ryangtanaka

@ryangtanaka

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With all the anti- and pro- Elon posts everywhere, I think most people are really missing the bigger point that the idea of EVs themselves has always been questionable. If you want more efficient, environmentally friendly transportation, the best solution for that is better public transit, not better cars. The scale of impact of transporting thousands of people at a time just doesn't compare to the few you can take around in an individual vehicle - autonomous or not. At the end of the day, EVs are luxury products that have minimal impact, and is only really talked about because it affects wealthy people the most. That's sort of the blind spot in how these issues play out politically.

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Ok I'll try to give it a shot. I'm not here as much so it was kind of a lot of work to keep up with which channels were active or not but if people are actually using them...

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The ambient music playlist I use for working or writing. It's uh...taking a while to get through. 😂 And yes, all 10k of them were curated manually as part of a running series on KEXP. Would love to see people use our on-chain version for stuff like this at some point. 🙂

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- AI art is a business model that undermines itself. The easier it is to generate something, the more you will get of it, oversaturating the market, eventually leading to its own collapse. The need for innovative and unique ideas from humans will always be needed but that's not really what these models are designed for. We don't even need to talk about quality because this is just a matter of supply and demand. - Due to OpenAI's loss to China and the generally disrespectful tone that AI companies take towards the creative class, there's not much value in "owning" AI art because its prestige value is mostly negative at the moment. Personally I don't see any of these scenarios ending well for OpenAI - they're really in over their heads at this point. 🌊

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- If they audit their data/comms and find that they've been *willingly* training on copyrighted material, they are basically done. This is what makes Suchir Balaji death even more strange, given that AI companies are still largely sitting on a house of cards, legally speaking. - We've yet to hear from Miyazaki himself about this particular issue, but it's safe to assume that he probably has some skepticism about the tech industry's "dehumanization", which he has been very vocal about in the past. If he argues that AI-usage of his style is "harmful" to Ghibli's branding, they will be forced to remove it from their model, at least in Japan. (In US, we have Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes which is strictly enforced - which is why you never see that style pop up too much, even in tech products.)

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Interesting thing about Japanese copyright law is that if they deem that the generated AI was used for "enjoyment" you are still in violation of the law. Because Japan gave AI companies to commercialize AI-generated works, some people think that they can do whatever they want, but that's not really the case - in some ways, it's actually more strict than laws in the US. So for OpenAI, they have several problems on hand right now: https://www.privacyworld.blog/2024/03/japans-new-draft-guidelines-on-ai-and-copyright-is-it-really-ok-to-train-ai-using-pirated-materials/

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The last manifesto I read was this one👇and I really enjoyed it. He has very little following, which makes me feel embarrassed that this is the case. https://warpcast.com/ryangtanaka/0xaa66044f

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Thanks for the shoutout! Well, I'm used to small crowds because I write a lot of contrarian things that are unpopular. It is what it is. 😂

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@malicioussheep has been making some infographics lately. 🏛️ A nice update to our roster as of this week.

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Maybe the algos got crappy recently but my daily posts have gotten to be kind of a chore lately. In order to spice it up, I had this idea of attaching a random emoji to the end of the post, regardless of what the content was. Will it work? Who knows. Just looking to spice things up. ⛺️

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We got a shoutout by the official Tezos community managers, Tezos Commons this week for Tezcon. Can't wait! Like last year, we have a lot of flying in from all over the country just to make the event. June 28th-29th at Kenyon Hall, West Seattle. 😁 Full article here: https://x.com/TezosCommons/status/1902040958679838878

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- We will also be integrating Baker-driven features into the site, starting with displaying the baker the artist is delegated to currently. - v2, like v1, will not have a database. Security vulnerability? Privacy leaks? How can anything be leaked if there's nothing there to begin with? Keep your login info because we honestly don't want it.🤣 This will be a work-in-progress, of course, but I can guarantee one thing - teia.cafe v2 will be nothing like anything else seen before. And we're going to do an official launch at Tezcon Seattle, June 28th! #Tezos

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- World's first on-chain, decentralized copyright registration system, hosted, maintained, and owned by @teiacommunity (not me!), served by teia.cafe's improved UI. - I come from a music background, so I decided to focus on my strengths this time by making the design of teia.cafe v2 centered around music first. By musicians, for musicians! - A fully on-chain messaging system that allows people to message each other directly through the wallet. No external logins or email required - and it will also be integrated with the curation, NFT, DAO, and copyright features so that artists have means to communicate directly with their collaborators and patrons directly, in an "official" way. - We will also be integrating DAO and on-chain governance features directly into the site. So you can listen to music while also be a responsible digital citizen by keeping up with the latest polls and proposals.

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As of this week, we're starting to deprecate teia.cafe in order to prep for the new site about to be launched in the summer. Most of the site will still be running but you may that some of the wallet-related features may have stopped working. How long has it been? 3 years, maybe? We experimented with a lot of different ideas and got pretty far, considering, but it was time to scale it up - especially for #Tezcon! (June 28th.) So the new site will be a seamless integration of some of the more interesting ideas we came up with in a more focused way. Some of them includes:

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🤣 Oh that's a complete different one for sure. You know the weird thing is that I see lots of street names that are exactly the same up here in CA, too. Like "Fremont"

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Just got word that Tezcon will be getting official sponsorship from the official Tezos folks - we're legit now! 🤣 I can't disclose the details yet but it's enough to cover expenses and pay for everything, so we are stoked. It's going to be a pretty great event! June 28-29th, Kenyon Hall, Seattle.

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Been looking around for a place that might be interested in my music style, but haven't found it yet, tbh. So it's looking like Tezcon itself is going to be my big "debut" for Seattle. Sometimes, if you want it done, you just gotta do it yourself. 💪 June 28th - 29th in Kenyon Hall 😉

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But back then, AI was not "market ready". It would say "politically incorrect" things all the time, go into "inappropriate" subjects most people don't want to hear (you know, sex, taboo subjects, violence, illegal stuff - it was trained on the internet, after all), and being a robot, it did not care about your feelings and would just blurt out whatever it thought was the right "solution" for you. https://teia.art/objkt/865998 Anyone remember "Tay" - Microsoft's AI project back then?

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Well, for NFTs, I usually max out my edition numbers - artificial scarcity is very popular in the space right now, even to the point where some collectors are "burning" artworks because they think it'll make the remaining ones more valuable. I think it's disrespectful and stupid, personally - I'd rather sell 10000 works for a dollar rather than 1 sale of $10000, if you know what I mean.

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Remember when crypto people used to write "whitepapers" and you weren't taken seriously unless you at least came up with a half-assed version of it to show that you actually thought things through? What happened to that? 🤣

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