awongh

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by awongh 6mo ago
The most obvious thing is bio-tech, protein folding, drug discovery, etc. As in, things that have an actual positive effect on humanity (not just dollars). I don't really get people who are dismissive about this aspect of AI- my origin
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by awongh 6mo ago
If you're implying that hand-spun cotton is better, that's an easy question to answer- people used to spend a huge amount of their income on clothing, also spending a huge amount of time washing it. Industrialization made clothing
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by awongh 6mo ago
I think it's clear to me that AI will be both things: 1) as in the article it's a contraction of work- industrialization getting rid of hand-made work or the contraction of all things horse-related when the internal combustion eng
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by awongh 6mo ago
I feel like it's easy in hindsight to say some tough sounding advice in the form of "be a hard-ass", but idk, I feel like there are plenty of real life cases that contradict this advice- taking a chance on a referral to work
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by awongh 6mo ago
There must be some kind of calculation generally based on latitude? A sub-question that I would be curious about is how much climate in that region then affects the total possible solar energy. How much is the variance from a naive calculat
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by awongh 6mo ago
What would be great is if the EU makes some kind of regulation (it worked for usb-c?) about some kind of interoperable streaming platform pricing that forces a kind of standardization across platforms and allows at least a little bit of cus
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by awongh 7mo ago
Yea, in the end there will basically be no consequences for Meta- Facebook is already mostly dead, and the ad revenue from that time has already been collected. Now we're just moving on to a kind of moral panic think-of-the-kids kind o
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by awongh 7mo ago
As part of the ongoing enshittification of the internet, tragedy of the commons etc., these big centralized internet platforms decided that instead of being responsible and making their products *slightly* less terrible it was better to max
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by awongh 7mo ago
I'm still waiting and hoping that open street map becomes a viable alternative to google maps- it would be great to get a firefox of mapping (maybe not the best analogy, but....) I definitely know that an open mapping solution could ga
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by awongh 7mo ago
I think GDPR is a good example of why it doesn't really work in practice. I think the fines and enforcement have been a generally good balance to the status quo in the USA. But- in practice, is your data materially used differently tha
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by awongh 7mo ago
> The reasons for this are [...] improved data protection. Didn't the Snowden leaks just prove that the NSA is listening to most things anyway? I suppose this has more to do with the specific case of a lower-level agency being able
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by awongh 7mo ago
I think the main quote from the article is important but the headline misses the point: >> Markets are failing to adequately price or value biodiversity, such as filtration of pollutants, climate regulation and pollination. It doesn&#
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by awongh 7mo ago
The lie of Europe is that they get to launder their environmental and humanitarian responsibility through other countries. If not for their amazing growth then for the maintenance of their current lifestyles. Sometimes just through simply g
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by awongh 7mo ago
It's easy to say that because the whole idea of "movies" has been fundamentally linked to the USA for the last 60-70 years. So if nowadays there are a few other countries who also have "movies", you could say it&#x2
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by awongh 7mo ago
One of the main differences I've heard referenced is that acting and being a movie star means that the work is fundamentally differentiable via the end-product, where producing software is meant to have the same outcome no matter who c
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by awongh 7mo ago
> Maybe they shouldn't looking at the last 4 years of world events, I think some people already have some nostalgia for a shared cultural experience, instead of everyone being in their own algorithmically and socio-culturally /
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by awongh 7mo ago
Like I said elsewhere, I think people still want to watch 1+ hour fiction stories that are compelling. This is a broad category that I think people still want that's differentiated from 30sec vertical video, and that should exist in th
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by awongh 7mo ago
Right, most of the context of who the original characters were and represented in the comic books are washed away in the movie versions- it's just a marketing thing that draws people in. Batman and the different actors and directors ov
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by awongh 7mo ago
Except that pretty much as soon as movies started being made, people have said this about movies :)
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by awongh 7mo ago
It could be "film" as a medium is dead- but most likely 1+ hour video fictional story telling as a medium is just a very broad category and will probably continue to exist as a format that people enjoy. It could be that in 20 year
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by awongh 7mo ago
In the end people have limited number of hours to watch content, and only a few things bubble up to the popular attention. What I meant is that I don't see truly indie-produced feature films reach the zeitgeist anymore. I don't me
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by awongh 7mo ago
This is definitely another case where a union could either understand where the bigger economic forces are headed (in this case globalization, IP licensing, residuals that no longer make sense, attention economy fracturing the marketplace e
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by awongh 7mo ago
Can't it be both? In Marvel movies the plot, story, and characters are irrelevant and it's still the current greatest American cultural export.
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by awongh 7mo ago
The cultural relevance of movies, and American made movies isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but I think the economics of streaming is finally playing out in the loss of the geographical concentration of power in Hollywood and Califor
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by awongh 7mo ago
I guess there's the distinction between capacity that could be taken up by other things, and free capacity that doesn't necessarily cost anything. For a server built in the cloud those cycles could actually be taken up by other th
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by awongh 8mo ago
I think it points to OpenAI trying to pivot to leveraging their brand awareness head start and optimizing for either ads or something like the Jony Ive device- focusing on the consumer side. For now people identify LLMs and AI with the Chat
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by awongh 8mo ago
> Nonsense. They can. Specifically I meant that there's a few times during the year when things can be put on discount?
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by awongh 8mo ago
Compared to the USA, is a contributing factor because things can't be put on discount sale in the EU? In american many things are always on a discount, and there are so many channels through which this discounted merchandise is funnele
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by awongh 10mo ago
My point was that misinformation makes it impossible or nearly impossible to evaluate "is this environmental or not". Best effort is not enough to guarantee a good outcome- for example, this car is diesel and has lower emissions,
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by awongh 10mo ago
But a 6000 pound truck doesn't get replaced with an EV sedan. Or vice versa. As things move to EV I don't know why the proportion of car body types (whatever you call this) wouldn't stay the same.

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