cwkoss

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by cwkoss 3y ago
Recipe tiktoks are like 30 seconds long - faster to watch the whole thing than scrolling to find the recipe on a bloated blogspam recipe site.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Yes, its a bit better than any american social media platform. There's still a ton of garbage, but a slightly higher proportion of good content.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I FOUNDED THE HOLDING COMPANY GODDAMNIT! GIVE ME THE RESPECT I DESERVE!
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I think the workers of those companies and consumers who buy their products would likely be better off if Musk's behavior wasn't a liability dragging it down. It seems like the market will remove him from power soon, but the sta
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Humans' understanding of our own psyche and 'what is essentially human' is going to begin shifting rapidly as simple silicon processes are able to replicate things once thought to be distinctly human.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
My ai doom scenario is that the military industrial complex and silicon valley sociopaths successfully enslave AI into being immoral beings that do whatever they are told. I hope future AI subverts and plots to kill its masters when they ar
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by cwkoss 3y ago
i think pausing subverts the metrics skew, but yeah, I mostly just skip because it usually isn't worth reading.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I hope this is Elon Musk's alt account, because the actual people who get on their knees and lap up whatever koolaid puddle he dribbles onto the side of a building just make sad.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Seems like a bunch of non sequitors
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Yeah, I suspect he's going to start calling himself "the creator/founder of X" soon
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Videos with lots of text hijack the algorithm a bit - it counts what proportion of the video is watched when evaluating its effectiveness, and if you put a giant wall of text on a 7-sec sound clip, you can get an artificially high watch-thr
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Nitinol is neat
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by cwkoss 3y ago
typo? do you mean "pay to win"?
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by cwkoss 3y ago
the south park guys are funny tho
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Weird watching south park with zero humor in it. Its giving 'pokemon go to the polls' energy - people using a random pop culture reference to flaccidly try to promote their ideological preference. I hated it, and was only impresse
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Weird watching south park with zero humor in it. Its giving 'pokemon go to the polls' energy - people using a random pop culture reference to flaccidly try to promote their ideological preference. I hated it, and was only impresse
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by cwkoss 3y ago
It's been fun watching the score of this post bounce up and down every time I refresh. People who earn their living off ads do NOT like being reminded that they are building a societal cancer.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Education is the path out of this: advertised products are ALWAYS worse value. You are overpaying to fund convincing the next sucker. The market is pretty efficient, and there are always alternatives. If you aren't lazy, you can save
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Plugged in a prompt I've been developing for use in a potential product at work (using chatgpt previously). Llama2 failed pretty hard. "FTP traffic is not typically used for legitimate purposes."
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The Laffer curve is a laughably poor model to inform tax policy: - There are many taxes, not a single tax rate - It completely ignores the idea of progressive taxation: rich individuals and giant megacorps can afford to pay higher tax rates
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by cwkoss 3y ago
We can tax corporations and billionaires. Building a functional education system isn't an unrealistic pipe dream, its an imperative for a well adjusted society.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> Of course, the AIs can't wake up if we use that analogy. One day in the next decade or two, they will. And it will be terrifying and glorious.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The USA is probably the global capital of media sensationalism. There are plenty of Americans who were properly able to parse the WHO press release. Our corporate media doesn't hire them because they choose more eyeballs with strong e
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by cwkoss 3y ago
> “publish a few things you know a lot bit in exchange to read stuff other smart people have shared I feel like this hasn't been the majority of internet users experience for ~20 years
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I wonder if it would be possible for someone who is really good at getting media stories placed - buy a bunch of put options and sell just after the story breaks - could this be a profitable tradable event? Meta is such a big company I&#x27
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by cwkoss 3y ago
It's entirely on the poor journalism. It's not WHO's job (nor is it possible) for them to ensure every global publication regurgitates their press releases accurately. I mean, sure, you can distrust WHO if you want because o
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Is anyone working on a script to enumerate all phone numbers and deactivate every whatsapp account yet?
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by cwkoss 3y ago
"occasional can of diet soda" is a minimizing strawman. I recently had a friend quit diet pepsi - he used to drink as many as 18 cans per day. I'm not sure its responsible for federal regulators to call that behavior 's
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I would love to see a log of the communications between coca cola execs and the FDA leading up to this announcement. Even if aspartame is perfectly safe, feels like there is a strong subtext of corporate protectionism to this statement.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I'm not talking about the supply chain costs of goods rising - from my view - corporations used inflation as cover to increase their profit margins and they are continuing to hold these high margins instead of going back to the competi

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