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by gdulli 1y ago
That is important because as a buyer, I need to be able to tell the difference between the legitimate unacceptable extant user experiences vs. the FUD about things that are trivially avoidable but still get forwarded and reposted with exagg
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by gdulli 1y ago
I just got an S25 and having a Samsung account at all is optional. I never had one on my previous Galaxy phones either. I couldn't even accidentally use their AI or other intrusive crap with a misclick because I'd be taken to a sc
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by gdulli 1y ago
Yes, our system is most definitely stacked against the poor, but it's important to also remember that we all have free will and that some choices fully within our power are much better than others.
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by gdulli 1y ago
That would shift the context to the intent of the recirculation rather than the release. The research is legit, in a vaccum, it's context that's been nurtured in online discourse that creates noise and chaos.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Exactly. But the current CDC knows that most people will take away the most simplistic and specious conclusion.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I don't understand why people are so tolerant of this first-party advertising.
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by gdulli 1y ago
> Modern iPhones don't come with a music player. They come with a music store > Modern iPhones don't come with an e-book app. They come with a book store As a Windows person I see these as features, not criticisms. Windows
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by gdulli 1y ago
Does this now hold the record for being the smallest thing possible that someone's been triggered by?
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by gdulli 1y ago
Not every synonym in a headline needs to be unpacked here in the comments.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Dems Retreat to Round Earth Bubble, Succumb to Flat Earth Derangement Syndrome
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by gdulli 1y ago
This is just cynical brain poisoning. My health insurance company isn't a person who cares about me, but that was never the deal. Their interests are aligned with mine. I'm in a blue state and can get the covid vaccine for free de
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by gdulli 1y ago
Past media may have prepped us with some brain rot that's now causing people to prostrate themselves to the tech giants in exchange for not having to work as hard. But that doesn't mean that an acceleration of social media, slop,
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by gdulli 1y ago
> None of the students — even in an elective course about media — confessed any interest in becoming a journalist. A few could name news organizations they trusted but others said the news came to them through social media or what friend
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by gdulli 1y ago
And while the bulk of the internet stagnates into mediocrity is there a competitive advantage for people who never let their actual skills dull?
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by gdulli 1y ago
This is like saying, "there shouldn't be food". Don't waste our time, of course there has to be food, or else tell us your brilliant vision for how else the world should work instead.
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by gdulli 1y ago
The real crime is that the sandwich was probably like $16.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Because they didn't want to appear like the shitty kind of person who'd cherry pick articles about groups of people they're looking for an excuse to hate?
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by gdulli 1y ago
Unfortunately, too few people are making the obvious leap from "LLMs aren't great for topics I have expertise in" to "maybe that means LLMs aren't actually great for the other topics either."
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by gdulli 1y ago
LLM technology is the endgame and holy grail of advertising and propaganda.
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by gdulli 1y ago
You're on a forum full of people trying to profit from this tech. In that context the pushback is obvious.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Original comment from more_corn: > Toyota has the world’s best reputation for quality and longevity. Their fleet probably has the best total fuel efficiency. (Natural Intelligence is prone to unsubstantiated claims, please check the fact
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by gdulli 1y ago
That's an important one. Another fundamental problem with plausible output is that it makes a manager, or a junior, or some other unsophisticated end user think the technology is almost there, and a reliably correct version is just a
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by gdulli 1y ago
Somewhere a doctor is happy he found a model that's good enough for coding but he thinks, I'm certainly not dumb enough to use this for medical advice.
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by gdulli 1y ago
An idea we'll have to start getting used to is that people who read enough of the slop might begin to emulate it without necessarily meaning to. The homogeneity will be contagious.
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by gdulli 1y ago
Exactly. A DVR governed by tech giants rather than just Tivo and the cable companies is going to have compromised functionality because it's the tech industry originating the "innovation" for their own benefit.
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by gdulli 1y ago
A lower stakes but still illustrative example I see is that the DVR is an invention that wouldn't be allowed to succeed today. All power is being wielded to its fullest in order to prevent skipping ads. Cable to streaming took us from
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by gdulli 1y ago
I don't follow discussions about or get concerned with HN rankings at all, but it is objectively funny that an eight-vote submission from a ten-minute-old HN account that seems to know/care about vote manipulation is ranked at #1.
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by gdulli 1y ago
I don't use XSLT and don't object to this, but seeing "security" cited made me realize how reflexively distrustful I've become of them using that justification for a given decision. Is this one actually about securi
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by gdulli 1y ago
The people who want to prostrate themselves for tech giant "security" paternalism can still use the first-party app store. The people who don't want to give up freedom for security should have the choice not to do so.
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by gdulli 1y ago
How can not clicking on something be tiring? Coming in here to whine about it took significantly more effort.

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