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by intended 3mo ago
People are chucking trillions into data centers and AI. It’s the end of work, or that they don’t write code anymore. Every week there is some new method to make LLMs produce code, ranging from Langchain, MCP, Agents, Ralph loops, gas town,
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by intended 3mo ago
Money is a broad term, and can mean quite a few things. VC money had little to do, and the changes were already at play before VC was even invented. Changes in the media environment began with radio, the reduction of funding, the decision o
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by intended 3mo ago
Societal use. Cigarettes were cool too.
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by intended 3mo ago
A majority of Gen Z dont want it for kids, so that isn't true either. Plus, thats a moving of goal posts.
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by intended 3mo ago
> 6 in 10 parents worldwide support social media ban for under 16s - but children are divided > Support among parents for a social media ban for under-16s is highest in Malaysia (77%) and India (75%), Argentina (55%) and lowest in Jap
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by intended 3mo ago
It was solved for you . There are more people than just you (and other tech literate folk) online. I would also rather meta be cut an sold of as scraps. This is sadly not the question being framed. I’ve dedicated a portion of my life volun
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by intended 3mo ago
I took some time to approach this. I think there are no ways to set this up at scale. The populace has too many things to do, for a singular set of behaviors to prevail. Unless those behaviors were critical to survival (and even then it won
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by intended 3mo ago
These are the types of cases that shed light on the desire for age verification.
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by intended 3mo ago
This is what you and some people may do. The internet which is being mourned was that period where it was better for the people who couldn’t make those changes. There are always a few people who can manage to insulate themselves. Still, how
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by intended 3mo ago
This framing sets up variables incorrectly. People have only a limited amount of time, energy, and hence capacity to process information in a day. People used to go and are still going to facebook, because Facebook makes some part of that e
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by intended 3mo ago
I wonder if anyone has thought about what happens if and when Google (or others) gets bought out. No firm lasts forever.
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by intended 3mo ago
I went down this rabbit hole, and if you see the MIT study, its not calculators anymore. Also - which kid (or adult) wants to study instead of just play? Furthermore, Wikipedia (and calculators) were largely free, nor did they come with a s
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by intended 4mo ago
Multiple educators and institutes are grappling with a plague of cheating. This is just a recent article : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991 LLMs are found to erode skill > https://arxiv.org/a
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by intended 4mo ago
This is the reaction that worries me. > It's the parents' job and vast majority of parents do it fine. This is a thought terminating cliche, and it creates bastions of wilfull ignorance on what reality is. The only reason I ca
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by intended 4mo ago
That isn't what is happening though. None of this is based on anything that stands up to scrutiny. This isn't investing, this is buying the story being sold for AI. Lest we forget, A story whose bull case, automates the jobs of ma
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by intended 4mo ago
? > If that's a "fact", where is the proof? What harms are there that can only be addressed with age verification and not in any other way? > Social media can be dangerous to kids, I don't see anyone disputing that
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by intended 4mo ago
Because the entire reason we are here is due to the fact that harms to kids are on the other end of the scale. There is no “win” here, which doesn’t have the issue coming back. Dismissing the harms only makes privacy advocacy irrelevant to
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by intended 4mo ago
My “group” is not what you think it is. I have been beating on this drum to avoid this situation for far longer than it has been the topic of interest on HN for the past few months. We are here, because difficult conversations were avoided
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by intended 4mo ago
Yes, that is what the money could have been used for. Altruistic or otherwise, this is what could have been done with that degree of money. Let’s pull on this thread though. This money is investment, in the hope that it grows into more than
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by intended 4mo ago
The issue is that education is the only way to get a well paying job. This means that students aren’t there to study the subject, they are there to get to a job. When further education wasn’t mandatory, things like the honor code made sense
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by intended 4mo ago
Another amazing benefit of AI, the increased expense of training and teaching. I’ve studied in classes of 40 to 50 students to one teacher. The challenge of grading students at that ratio, means you need automation. It also reduces the kind
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by intended 4mo ago
I agree with your position, however the absolute silence, as quoted, paints it in a poor light.
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by intended 4mo ago
It isn’t working, and the assigned adults are asking for these changes. What is the next step? Ok, that sounds snarky, but this is where we are. Parents are asking for age controls, and governments are happy to give them what they want, wit
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by intended 4mo ago
One aspect is that you are pitting parents and developing brains against the most over-designed products humanity has created. A second order effect of this is that a small number of parents have the ability to manage their kids use of tech
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by intended 4mo ago
You spoke yourself and the status quo. Parents are speaking for their kids in a group and against the status quo. The status quo is not working for them.
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by intended 4mo ago
That Reddit post is feeding more conspiracy thinking than helping. The facts listed also match the actions of a firm aiming to ensure that the burden of verification does not fall on it, for a legislative process that they know is coming. R
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by intended 4mo ago
Concur. Systems thinking is one thing. One sided systems thinking is another. If you disregard the challenges kids and their parents, or adults as a whole, are facing with just social media, you can easily make a case against age verifica
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by intended 4mo ago
Perhaps you didn't see it that way. However, I do remember the conversations from that time. I still don't have any social media other than LinkedIn that connects to my identity, and warned family against it for as long as I could
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by intended 4mo ago
I still remember conversations here on HN, around the time Facebook was launched. It was considered insanity that you would give up your privacy to a firm. I remember how that what seemed absurdly risky, meant absolutely nothing to the aver
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by intended 4mo ago
The world runs on incentives. Altruism/Self-serving are down stream of that. Wikipedia is altruistic, and serves humanity quite well.

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