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by autoexec 5mo ago
It'd be pretty dystopian if in order to get medical care Americans had to pay some middle man app/service so that it can fight with the middle man the private insurance company they were paying had already inserted between them an
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by autoexec 5mo ago
The difference is that a fiction book isn't using the reaction of the reader against them. If a fiction book were capable of carefully monitoring the reader and then altering the text of the next page or the next paragraph according to
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> For me, I’m personally more terrified what deepfakes and political manipulation / misinformation is going to do, combined with social media, and have a feeling that governments are completely unprepared to deal with this, as this
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> I don't buy that chatGPT is actually doing these users any harm. I have zero doubt that chatgpt is doing users harm. I even give chatgpt a pass on giving vulnerable people, including children, instructions and information about ho
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> those who seek loudness uniformly present as men, and in large majority tend to treat prosocial-community responses with disregard, hostility, or mockery. Is the loudness then just a big "fuck you" to the rest of the world or
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Self-reported data via an internet survey. Garbage science means garbage data. I wouldn't put any faith in these results. You can't swing a dead cat in a room full of business students without hitting a bunch of sadistic psychopat
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by autoexec 5mo ago
"the experience" is what I meant by "vibes" and Apple users can care a lot about that. That means a whole lot more than just performance though which is why it's often so easy to find non-Apple products with way bet
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by autoexec 5mo ago
They just replaced the street gangs with a single state operated gang. El Salvadorians still have to live in fear for their lives, but it will be the government coming for them.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
I think it'd be a good start to have stories selected and reviewed by a diverse team of editors and fact checkers to make sure that the reporting is factual and that it isn't presented from a limited and biased perspective. You&#x
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> If you're not paying for something that clearly has a cost to the entity providing it, then value will be extracted from you in other ways. Then we should get used to the idea that even when you're paying a lot of money for s
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Even if you're in the US and make a phone call to a suicide prevention hotline the fact that you called them, how many times you called them, and how long you spoke with them can end up in the hands of data brokers. That data will neve
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> Experts warn that AI-powered systems could misidentify civilians. That's obviously not an outcome Israel is overly concerned about.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Thank you! That's the kind of garbage journalism that pisses me off too. While I'm on the subject of pet peeves, here's the same link without tracking: https://youtu.be/eNc1PI4PkG0
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> That culture of lawlessness is not going to just go away. It's already started and will continue to "trickle down". Only for as long as it's allowed to continue. When the people who are acting lawlessly and those
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by autoexec 5mo ago
It's a whole lot better than the US, but AUD100M isn't enough to scare a lot of companies. A law with real teeth would go after an increasing percentage of their revenue for each offense.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
"Automated Incompetence" is probably better than "Artificial Incompetence" since the incompetence is 100% real.
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Consumption and love/sex are things we tend to do naturally, but marketing just ramps it up to a level we probably wouldn't reach if we weren't forced or manipulated into it. Just about anybody can fall in love, but marketing
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> the people making this claim are certainly not obeying, conforming, or refraining from questioning authority. In my experience racists tend to just latch on to different authorities to blindly follow and obedience and conformity are e
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by autoexec 5mo ago
At one point AOL was the largest ISP and email provider on Earth too. If gmail died off people would just move to something else. It'd be annoying, but it wouldn't be the end of email
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by autoexec 5mo ago
Even then the reason they were giving people so much storage space was because they wanted people to get in the habit of keeping their private data on Google's servers so that Google could mine it whenever they felt like it. Giving use
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> A plain HTML page with no CSS is a near-perfect reading experience. The problem is that almost nobody ships that, because the web also became a publishing platform where authors compete for attention. They don't ship it because of
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> I explained part of the storyline and is now asking me to seek help. Early Internet would now, definitely, be totally banned. If you did seek help, either online or even by making a phone call to a suicide prevention number that action
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> There are ways to do age verification without tying your identity to the content. That's wishful thinking. The site would log that they sent you to verify your ID with your IP and a timestamp. The proxy server would get your ident
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> The excuse has to be something nobody can appear to be supporting (pedophilia, terrorism, nazis, etc.). If only being associated with pedophilia and nazis was still something that had to be avoided because it would be career ending oth
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> Are there sources where Apple either acknowledges or even settles claims of advertising against secret Siri recordings? Yes, advertising and selling data to third parties. > In January 2025, Apple settled a class action lawsuit brou
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by autoexec 5mo ago
AI doesn't seem like it'd be much help at all. Unless the AI is 100% offline and locally hosted there's a record there. Also generating text isn't really the hard part of being anonymous. You also have publish it somewhe
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by autoexec 5mo ago
While I was upset to hear how that ended, it's also unfair to expect a company to refuse when the government shows up with guns, takes over a part of your offices, and tells you to stay out of their way and never tell anyone what they
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> The same asymmetry was present in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Those also occurred overseas. The government didn't already have control over the population like they do here. They didn't have massive amounts of data on eve
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> What are they going to do, level factories and skyscrapers when their logistics are threatened thus destroying their own logistics They've already got planes and tanks. They can also be strategic about what they target, protecting
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by autoexec 5mo ago
> It's as much a fantasy as any other "nuclear option", including the literal nuclear option. Mutually assured destruction is what makes the literal nuclear option a valid deterrent. That doesn't work with the second

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