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by gdulli 6mo ago
There's lots of comments here where people promote trading the freedom of installing arbitrary code for the security of the app store keeping them safe.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
> I've been interested in understanding what would make people more amenable to data centers. We've been slowly boiling alive in the reality that the tech industry has long been evolving to hurt us more and help us less each ye
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Inviting Apple or Google into my transactions is a security breach to start with.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
You think his argument was that we should welcome the likes of Google controlling the direction of our cognition? The book was about the dangers of asserting our independence from those who control technology? Admittedly, I haven't rea
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Also Frank Herbert: "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
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by gdulli 6mo ago
An aspect of AI that's really underdiscussed is just the basic switch from doing all your searches logged out to now being forced to be logged in somewhere. That much alone is disqualifying for me.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Not only did calculators not make the average person great at higher level math when they no longer had to do manual arithmetic, but it made them less capable in everyday situations when some basic mental arithmetic would still be helpful.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
That sounds horrible. I'm so glad I saved enough money to retire early right before this madness started.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
At least phone trees are deterministic and there's still (usually) an option to get to a person for matters that aren't covered by the multiple choice options. Talking to AI is a much worse experience and the hope of the industry
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Was social media "done right"?
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by gdulli 6mo ago
The enshittification we're bathing in every day is the lesson that matters.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
We should absolutely use the lessons we learned about how the web unfolded to inform our predictions about AI. Our naivete back in 1996 could be forgiven. Not applying the lessons since then and anticipating how subsequent technologies will
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by gdulli 6mo ago
> AI is just another disruptive technology like the loom, the steam engine or the airplane. Or social media, or targeted advertising, or fast food.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
I do want to know what new movies are coming out. I do want to know what new restaurants open. Advertising is information, most of it isn't useful but some of it is, and a halfway intelligent adult can separate the fact from the opinio
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by gdulli 6mo ago
We can use AI to make video clips to trick boomers on Facebook into thinking Obama eats babies. They already want to believe it. AI isn't outputting real full-length books and movies.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
It's really the whole tech industry as it exists right now and AI is a victim of bad timing. If this AI had been invented 40 years ago there'd have been a lower ceiling on the damage it could do. Another way of saying that is that
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Computer graphics have been improving for decades but the uncanny valley remains undefeated. I don't know why anyone expects a breakthrough in other areas. There's a wall we hit and we don't understand our own consciousness a
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by gdulli 6mo ago
It made sense to pay less money for lower quality prepared food. Now the price is comparable to better food. Paying for convenience does make sense if you value the convenience.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
In the last 12-24 months the price of fast food in particular has risen at a higher rate than inflation has hit other types of food and goods. Fast food makes no economic sense anymore. And you're right, the food has gotten worse as we
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by gdulli 6mo ago
An elephant in the room is that if you have too much data to process without AI, you have too many results to check for correctness when they come out of the AI. This has been true since before LLMs, but now so many more people and use case
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by gdulli 6mo ago
Modern software engineering culture is a treadmill ever in search of the next best practice that must be applied to a field made up of bespoke scenarios.
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by gdulli 6mo ago
So much of the current internet is posts that read as a superposition of sincere and parody, and until that's resolved how do you know how to respond?
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by gdulli 7mo ago
Why would you give this sort of work to a machine that can't be responsibly used without checking its output anyway?
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by gdulli 7mo ago
Smug ignorance is the most exhausting kind.
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by gdulli 7mo ago
It doesn't know when you're wrong! Pretend I'm shaking you by your shoulders as I'm saying this, because it's really important to understand!
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by gdulli 7mo ago
I just don't think that's true anymore. Netflix isn't going anywhere. Twitter and Reddit have taken highly visible user-hostile actions since back in 2023 and people stayed. People have become too passive and docile to switch
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by gdulli 7mo ago
> Groups of people can produce more than lone wolves. It's not a linear scale. A lone wolf can't produce the latest Assassin's Creed game. A committee can't produce Stardew Valley or Balatro. They're different ca
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by gdulli 7mo ago
That one's easy. Because they can con people into paying for it.
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by gdulli 7mo ago
How could anyone not have understood from the start that this would be the result of this technology?
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by gdulli 7mo ago
Wherever customers decide the line should be. It's only ever about money. If people wanted to buy this the publisher would be thrilled to sell it. There's a reason we've collectively coined the term "slop" while the

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