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by BryantD 2y ago
So if you, in good faith, believe a behavior is oppressive, it's not priggish to take a stand against it? That would also demolish PG's entire argument.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Appreciate the demonstration of why Chatham House Rule can protect opinions on the left side of the spectrum. Just to be clear, this is a real live example of someone saying that an individual should be punished for their opinions, separate
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by BryantD 2y ago
Yeah, that's just nuts. Let's be very specific: the issue was that Bud Light hired Dylan Mulvaney to do a social media promotion. It's not as if Dylan's face was on beer cans available in stores or anything. And this sim
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by BryantD 2y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that he advocates against gay marriage; it would be accurate to say he's willing to donate to politicians who advocate against gay marriage, however. Blake Masters and J. D. Vance being the obvi
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by BryantD 2y ago
See? It's just wrong-think, based on appeals to emotion.
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by BryantD 2y ago
If you’re an Ivy League college professor, it is extremely risky to say that Palestine has a legitimate grievance against Israel. If you’re a small town high school coach, it would be smart to be careful about advocating for trans girls to
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by BryantD 2y ago
Not that taboo —- the Speaker of the House declined to apologize for saying same sex marriage would destroy the Republic.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Ah, so if a political party spent several election cycles emphasizing how the opposition was ignoring the problems of "rural Americans," or "parents," for example.
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by BryantD 2y ago
In that case -- and probably in the case of Kagi vs. Google as well -- it was entirely dependent on focus. In the hypothetical situation where your goal changes from "provide the best possible search" to "beat Yahoo," yo
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by BryantD 2y ago
Twitter's Community Notes were designed to be resistant to sybil attacks. Meta is calling their new product Community Notes, but it would be a mistake to assume the algorithms are the same under the hood. Hopefully Meta will be as tran
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by BryantD 2y ago
I don’t think the fact-checkers were a better product feature in the current environment. I do think that the reasons they aren’t a good product feature are linked to a concerted effort to convince people to distrust fact-checkers. I recogn
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by BryantD 2y ago
Yes. My personal belief, for whatever that's worth, is that communication and speech are one of the most powerful tools any of us have. Talking can change minds, move societies, arouse emotions, and in general makes a difference. This
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by BryantD 2y ago
Enjoy: https://www.nsrf.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Harmful-impac...
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by BryantD 2y ago
This exactly mirrors my thoughts, although I don't work in your field. One quote: "For example, in December 2024, we removed millions of pieces of content every day. While these actions account for less than 1% of content produced
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by BryantD 2y ago
I recommend Marc-Andre Argentino's research on the 764 network. Teens and kids are, to some degree, self-radicalizing. https://gnet-research.org/2024/01/19/764-the-intersection-of... (disturbing details
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by BryantD 2y ago
I can understand why LLM companies might want to crawl those diffs -- it's context. Assuming that we've trained LLM on all the low hanging fruit, building a training corpus that incorporates the way a piece of text changes over ti
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by BryantD 2y ago
People gonna people. I don’t ever recommend taking downvotes or upvotes too seriously. Asking for verification is often seen as criticism of the original source, and in some cases it is. Personally I’m at the point where I doublecheck most
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by BryantD 2y ago
Thanks! Likely to be the same original sources but it’s separate reporting which increases my confidence — really appreciate this.
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by BryantD 2y ago
This seems plausible, but does anyone have any information on the reliability of this particular news source and/or confirmation from other sources?
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by BryantD 2y ago
Yeah, good call -- it's a very similar situation.
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by BryantD 2y ago
This article is focused on mainstream cinema and I tend to agree with it; I miss the days when major studios were releasing DVDs packed with extras. Simultaneously, we're in the middle of a major boutique Blu-ray boom. I am not intimat
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by BryantD 2y ago
I like understanding why people are making things up. Edit: sorry, I was a bit snarky there and I shouldn't have been. I was in fact splitting a hair there; it's a useful one for me but it's far from obligatory.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Eric Adams doesn't have a strong reality filter, and it's usually good to cross-check things he says, especially if he's the only person saying them. I don't think he consciously makes things up, he just tends to gravita
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by BryantD 2y ago
Thankfully, SIFF was able to save Cinerama (thanks to another ex-Microsoftie) and it's back in operation. I agree that it's a true treasure.
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by BryantD 2y ago
No, it does not. It says "The crew of Yi Peng 3, which is captained by a Chinese national and includes a Russian sailor..." That is not at all "a Russian crew."
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by BryantD 2y ago
Do you have a source more recent than https://archive.is/3weox (WSJ article)? It appears to be a Chinese ship, although it is not clear that the Chinese government sanctioned whatever happened.
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by BryantD 2y ago
Sure. CSAM. Meanwhile Twitter is now openly suppressing links off-site. For financial reasons rather than ideological ones (although the latter may also be occurring).
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by BryantD 2y ago
It might have been wise if Netanyahu hadn't propped up Hamas in the interests of keeping the Palestinian Authority from managing Gaza as well as the West Bank. It might also have been wise for Israel to abandon the policy of settling t
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by BryantD 2y ago
Under $1000: Litter Robot 4. It actually works and our two new cats are fine with it (which was one of our concerns). I do need to fiddle with it now and again, mostly WiFi resets, but in comparison to emptying two litter boxes daily that&#
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by BryantD 2y ago
Nah, you absolutely can. A decent portion of the country still thinks a certain Navy lieutenant faked injuries in order to get a Purple Heart.

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