Even if a just, steady-state society was nearly always the end result, all it takes is one single society bent on unending expansion to completely fill up and remake the galaxy within a (cosmically short) few hundred million years.

you are very right. nice to discuss about technology achievements and potential, but here looks like a doomsday cult.

>The danger is the science turning into a blackbox as dense as LLM themselves.

Hopefully we can just ask the LLM for a rundown.

I'm being super fair as artist who has both.

MJ is aight for base composition concept dev, but running my own sketch through SD produces waaaaaaaaaay better and far more detailed results and none of the fingers/toes turn into fucking potatoes and I can draw people in bikini or revealing or no clothes without getting fucking censored

You're not understanding that MJ runs a double step process, its not a single render.

MJ does 4 images with are low res -> then there is an upscaler running through the image you choose.

The same process is easely replicated in SD where the original render is upscaled with upscaler tool kit [doublestep]. The double or even quadruple upscale > upscape > upscale > upscale path makes far superior, more detailed and more realistic faces in stable diffusion compared to MJ. You can't run the upscale eight times in MJ on a single image, but you can in SD. If you haven't tried to upscale an image in SD eight times you can't tell me faces are better in MJ. There's no way to defeat eight-step upscalers with just a double-step, the 8-step+ produces absolutely superb HD wallpaper art.

Open source demolishes closed source in every situation.

Hardware will catch up soon enough to run LLMS or we'll get better compression tools like flexgen, it's just the beginning LLMS are evolving very fast, the open source LLMS are still being trained. I've tested 6 billion param LLMS and its a bit random compared to GPT3 but it's still quite nice for an uncensored conversation about topics chatgpt refuses to work with.

Gattaca

Sounds pretty environmentally destructive

Sticking staples in the corners away from the entrance so you need to traverse the entire floor is a common trick.

Also changing up locations of other products so you always know where the staples are but need to search for other things.

I know! I'm amazed people kept playing this game in this sub of all subs!

Please learn how to read and understand written text

>ASI being under the exclusive control of one of the oligarchs

Sounds like "Human under the exclusive control of one of the goldfish"

This is so obviously a doomsday cult revolving around a millenarium and most of the people here are too arrogant and pretentious to realize it.

They have inside knowledge and see the harbingers of things to come.

They're not waiting for AGI, they're waiting for a Digital Jesus to liberate them and bring them to paradise so they can dab and say I told you so to all the unprepared non believers.

You are very right. I hope there will be a substantial UBI for unemployed people or people who do not like to work. But in this subreddit I also notice the suspicious tendency of many people who show disappointment towards the idea that some jobs will not disappear (like surgeons, plumbers, health care and so on). They dont want UBI, they want that UBI will be the only choice. They want everybody will earn the same as them.

I think you are being pretty unfair to MJ. The faces are about a million times better than what stable diffusion can do, which is way more helpful than getting fingers or toes exactly right. It is also not true that it "obliterates any landscape made in MJ".

As far as FlexGen goes, if it is made possible it would take like an hour to process one prompt on a regular GPU. No one would want that.

If the Conservatives hadn't massively fucked everything over the last 50 years we'd all be living like the Jetsons but the boomers thought Reagan was cool.

https://futuretimeline.net/

Elites won't allow for X = I wouldn't allow for X

There are two kinds of news that remain constant. The bad news is that humans only have the value we assign to ourselves. The good news is that humans have all the value we assign to ourselves.

ever doubted that?

porn "a la carte"

Midjourney is aight for amateurs [because it's really basic use], but otherwise it has fallen insanely FAR, far behind due to SD's controlnet and upscale tools.

Besides weaker toolkit base Midjourney is just a single model, it has an insane amount of censorship, so no self respecting artist who needs to draw human bodies will ever use it. It literally refuses to visualize human butt because it's so stupidly over-censored. You can't teach Midjourney to draw things in YOUR own style as an artist.

behold feet comparison: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11cpv2x/open_vs_closedsource_ai_art_oneshot_feet/

recent stable diffusion stabilization controlnet breakthrough that does feet and hands: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11cxy5h/blender_control_net_rig_updated/

recent stable diffusion landscape obliterates any landscape made in MJ: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11c995v/trees/

Midjourney anatomy, feet, hands are quite mediocre and fail 99% of the time if closeup of the foot or hand needs to be in the image. it's nearly impossible to draw a character holding something in midjourney with closeup of the hand and object. Takes a thousand attempts to get the hand correct-ish in MJ.

Look, at this MJ render of human hands in comparison, the fingers are absolutely fucked:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/996769685976653874/1079898471944962119/Vitaly_S_Alexius_perfect_human_hand_art_by_Tomer_Hanuka_and_And_f2f0b3f2-63e6-4a31-9c25-6f97e726a368.png

As for LLMs, we are currently in the stage of "disco diffusion" where we can run small, dreaming LLMs like Pygmalion and Koboldai on google collab with half-decent results.

LLM optimization and fine-tuning is happening right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/118svv7/what_the_k_less_than_1b_parameter_model

This is very close to a breakthrough we need required to run 10-100 billion param LLMs on personal computers: https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen

They had one with Microsoft at some point, took it a few hours on the internet until it said the CCP is trash. It got killed :(

I don't get why people don't get this but this satisfaction you gets is from your brain working like that because it wants to encourage that life style because of evolution making it want to be alive since natural selection.

There is nothing fundamental about it, "hard work" isn't something inherently special that make someone experience "far more satisfaction"

What i mean by this is that with AI and better technology, you can alter your brain for it on default to always feel insane joy and satisfaction. these satisfactions will not be any different. it will be at least the exact same level if not potentially (much more likely in fact) way better satisfaction. Like a level where for example you in this civilization managed to solve world hunger completely.

Please come enjoy some Tea at the nearest police station, you have 15 minutes.

Well not necessarily though. This could be accomplished in 50 years without killing anyone. Demographic transition models only have relevance with respect to labor, but if the majority of labor was automated, it wouldn’t matter if everyone only had 1 kid.

Wow I hadn’t thought about that. Like subtly steering the species into a scenario that compromises us in a way that only a 4d chess god could comprehend. That’s dark.

Well said, friend!

Same here. My job is writing novels, and I make buckets of money at it. I love my work. (And I worked extremely hard to turn it into a paying career.)

I still want UBI for everyone. It's humane. It's just. There's no good excuse to NOT do it, and now that AI is looming over everyone, there's extra-extra-no good excuse not to.

After UBI, I'll still be working as hard as I ever do on my books. (And I've already figured out how to adapt AI to my workflow, so bring it on.)