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by intended 9mo ago
> Restaurants try to make food you will remember and want again. > This postmodern social construction perspective that tries to blame everyone for our problems is a lame approach to the problem. Restaurants get shut down when they do
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by intended 9mo ago
Oh they absolutely know. I've had some tragi-comic interactions with trust and safety folk in tech. You aren't going to be very popular in the firm telling people their stuff is bad for users. Its easiest to think of tech firms as
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by intended 9mo ago
There is an entire agency that focuses on Food and Drugs in America, and its similar around the world. We have many rules on food. Food is actually a great place to think about social media, because there was a time where the FDA didnt exis
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by intended 9mo ago
It is suggesting that we will move towards an “everything must have an API” world. But at some point you get back to tests, because they are simpler to write. This is a child of the “no handwritten code” rule. Since they can’t steer tests,
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by intended 9mo ago
Cyber crime case closure rates, from what I can find online, were sub 5%.
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by intended 9mo ago
> When can we say we have enough AI? I’m good for now. I am already tired of the disaster that is social media. Hilariously, we’ve gotten to the point that multiple countries are banning social media for under 18s. The costs of AI slop a
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by intended 9mo ago
If you had argued that it’s impossible to track what is made on local models, and we can no longer maintain hashes of known CP, it would have been a fair statement of current reality. ——- You’ve said that whatever is behind door number 1 is
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by intended 9mo ago
Acceptance of mass production is only post establishment of quality control. Skipping over that step results in a world of knock offs and product failures. People buy Zara or H&M because they can offload the work of verifying quality to
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by intended 9mo ago
Ai-shoring. Tech-shoring.
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by intended 9mo ago
I heartily recommend people volunteer for moderation. There’s tons of subs that need help, and the more diversity of voices in conversations like this, the better. Modding is a shit show, and being on the other side can be quite the experie
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by intended 9mo ago
It’s a learned thing, and not that difficult. One of those categories where it seems harder than it is.
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by intended 9mo ago
So an unending source of content to feed LLM scrapers? Tokens feeding tokens?
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by intended 9mo ago
At the degree of generalization you are working at, yes. More preference matching is a good thing. This is spherical cows territory though, so its only good for setting out Birds Eye view of principles.
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by intended 9mo ago
Damn, some of my prompts worked better on 4o than the more recent models
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by intended 9mo ago
People who work on making money, tend to have more money and leverage. It’s not an even playing field.
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by intended 9mo ago
I do agree that any ban is of limited future utility if kids go from a safe kiddie pool into deep waters that are lethal for a majority of the population. Still, dismissing a ban is throwing the baby out with the bath water. (I couldn'
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by intended 9mo ago
I mean, yeah you can have the joy of being right from the heights of the hill you are standing upon. But It seems like you grasp the heart of problem being discussed. How do we deal with the floods threatening those living in the valleys an
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by intended 9mo ago
There is a coalition for independent tech research that was formed, because researchers saw exactly this problem. https://independenttechresearch.org/about-us/
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by intended 9mo ago
I can speak to the types of experiments done, and media companies never had the same degree of ability, data or talent. Even something benign and commonplace like A/B testing, was not possible given a physical newspaper.
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by intended 9mo ago
Having moderated both PHP forums and SM sites, quantity is its own quality. Not to mention we have adversaries to contend with now. I still remember seeing Palantir slides for sock puppet management tools way back in the day. That was t
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by intended 9mo ago
If we take the absolutely narrow scope of just Tariffs - Elementary economics, and history from far and wide. We know exactly what tariffs achieve and fail to achieve. It’s the stuff of 101 Econ classes.
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by intended 9mo ago
If you are alluding the Holmes’ judgement, he spoke not simply about free speech, but about actions in service to a market place of ideas. His argument was in defense of the process to uncover truth. Given that Fox has clearly said they can
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by intended 9mo ago
Oh the Murdoch Empire is a more than deft hand at escaping any meaningful comeuppance. As I recall, in a court case brought against them by Prince Harry, they just folded and accepted they were guilty. I believe that admission was because e
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by intended 9mo ago
Its an interesting point you end up raising - does it still count as a strategy even if you are doing something patently impossible given the knowledge and intelligence at your disposal? If someone decided to come up with a strategy to do s
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by intended 9mo ago
It’s a country that plays football, so I’d account for the potential of it being a common turn of phrase before dismissing the entire report.
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by intended 9mo ago
> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious. I like the idea of reaching across the aisle. However the divide is no longer the gap of a few feet. It’s a different world, with different rules. I
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by intended 9mo ago
Filtering out bots is prohibitive, as bots are currently so close to human text that the false positive rate will curtail human participation. Any community that ends up creating utility to its users, will attract automation, as someone tri
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by intended 9mo ago
Asymmetry of information. Fixed bets depend entirely on a small enough group with the ability to influence the outcome, keeping their mouths shut.
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by intended 9mo ago
Eh… sort of? In a sense, they become less accurate, because the prediction market is the causative event, not an independent observer.
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by intended 9mo ago
The big issue I’ve faced and seen others face is the use of LLMs induced skill atrophy. For studying, LLMs feel Like using a robot to lift weights for you at gym. —— If people used to get cardio as a side effect of having to walk everywhere

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