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by guscost 5y ago
Yep. The only way to achieve perfect “Trust and Safety” is to get rid of everyone.
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by guscost 5y ago
Have you heard about the "grounded theory" methodology? It is astonishing - some academic circles have formally standardized the practice of fitting a model to data, and then immediately drawing conclusions from it.
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by guscost 5y ago
Uh oh, better upgrade the neural networks, and quit using all the GPUs to mine Ethereum, otherwise we’ll never get the AI overlord we deserve!
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by guscost 5y ago
> couldn’t happen today Well, except for Basic Economics ;)
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by guscost 5y ago
Call it “dopamine-blocking design”.
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by guscost 6y ago
I need to learn how to pronounce "baizuo", it's a great word.
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by guscost 6y ago
And, the value of the cumulative attention on any platform that is "mined" in this way is finite, not renewable, etc.
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by guscost 6y ago
Not my invention, but: "hive mine".
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by guscost 6y ago
Good point.
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by guscost 6y ago
Makes sense, and I am definitely not an expert on fair use. I'll cross out "clearly" in my aside above. I was really just responding to the implication that SCOTUS did the right thing because "it would be a nightmare sce
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by guscost 6y ago
You would certainly hope so, but that logic just passes the responsibility to interpret law faithfully onto the lower courts, which are also perhaps more easily corrupted .
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by guscost 6y ago
> That is truly a nightmare scenario. Absolutely, but courts are supposed to interpret the law, not rule whichever way avoids nightmare scenarios. The risk of going too far in that direction (and this is by no means the first case in whi
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by guscost 6y ago
You are assuming that this wasn’t the entire point of the vaccine campaign in the first place.
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by guscost 6y ago
Well, this campaign was inevitable. It’s the global social credit system, just like Adam Curry said. Yikes!
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by guscost 6y ago
It is efficient enough to make you rethink the limitations of JS apps, it is basically glitch-free, and it works remarkably well as a full-featured tool for designing screens collaboratively and/or working with SVG. That said, Figma so
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by guscost 6y ago
Counterexample: Figma.
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by guscost 6y ago
I believe there is still a finite limit on any intelligent system, regardless of whether it is completely biological, or cybernetic.
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by guscost 6y ago
How close are we to this limit?
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by guscost 6y ago
Anxiety is one of the worst possible influences on cardiovascular health: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26027689/
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by guscost 6y ago
No, but I do believe in such a thing.
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by guscost 6y ago
Insurance is what cripples these projects financially, and the insurance rates are based on a woeful misunderstanding of the risks, driven by media fear-mongering about Fukushima and other passive-safe reactors. The bad PR is probably assis
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by guscost 6y ago
Now this is the only way to get my stubborn libertarian ass on board with a more "green" agenda. I remain suspicious that it is bullshit, though, since the nuclear industry doesn't employ a lot of voters.
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by guscost 6y ago
This may be unpopular to say, but anxiety could have caused some or all of these symptoms.
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by guscost 6y ago
Yep, where the medium shines is with controversy. Live audio is simultaneously more humanizing, and less efficient, than text or pre-recorded social media. That tradeoff seems well worth it to me. Even so, a lot of discussions still demand
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by guscost 6y ago
Meanwhile, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is still trusted all across the land. Yeah, sure.
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by guscost 6y ago
Sure, but maybe this is still progress. I would much rather be “publicly traded” than “privately held”. Also, missing from this argument is the inevitability that every communist government just outright enslaves its people.
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by guscost 6y ago
Great movie.
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by guscost 6y ago
The only detail necessary here: I don’t trust people like this to control my life, and I will fight infowar, real war, whatever is necessary to ensure that they never get the chance. The strong words are a deterrent. Feel free to stay on yo
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by guscost 6y ago
Yep, it is just a figure of speech here.
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by guscost 6y ago
I don’t mind being called a crazy person, as long as we make damn sure that all options to enslave people (even “a little bit”) stay permanently off the table. Just in case!

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