afavour

4 ms·

1.
by afavour 5d ago
> Of course, if you don't agree with the ToS, Uber is also not forced to transport you. But that's fair enough. IMO, no it is not. It should not be legal to force arbitration via ToS.
2.
by afavour 5d ago
Arbitration is fine. Forced arbitration is not.
3.
by afavour 6d ago
I suspect there’s a survival bias at work here. The PE purchased companies that continued to thrive are ones you probably never even knew got bought out.
4.
by afavour 6d ago
Small(er) businesses can be poorly run. In theory private equity takes knowledge already in practise in other locations and shares it with this new location, improving results. Downside of course is that they care a lot less about that spec
5.
by afavour 6d ago
“We can’t clearly define it so we should accept just about any definition of it” is certainly a position to take. The burden of proof exists, it’s not hubristic to require it.
6.
by afavour 6d ago
I don’t believe AI progress is a linear line that ends in “AGI”. I think the current way we create LLMs will be improved, and improved, and improved. But an LLM at its core is a predictive chain, not general intelligence.
7.
by afavour 7d ago
I feel like we were already in a weird gray area. Cellphone cameras use all kinds of programmatic tricks to make their output better than the exact information the lens captures. I think people just didn’t realize how much their phones were
8.
by afavour 7d ago
Arguably, because they were on a naval(? not military because Starfleet isn’t, but…) vessel in professional roles. If women had been in the air force in the 60s I doubt they’d have been in mini skirts.
9.
by afavour 7d ago
Why not both? I didn’t lose my job in 2008 but watching people all around me lose theirs made it clear that my own economic situation was not a safe one.
10.
by afavour 7d ago
> Half of U.S. adults say the increased use of AI in daily life makes them feel more concerned than excited, according to a June 2025 survey. Just 10% say they are more excited than concerned. Another 38% say they are equally concerned a
11.
by afavour 7d ago
They really don’t. A tiny minority of cranks dislike vaccines. AI dislike is far, far more widespread. Not to mention, there’s a reason why AI is seen as cheap and lazy… because it is! There’s no good parallel to vaccines here.
12.
by afavour 7d ago
> Why would someone want it to be unrecognizable as AI? What is the reason people want to hide it Because a lot of “everyday” folks really strongly dislike AI. I’ve lost count of the number of AI generated Instagram ads I’ve seen where t
13.
by afavour 8d ago
I suppose it’s reflective of where the industry is. Claude is just that ubiquitous. Reminds me of when you’d see posts for React 16.0.3 or whatever. Absolutely minor news, but multiply that by the number of users… Now I just need to figure
14.
by afavour 8d ago
That is a below high school level understanding of what caused WW1, for what it’s worth.
15.
by afavour 8d ago
You want to use the same stuff your clients use, that’s guaranteed to look the same on their computer. So Office it is.
16.
by afavour 8d ago
Because they aggregated links to that information rather than copy it outright. It’s like the difference between an encyclopedia and its table of contents.
17.
by afavour 8d ago
Because there’s no one and done testing for it. You need to check every document you make with Office (so you’re paying for Office anyway…) to ensure it’s correct. All very well for an open source software project but for software you’re us
18.
by afavour 8d ago
Nice on a personal level in real life but not when dealing with a population in the abstract? Say it ain’t so!
19.
by afavour 8d ago
I think they're just explicitly stating what the OP implied. And I think it's a worthwhile thing to point out: IQ isn't the be all and end all and just because you're "high IQ" that doesn't mean you'v
20.
by afavour 9d ago
I actually think that would be a valuable exercise. Were they right about everything 20 years ago? Or just some things? When did they say AGI would arrive? Should that perhaps influence the way we interpret their assumption that AGI is ri
21.
by afavour 10d ago
I think OP’s point is that the payoff in learning a new language has diminished in this AI era. You can call that lazy, I’d consider it smart to consider whether you could be doing other, better, things with your time.
22.
by afavour 10d ago
Quite potentially, yes. Their name is already mud among many voters, if they're shown to be treating data insecurely then that's another reason why local governments might consider terminating contracts with them.
23.
by afavour 10d ago
Staggers me when I see viewpoints like this about Who, Trek and the like. Take a second to consider, maybe it isn't the show's outlook that changed, it's you? Who has always been progressive. Trek, too. If you were your curre
24.
by afavour 10d ago
I think it just needs fresh blood. Much like the show in the latter years of its first run it collapsed under the weight of its own canon, and writers/showrunners that enthusiastically embraced that canon and alienated the casual audie
25.
by afavour 10d ago
No, he’s just the monarch of two different countries simultaneously.
26.
by afavour 11d ago
I didn’t realise Swift in WebAssembly has come as far as it has. I’ll be interested to try it out, I’ve used Rust before now but Swift is definitely easier to work with.
27.
by afavour 11d ago
You'd both have the same rights. I suspect you know this, which is why you pivoted from "right to live" to "would be welcomed", which are pretty clearly not the same thing.
28.
by afavour 12d ago
It won’t happen, but if it did the CEOs have no one but themselves to blame. They’re hyping up their products as being able to destroy the human race then are somehow surprised at the level of anti-AI sentiment out there in the world.
29.
by afavour 12d ago
> The internet has this innate expectation that everything digital be totally free and have no form of tracking or ads I don't think we always need to broaden this out to industry wide levels. We can talk about things specifically.
30.
by afavour 12d ago
I'm a former H1B visa holder and I feel very conflicted. My experience was a great one: I was hired by a startup on an H1B, successfully transferred to a different startup, then eventually went to work for a bigger company that spons

More ›