You do realize that these tests are literally mandated by the FDA, right?

You do realize that the USDA, after investigating Neuralink, found no animal welfare breaches except for one 2019 incident, which was the result of the use of an FDA-approved surgical adhesive (bioglue) in a non-approved manner. Right?

You do realize that the FDA reviewed the results of the studies that they themselves mandated, and were satisfied with the results? Do you have any clue how long and difficult it is to get approval for new invasive treatments from the FDA? Medical startups live and die based on whether they can manage to convince the FDA to give them the go-ahead. A typical medical startup's stock shoots through the roof when the FDA grants approval, because it's such a difficult and uncertain process to convince them.

What do you actually know about primate research? Do you understand what a terminal procedure is? Do you understand the nature of how primates are shared between research labs, and they don't just miraculously become cured of whatever experiments were done on them last? Do you understand the fact that macaques in captivity frequently will attack and injure each other, and that these injuries don't just go away? Do you know what sort of histopathology is normal? Do you know literally anything about the topic at hand? Because I guarantee you, the USDA and FDA do.

Then don't pretend you're about "free speech" when all you're doing is changing who you ban to match your political views.

Because it's literally Twitter's policy? And yes, it is enforced, there are tons of examples of people having posts taken down for it - just not by an automated keyword filter.

That was a lovely game of "change the topic" you have there.

So to be clear, you're perfectly fine with people being being censored, for talking about issues related to their very existence, so long as, say, nazis can spout nazi crap without punishment.

Musk has banned his critics left and right, but you're fine with that so longer as you can make mean-spirited racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes and make as toxic of an environment as possible.

People get harassed left and right and Twitter does othing, but when it comes to Elon, suddenly it's a ban version of 10 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. For example, first ElonJet was banned. Then journalists who mentioned ElonJet getting banned were themselves banned. Then journalists who asked about the situation were banned. Then a journalist who didn't write anything on X but just reported on the ban in the news had his account on Twitter banned. Does this standard apply to literally anyone but Elon? Of course not.

Want to protest anything about Twitter or promote alternative platforms? Well, let's look at history. The leaders of the BlockTheBlue campaign, encouraging people to block blue checks to protest the new subscription policy, were suspended for "platform manipulation". Twitter has variously blocked or likewise reduced visibility of posts linking to competitors such as Substack, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

When Dorsey posted a defense of himself re: the Twitter files on Revue? Musk shut Revue down.

Musk complied with censorship requests from India and Turkey with zero pushback. Got the requests, immediately complied. The old Twitter - while not always succeeding - repeatedly pushed back against such requests. Pushback only ever happens when he feels it's the *right* being censored. In his first six months, Musk complied with 83% of requests from authoritarian regimes.

Musk is the king of censorship - unless he particularly likes what you have to say. He's also an egotistical manchild who boosted the visibility of his own posts in the algorithm and then at first tried to pretend he wasn't doing it.

open platform where people can actually speak more freely.

Try saying the word "cisgender" on Twitter.

Ace is short for asexual .

Yeah, it's honestly annoying how pervasive porn models are. I think like 90% of people using SD are using it to make porn or waifus.

As I was driving home last night... you know how when Szilard was walking home after hearing Rutherford be dismissive of nuclear chain reactions, stopped at a stop light, and suddenly the idea of neutron chain reactions hit him like a ton of bricks and it was like the world peeled away around him? I had one of those moments when I realized that all of the components are now out there:

Story Diffusion (e.g. "Open Sora")** Generate realistic videos of anything, from input commands.
MotionCtrl (ability to direct objects and camera positions in AI vids)
Open LLMs (countless), trained to roleplay multiple characters, control scenes, and to issue external commands
VR headsets (with a mic + voice recognition and/or hand controls; or alternatively, LMMs can accept voice natively)
Optional: FPV cameras on the headset, plus depth map model (Midas, etc) background stripping, plus vid2vid to integrate the user's body into the scene

And... remote-control sex toys that accept external commands.

You can see what someone is surely going to put together from these pieces over subsequent years: a porn holodeck. Where an open LLM or LMM takes user inputs (such as speech or motion) once every 1-2 seconds, determines character reactions, directs the next 1-2 seconds of video generation, generates audio, and when appropriate, issues commands to control... peripherals. It'll take quite a bit of compute power to handle the video generation all in realtime, but you can fan it out to multiple cards, so it's doable if you keep the resolution and steps down & just AI upscale the outputs and motion-interpolate between frames. The LLM/LMM wouldn't need a huge number of parameters for such a role - even something like LLaMA 8B as a base model should suffice well; there's no issues with running that in realtime on any semi-modern GPU.

I'm like 80% ACE so the whole thing sounds rather gross to me, but knowing how people are using SD already, you know this is... sigh, I walked right into the pun, didn't I?.... "you know this is coming." :P I guess it's good that the perpetually horny will have such an outlet.

** - Story Diffusion is "out". but they haven't released the video-generation half of the model yet, only the keyframe-generation "comic book mode", but they reportedly plan to release the whole thing; there's also less advanced models like Stable Video Diffusion and the like (which MotionCtrl was designed for).

Exactly the same as it did before, unless you're exclusively sharing it with colleagues in your field.

You're confusing foundational models and finetunes. You can make a finetune in a day or so for any specific task. Including porn.

So... you're making fun of them to ... make their prophecy come true?

You're... making fun of people for not living up to your shallow stereotype. Alrighty, then.

That's a pretty apt description. Thats' why they were so keen to get us onto data rationing before streaming TV hit big. Those annoying overage fees are why AOL hit it really big. Unfortunately it isn't well remembered by the PHBs out there that it's also why everyone fled AOL the moment they could.

p-a-i-d t-h-e-i-r b-i-l-l

Gee, I remember when Linux being available on everything wasn't something to groan about.

Btw those nerdy/geeky peeps you looked up to in your formative years, they didn't pick obscure computers/doodads to look fashionable, they made their choices because it suited their needs. My dad's friend, for example, picked Atari computers over Commodore/Amiga because of their midi support. That's it, it had nothing to do with that ancient playground battle.

k, thanks for the contribution.