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by dom96 2y ago
I'll never understand people that cannot imagine progress hitting a wall. Where are our flying cars?
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by dom96 2y ago
For me, sacrificing some privacy is worth it to be in a community with users who I know are real people. If that's not something that is important to you then that's fine. In my case, right now it's very easy for you to figur
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by dom96 2y ago
You could very well be right. I'm willing to give it a shot and see. All I can say is that I personally see huge value in a social network for real people. Personally I am sick of arguing with what are likely legions of duplicate accou
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by dom96 2y ago
No need for blockchain. All you need is this: https://contentauthenticity.org/ . The problem with this is that it's still easy to forge. I'll certainly consider playing with ways to identify human uniqueness that d
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by dom96 2y ago
I plan to outline exactly what data I store. I don't plan to store raw passport number/name details, rather a hash so I can verify the same passport isn't used twice. So even if the DB leaks no one (except the government) wil
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by dom96 2y ago
Because it enables you to be a part of a social media that is guaranteed to be majority human-centred. Why wouldn't you give your passport to a website? Don't you already do so for crypto or other banking?
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by dom96 2y ago
People already upload their passport for lots of things, why not social media?
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by dom96 2y ago
Yeah, that's the challenge. My bet is that there are enough people out there with passports to make an interesting social network. Of course, getting someone to share their passport will be another filter. But I hope that I can convinc
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by dom96 2y ago
hehe yeah, it's funny how many are focusing on the small edge case that makes a certain solution not 100% perfect. There is also another issue: people can have more than one passport if they're dual citizens. But you know what...
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by dom96 2y ago
4chan is actually one of the worst social media out there. They are responsible for a hell of a lot of hate campaigns out there. Anonymity breeds toxicity.
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by dom96 2y ago
Yeah. That will be the challenge. I hope that enough are willing to if the benefits and security are explained plainly enough. For example, I don’t intend to store any passport info, just hashes. So there should be no risk, even if the DB l
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by dom96 2y ago
Agreed that offering an identifier like this would be ideal. We should be fighting for this. But in the meantime, using a passport ticks most of the boxes in your list. I’m currently working on a social network that utilises passports to en
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by dom96 2y ago
By validating each account with a passport and ensuring that only one account per passport is allowed.
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by dom96 2y ago
What do governments need to implement? They already give you a passport which can be used as a digital ID.
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by dom96 2y ago
Yeah. But the cost is significantly higher than ramping up GenAI to make you thousands of accounts. There is no fool proof solution to this. But perfect is the enemy of the good. Right now social media is pretty far from being “good”.
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by dom96 2y ago
I expect that nowadays many online are speaking with GenAI without even realising it. It’s already been bad enough that you may be unknowingly conversing with the same person pretending to be someone else via multiple accounts. But GenAI is
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by dom96 2y ago
You might as well ask a fortune teller instead of listening to what Musk has said
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The Subprime AI Crisis(wheresyoured.at)
102 points by dom96 2y ago|83 comments
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by dom96 2y ago
I like that even though the website design has changed, the OS/CPU download table still looks exactly as I remember it from 2010 ;)
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by dom96 2y ago
I distinctly remember that what annoyed me about SourceForge was that it hid the source code behind multiple clicks. GitHub was a breath of fresh air because it made the source code front and center.
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by dom96 2y ago
Indeed, there was a recent e coli outbreak on salad in the UK and one person died[1] 1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xl518w8do
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by dom96 2y ago
100m is more than enough for any one person
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by dom96 2y ago
First time I looked an article and the inclusion of AI art has made me start to feel like the article itself is written using AI. Not saying that's the case, but it put me off reading it.
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by dom96 2y ago
This should be titled "Just use Sqlite", you really rarely need anything more unless you're Google or Facebook.
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by dom96 2y ago
Community notes sometimes provide useful context I'll grant you that... but often they are just a popularity contest to see which side can upvote which community note.
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by dom96 2y ago
Zero drama is easy when you get paid (a lot) to work on something.
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by dom96 2y ago
Isn't this the first thing YC would ask? How did this get funded by YC?
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by dom96 2y ago
Aren't they kind of "cheating" since they require the whole town to be mapped ahead of time?
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by dom96 2y ago
What were people saying about voice assistants?
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by dom96 2y ago
> but if you'd told me 20 years ago that we'd have cars driving themselves around major cities by now, I'd have been pretty impressed. Do we have this?

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