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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, Twitter was a zombie company already. It almost went bankrupt in 2016, they offered to sell but nobody wanted it. Trump and the media explosion to follow bought them some time. Twitter cannot grow because it is unappealing to the mass
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Amplifying/republishing public data can lead to an increased security risk, whether you like Musk or not. This idea is widely acknowledged, with key example being the EU's "right to be forgotten". Which upon request remo
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Intentions are good, but these types of ideas need real world scrutiny. There's a reason why social media entities have become walled gardens. Some used to have RSS but removed it. Then they restricted anonymous viewing. Then they moti
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"We have begun building an intersectional scholarly group involved in researching history, library science, gender studies, critical race theory, digital humanities, and archival practice." Archiving with a narrative, so to speak.
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There's no such thing as de-globalization or "globalization is dead". Even in this very best case example of a factory in the US, a country large enough that it can self-sustain in some ways, it is 100% globalized. The 5 mill
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That's actually a quality answer given the garbage input.
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Agree with the statement. The example demonstrates an offline situation where you see (feel, hear, smell) what happens physically, which is infinitely richer than watching a video. Next, the youngster participates in physical labor, which i
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This story is so frustrating to read. It reminds me of that other guy that composed audio for a Doom game and failed to get properly paid for it. The frustrating part is the self-sabotage. Each story starts out with work done as an act of l
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbxWGjQ2szQ
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The difference I was aiming at is that the offline events are widely understood, relatable and recognized. When you do well in a sport, I may not care one bit about this sport myself, but I understand what a sport is, that it's played
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Similar model that Amazon uses. You pretty much have to be on their store to sell something, which means you give them access to your sales and customers. Which is a concept that is absolutely wild in any normal healthy competitive landscap
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A great way to test the difference between the online and offline world is to boast about something you accomplished in a family gathering, say thanksgiving. "I scored 3 goals in last weekend's game". That's wonderful! (
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Outside a college campus in California, nowhere else in the world do people ask for pronouns when they meet a person. It's not a normal human interaction.
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The times we live in, utterly bizarre. Pre-internet, one would rarely be exposed to ideas that are extreme, unhinged, insane or downright weird. It would still happen but in moderation, for which I'll use the stereotype "village i
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Of course he doesn't, he's a billionaire venture capitalist. No billionaire cares about fair value contributed because that idea is incompatible with the idea of being a billionaire.
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The idea that the fruits of automation should be awarded to the single guy on top is ridiculous, and that's not communist thinking. The idea of automation is that we should advance as society. The very point of it is that we need to wo
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Graham will always defend founders "deserving" their wealth, as if it is some technical argument rather than a political one. It's an entirely subjective point. If a solo founder with some very powerful machinery (cloud, AI)
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Completely baseless claim. The situation is really very simple. Many people in developing nations NEED to have children due to the lack of a pension system. Secondary factors are a lack of education, contraception, and traditional societal
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You beat me to it. And as far as I'm aware, that finding was legit science. A dramatic decline which is further accelerating, with zero knowledge on tangible causes. The finding wasn't shared very widely or at least didn't tu
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"imagine if cocaine was as freely available as pornography" Well, it is. Place your order on whatsapp or telegram, and it's delivered to your door by envelope. You should really get with the times.
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As is your comment. First, if it is biased, it should be trivially easy for you to refute the points made by the author. Second, a biased publication does not make a biased article. I'm sure that when a far-right publication publishes
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Zero Trust is based on the idea that us super smart humans will fix dumb AI, manually. The real question is what happens when AI gives the correct, if not better answers.
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"In other words, the role of the human in terms of AI is not to be the interrogator, but rather the editor." Editing is a cognitive task, which for now humans are still slightly better at, but for how long? Do we really have enoug
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Sure, for a while people are needed to tune the machine, but it's not a sustainable model. I would expect that to generate only a fraction of the employment that AI will make obsolete. Further, if fine-tuning AI is a cognitive task, it
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I'm all for nostalgia, retro gaming would be another example. But let's not kid ourselves that this makes a dent. Most art is utility. A logo, an illustration for a magazine, an asset to be used in a game. It's completely irr
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Depends on the use case. You have nobody to go to for a AI product review in the same ways current human reviews carry no responsibility towards you. Different story though for a medical exam or your self-driving car.
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Ethical: if the input image has a direct and meaningful effect on the derivative output, then I think attribution is the right thing to do. But then again, you'll likely attract negative attention as you never asked for permission. The
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"There're no prerequisites for fair use" That's true IF there's a case of fair use, which very often is not the case. The extremely common scenario where you include a photo on your blog or social media post that is
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A lot of people in the comments are making a hard distinction between AI garbage/bullshit and the pure/genuine human-created thing, and the various ways in which we can keep this distinction alive. If only that was true, the bulls
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Getting pretty tired of all these poorly written "death" and "collapse" stories that are little more than random guesses. In this case in particular because the author lacks the insight most of us had a decade ago alread

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