The “RNA world hypothesis” was what I was taught in my upper level genetics class back in 2004, so unless I am out of the loop and it has been discarded in the 20 years since, it sounds accurate to me

By “populations were smaller”, I meant there were less people, not that they were of shorter stature, sorry for the confusion

Moose were never used or domesticated that way. It's not impossible they could have been, but being such northerly animals, human populations tended to be smaller near moose populations

Because 60 has a LOT of factors that can go into it.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15... etc

It's the reason why there are 60 minutes in an hour (and ultimately why there are 60 seconds in a minute, though that's a later development). It's also ultimately why we have 24 hours in a day (they had 12 for daylight hours, which ALSO has a lot of factors, it was eventually doubled).

A lot of time keeping stuff is due to them

You can run Stable Diffusion on a phone, so it wouldn’t shock me at all if we can soon run GPT on a phone

Yeah, that was probably a pretty early discovery among humans I feel. Basically the moment we had the cognitive ability to process it, the pattern would be completely obvious.

A lot of people have lost power, some of my family members included. I was in a traffic jam due to traffic lights being out today.

I never lost power though, so I haven't been super affected

Yeah, it was pretty crazy. I was stuck in a traffic jam today that was caused just by the fact that multiple lights were out in a highly populated area. I wasn't affected, thankfully, but some of my family members were

Ok, as a Michigander, I take offense at you referring to Michigan as part of "the Ohio region"

Wow that's straight r/agedlikemilk right there

Oh the straight unbroken drop part makes sense. I was like, "Wait, there's no way this is taller than Niagara"

AIs are potentially far more dangerous than nuclear energy.

I liked the 5 for 5 back in the day

Sounds like an issue you should talk to your psychologist about. I certainly feel no physical sensation when looking at AI art (or any art) beyond "oh this looks good" or "this looks ugly" (if those even count as physical sensations).

It's very weird to have such a visceral feeling of disgust just based on looking at art.

> the composites between different images to produce the final result

Lol, that's not how AI art works. Are you sure you're in the right place? See that's the problem being in a space like this - you are very likely talking to someone who actually knows how things work.

AI art works by denoising, it isn't a "composite". It isn't "mixing images". It doesn't have images to mix.

Stable Diffusion for example, was trained on 240 terabytes of data - 2.3 billion 512x512 images, and the models are between 2 to 8 gigabytes of data. That means equivalent to about 1-4 bytes of data per image (with a 512x512 image being a bit bigger than 250 kilobytes in total size).

Suffice to say, you cannot compress 250,000 bytes of data into 1-4 bytes of data (mathematically, it is impossible). If that level of compression was possible, that would be the bigger story compared to AI art, because data transmission just got a wholllllllllleeeeeee lot faster, by orders of magnitude.

So yeah, get out of here with that "composite" nonsense. There's no composite. It's literally mathematically impossible for there to be a composite.

It's already in a free app, Draw Things

Note: not mine, just like it a lot

I mean then you find AI gross generally… and thus, why are you here?

I got into an argument yesterday with some people about whether they could tell if something was AI or not, so I am definitely going to throw this around the next time the topic comes up....

Actually a Greek one, which this Philadelphia was also named after

> “double docs” with both a MD and PhD in medicine.

Old roommate of mine did this. Smart guy but damn his life was busy for quite a few years

> When anyone else, using the same prompt, gets the same image?

That's... not how DALL-E works? Like you can use the exact same prompt and you'll get different images each time

Then that's not Byzantine era at all.

It'd have to be super early Byzantine era, as Christianity was pretty solidly established after not too long - I can't imagine much support after 450, or maybe 550 at the absolute latest for a Hercules/Heracles statue.

Could have also been the Byzantine-Persian war 30 year war

Either the Byzantine-Persian war, or the Arab conquest would be my guess. Those would have been the two major conflicts in the region in the 7th century.