I watched the "Project Turntable" video, and that is unbelievably cool.

To work, the AI has to recognize what the drawing represents, figure out how to reverse-transform the 2D representation into a 3D object, and work out what the hidden parts should look like. It's amazing.

It's only a short step between this and working out walk cycles, matching mouth movements to dialogue, adding facial expressions, etc.

This will revolutionize 2D animation.

They can, but not legally... (Not that I disagree with the sentiment of not running Windows :))

It sure as hell is a lot better than the ecosystem disruption the current solution does!

In Denmark we have paper ballots and hand counting. Voting places closes at 8 pm and we have a result of how many seats different parties have around midnight.

The day after it is recounted and split into which candidates are actually elected - does it really have to be any faster than that?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2Fnyheder%2Fpoli...

Well - Even though us Danes are praised in the summary, we did see a significant drop in pisa scores this time around.

One could argue that the ranking on slashdot is user-generated content as well? Where as the youtube ranking is part user-generated, if we assume thumbs up etc. is part of the algorithm, and part secret sauce they aren't telling about. I think there is a good argument for holding people responsible for the secret sauces of the internet.

I just happened to read the Danish rules for how to get elected yesterday, and what they have done is register their part name - nothing else. They are basically no closer to be in charge of anything than any other adult Danish citizen.

So do take this with quite a bit of grain of salt :)

Astronomers routinely use AU for distance in the solar system instead of km.

Stores are required by law(with a few specific exceptions) to take cash as payment in Denmark.

Tesla supports a number of wireless controller, and since December, you can only play games while parked.

To enable cowbell, press the right stalk down four times in a row.
To disable cowbell, press the right stalk up once. It may need to play a little bit longer, but will eventually stop.

I agree it is annoying, but you can stop it without resetting the infotainment system.

There probably is a huge amount of disgusting child porn in the world.

But, the bias and culture reflected in the laws, may increase the "raw number" in surprising ways. E.g. in Denmark porn was made legal in 1969. Any porn -- all restrictions was lifted. This means that sexually explicit photos involving children was legal for a (small) number of years, then the law was changed to limit legality to "above 15 years of age". For a long number of years, it was legal to create porn, soft porn, and sexually suggestive images involving persons above 15 years. Then, I think about 2010, or so, the law was changed, such that persons now needed to be above 18 years of age.

There are tons of images of girls age 17 in sexually suggestive positions, etc, published between 197x and 2010, e.g. in tabloids, etc. These are now technically illegal, even though nobody batted an eye, when they were published.

Culture may also change. In my childhood, it was perfectly normal for children to be naked on the beach, and perfectly normal to snap photos of your children on the beach. You might easily get a naked child in the background, etc. Depending on context, such photos may be illegal now, and count in the statistics. The law is vague, and the police (for obvious reasons) may count stuff that is borderline, as child porn.

Disclaimer: I am no expert in this area, so years and such in the above may be of. I am just trying to argue that the number may be increased in surprising ways, that are consistent with the laws in a given jurisdiction.

I see it that we have evolved to the point where we can recognize the same flawed argument used to oppose one form of moral harm to when trotted out to oppose a different form of moral harm.

There is no need to try and force an equivalency on different types of moral harm; that's just another form of "whataboutism".

UBI makes a huge dent in the problems of homelessness and hunger - it does a lot more than that too, but just those two problems alone are major moral harms that deserve being addressed, if not solved outright. And while it is a comparison between apples and locomotives, I'll put "hunger" and "homelessness" on the same side of the moral scale as "slavery".

> you also need to talk mechanisms to keep it from snowballing out of control.

What's to snowball? UBI is fixed to population size - it is *universal* basic income, so everybody gets it. The US population is growing by 0.5% annually, so unless there is a dramatic increase in birth rate coupled to a dramatic decrease in death rate, this is a fixed cost.

That comes out to roughly $164 billion, or roughly 25% of the annual defense budget. Not only is that not "out of control", it is relatively cheap for what it buys you.

> The alternative to UBI isn't necessarily working, it could also be living in a homeless shelter.

That is an excellent point.

> You still get UBI while working

I thought this was more generally understood... but fair point that bears repeating.