How do you recover information that is not there? Best you can do is guess what’s supposed to be there.

That’s why I hate watching 4K AI “enhanced” historical films, it is akin to rewriting history.

Long story short, these algorithms aren't recovering information that was lost. They reconstruct the images by guessing what should've been there. So, you're not violating any information theoretic concept.

But this means the guesses can be incorrect, although the likelihood of that happening can be greatly reduced with good training data.

I never heard of this before. What kind of enhancing does the AI do?

It tries to predict patterns from blurry shots. It might introduce artifacts that were never there: some drawings I upscaled turned distant woods into houses. You can see why this might be bad when viewing something for historical accuracy.

See e.g., https://www.topazlabs.com and https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Sorry, I think I was unclear. What I meant is that I am familiar with these techniques, I just never heard them applied in the context of history movies.

> US government

Why should I trust what they have to say as opposed to, say, China’s government? Or any government at all that I did not vote for?

I’m not a U.S. citizen nor on the payroll of CCP or whatnot.

> Why should I trust what they have to say as opposed to, say, China’s government? Or any government at all that I did not vote for?

Yeah, the CCP has a great track record admitting their atrocities. Let’s totally trust them instead of the Uyghurs who are all collectively making this up out of spite.

Is this part of the playbook when training people on how best to deflect blame from China's sins? Seriously, I see it all the time.

Someone will share a well agreed upon anecdote of the horrors being committed by the Chinese, and without fail, one of the first responses will be whataboutism regarding the US government, as if that has any bearing whatsoever.

Nearly any civilized country around the world is in full agreement that there are horrific atrocities being committed by the Chinese, and it's largely due to economic bullying that we're forced to turn a blind eye.

I’d probably vomit if I see another “web3” or “decentralization”

I’ve always thought it to be the reverse, since the west has the whole world at their disposal (in terms of audience and technology penetration)

Ever bought something you believed was Made in Japan but found out later it was actually Made in China?

I don’t think inanimate objects can influence a person’s mind. However media can, especially when you see the same idea repeated everywhere.

It can when materialistic quality is a factor in purchasing decisions. For example, I recently had to buy a new rice cooker and based on my prior experiences of owning both Japanese and Chinese brands; the former outlasted the latter by thirty years. Just because it was cheap and easily sourceable doesn't discount expected quality assurances.

I'm not saying this applies to all Chinese made products but something I keep in mind for all future purchases.

For one, chinese made Teslas are superior in quality to American ones. So looks like you are right, not every chinese product should be seen as inferior to japanese or even American.

If you always buy from A instead of from B, whoever they are, you start enjoying a familiarity with A that you don't have with B.

Then, not about minds but about money, you are helping A with your money instead of helping B and A eventually becomes more powerful than B.

Not willing to see it from a socialist angle.

r/BuyItForLife

Yes, it’s one reason that I let my Amazon Prime membership lapse and rarely purchase anything from Amazon now.

With debit card you hand the merchant your whole bank account and trust them to deduct an agreed amount. With credit card it becomes the bank’s problem.

Anyway it doesn’t have to be like this. In China you scan a merchant code and enter the amount you want to pay on your phone, much like a bank transfer, but it happens instantly.

Good point on this - if some merchant cheats you, you have a decent chance with CC company to get the money back. With debit, your money is gone, good luck getting a refund.

Not on any of my debit cards. I just dispute the charge, and get my money back.

My mind is blown. Especially when knowing my WRT54G would buckle if you so much as send it more than a dozen ICMP packets per second.

I’d rather the app be a master of one than a jack of all trades

Plex is very good when it comes to “just works” for media consumption. That “just works” experience (API enrichment, artwork sourcing, device verification etc.) isn’t easy to maintain.

Those behavior boils down to human nature of shifting blame and responsibilities.

I’m glad my parents droned into me that nobody can take care of my health except myself.

Energizer made phones fitting those specs exactly but it didn’t fly off the shelves.

You also have to be aware of the language barrier/lack of voices from within China who can give you context of what is happening. News that you hear about China are mostly written by western media who has little to no clue about what actually happened (remember the Bloomberg report on the spy chip?). I would exercise caution when reading anything online, especially at this very low SNR climate.

Key to peace and tolerance is understanding, unfortunately China is like a blackbox to most, and people tend to get angry at things they don’t understand.

> lack of voices from within China

Whose fault is that? China only has one voice as a policy. I'll take Western media's reporting over what the Chinese party is saying more often than not. The media has its own problems but still.