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  1. Wouldn't this be circular? Using extra friction to charge a battery that stores the energy that will be used to overcome the extra friction. I guess it could work if it's a hybrid car, and extra friction is used when the the car is running on gas. Or if extra friction is only used while braking
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    AI Art

    It's mostly because mistakes in a face are more noticeable than mistakes elsewhere. The creator of Craiyon (formerly known as Dall-E mini) explains it here: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/dall-e-mini-creator-explains-blurred-faces-going-viral-and-the-future-of-the-project/ The same goes for AI upscaling algorithms too. There are general purpose AI upscaling algorithms that can upscale any kind of content: landscapes, buildings, etc. To human perception, the faces upscaled with these algorithms look horrible most of the time. The only AI upscalers that do well with faces have specialised algorithms and training data that exclusively deals with faces.
  3. I think crypto as an investment isn't that bad. The prices have been going through evenly spaced cycles of booms and crashes since the beginning, it's like seasons changing. It's winter time again now but I don't think the winter will be permanent. Also, if you had bought bitcoin at any point in the 2010s and held it until now, you would be in profit despite the current crash
  4. I think getting an AI to act intelligently in the same way as humans display intelligence (having a model of the world and solving problems to achieve goals) is indeed just a matter of providing good data and algorithms. AI has already been able to beat humans in chess for a long time, and I'm sure it can eventually beat humans in any field when enough time and resources are put into developing it. The problems in the way of this are just technical problems that can be solved with scientific means. However, determining whether an artificial general intelligence is conscious or not will be an impossible task because this runs into the hard problem of consciousness. This is going to be weird in the future: humans coexisting with super-intelligent machines, with no way to tell if these machines have any qualia or not.
  5. I haven't been following Nina Kraviz's statements closely so I could be missing something, but anyway: many Russians who are actually against Putin avoid publicly condemning Putin and pretend to be apolitical because standing up against Putin could get them jailed, poisoned or murdered. This is completely different from living in a Western democracy where publicly criticising your country's leader doesn't involve any serious risk and doesn't require any courage. Of course the Dutch guys at Clone wouldn't hesitate to publicly protest if the Dutch government did something they strongly object to but that's because they can be sure that the Dutch government wouldn't murder them for protesting. Maybe there is some miscommunication going on due to these reasons?
  6. I would guess that these memory problems aren't dementia yet. It's more likely that they are a short-term side effect of benzos that only happens when you have benzos in your system
  7. For the past half a year, Youtube's algorithm's music recommendations for me are always just the same 3 tracks by Detroit in Effect. These tracks are not bad but they're also not great enough to fit in my top 100 of all time favourite tracks. I don't know why Youtube's algorithm thinks I'm so crazy about Detroit in Effect that I don't want to hear anything else
  8. Yes. Also, Putin's grand plan was to unite Russians and Ukrainians as one nation. Now Putin's actions have made Ukrainians even more opposed to this than before
  9. Yes, you are completely right in your assessment, the stuff he posts is out of context and/or bullshit. How are you doing, are you still in Ukraine?
  10. It's just one guy with some kind of a mental health problem who is siding with Putin and calling Ukrainians nazis in this thread. Don't pay attention to him
  11. Just do it, there's tons of tutorials for that on Youtube and the basics of it aren't all that complicated
  12. That's what Russia is all about: grabbing land and then not putting it to any good use
  13. I picture Russia's nuclear launch control computer as a PC that hasn't been touched since it was inherited from Yeltsin's government. It's a white box with a CRT monitor, with a floppy disk drive and a CD drive, running pirated Windows 98, and has somehow got infected with BonziBuddy malware
  14. I've seen news stories like this on this topic: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-examines-recognition-of-baltic-independence/27102853.html Anyway, the Baltic states never voluntarily joined the USSR in first place. They were forced to join at gunpoint during World War II. Because of this, I think the question of whether the independence of the Baltic states in 1991 was in accordance with the constitution of the USSR is irrelevant
  15. This is a copy of Putin's demands. You forgot to include one point that you mentioned earlier: "lift all sanctions from Russia". If you include that, I think you have the full set of Putin's requests
  16. Your previous posts in this thread came across like that. If you don't support Putin and don't think he's a communist, that's great!
  17. Why are you so desperate to defend Putin? I understand that you have a far-left or communist worldview but Putin is not even a communist
  18. A key thing that you seem to have got wrong is that when the post-Soviet Eastern European countries joined NATO, the initiative for joining NATO came from these Eastern European countries themselves. They had seen the atrocities Russia is capable of and wanted to be guarded from Russia. They were right in their assessment that Russia still poses a threat to them. Look at what's happened to the former Eastern Bloc countries that are not in NATO: Belarus has been turned into a slave of Moscow and Ukraine is getting massacred for refusing to be a slave of Moscow. Also, the Eastern European countries that joined NATO did this solely for defensive purposes, none of them have any interest in attacking Russia to conquer its territory. Putin is trying to spin history as if NATO were an imperialist nazi organisation that's forced itself upon Eastern European countries against their will and is aiming to start a war to conquer Russia next. Putin's version of recent history is entirely bullshit, it's quite fucked up if you as a Western world guy believe his propaganda
  19. Russia has a long history of lying about the presence of their soldiers in Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2022 there were Russian soldiers in Donbass but Russia completely denied it. Now, Russia admits that their soldiers are in Ukraine but lies about the scale of the war and the details of it. Russia says 500 soldiers have been killed in Ukraine so far, while Ukraine says that around 6000 Russian soldiers have been killed. Also, there are reports of families of the Russian soldiers having no idea that these soldiers have been sent to the war in Ukraine. Detailed lists of Russian soldiers in Ukraine would help to expose the lies of the Russian government. Besides this, the Russian attack on Ukraine is so horrendous that I think that anything that can help Ukraine even a tiny bit is a good thing.
  20. The travel vloggers Bald and Bankrupt and Johnny FD were posting videos from the center of Kyiv yesterday
  21. Your line of reasoning is faulty. Yes, there are lots of viruses that infect bacterial cells without infecting human cells, and are therefore generally harmless for humans. It doesn't follow from there that SARS-CoV-2 (which infects human cells and doesn't infect bacterial cells) would be harmless.
  22. I forgot what the name of this guy is but I trust his expert opinion that the virus will go away in April with the heat. I cant wait! April's quite soon!
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