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New comment by howbadisthat in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

howbadisthat — Tue, 21 May 2024 03:13:43 +0000

Very well. But in this case the end goal is the end of someone's unique life.

In the case of acquiring a likeness, if it's done legally you acquire someone else's likeness that happens to be shared with your target.

The likeness is shared and non-unique.

If you objective is to take someone's life, there is no other pathway to the objective but their life. With likeness that isn't the case.

New comment by howbadisthat in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

howbadisthat — Tue, 21 May 2024 02:31:26 +0000

How can something be illegal if every step towards the objective is legal? This would result in an incoherent legal system where selective prosecution/corruption is trivial.

New comment by howbadisthat in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

howbadisthat — Tue, 21 May 2024 01:07:07 +0000

Under what legal theory is intending to do something which is legal (hiring a person that has a voice you want) becomes illegal because there is another person who has a similar voice?

New comment by howbadisthat in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

howbadisthat — Tue, 21 May 2024 01:02:21 +0000

The variance in voice is not that great. Just find someone who is very close to her voice naturally.

New comment by howbadisthat in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

howbadisthat — Tue, 21 May 2024 00:11:23 +0000

Scarlet owns the voice of a stranger that happens to sound like her? That seems absurd.

Just find someone who sounds like her, then hire them for the rights to their voice.

New comment by howbadisthat in "Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD"

howbadisthat — Sun, 19 May 2024 14:32:13 +0000

What happens if the remaining space is TRIMMED but routinely accessed? (for example by dd, read only)

New comment by howbadisthat in "mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Tackle Glioblastoma in 48 Hours"

howbadisthat — Thu, 02 May 2024 06:39:34 +0000

Cancer tends to have an interesting relationship with cellular protein transport. And as a consequence has problems dealing with heat. The protein transport mechanism by which immune surveillance is conducted is shared with cells surviving heat increases via ejection of heat shock proteins.

I once tried to find if there were any studies about incidence of cancer plotted against incidence of high fever in the same individuals but wasn't able to find anything. It may also point to the incidence of cancer actually rising due to suppression of other diseases.

This is plausible due the fact that diseases are a constant in nature and therefore evolution would take their presence as a given as much as the seasons or the sun. It would be very unfortunate if numerous anti-cancer adaptions simply haven't evolved because regular fevers took care of those cancer precursors.

New comment by howbadisthat in "A reporter's journey into how the U.S. funded the bomb"

howbadisthat — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 06:13:20 +0000

Correct. The incentives for individuals rarely align with the incentives of polities (and it can be argued those entities only exist in history books).

The bombs and their awesome power served to align the incentives of individuals in decision making positions with the incentives ascribed to the polity named Japan to issue surrender.