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.

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.

My confidence in your ability to correctly identify "socialism" is not high.

When did Slashdot become the home of alt-right Nazi types?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

Seems to me a similar argument was put forward vis a vis slavery - as in "we need slavery or the economy would collapse"

What the pearl-clutchers seem to not quite get is that the guy staying home and playing video games is still contributing to the economy. His UBI is buying food, rent , power, and video games. He almost certainly isn't *saving* any money, so 100% of that UBI goes back into the economy.

What he *isn't* doing is being a lazy, inefficient worker. He's not phoning it in on a manufacturing job, or a clerical job. He isn't making mistakes and lowering productivity. There is *value* in having that guy out of the workforce.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

Aren't you supposed to be on Reddit?

The military has been doing vote-by-mail for decades. Are those votes fraudulent?

So we're all clear - "petrified" as in "turned to stone" not "terrified", right?

I found myself wondering about that several years after the fact - one is a joke,the other is *really* creepy.

I always understood "turned to stone" myself.

Only if she is naked and petrified.

RIP RobLimo .FWIW, your work touched a lot of lives. And in a good way, not a JonKatz sort of way.

You know, the whole time that meme was in force, I interpreted "petrified" as "physically turned to stone" - which made it harmless.

But with the Harvey W. stuff that has been finally dragged to light, it seems that "petrified" was more likely to actually be"frozen in place with fear"... which is just icky and creepy. Who'd wish that on anybody?

Not me for sure.

Anyway, Red Hat - I still have my RH 5 floppies. I transitioned to Ubuntu a few years ago, but I still have a soft spot for RH. You never forget your first.

I tell you though, there's a big difference between the P1-233 that I started with, and the Ryzen 1700X I'm on now, boy howdy.....

Whoops, the microwave dinged. Grits are hot! Now where are my pants....