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For the westernized-eastern viewpoint, The Book by Alan Watts. It specifically opens by trying to deprogram western religious beliefs
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I understand your position and if you're willing to say the quiet part out loud then that's enough to stop me hounding your position. I just don't want anyone having their cake and eating it too. I disagree with how you frame
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I think they're well positioned. The winners of the generative AI space will be players with lots of copyrighted content. Shutterstock was already top of mind, and purchasing rights to all the images in Giphy strengthens their claim. T
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You're conflating transport encryption and E2E encryption. The OP article is only about E2E encryption, which is not fully implemented on Facebook to date, so not allowing them (and other VLOPs in the same position) to implement it jus
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Here is the investigation I referenced. Consider reading the report and grounding your argument in reality. This stuff is happening. What should we do about it? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28&#
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The dirty secret of the web is that the past 2 decades of VLOPs have led to a stunning increase in CSAM and sex trafficking. Governments know this from initial good-faith participation by VLOPs to escalate abuse to authorities. They were qu
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If you like heads down IC work, the peak is somewhere around Senior approaching Staff level. But this is not the salary peak for frontend ICs, so you will have to choose how to proceed. From that point forward, as you progress thru your com
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Yes. Facebook runs all photos thru digital recognition. If you look at the alt text for a photo in the feed it will have a string generated by their photo analyzer. But that's just the front. They also use facial recognition to learn w
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This is what my nightmares are like. I have to do something simple like fill out a form or unlock a door, and everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong
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I started at this perspective, but nobody could agree on the definition of the A, or the I; and also the G. So it wasn't a really rigorous technical term to begin with. Now that it's been corraled by sci-fi and marketers, we are f
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Twitter itself, because now it doesn't have to scan and moderate DMs for CSAM and other illegal activity. Implementing E2E encryption is a part of why they can run a skeleton crew moderation team. Users don't benefit from this cha
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I think there will be an art to these "information summarization" products. You want just enough summarization to accomplish the reader's goal, while also minimizing your hallucination surface area. Summarize too short, and y
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On your last point, I think the key distinction is the number of people in the social circle. On Twitter, it was the entire world. And if you wanted to hold the conch shell, you did what the algorithm wanted which was OUTRAGE. On Mastodon,
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https://www.apa.org/topics/social-media-internet/health-advi...
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I think between Bluetooth for data and Qi for power delivery, many consumer use-cases have been able to avoid the same trap as last time. But there's still a fair amount of devices in the point of sale space that dock directly to the l
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GP's USB wall sockets will be obsolete in short order, not because of Apple, but because the USB Power Delivery standards are still rapidly evolving. The latest version can even power high energy devices like workstation laptops and di
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The last time they changed their connector (to lightning) they invalidated a lot of third party accessories designed around the old connector. Not simple stuff, like cables, but docks galore; many in expensive long-term purchases like luxur
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I didn't even know Apple was underpaying their store employees, and now this is what I'll think of when I see their stores. So in that sense, they are already successful. Good luck to the union workers in the rest of their negotia
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This is a great negotiation tactic by the union. Tipping would be anti-thematic to the whole Star Trek utopia vibe the Apple Store is going for. They of course know that, so asking Apple for this opens a door on deeper salary negotiations.
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Do you rephrase my comment reductively because you're okay with corporations monetizing children via addictive dark patterns, in defiance of recommendations from child psychologists? or
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Children become addicted to Snapchat streaks and their peers in school shun them socially based on whether they have big streaks with popular kids or not. It's like Lord of the Flies mixed with an episode of Black Mirror. https:/
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The article's main claim is that Arc is the most transformative software in decades, plural, which takes us to a time before Google Maps existed, before all smartphone apps existed, and before online banking was ubiquitous. It's s
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When humans do it we call them bullshitters. But I agree with GP's eager-anthropomorphization complaint. When algorithms produce verifiably wrong output we call them errors.
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Since 'AI' and 'AGI' are so poorly defined, it's allowed marketers to make un-disprovable claims that they have it for sale. These terms are now hyperbolic synonyms for 'algorithm'.
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Social media platforms don't implement E2E encryption for the benefit of users. They implement it so that they don't have to comply with content moderation requirements regarding CSAM. source: NYT investigations by Gabriel Dance&#
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If you're getting acquired pay attention to whether the buyer needs your product, or your vision. That'll tell you how quickly your pre-aquisition culture will be stamped out.
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More than meaningless I think MBTI is dangerous. It creates a false dichotomy between introvert and extrovert and then assigns you to one camp or the other. People then, especially those assigned introvert, limit themselves. Introversion is
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I picked up a few useful tricks from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that I use to this day, but the best lessons came from eastern philosophy. Anxiety isn't a disease - you don't 'have' it. Everyone experiences anxiety. It
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My theory is that we are seeing and will continue to see these uh, VLOPs, take an interest in end-to-end encryption because it allows them to not be "aware of" anything users are doing on their platform. "Sorry officer, we ju
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I've always considered Goodhart's Law to be "of the people," but the article offers only top down solutions. What is the solution when the decision-makers have subjected you to a Goodhartable system of incentives and don

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