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With such a huge amount of urban landscapes you've created for this setting, and the way the city skyline seems to go on forever, it almost feels like every last tree and flower on planet Earth has been bulldozed away (?)

Genuine question: Why is it so hard for people to understand that the image generators only look at web pictures for reference instead of just straight up copy-pasting an existing picture that fits the prompt? How can something be theft if that thing literally never existed prior to 5 seconds ago??

Not exactly scary through a computer screen, but in real life? I'd be hiding under the seats of this car.

Does this "abolition of all biological suffering" involve uplifting animals to be as intelligent as we are, a la Disney's Zootopia? Or something far more profound than that?

Data sonification in your browser:

http://ritaccess.github.io/Glance-data- ... index.html

It would be absolute chaos! A 400 foot long titan boa snake would cause widespread panic and destruction, with people fleeing the area en masse. The snake's huge size would cause significant damage to buildings and other structures, and its presence would also pose a threat to human lives. Emergenc...

Next prediction(s) will probably be an update of the global warming temperatures. 2°C, currently listed for 2041, but now more likely to be 2048. I now think it's unlikely we'll reach 3°C, due to rapid emission cuts + carbon sequestration, so I'll be removing that one listed for 2056. But there rem...

wjfox wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:22 pm

If you ride towards a metal gate at full speed on a scooter while expecting the gate to magically open for you, then you’re clearly asking for a Darwin award.

ººº wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:48 pm
https://huggingface.co/spaces/damo-vila ... -synthesis

Thanks random youtuber for advertising a program that does nothing besides tell you “error” when you push a button….

Looking at the entire common era, you can kind of tell where the medieval warm period and little ice age are, both of which seem to partially correspond with imagery of extreme heat and severe winters in certain series.