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by disqard 2y ago
Thoughtful (and thought-provoking) comments like yours are why I frequent this site. Thank you, stranger! For my part, I'll add that "Humans are visual creatures", which biases every aspect of our culture -- and might help ex
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by disqard 2y ago
TIL that Anthropic is a Benefit Corp. Thank you! Their end-user privacy policy says "We will not use your Inputs or Outputs to train our models" (followed by carve-outs, which seem reasonable).
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by disqard 2y ago
> Something doesn't add up The economy moved away from being founded on Marx's C-M-C to firmly being fixated on M-C-M' which in plain English, means "We now use Money to make more Money, leveraging Commodities as an i
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by disqard 2y ago
This comment echoes my own experience with Claude. Especially the advice about only pulling in the context you need. I'm a paying customer and I know my time is sufficiently valuable that this kind of technology pays for itself. As an
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Hmmm, is this akin to what Russia means, when it says "we do not negotiate with terrorists"?
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> a company whose owner has become a pariah among decent people That's the "cherry on top" of this dung-heap.
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by disqard 2y ago
You're right about these most serious adverse outcomes, but don't forget what could happen if you (say) randomly get your Big Tech account locked/suspended/banned for some reason that was ultimately erroneously flagged b
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...you forgot to mention her Emails!!!1
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Whenever such concrete realities are revealed, I chuckle at Marc Prensky's ideas from "Digital Natives" (that still linger on today): > Digital Natives are used to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel p
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by disqard 2y ago
One of these paths allows for rent-seeking, while the other gives the end-user autonomy and independence. Which one would a corporation pick to maximize its profits? (Playing devil's advocate, it is easier to support backup and resto
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by disqard 2y ago
I think you're operating in Marx's C-M-C circuit. Nothing wrong with that, of course (I'm that way too). A lot of the finance folks work in an M-C-M' world, where Money (M) is the alpha and the omega, so you see this k
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by disqard 2y ago
The sad fact is, we live in a post-truth world now. People believe what they want to believe, right up until the leopard eats their faces.
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But what if a significant fraction of the employees believed in some message being spread that intern? Whether the intern is an inveterate grifter, and/or happens to be personally sponsored by a powerful mob boss, does not matter for t
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by disqard 2y ago
You might be familiar with deBord's "Society of the Spectacle". He observed that all societies evolve from "Being" to "Having" and ultimately devolve into "The Appearance of Having". It explains
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All it'll take is for one firm to break ranks (fire consultants and replace them with AI), and for the stock market to reward that behavior. Then, it'll be checkmate.
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What a beautiful bit of history! I had no idea. You expanded my mind today, and I thank you for that!
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The cruelty is the point.
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> everyone becomes an entrepreneur/businessman ...this has been "figured out" -- it's brutal, and it looks like the gig economy. I don't even have to paraphrase this: "Drive with Uber - Be Your Own Boss&quot
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by disqard 2y ago
Thank you for writing this. There are various ways to try and make sense of what we're living through right now, and commentary such as yours (presumably informed by decades of seeing this industry evolve) will be valuable in the comin
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by disqard 2y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted. This really appears to be the simplest explanation -- turn every desktop into a thin client, served by walled-garden apps, and with Azure integration/dependencies. Then charge subscription fees
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This sounds like yet another arms dealer.
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It is a tech-centric version of "I alone can fix it".
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"verified bot" really sounds like an oxymoron :)
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by disqard 2y ago
You've tickled more than one person's brain here :D Please consider writing up something about this binary mashup toolkit. You have taken an unusual path and shown how far one can go... it's worthy of sharing more widely. Goo
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by disqard 2y ago
You're about to get downvoted to oblivion. Here, have a preemptive upvote to keep you afloat for one extra second.
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I get where you're coming from (and I've rolled my eyes at the "video games cause violence" line of reasoning myself). However, there is much wisdom in McLuhan's "we become what we behold" -- and consuming
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Random Unexpected Defenestrations
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I think you've made some good points. However: > All the non-USA-allies developed their own markets I have friends and family in India, and I'm not aware of homegrown alternatives to any of the following: * gmail * amazon * goo
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by disqard 2y ago
Well, many of us take an LLM's outputs at face value, don't we? Also, I don't claim to have any answers, but I found some insights about literacy (vs pre-literate orality) in Walter Ong's work "The Written Word&quot
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by disqard 2y ago
I see the nuance you have articulated. Thank you! I can also see a "unifying mental model" -- whatever increases the "health" is pursued. A corporation needs to "feed" on money, so its actions reflect this (e.g

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