I really have no problem viewing him as both a hero and traitor at the same time.

I am not sure why we struggle so much with that idea given the complexity of the situation.

Haha spot on. My hang out was this broken slide at an abandon playground. Or you could climb on the metal bar in the overgrown weeds.

There is just no way I would be doing that in 2023 as a kid. It was fun at the time because the alternative was even more boring.

To me, if you watch videos of what amateurs can do with the maneuverability of a $300 racing FPV drone it is most likely those are military drones of some sort.

Even a $300 racing drone looks pretty alien if you have never seen one. A $3 million dollar one would absolutely look like it is from another planet.

I am sure this is just the beginning. The gym I go to is closing shop because I think the rent the commercial property owner has to charge is not worth it to the gym owner but to charge less is not worth it to the property owner. It is going to end up the bank's problem.

Going from 0 to 5% like this is probably taking the swim trunks off people who did completely prudent due diligence to not swim naked.

Well you can gain a free GPU hour by rating images. I am pretty sure midjourney is doing some kind of reinforcement learning from human feedback.

The 5.1 raw model is simply unbelievable for photo realistic images. There is 4a,4b,4c, 5, 5.1, 5.1 raw, the anime model I never use. All are interesting but how often do you read anyone mention what midjourney model they are talking about? Basically never.

There are certain circumstances that I have seen stable diffusion match the output but overall I don't even think it is close.

Personally, it wouldn't even occur to me to look for stock photos now as opposed to just making variations in midjourney. There is a bit of a learning curve with so many options in midjourney so I take anything I read about it with a grain of salt. Most people are using these tools to make absolute shit.

I think this will be quite successfully marketed as a status symbol.

Obviously, it was intentional to create a scenario that there are viral videos of people gasping at the price reveal.

I do think this is a revolutionary day but in a totally dystopian way. I suspect this is the start of where the tech innovations are more and more not going to be targeted at the mass market. The mass market is financially tapped out. The future is what Bernard Arnault and his 200 billion dollars figured out a long time ago. As AI starts to make society more and more unequal the money will be more and more in the high end luxury products. Everyone else can eat cake.

I would think cigarette smoking is a big variable in the effect too.

People living in poverty, uninsured, didn't graduate high school are all variables we know correlate with a higher % of cigarette smoking.

That is a great analogy. That is how I remember it also.

More high brow and not something you would really watch for an hour straight.

The old CNN was meant to be as "entertaining" as the Weather Channel.

I use to watch Al Jazeera America all the time but it only lasted a few years on TV here.

It was totally non-partisan from what I remember. Focused so much on the world outside America too.

I would imagine that is exactly why it closed.