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by acituan 6y ago
> they just lean towards letting more content on rather than less Come on. It is more than a lean. Growth is an explicit, fractal goal at every level. > The grandparent suggests that they start limiting uploads in a way that more re
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by acituan 6y ago
> To minimize is to have a goal of zero That's not what minimize means at all, hence my straw man argument. Minimize means reducing the amount as much as possible while still satisfying other parameters of your equation. Zero makes
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by acituan 6y ago
> A few scattered moderation complaints compared to wholesale rate limiting of incoming content I'm sure there is already some per-user upload rate limits in place to prevent gross abuse. It is a matter of playing with these paramet
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by acituan 6y ago
> When you are as big as Google, very improbable failures happen all the time, pointing them out doesn't tell the story of how well they're doing unless your expectation is constant perfection Just a thought experiment, does Yo
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by acituan 6y ago
Carbs are not essential indeed. But consuming carbs when available gave us net selective advantage, which is why it's been the biggest part of our post-agricultural diet. And those carbs didn't exist in isolation but in the contex
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by acituan 6y ago
> There is no scientific distinction between food, drugs, and nutrients. They're all molecules. All that matters is the dosage. A few micrograms of LSD and a cheeseburger is not different only for their dosage. One stores solar ener
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by acituan 6y ago
That was exactly my point. The molecule is not novel. It indeed existed and we had the opportunity to evolve with its ambient presence. If the laundry list of advantages were that important, it would have created selective pressure on those
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by acituan 6y ago
I can help but feel lied to when there is only a laundry list of "good"s and no analysis on downsides. When I read "it helps with this" "it prevents this", I always ask "but at what cost". Can an exog
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by acituan 6y ago
> Meh. Any significant interface change is going to annoy some users Your example is unfortunately worse than just interface change. It is also worse than just usability degradation. It is about why and how this change could take pla
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by acituan 6y ago
It’s not the judgment itself, it is by what standard he is judged. Everyone could judge him by their religious, cultural, personal standards. But in a solo dev vs. corporate overreach case judging him by corporatist standards bring a framin
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by acituan 6y ago
> but Azer was super unprofessional and nasty during those interactions Does he even have to be “professional“? Even though two of the parties involved happen to be corporations, he owes no allegiance to them and the exchange does not ta
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by acituan 6y ago
> I only have two data points, so the behaviour here is a coincidence rather than a pattern, but I will guarantee you whatever you think of Google there is more to this than meets the eye. You seem to want us to question the narrative ba
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by acituan 6y ago
> Nothing in the existing body of law requires them to proactively block copyrighted material from their platform The fight doesn’t have to take place in the realm of law. At best copyright holders would have sued youtube into oblivion i
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by acituan 6y ago
> If anything, more people are more informed today than at any time in history. Quantity and access to information is only one side of the equation. The other side is relevance and the meaning that information affords us. If it doesn
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by acituan 6y ago
I don’t agree with the interview contents, nor think professorship alone gives sufficient credibility in the face of a novel pandemic, data of which is in the process of emerging. That said, I don’t want youtube to be in charge of deciding
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by acituan 6y ago
> It is impossible to get proper usage feedback from your programs without being swayed by the vocal minority community. There are tons of other products in this world that don’t rely on surveilling on their users’ every single move to s
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by acituan 6y ago
> Humans are exceptional at adapting, and our brains are brilliant at filling in the blanks This is exactly the problem. Our adaptive machinery can adapt to the wrong stimulus and get stuck in that. This is called "reciprocal narrow
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by acituan 6y ago
I read both! Thanks! It’s a shame The Last Psychiatrist doesn’t update anymore.
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by acituan 6y ago
> It's the parents' job to teach kids how to tell junk food from healthy food I agree with the sentiment, but an important point is not the forget that behind the curtains there is an army of product managers, AI PhDs and tons
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by acituan 6y ago
> they feel perfectly fulfilling and real to me That is the whole point of a simulation. Hyper-palatable food, cocaine, porn etc. they also feel good and even hyper-real in our nervous systems in the short term, but that’s not a good way
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by acituan 6y ago
> last week I've probably spent 50 hours with people front different parts of the word on screen You've spent time with a simulation of those people, their voices lossily compressed with a biased frequency response, their ima
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by acituan 6y ago
Hominids spent 7 million years evolving on that "dirt" they stared at.
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by acituan 6y ago
> You probably can't know I disagree both on knowability and what needs to be known. The point of the exercise is not having a calculation down to the cent. We don’t even know if the order of magnitute of the revenue and the cost is
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by acituan 6y ago
Didn’t know that, thanks for chiming in. My point stands though.
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by acituan 6y ago
> find terrifying stories to be interesting lead otherwise boring and risk-free lives Or maybe our lives are not as boring and risk-free as we would like to think and our collective unconciouses draw us to these stories in order to proce
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by acituan 6y ago
> YouTube was much more profitable before the current era. We don't know if it has ever been profitable at all.
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by acituan 6y ago
That is only the revenue, which is mostly meaningless because most of the revenue is disbursed to content creators. We also don’t know how much the whole system costs to run.
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by acituan 6y ago
> they have to act across borders. They don’t have to , they choose to , in the name of growth. If New York Times decided to operate in China too, deliver news in chinese about China, they would have the same problem.
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by acituan 6y ago
We don’t know, because right now youtube is one black box in Google’s finance sheets. We don’t know if it is a loss leader, which I think is very likely. Imagine youtube was a separate company that always ran in the red and another private
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by acituan 6y ago
None of those combined instantaneous planet-wide distribution of spoken word, produced by anyone, shoveled to everyone, individually based on what they would be most likely to want to hear. If founding fathers had netflix this wouldn’t even

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