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by intended 2mo ago
> personal opinions about what causes "harm " Source that it was their personal opinion? I've personally read multiple research papers, worked in the field, AND read the transcripts where people at Meta told their leadersh
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by intended 2mo ago
Except that is an ideological position that has zip to do with the realities of how speech and ideas actuall move in online spaces. In the starkest of terms: Americans have to somehow reconcile faith in the power of an invidual's freed
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by intended 2mo ago
Nope. in more detail: Largely no. Theres many ways to explain this, but this is the shortest: You have an average person, with a phone. This person, with their average life experience, average brain development and biology, is facing off ag
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by intended 2mo ago
Some nations have great laws that deal with lootboxes. I beleive one approach is making odds known, and another is simply placing fines on firms that use loot box mechanics.
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by intended 2mo ago
They were connecting people. They had to make positive results. They had to bow down to the culture wars and the people in government. They had to X, or the concequences to them would be bad. I know that many people in trust and safety, civ
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by intended 2mo ago
The market is telling them they need to make number go up. Once all the growth and new ideas were consumed, the only ways to make number go up, is to extract more profits. This means doing everything within the law, and as safely as they ca
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by intended 2mo ago
> Meta has warped society to think that life is meaningless without affirmation > No, Meta just amplified it to the nth degree. Humanity has always put Those statements are the same. Our species was not designed to deal with the press
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by intended 2mo ago
No? Russia had a random news paper in India put up an article linking AIDS to the CIA, and then over years converted that into a constellation of articles and commentary that even reached the UN. Russia looks at disinformation the same way
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by intended 2mo ago
I’m wondering if this doesn’t exist already. I know that there is no intelligence clearing house that enables sharing between platforms, vendors and OSINT groups. I think the issue is that there is no funding or incentive to collate this in
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by intended 2mo ago
> Stopping the project now is protecting billions in expenses in the future ? All power plants have maintenance charges. Unless I missed something, this statement is a non sequitur. On top of that, Wind is practically free compared to th
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by intended 2mo ago
theres even more recent things to learn from > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator
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by intended 2mo ago
That's not scale, Its profit margins. If firms had a base degree of customer support they were expected to provide, they would still exist. They would just not be as profitable, but customers would be better off. I seem to remember the
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by intended 2mo ago
yes? I mean, have you seen the options for people graduating right now? How people are behaving? Or forget the data, look at how the story of the new future technology is being told. The people making it recognize that it has the potential
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by intended 2mo ago
If you are into the book, I would highly recommend commentary from people who were also at the firm at the same time and currently working on the field. https://anchorchange.substack.com/p/careless-people-is-carel...
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by intended 2mo ago
In essence we took the grand market place of ideas, and then let it get completely owned by a few firms. The media, where it isn’t outright compromised, is dying to survive on any revenue stream. local news outlets which are the backbone of
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by intended 2mo ago
There were A16z articles I remember reading and being better off for. This… I struggle to… separate the managerial crack from what insights remains of a field of engineering. It isn’t helped that at random sections it feels like I’m reading
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by intended 2mo ago
In a vacuum or thought experiment. China put tariffs specifically on the sectors that voted for Trump and depended on sales to China. When the other party is not playing the same game, or not playing in fairness, then the best game theoreti
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by intended 2mo ago
We didn’t have YouTube and the unending number of Indian teachers giving lectures on the sciences. The act of building the mental muscle is what creates education.
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by intended 2mo ago
There’s been multiple articles at this point about AI’s impact on education. It’s alarming how near universally AI has been a cataclysm in class rooms. On homework the short answer is is that we give kids home work exercises . AI helps lea
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by intended 2mo ago
Isn’t medical software highly regulated ? You sure there is no fear ?
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by intended 2mo ago
People at Meta knew it was bad, and brought it up to higher leadership. At some point choices were made, with full awareness of the tradeoffs, to move products in a specific direction. Absolutely none of this, the harms, the patterns, the
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by intended 2mo ago
Fundamentally different yet with practical outcomes that are close enough. Wildly impressive what we as a species achieved. The headline talks about parallels. A closer example is gambling if you are concerned with physical properties of a
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by intended 2mo ago
Nah its just bad writing. Plus I’ve been seeing where AI productivity is highest and it’s been when leveraged by an expert.
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by intended 2mo ago
the data was distrust: > Palantir’s extremely controversial CEO Alex Karp scored the lowest, with 81 percent choosing “don’t trust,” while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella fared the best — albeit with a pitiful 35 percent “trust” score.
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by intended 2mo ago
Sure - why not ? We are already paying for the externalities from ad tech. We’ve got entire worlds of predatory information behavior and near zero defenses for humans. If you are on HN, you hopefully know enough to keep yourself clean and s
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by intended 2mo ago
If we say ads are an attack on our attention, time and money - then it’s a different ball game entirely. Their incentives would be aligned to users, not advertisers. The ideological changes alone would be like living in a different world en
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by intended 2mo ago
Why write publicly then? Theres many people I know who write notes that I know would be great to read. However they never publish them. So… are we saying that the only public writing in the future is meant to be consumed by the machine?
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by intended 2mo ago
That’s what is going on right now. As I recall there are data labelling jobs now for people who have experience working at McKinsey.
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by intended 2mo ago
Hah, too True. Unfortunately larger firms have the ability to leverage the systems better than individuals at this point. still, at least the existence of IP laws indicates that there is a need to reward creators for their creations.
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by intended 2mo ago
I’d argue on the idea that parental levels are self set - since that defeats the features goals. Other than that I would agree.

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