The midjourney founder talked about it in his "office hours" in the weeks prior to inpainting launch, they were ready with inpainting before discord was done with UI support for it.
The way inpainting in midjourney works is you click "remix region" on the message where the bot posted the generation and UI pops up that lets you select regions of the images, with two different types of shape selector, a rectangle selection tool and a curve selection tool. You send your message back to the bot, which includes those regions, and it only redraws those regions.
I can’t post the specific child’s picture as it wasn’t posted publicly and I wouldn’t want to disrespect them, but here’s some examples of less severe hydrocephalus you’ll see often in spina bifida parenting groups [0] [1]. Often people don’t comment on ones like that as everyone wants to get along but if it’s left untreated it can eventually progress to be much more severe and cause debilitating headaches and mental retardation. Interestingly, in googling this apparently low pressure cerebrospinal fluid headaches are also a thing [2], so keeping just the right amount of cerebrospinal fluid draining is a must.
At least in the US, early intervention allows doctors to recommend shunts so extreme cases of hydrocephalus can be avoided and head sizes normalize a bit as kids grow. The photos are usually from med textbooks and for teaching future doctors and usually demonstrating the extreme forms.
Let’s not say alien head. My biggest worry as a young dad was my child being called names because of his head circumference. He too was born with HC.
This. There's actually an argument that spying helps peace.
My dad (a journalist, RIP) was once at a UN conference in the 70s, and made the remark to a Chinese official in a light-hearted spirit: "of course you spy on us, we spy on you, and what's wrong with that?" This caused a major row and he was forced to apologize.
It seems like a fair game to me. You can always protect yourself by investing in cyber-security if you don't want to be spied on.
It's not like war where innocent people die and a there's a lot of human suffering. It's just a tech race where the nations doing a good job get a deserved advantage without doing direct damage to the population.
Unless someone exacts extensive damage to something like the electrical grid. In which case it would cause mass suffering and death. Don't underestimate the steel trap of that cold war mentality.
I don't understand this point of view. I think often in saying this the implication is that you wouldn't make the same choice. That somehow you would resist the same urges that poorer people face. But who are you to say you wouldn't if you were in their shoes? You don't know the stress they face or their desperation, their life experiences. We're all human.
So you believe everyone has perfect control over their own choices, actions, reaction, faculties, in the face of all the overt and hidden influences that others seek to have upon them?
It's not a straw man, and you didn't answer the question. Rephrased, do you believe that all the choices you have made are the same as they would have been if you had been free of outside hidden influence? Do you believe that is true for everyone's choices?
Of course we make our own choices, but the question is whether those choices are completely ours, an expression of full conscious agency, free of any polluting influence. And for all our choices, both the ones we think hard about, and the ones when we're exhausted and our attention is split.
Do you believe "personal accountability" extends to accepting the blame for someone else's manipulative intent?
