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by bgun 2y ago
It’s not like 14 year olds were reading newspapers before, and this is not a legacy media cartel trying get more teenagers into watching the news. Not everything has to be a conspiracy.
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by bgun 2y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, this is a pointed analysis of why crawl-based search is insufficient for an Internet of our current scale. There is no corporate-curated algorithm that is up to the task, especially when the primary purp
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Employee monitoring, divine observation, and the Hawthorne effect(substack.com)
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by bgun 2y ago
People like Mr. Beast have managed to discover psychological attention hacks that are not too dissimilar from sex or fear-based content (porn or a lot of political ads), but more insidious because it’s much more tame and “fun” on the surfac
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by bgun 2y ago
Humans can also spend an entire lifetime (or more, across multiple generations) being absolutely, inexorably and violently certain they are correct about something and still be 100% wrong. I am not disagreeing that either people or LMMs are
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by bgun 2y ago
We do, but it’s messy and usually involves a few years of courtship, followed by one to three decades of raising & educating the resulting human to anything resembling a useful model for comparison.
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by bgun 2y ago
It seems to me that AI-based coding assistants are better at writing code for more established frameworks, which has led me to defaulting to vanilla or tried-and-true/"boring technology" because AI has trouble with newer or m
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by bgun 2y ago
My point is that you could, given enough time and all the information available to you online about these well-documented buildings. You could learn CAD and figure out a reasonable way to output a 3D model, because you can think and reason
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by bgun 2y ago
I agree. My example for something “AI” should be able to do is to create a CAD model for the Empire State Building or the Parthenon based on known facts and photos. I don’t think these are “moving the goalposts” examples, they are things th
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by bgun 2y ago
“Happy” here is hard to quantify - it’s a market. I’ve been to many of these conventions (DragonCon and NYCC for 15+ years) and while people certainly complain about the autograph & ticket prices, the lines snake around the block. The h
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by bgun 2y ago
Arguing from the perspective of maximizing benefit to the producer/seller instead of the public at large speaks to a deep social epidemic. What would you do differently if you owned a cigarette factory? What if you owned Boeing?
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by bgun 2y ago
I prefer this to whatever some intern found on a stock photo library by searching “Japanese woman smiling”.
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by bgun 2y ago
The reason Google is uniquely bad at this is because Google poisoned its own well years and years ago. Google is SEO and SEO is Google. The whole company is inextricable from the concept of ranking based on "what generates the most adv
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by bgun 2y ago
The "treatment" TikTok is receiving is a requirement that its US presence should be sold to a US company. Facebook is already a US company, so I'm not sure what you mean. TikTok is not actually getting banned, unless it fails
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by bgun 2y ago
I do agree that “exploitation” is a bit of an extreme take, but it isn’t an innocent business either. Hosting and profiting from a platform/marketplace for social content creation has, and will, trend toward preferences for viral, cont
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by bgun 2y ago
The article says nothing about the R1 being “scammy” - only that its functionality is overlapped by devices you likely already own. Also unsurprising for a $200 device, which is only even marketed to be a novel interface. Honestly if it’s l
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by bgun 2y ago
I don’t disagree with the premise, but this would come off less self-serving if the author would provide examples of “calm companies” other than just their own.
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by bgun 2y ago
This isn’t an article, it’s just the teaser of a 30 min podcast episode, which I found insightful.
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by bgun 3y ago
Did you ever try getting groceries/food (other than pizza) delivered before the apps? Uber didn’t replace a better option, they made it literally possible to get these services in many places where it wasn’t an option at all. And in ar
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by bgun 3y ago
Not sure if sarcasm but 'about as odd as "Nintendo Wii"' kind of makes my point: https://web.archive.org/web/20130623080716/http://www.forbes... http://news.bbc.co.uk/
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by bgun 3y ago
I didn't point it out because it was funny-ha-ha, but because it's a teachable example of a linguistic mis-step that could be easily resolved by diversifying your reviewers - in this case, since you mention it, perhaps a native En
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by bgun 3y ago
I know this is just an open source project but it’s a good example of why you might want to consult a woman before naming things.
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by bgun 3y ago
To say nothing of the article itself, I absolutely love this website. Everything from the visual aesthetic & typefaces to the writer’s tone proclaims a deep, unwaveringly passionate nerd-dom that hearkens to the Internet I love and too
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by bgun 3y ago
Betting the copilot gets fired or jailed for what seems to be at least partially a systemic issue with ensuring rested crew. The fact that the pilots reflexively lied about what happened is telling.
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by bgun 3y ago
If you don’t accept the risk of your children running amok with your personal, artistic, cultural, or spiritual legacy, don’t have children. I don’t absolve his children of making the decision they did, but I also don’t possess their lived
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by bgun 3y ago
Definitely going to be stealing this now though! :)
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by bgun 3y ago
When did we begin to believe the “news” in the first place?
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by bgun 3y ago
Are you by any chance an epic fantasy author? Brandon Sanderson perhaps? ;)
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by bgun 3y ago
Taking the JIT philosophy a little too far I see.
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by bgun 3y ago
This article is a training resource for scientific writers, not a guide on what you're allowed to call your grandma, which is entirely your business. However, like everything else, language is a practice, and it can't hurt to prac

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