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billetea t1_j9o5nqk wrote

We have a functional legal system and a functional democracy. Who said anything about one person making the decision. We have worked out regulations and laws for centuries - why so little faith now? II don't get how that somehow ends in fascism. How do you think we worked out property laws, libel laws, any law for that matter?

What we currently confront is a small group of extremely wealthy and powerful people who think they stand above the our legal and political system. That needs to end. They are not above either and their platforms need to be brought to account to the legal system and to the people. Their argument that what they've created is somehow a uniquely separate ecosystem to that which the rest of us operates is bullshit.. it's elitism. It's why we had revolutions to devolve power to the people away from kings and others who held individual power over us.

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pickledswimmingpool t1_j9o4wz4 wrote

Reply to comment by Mash_man710 in AI Reddit by johnnygetyourraygun

You could ask AI to give you 50 opinions, one from each state. Or give you 500, 10 from each state, randomized by gender, race, income, etc.

Ask it to form an opinion based off the social media comments from your friend Dave and maybe you won't even need to talk to him about an event.

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Aspirin_Dispenser t1_j9o4w9j wrote

The same way they functioned before the content served to users on their sites was algorithmically amplified or suppressed. It wasn’t that long ago that Twitter and Facebook were using chronological feeds where content was served purely in the order it was posted. You kept pornography out of your feed simply by not following users that posted it. Back then, the argument that these sites were simply repositories of information posted by users was legitimate because the companies that ran them were doing little more than just serving it to users as it came in with ads interspersed throughout to generate revenue. Now, with social media sites choosing to amplify or suppress content, that argument doesn’t hold water. The content is now curated and editorialized in much the same way that a newspaper or book publisher curates their content. If they want to do that, that’s fine, but they need to be held to same legal standards as any other publisher. Or, they need to stop acting like a publisher and start acting like the simple “repositories of information” they claim to be. They can’t have all the financial benefits of providing curated content along with all the lax legal standards of providing un-curated content.

If being held to those standards means that their business model no longer works, then oh well. But the truth of the matter is that it does work, it just generates less money.

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FuturologyBot t1_j9o4cqw wrote

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Surur:


The first commercial spiral-welded 89-meter wind turbine tower has begun operation, built by GE Renewable Energy and wind turbine producer Keystone Tower Systems.

Spiral welding is when the steel used to make the tower is curled into a cylinder; essentially, these towers are built from meters-wide steel plates. The technique requires only one machine to construct a tower section, and it can produce towers up to twice as tall and 10 times faster than conventional towers.

The manufacturing process uses coil steel – flat-rolled steel that’s been coiled up into a roll or coil shape and allows tapered towers with variable wall thickness to be manufactured from constant width sheets of steel.

The manufacturing equipment completes the joining, rolling, fit-up, welding, and severing of a tower section – and that results in the continuous production of steel tower shells:

Keystone says it can make the lightest, lowest-cost, and most structurally optimized towers in the wind turbine industry.

Keystone is also developing mobile factories capable of building taller towers directly at wind sites.

Production is now being ramped up of spiral-welded towers, with additional deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2023. They’ll make more towers for the GE 2.8-127 turbine, and they can be used interchangeably with GE’s conventional 89-meter-tall tower. The spiral tower has received a component certification from TÜV NORD for a 40-year lifetime.

See a video about the process here.

https://youtu.be/ufu8f1PWYzE


Building towers 10x faster, cheaper and onsite should mean a much-increased onshore wind turbine installation capacity, speeding the transition to renewable energy.


Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/119ubo8/spiralwelding_machine_lets_engineers_build_wind/j9o27fr/

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Surur OP t1_j9o27fr wrote

The first commercial spiral-welded 89-meter wind turbine tower has begun operation, built by GE Renewable Energy and wind turbine producer Keystone Tower Systems.

Spiral welding is when the steel used to make the tower is curled into a cylinder; essentially, these towers are built from meters-wide steel plates. The technique requires only one machine to construct a tower section, and it can produce towers up to twice as tall and 10 times faster than conventional towers.

The manufacturing process uses coil steel – flat-rolled steel that’s been coiled up into a roll or coil shape and allows tapered towers with variable wall thickness to be manufactured from constant width sheets of steel.

The manufacturing equipment completes the joining, rolling, fit-up, welding, and severing of a tower section – and that results in the continuous production of steel tower shells:

Keystone says it can make the lightest, lowest-cost, and most structurally optimized towers in the wind turbine industry.

Keystone is also developing mobile factories capable of building taller towers directly at wind sites.

Production is now being ramped up of spiral-welded towers, with additional deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2023. They’ll make more towers for the GE 2.8-127 turbine, and they can be used interchangeably with GE’s conventional 89-meter-tall tower. The spiral tower has received a component certification from TÜV NORD for a 40-year lifetime.

See a video about the process here.

https://youtu.be/ufu8f1PWYzE


Building towers 10x faster, cheaper and onsite should mean a much-increased onshore wind turbine installation capacity, speeding the transition to renewable energy.

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RaccoonProcedureCall t1_j9o1gl1 wrote

Forgive me for not reading the entire post you linked, but is the plan that this watermarking would not be detectable by the general public out of concerns for “privacy”? Also, has this been implemented with ChatGPT (or do we know)?

Also, it surprises me that someone from OpenAI would acknowledge the shortcomings of their current measures for identifying AI-generated content.

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