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by gdulli 5mo ago
They've solved that problem by baking a surveillance infrastructure into the system. The personalized home screen (boosted by a crippled browse interface) decides what they want you to watch.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
Why would someone want all their net worth in real estate properties rather than diversify with other investments, which if they wanted to could also still include the real estate sector?
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by gdulli 5mo ago
That's like wondering if enough people discovering local media streaming will disrupt commercial streaming services. It's not going to happen. Most people are not ambitious and will let themselves be controlled by the services of
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by gdulli 5mo ago
You can get a baby monkey to nurse from a fake wire mannequin mother but it doesn't make sense to say the mannequin has what a real monkey has. Not in a sense that's meaningful for defining monkeyhood.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
Right, I noped out of this article when I realized it felt like a guy making up a whole population he could do some elevated punching down at to offset some ostensible self deprecation. What a chore.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
If software can be "conscious" then we need a new word to describe what it is that a person has that makes me care about them in a way I never would care about the output of a program. Fighting about semantics is not as interestin
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by gdulli 5mo ago
It's like an invention that allowed anyone anywhere to sell chicken mcnuggets with no startup costs. Too many people love it, try stopping it. We automated listicles etc. and now we're going to be drowning in them.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
> High-performing teams have always managed technical debt intentionally. The ability to generate code has seemingly transposed what people think of as a "high-performing team" from one that produces quality to one that produce
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by gdulli 5mo ago
I'm confused, is the age verification to keep young people out or the groomers out? Who'd use Roblox legitimately if not for the underage? Its pretty terrible.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
I've never been to Germany but for what it's worth when I hear "how many r's are in strawberry?" I'd never think of anything but 3. (I am human.) Asking how many r's are in the longest run of r's in s
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by gdulli 5mo ago
A side effect of Reddit/Twitter/etc having captured most of the population/eternal September might be that a web directory has become feasible again. Ignore social media, ignore AI, ignore paywalled sites. What's left a
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by gdulli 5mo ago
Law enforcement, from the same industry that brought you targeted ads recommending refrigerators because you just bought a refrigerator.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
They want fingerprinting to work for everyone because the more effective it is, the higher the value of the ad inventory they sell.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
Replace AI with Microsoft Word and it makes sense. Lots of people use it and lots of people hate it. The article is saying what happens after people do use it, not that they can or do avoid altogether.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
If this is what winning a war looks like I hope we don't ever lose one.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
Trading practice of primary skills for indirect skills like AI is like a writer deciding they should stop writing directly and get really good at Microsoft Word.
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by gdulli 5mo ago
If McDonald's food was featured in sci fi movies about being able to end humanity through war, that's when this would apply and they'd cultivate fear of that nonsense to distract from their food being shitty and overpriced an
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Not sure you're familiar with the different ways punctuation has evolved online?
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by gdulli 6mo ago
There is still a point to making a choice. Inconvenient sideloading is still better than no sideloading. In principle I could never reward Apple with my business for having originated and normalized this. And pragmatically, I'd like to
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by gdulli 6mo ago
We complain when good sites are acquired and shut down, but maybe it's even worse when they're acquired and kept running in a shitty state like IMDB or Twitter. Big enough to stave off competition and prevent progress.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Their absence supports that it's not an omnipresent American pattern after all.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
It's still crucial to keep your hands on the wheel and be able to take over from a self driving car within seconds. But we know this isn't happening and won't happen. The nature of the invention nurtures the behavior to use i
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Don't forget how many people here (and elsewhere, but especially here) need you to think this stuff works better than it does because they're selling it or otherwise benefit from its success.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
People who only see art as its surface content without all that other subtext are exposing themselves.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
That's part of the Chesterton's Fence nature of why these markets are bad. We know insider trading is a bad thing for the stock market, so it's policed. These markets, being a post-regulation internet free for all, aren'
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by gdulli 6mo ago
I found the Rosetta Stone of Hacker News.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
In hindsight, we could have listened to the people who warned about how the internet would make our lives worse. Can our society withstand another generation of worsening on par with the effects of social media etc?
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Everyone wants to use AI to create work and no one wants to consume or be downstream of AI created work.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
You're an ant to them. All that data they have tells them this action won't hurt them. An incredibly important turning point of this era is that businesses have learned that they no longer need to fear acting hostile to consumers.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
How could you not know the argument that Apple has normalized selling devices that forbid the ability to run arbitrary code without their permission? You're not required to agree that that's a bad thing, but how could you be unawa

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