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by greggoB 9mo ago
> The real issue was never AI in Windows It was AI with no clear user benefit Much of the way AI has been forced upon the world by MS and the likes makes it very difficult to separate the two. The trend of enshittification leading up to
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by greggoB 9mo ago
How much of this is executed as a retrieval-and-interpolation task on the vast amount of input data they've encoded? There's a lot of evidence that LLMs tend to come up empty or hilariously wrong when there's a relative spars
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by greggoB 9mo ago
We are living in the stupid timeline, so it seems to me this is par for the course
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by greggoB 9mo ago
I almost want them to pass it through before the FIFA World Cup kicks off in July, and see how that affects visitor numbers. I'd like to think it would absolute tank the event (good, because also fuck FIFA, especially after their &quot
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by greggoB 9mo ago
So you're referring to the end of the Bretton Woods System, which is its formal name. > The US cheated by printing more IOUs than the amount of gold it had. From the article you posted, it looks like the US was dealing with an issue
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by greggoB 9mo ago
I think it can also apply to how much credit we should give him if he ends up being right. If his predictions come true within the next decade, he'll be considered a prophet; if in the next half century, then not so much. I don't
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by greggoB 9mo ago
He's described as a "permabear" on r/StockMarket and r/wallstreetbets. Common refrain is he could be right in principle, but getting the timing wrong can be the same as being wrong, for all practical purposes.
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by greggoB 9mo ago
Can you provide some references to them doing this the first time? You seem to like posting comments about the "Nixon shock" without providing anything to back it up.
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> You misrepresented my position to make it easier to attack. I said "is sounding like", not "is", obviously signaling I was making an assumption, which you were free to correct. Given your diatribe that followed, I d
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Trevor Noah once joked that Trump would make a great African dictator and it looks like that's now turning to reality I find people are much less dismissive of this comparison now compared to his 1st term. > Listen properly! Fo
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by greggoB 9mo ago
My best interpretation is that the apparent craziness of everything we're seeing reflects the level of how much the social order has really broken down. We saw similar (albeit somehow tamer by contrast) things in South Africa during th
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Noting that it is straw man to connect my argument with vaccine skepticism. I don't think you know what a straw man is [0] > Does that answer your question, and feel referential for you. No, lol? I was asking for you to cite a
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by greggoB 9mo ago
I struggle to see how you're linking your complaint about the wording of the title to your issue with the obviousness of the result - these seem like two completely independent thought processes. Also, re cognitive debt being stolen: I
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> And how exactly is that surprising? Isn't the point of a lot of science to empirically demonstrate results which we'd otherwise take for granted as intuitive/obvious? Maybe in AI-literature-land everything published is s
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Similar to the mass psychosis we were hearing about during COVID Can you be more specific and/or provide some references? The "demonstrating curiosity about controversial topics" part is sounding like vaccine skepticism,
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by greggoB 9mo ago
Bro is cooked
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by greggoB 9mo ago
It's always been easier for more senior/experienced engineers to do things themselves instead of guiding juniors. Your comment doesn't really detail how this is different with AI in the picture.
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by greggoB 9mo ago
No? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlandic_Inuit
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by greggoB 9mo ago
This has been my default expected reaction since Nov 2024. So I'd say so. Also feel you wrt living in a forest and leaving this all behind.
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> We had the same problems before social media. It's not the cause, just a symptom. It may not be the cause, but I think it's also not quite just a symptom. To me it looks like social media has taken an existing problem and m
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by greggoB 9mo ago
Might have to do with the size of the city - I've heard through the grapevine that even Minneapolis is too big and they're thinking of shifting to some city in Maine or New Hampshire. "Too big" supposedly meaning orchest
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> The first link was just referring to him starting his own. He's pushing a platform that uses AI to generate content that's riddled with far-right misinformation. The context for him doing this is because he didn't like t
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Local AI exist as well. It's just hard to measure it. Yeah but you're not going to get your news from local AI, are you? you have to connect it to the internet and look up news for you, but if a lot of what's found onlin
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by greggoB 9mo ago
Not if I can identify it, which I fear is going to become a harder task in the future. > If AI leads to decentralisation of press, it sounds better to me. Seems optimistic to me, given the trend with pretty much everything AI since ChatG
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by greggoB 9mo ago
My apologies, I forgot how far he actually went [0] [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-... > start a competitor Very charitable way of referencing an observably-obvious di
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by greggoB 9mo ago
I'm not going to take up the mantle of trying to dissuade you from your beliefs, but needless to say if you think that equating CNNs sensationalism-for-views model with the likes of Musk actively trying to dismantle Wikipedia [0] becau
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Those in control of it aren't able to distinguish factual reporting today. Can't tell if you're referring to media outlets or AI companies here. I do remember this incident - it was an embarrassment for the outlets that
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by greggoB 9mo ago
And if AI leads to a situation in which the very ability to separate factual reporting from propaganda is almost entirely destroyed for anyone besides those in control of it, will you still be fine with it then? Pointing to a system with pr
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by greggoB 9mo ago
> Fifty three percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level. I thought this was a joke. Like, holy shit I regret looking this up and finding out it's not BS https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08&#
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by greggoB 9mo ago
Elaborate?

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