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by II2II 2mo ago
My apologies for a lack of clarity in that sentence, but I meant that publishers have to contend with people who are willing to use generative AI to make money by writing books for them. That said, real people write for all sorts of reasons
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by II2II 2mo ago
Publishing is a business. There will be real publishers who are interested in using AI for the sake of making money. Even when a publisher has integrity and refuses to sell AI generated books, they have to contend with authors who are only
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by II2II 2mo ago
I agree it won't work, albeit for an entirely different reason. There has been a shift towards labelling AI generated or AI assisted content by those who aren't attempting to mislead. Those who are attempting to mislead won't
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> If I open my own line of home improvement stores and do no oversight on what I sell and wind up selling really dangerous lawnmowers, I'm partly responsible. While there would be oversight, it is highly unlikely that a person openi
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by II2II 2mo ago
> I have actually heard otherwise intelligent people say things just like that, including site operators who run nontrivial websites. First of all: thank you for using the word say , rather than think or believe or anything of that
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by II2II 2mo ago
I don't know what the situation is like for Kindle, but there are atleast two open source alternatives for Kobo. KOReader is the Swiss Army knife, Plato is easier to use. A few people are suggesting that KOReader is symptomatic if the
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by II2II 2mo ago
A lot of people are misconstruing what I have said, which is pointing out that this can impact regular users. It not intended as a justification to restrict on-device ADB, and it certainly isn't meant to justify more extreme measures.
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> In other words: this is all but impossible to impact regular users, and it requires a particularly careless developer to be hit by it. Have you ever worked with someone who barely knows how to use a mobile phone? They will hand their p
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> It is really annoying to write something and have someone say (...) It's worse than that. What they are saying is the equivalent to saying that knowing how to do something properly, and having the attention to detail to do so, mak
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> Agreed, this is what you agreed to (implicitly or explicitly) when uploading stuff to the internet. A more pragmatic approach is to acknowledge that concerning one's self with how something is used once it has been released is an
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> But now I'm really reluctant to give more stuff to the free web. Because the fact that it gets scraped and added to a pile of training data to later be monetized really rubs me the wrong way. The thing is, people were scraping and
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by II2II 3mo ago
> now there's better tech to do native ads without the intrusion and massive bad experience .... the publisher themselves can serve you a small ad This has always been possible and, from my recollections, was how some early online a
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by II2II 3mo ago
Because every time something new comes along, people will push boundaries while arguing it is acceptable. In this case, they may argue that it is no different from physically furnishing an apartment, taking some photos, then removing the fu
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by II2II 3mo ago
> (Speaking as a parent of three) why can't we just leave all responsibility to the parents? Then I'm sure that you appreciate that there are both legal and informal checks in place ensuring that you can take responsibility for
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by II2II 3mo ago
While I agree on bit about horrible prices, the TI calculators are well suited to their intended task[1] so I will object to the outdated hardware part. Stability is a good thing in the context of classrooms. Why should schools be spending
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by II2II 3mo ago
> yes there were folks from before that saw a PDP or whatever but they were rare, and usually either deep in academia or IBM etc. Was it a case of being rare, or of computers being something they used at work (and only work) so they simp
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by II2II 3mo ago
Thank you for linking that since it sort of answered one of my questions: what would a person who lived in the backwoods of Oregon to escape the distractions of the world think about computers bringing the distractions of the world into the
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by II2II 3mo ago
> Just log off of Instagram / TikTok / wherever. A large number of youth will do that, but there is also a reason why children and youth are considered a vulnerable population. I cannot speak too much on youth since most of my
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by II2II 3mo ago
> Except social media as a concept isn’t the issue. I’ve been bullied before social media was mainstream. The differences with bullying via social media are: the difficulty to escape it in space or time as well as its reach. I don't
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by II2II 3mo ago
Perhaps there's stuff going on in the UK that I'm missing but: - I have not heard of a general cell phone ban for children and youth. They may "ban" the use of phones in schools (in reality: phones must remain in a bag o
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by II2II 3mo ago
Something tells me people's milage varies based upon how they prompt the LLM. I spent about half an hour using traditional web searches to tackle a software configuration problem today, then about another half an hour poking around the
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by II2II 3mo ago
I'm sure there are those who would participate, either because they want their data to be captured by AI labs or as a form of compromise. That said, the approach is flawed. It looks like the people doing the scraping want everything. T
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by II2II 3mo ago
It probably depends upon where you're looking. I never go to the front page, or even mildly popular subreddits for that matter. Ignoring the bot used for moderation, I would be surprised if 1% of the traffic on the subreddits I visit i
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by II2II 3mo ago
Building codes that address this are wonderful, however: - Plenty of people live or work in older buildings, where are not up to standard. For example: my office probably violates the air quality sensibilities of the Victorian era, which is
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To be fair: this was a parent stepping up to offer the students something unique. Doing so with children is easier than it is with teenagers, but I think that has more to do with the values we instill than it does with the nature of schooli
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> I want these kids to become designers, engineers, inventors, factory owners, and all the rest. Makers of any kind; participants in the ongoing making of our world. Thank you for going into the classroom and offering the kids a glimpse
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Both. A person who places the interests of others above their own and lacks ambition is unlikely to achieve wealth in their life. Yet that doesn't mean a wealthy person has limitless ambition, nor does a willingness to place their inte
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> It's not that single person who threatens the world The question is: is he enabling them, or are they enabling him? I suppose it could be working in both directions. That said: while the "elite" were problematic before h
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> i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing" I consider LLMs life changing in the sense that the Internet was life changing: it makes information much more accessible. In the ol
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by II2II 3mo ago
> The downside with reddit-/hn-style comment is that, while they provide a superior UI for discussions, the liveliness of the discussions have a shelf life of a day. A big difference between Reddit/HN is the volume. You need th

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