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by greggoB 6mo ago
Your question seems to imply that people have to be corralled towards a specific action, which to me comes across as rather cynical. Why is it not possible to lay out your arguments honestly and let people decide on the merits?
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Not sure how, but if the case it's not clear to me, at least.
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by greggoB 6mo ago
> so this is a fair system Well, no, the cost of their own smoking-induced illness isn't the only cost, as mentioned before what about the healthcare costs of people who pick up 2nd or 3rd hand smoke? I think the point we are making
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Some ideas for why people might be feeling this way: 1. People are naturally scared of major change. 2. AI has been pretty aggressively thrust on people, whether they like it or not. 3. There is a legitimate concern about widespread job los
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by greggoB 6mo ago
"In 2024, smoking cost the public finances in England £16.5bn, more than double the £6.8bn raised through tobacco taxes." [0] "The NHS’s expenditure on smoking-related health issues remains high, corroborated by the reported
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by greggoB 6mo ago
"now more kids than ever are on social media." is not an opinion, it's a statement of fact, which should be accompanied by a source, at least if you want to be taken seriously.
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by greggoB 6mo ago
I don't think you know what "mobilized" means - at least, it implies an actor with ulterior motives is driving this response in people. Usually political actors or the media are accused of this. What you're describing on
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Mobilized by who, and how was that achieved?
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by greggoB 6mo ago
> the revenue from taxes on cigarettes is several times what the healthcare service spends on smoking-related illnesses. I'd be interested to see this - you have a source you can link for it?
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Are you stating that as your source, or asking if that's my political affiliation?
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Source?
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Unfortunately I can't say, SAI is very hush hush on what projects it has (until I chooses to announce ofc). All I can say is my (much smaller team) is working on very unrelated stuff
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A robot is beating human pros at table tennis(apnews.com)
4 points by greggoB 6mo ago|5 comments
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by greggoB 6mo ago
I actually work at Sony AI, though not in this team, so I can't offer an AMA :p Some context I can give is this is the the 3rd time SAI has published on the cover of Nature, the first two being: 1. GT Sophy: https://www.natu
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Could be, can't rule it out.
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by greggoB 6mo ago
Everything you just described as "what people want" translated in my brain to "what they're programmed to want". Some products on the market are there to address some inherent need or desire people have; some are
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by greggoB 6mo ago
> Swiss people are very upset with what is going on with their military spending in US Can confirm, as a Swiss person I am flabbergasted at how the federal government keeps pushing for the new fighter jets to be F35s, despite not only
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by greggoB 7mo ago
I wouldn't exactly call your comment sans any other perspective "substantive". Where is the Wikipedia discussion? And the blog post your bot allegedly wrote? Why no links to the article in question? Even putting aside your re
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by greggoB 7mo ago
> especially before calling someone names They said sounds like a dick, seems like that provides a level of measure to calling anyone anything. > because this is only part of the story Care to share the other part(s)? Seems ironic t
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by greggoB 7mo ago
It (normally) has an effect on the military calculus - e.g. if the US weren't allowed to have military bases in these countries, the possibility to take such action seems less plausible.
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by greggoB 7mo ago
Does Japan execute same-sex couples?
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by greggoB 7mo ago
And what does "productive" mean to you, exactly? To most, causing eating disorders in teenage girls (Instagram), being at the root of undermining various democracies (Facebook) and having credible evidence of aiding addiction for
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by greggoB 7mo ago
Listing a kill count doesn't amount to evidence that the war has been well thought out, it only tells us the US and Israel are good at assassinations. It is clear the initial aim was to decapitate the leadership and expect capitulation
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by greggoB 7mo ago
Sounds like you've managed to find a configuration on Twitter that works well for you. I've recently seen some people anecdotally say the same about Facebook, which I find surprising in 2026. I think its worh bearing in mind that
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by greggoB 8mo ago
I appreciate that you can so readily admit that - definitely not something commonly seen. Could you say a bit more about what's behind your dislike of Bluesky? I'm curious as I don't know much about it, other than it's p
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by greggoB 8mo ago
This reply makes zero sense to me. 1. You start off by labelling both platforms as "extreme partisan" - care to explain? 2. This charge is used to minimize the original complaint (login requirement), which is a hard blocker to v
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by greggoB 8mo ago
Does "lonely" in this case encompass people who've formed relationshios with said LLMs?
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by greggoB 8mo ago
> And no, stop your American exceptionalism I don't think you intended to use this the way you did
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by greggoB 8mo ago
Discussion doesn't constitute consensus or conclusion - as I said several comments up, widespread bias in Wikipedia is a talking point propagated by those with an agenda to distort factual accuracy - people like Musk have hardly been s
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by greggoB 8mo ago
> It’s not “unfounded”. Wikipedia is biased and saying that’s “propaganda” or a result of propaganda is a nonsense non-argument. It specifically is unfounded if you have no credible sources to back it up. "Trust me bro" doesn&#

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