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by dahwolf 4y ago
...which pretty much ends democracy. Without the ability to criticize a government in power, one cannot build opposition. Hence, there is no democracy.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
"It might be in the self-interest of each developer to simply turn to the AI for a quick answer, but unless we all continue contributing knowledge back to a shared, public platform, we risk a world in which knowledge is centralized ins
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by dahwolf 4y ago
I think the situation was already dire for the open web. Most people are on social networks and consume content there directly or snippets/screenshots of open web content. Engagement on individual websites has been tanking for over a d
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Yep. Farm. Factory. Office. The end. There's nowhere to go, not for this amount of people. The idea that rather than losing jobs, it will compliment us and even enable millions of new "non-programmers" to start programming, I
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by dahwolf 4y ago
"Community is the future of AI" Comedy gold. So first AI takes content created by human labor without permission or compensation. Then it centralizes the sum of it and monetizes it exclusively. But wait, it gets better. You will n
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by dahwolf 4y ago
I still find it amazing how we've normalized the idea that Google can have 3BN and 20BN contracts with Samsung and Apple respectively to make Google the default search engine. This isn't free market or competition, it's buyin
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Welcome. It's sir modem actually.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Just click "learn more" and fill out a 20 field form. It's like they don't want you to use it.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
There's a pretty big gap between socializing/communicating as a core human need and this taking shape in the form of current social media. Which didn't exist for 99.999% of our history and is in many ways unnatural.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Is your wife behind all these recipe blogs?
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Consider creative/content jobs such as illustrators, freelance writers, translators as a spectrum or perhaps a pyramid. A big part of that pyramid is mass produced "good enough" output that was already squeezed before AI. Tha
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Doesn't hurt to try, but I don't think giving money to a depressed isolated person will change their ways. They've "pulled back" and somehow manage to get by financially without putting in any effort. Anyway, I rece
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Don't give up on cash, no matter how inconvenient you think it is. Fiercely defend its continued existence. It's a last line of defense against financial tyranny, where an institute with the push of a button can confiscate, block&
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by dahwolf 4y ago
This release note reminds me of my wife. She skips any context and starts a story in the middle, leaving me to do the detective work of figuring out what on earth we're even talking about.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Stadia for sure is the notable one. When first announced it was met with skepticism after which Google insisted that they'd be in it for the long term. Well, guess not. It just cements an already shaky reputation. Don't depend on
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by dahwolf 4y ago
For close to a decade now, people have been insisting that Facebook is in trouble because young folks don't like it. I've always rejected that idea because usage kept growing regardless, young users or not. Something's differ
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Whilst I admit that Musk is needlessly erratic, unpredictable and troll-like in these matters, part of me enjoys the pushback against legacy media on Twitter. They've come into power by riding the Twitter hate train, maximally exploiti
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Sounds like cancel culture on steroids.
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The article seems to claim a source of data, yet then goes on to publish conclusions wildly inconsistent with that source data. In the Netherlands we currently pay on average ~0.40€/kwH which is about $44. That should earn it a place a
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Earlier this week I was in a call with a colleague, an architect. He was explaining his plan to add 2 new methods to an existing API and ended with a cost calculation where based on projected usage, it would cost the company $13/month,
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by dahwolf 4y ago
As tech gets more powerful, so do the false positive outcomes. You can randomly lose your Google or Facebook account for no reason. Or have your app pulled from an app store. And now, you can randomly be smeared. Or your car may crash. Whoo
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by dahwolf 4y ago
We have similar delusions here in the Netherlands, but we call it the "knowledge economy". The arrogant and misguided idea that us advanced smart people would do the thinking whilst the dummies make the stuff. Which means you unle
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Windows is incredibly broken and yet miraculously its power is that it works. My exotic mix of apps work. Games work, new ones and 20 year old ones. All peripherals and hardware combinations work, or have a way to make them work. There alwa
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Distrust anybody making confident claims about AI and how it will affect humanity. We simply do not have a clue, none of us do.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
I think AI is here to stay (obviously) but we do need a much better permission model regarding content, whether this is the writing on your blog, your digital art, your open source code, video, audio...all of it. The current model basically
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by dahwolf 4y ago
Good, because equity is evil, unlike equality.
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All I can say is: well done and thank you!
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You shouldn't be downvoted as you're factually right. MAU have been tanking since Dec 22. They lost almost 50% from the peak, and the line continues to go down, losing a few thousand active users every single day. Which isn't
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Nothing gets upended, you just say "dark matter" and call it a day.
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I think the smartphone theory is plausible, which I translate as follow: we've become programmable. I grew up in the 80s with a material wealth that is probably 10% of what modern teenagers have. The era also contained a massive econom

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