Frieren

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by Frieren 8d ago
> f you can't get anyone to sign up perhaps you'll realize it's not so easy as scapegoating addictive social media. Regulations, we need regulations for it to work. Capitalism is not going to solve a problem that capitalis
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by Frieren 9d ago
We need a new non-commercial version of the internet. Free of bots, free of ads, ... you pay to access social media optimized to be interesting enough to be worth paying instead of addictive enough to keep you scrolling to show you more ads
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by Frieren 9d ago
> Winning a war comes with great cost Invading a country and wanting to steal their resources at any cost, a cost as large as needed, is a crime against humanity. The USA is not defending itself, it is just trying to control Irans oil to
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by Frieren 10d ago
> I generally see my legal system create severe delays Better a delay that getting your account closed without recourse. But you are right, years of conservative governments have starved the government and its services are slower than th
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by Frieren 10d ago
This is why goverments have appeal processes and layers of tribunals. To be judged and found guilty by a corporation takes away all your rights.
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by Frieren 10d ago
If libraries didn't exist could not be created today. People tend to say that "it is impossible" when it actually only needs to be well organized. Splitting git tech-monopolies it is a survival need. Or we do it, or we will e
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by Frieren 10d ago
That is already a requirement in any civilized country. You cannot run a business without a registered ID, address, etc. for tax purposes. For free (like for real no microtransactions) that is different. For the rest, they already have that
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by Frieren 11d ago
> data on what insurance a healthcare provider accepts is notoriously unreliable To fix the health care system is possible. To use AI to circumvent it just creates an incentive to make it worse. You spend more on AI, insurance companies
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by Frieren 12d ago
This is how it works in Sweden: https://www.unionen.se/in-english/notice-to-termination "Even if an employer does not have a collective agreement, they must negotiate major changes to working and employment condit
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by Frieren 12d ago
That seems a very USA problem. It seems a very adversarial society. Are the ads for layers on buses and benches for real or just a TV trope? I have never seen anything like that in Europe...
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by Frieren 12d ago
> We've kind of just allowed technology to start making us all irrelevant. That accelerated when big tech companies became advertisement companies. Suddenly, there was a push to increase time on the screen thru mass data gathering.
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by Frieren 12d ago
To some extend I hope that the Republican party wins the next election. They should be the ones fixing the economy, raising taxes, and doing something responsible for once. If Democrats win they are going to be blamed for being the "ba
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by Frieren 12d ago
> but you stick out like a sore thumb to people Good point. When I pass by the security at the airport they force me to take off my hat. Something covering my face would not be taken lightly.
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by Frieren 12d ago
> and by having a second one (with a different context) check almost entirely eliminates the problem. You solved one of the largest problems with current LLMs. How is it possible that nobody tried that before? Because they do. There are
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by Frieren 12d ago
> the responsibility is sufficiently diluted that it's impossible to charge anyone in particular. Was not that the goal when companies started using AI for their customer support? Be able to say anything without legal repercussions.
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by Frieren 12d ago
When everybody is giving their product for free to compete with a paid product is almost impossible. But I agree that it should not be like that and that governments around the world should regulate all these "free" services.
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by Frieren 12d ago
> Data wasn't the killer. "Past performance does not guarantee future results" and yet people treats data as a crystal ball that can predict the future. Data can help a company to decide what to do next week with little th
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by Frieren 12d ago
> How does an industry degenerate to the point where they consider acceptable to base their business model on owning part of the product they sell you? Neoliberalism. The only thing that keeps companies in good behaviour are strong regul
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by Frieren 12d ago
Any type of data gathering should be forbidden. The "with consent" is bullshit, as the only way to not give consent is to leave society and live in a cave. (No driving a car, no taking a flight, no reading a website, no subscribin
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by Frieren 12d ago
Google is part of a cartel of ad companies. Most websites do not have any option left. To blame small companies for choosing big tech monopolies is unfair and solves nothing. Strong regulations and splitting monopolies are the real solutio
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by Frieren 15d ago
> time the gasoline price shock right to the midterm elections. Donald Trump can end this at any time if he wants. It would have been better to not have started it, thou. Less killing of innocent people, less spending on weapons, better
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by Frieren 15d ago
For me the reason is economic.
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by Frieren 15d ago
Shame is only effective in a society of equals. If one day you may become my boss better treat you well. If one day anyone may become my neighbor better treat anonymous people well. If my kid may end married with yours then I better treat y
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by Frieren 15d ago
What technical implementation will be used to verify the user age? - Taking pictures of children seems something that will go horribly bad - Government verification is not implemented, even in countries were it is possible to verify your id
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by Frieren 17d ago
> Large corporations getting special exceptions from it didn't start with LLMs. The root problem is inequality. Copyright makes sense to allow authors to profit from their work. But it was warped to give more power to big corporatio
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by Frieren 18d ago
> The problem is not vibe coding. Except that it is the enabler. Without AI there are no 5K lines of code that no human has ever seen. AI introduces a new category of problem that did not exist before.
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by Frieren 18d ago
> how can that same right be denied to a group who have decided to speak together? Corporations are not people nor behave like individuals. Money is not speech. > “speech” in this context has always been interpreted to mean any act b
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by Frieren 18d ago
> Taxation will not solve this before the global society collapses Taxation can and must solve it before "society collapses". And many people are working to solve the problem. It is difficult and requires effort but nothing tha
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by Frieren 18d ago
This is why wealth should be less concentrated. A few people has their hands in all businesses and that will end badly. Taxation is not just about paying for the costs of the country, it is also about making sure that nobody has enough powe
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by Frieren 18d ago
> it has to actually do something wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/... It is not reputation, it is committing actual crimes...

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