thing. And people should use them. But the argument most used on the internet is a bit flawed.
Is that why they drew up attack plans for Mexico? Probably some sort of bullshit like the gangs and caravans of immigrants keep coming over the border, so they have to go into Mexico to deal with them before the evil dangerous criminals get to the US border. Then occupy a part of Mexico and call off the elections due to the war. Trump is always talking about how he’s like a “wartime” president.
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All right, we are done here. I’ve tried to engage with you in a fair and honest way. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to respond to the points you are trying to make.
But it appears you are just a troll or an idiot, either way I’m done.
Well maybe one person is a little bit more impressed by some pretty pictures than another person. I really don’t see what that has to do with a company like Microsoft putting their money into this? They don’t make songs or movie trailers.
To me I’m stunned but that’s just me, on top of this we’re only in year like 5 of AI going mainstream, where will it be in 10 years? 20 years?
This is a common trap a lot of people fall into. See what improvements have been made the last couple of years, who knows where it will end up right? Unfortunately, reality doesn’t work like that. Improvements made in the past don’t guarantee improvements will continue in the future. There are ceilings that can be run into and are hard to break. There can even be hard limits that are impossible to break. There might be good reasons to not further develop promising technologies from the past into the future. There is no such thing as infinite growth.
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Just checked out that song, man that song is shit…
“My job vanished without lift.” What does that even mean? That’s not even English.
And that’s just one of the dozens of issues I’ve seen in 30 secs. You are kidding yourself if you think this is the future, that’s one shit future bro.
What’s your point?
Sure that’s the point of venture capital, throwing some money at the wall and see what sticks. You’d expect to have most of them fail, but the one good one makes up for it.
However in this case it isn’t people throwing some money at startups. It’s large companies like Microsoft throwing trillions into this new tech. And not just the one company looking for a little niche to fill, all of them are all in, flooding the market with random shit.
Uber and Spotify are maybe not the best examples to use, although they are examples of people throwing away money in hopes of some sort of payoff (even though they both made a small profit recently, but nowhere near digging themselves out of the hole). They are however problematic in the way they operate. Uber’s whole deal is exploiting workers, turning employees into contractors just to exploit them. And also skirting regulations around taxis for the most part. They have been found to be illegal in a lot of civilised countries and had to change the way they do business there, limit their services or not operate in those countries at all. Spotify is music and the music industry is a whole thing I won’t get into.
The current AI bubble isn’t comparable to venture capital investing in some startups. It’s more comparable to the dotcom bubble, where the industry is perceived to move in a certain direction. Either companies invest heavily and get with the times, or they die. And smart investors put their money in anything with the new tech, since that’s where the money is going to be made. Back then the new tech was the internet, now the new tech is AI. We found out the hard way, it was total BS. The internet wasn’t the infinite money glitch people thought it was and we all paid the price.
However the scale of that bubble was small as compared to this new AI bubble. And the internet was absolutely a trans-formative technology, changing the way we work and live forever. It’s too early to say if this LLM based “AI” technology will do the same, but I doubt it. The amount of BS thrown around these days is too high. As someone with a somewhat good grasp of how LLMs actually work on a fundamental level, the promised made aren’t backed up by facts. And the amount of money being put into this aren’t near any even optimistic payoff in the future.
If you want to throw in a simple, over simplified example: This AI boom is more like people throwing money at Theranos than anything else.
Not simply operating at a loss, absolutely dumping their prices giving away their products for almost nothing to gain market share. They are burning money at an impressive rate, just for some imaginary payoff in the future.
You’d have to ask a real expert, I’m more of what you’d call an armchair expert.
As I understand it, horses are a species that can be domesticated. That means with relatively benign actions (intensives with food, corrections with hitting with a paddle or small whip) the animal can be made to do what you want it to do. And usually once a horse is domesticated, they will stay that way and won’t become aggressive. However this isn’t universal, not all equine species can be domesticated, it’s just that humans only keep the most useful around. We’ve also done so for so long, selective breeding is probably a huge factor in this. Horses can be dangerous as well, but far less so than bears. A horse can throw a human, kick or step on them, but usually that’s not enough to kill someone. Bears can do anything a horse can and on top of that they are usually bigger, have sharp teeth and sharp claws. Another aspect is probably that horses are prey animals where bears are predators and pretty high up in the food chain at that. Bears probably hunted humans, before humans invented stuff like fences and fire and stuff.
Bears can’t be domesticated, they can only be scared so much they will obey. The techniques used are usually very brutal, with a significant amount of animals not even surviving the process. They won’t ever truly obey, only when they are afraid. So they will be abused continually, to keep them afraid. And even then, when the animal sees an opportunity to strike back or see something as prey, they will act upon that instinct.
But in the end I personally don’t think humans have the right to domesticate any kind of animal and raising something living with the express purpose of using/abusing/consuming them is morally incorrect. So in that case there is no difference between a horse and a bear. But from my experience with people who hold horses these days, they are more like pets, being loved and cared for rather than working animals. So it is a spectrum and bears are more on very much not OK side as compared to horses.