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by intended 11mo ago
Ugh. Put up or shut up I guess. I doubt it would be valuable, and likely a doxxing hazard. Plus it feels self-aggrandizing. Work in trust and safety, managed a community of a few million for several years, team’s work ended up getting cover
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by intended 11mo ago
Would it make any difference to you, if I said I had actual subject matter expertise on this topic? Or would that just result in another moving of the goal posts, to protect the idea that everyone is fooled, and that no one is without sin,
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by intended 11mo ago
No. This is a form of lazy thinking, because it assumes everyone is equally affected. This is not what we see in reality, and several sections of the population are more prone to being converted by manipulation efforts. Worse, these section
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by intended 11mo ago
Knowing one is manipulated, requires having some trusted alternate source to verify against. If all your trusted sources are saying the same thing, then you are safe. If all your untrusted sources are telling you your trusted sources are ly
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by intended 11mo ago
>people trust the output of LLMs more than other Theres one paper I saw on this, which covered attitudes of teens. As I recall they were unaware of hallucinations. Do you have any other sources on hand?
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by intended 11mo ago
Since when was Thorn in the same sentence as Palantir?
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by intended 11mo ago
Read it. For the love of god. I genuinely dont care if you are Red or Blue. I care that you have the technical ability to understand modern media tactics. It is well past things like bias. Fight team blue for all its worth - just be aware o
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by intended 11mo ago
For the sake of my analogy, the issue I am focusing on is that we tend to think in terms of Information, when in reality (especially with GenAI) the fundamental unit of transaction is content. Information is content with a flag. I found mor
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by intended 11mo ago
India saw 779 million dollars lost to cyber fraud in the first 5 months of 2025. The degree of cyber fraud in India is beyond insane. Also - funnily enough - Indian telecom companies are meant to be fined for every SIM card given out under
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by intended 11mo ago
Theres so many times I've written a comment, only to delete it on HN. Not because of being afraid of government censorship, but because of the sheer futility of fighting peoples faith and outmoded ideas of how our market place of ideas
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by intended 11mo ago
Nope - not about hostile media or otherwise. The Republican Party is essentially merged with a media conglomerate. The media conglomerate is able to avoid dealing with accuracy by simply moving onto the next story constantly. They found a f
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by intended 11mo ago
Mixing two things up. A point for the economy. The mechanics of trade. Or the objective outcomes vs subjective goals. It is entirely possible for an economy to land up in an equilibrium point that works for a small set of people and not for
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by intended 11mo ago
The market is diverging with people who are in the upper echelons having money to spend and everyone else having nothing. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2025/11/25/us-e... The K s
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by intended 11mo ago
The market is K shaped. The peope will wealth are doing well, the rest of the market is not. There are only so many apps and goods that can be made for rich people/small subset of consumers. I bet you will find that people working on i
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by intended 11mo ago
> Nothing against our colleagues in Asia. They're brilliant. But American companies built with American labor shouldn't shut us out in the cold while they reach record profits and continue to hollow out entirely new industries
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by intended 11mo ago
> but conservatives and free thinkers have been fighting this fight on social The mechanism I described is what is happening on Fox and the current admin. > that does not in and of itself prevent you from finding your own reliable.. Y
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by intended 11mo ago
Form what its worth, I urge people to pick up Network Propaganda. Online speech, moderation and regulation are things I am focused on, and this book does a better job of putting all the parts together. You can often hear someone on HN talk
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by intended 11mo ago
> be like India where you worship credentials and degrees like religion. Or China, Japan, Korea…
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by intended 11mo ago
You don’t fix this. Humans optimize for effort. We have expanded the market for lemons. People can say they are doing the work, use AI, and offload testing on the other party. Buyers will respond by moving their purchase price down. People
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by intended 11mo ago
Calculators dont make you forget math.
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by intended 11mo ago
The front page is managed extensively on HN, so is this an argument for stronger moderation?
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by intended 11mo ago
I see them regularly on several subreddits, I frequent.
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by intended 11mo ago
Wouldn’t say it’s a liberal idea. It was a foundational argument in jurisprudence, from Holme’s dissent in the Abram’s case.
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by intended 11mo ago
Humans are evolved to spend fewer calories and avoid cognitively demanding tasks. People will spend time on things that serve utility AND are calorifically cheap. Doomscrolling is a more popular past time than say - completing Coursera cour
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by intended 11mo ago
I’ve realized that if you say that pro AI commenters are actually bot accounts, theres not really much that can be done to prove otherwise. The discomfort and annoyance that sentence generates, is interesting. Being accused of being a bot i
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by intended 11mo ago
> I know you assume the same of me, that Nah. I see it more as there was an information asymmetry, on this specific topic, due to our different lived experiences. I can feasibly provide more nuanced examples of the mechanics at play as I
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by intended 11mo ago
That’s an old trope? It really is the first time I’m seeing it.
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by intended 11mo ago
I didnt read the parent comment as celebrating this state. More like they were decrying it, and the blindness of people who just run on metrics.
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by intended 11mo ago
This caught my eye - “technological progress does not have a trickle down effect on employment” (技术进步对就业没有涓流效应) (QQ News, May 16). > Cai Fang (蔡昉), director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Soc
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by intended 11mo ago
We are in a post truth era, and discomfort is a side effect of ideology and lack of information. I’ve been there too, is what I am saying. But, reality is reality, and feeling bad or good about it is pointless beyond a point. AI cannot incr

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