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Ask HN: Have you noticed that sites flip “hero” ads too fast lately?
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He negotiated a ceasefire in the war he fomented. Are you hearing yourself?
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I would counter that a) what is currently being touted as AI is neither artificial, nor is it intelligent. This is a bunch of hucksters saying "we made a scary demon with powers and now we're scared it's going to kill us all!
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by jtode 3y ago
So what's the plan for putting it back in the bottle? llama is already out there, the chatbots are already out there. I think the solution is that government should standup a bunch of compute farms and give all citizens equal access to
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by jtode 3y ago
So basically, the original article is about an AI huckster amping the FUD in order to push through some sort of corporate control of the technology, using fear of the bullshit they're spinning as the justification. I brought in the ana
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by jtode 3y ago
Yah, being cynical about a giant corporation inflating the scope of a new parlor trick in an attempt to establish a legal moat is exactly the same as ignoring over thirty years of scientific concensus against a torrent of tobacco-industry
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One good thing, I have not encountered a single insufferable fanboy in weeks.
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If only climate scientists were given .01% of the credence these buffoons get. edit: Henry Kissinger has a Nobel Peace Prize. If the Nobel committee ever corrects that error and makes the world safe for political satire again, I might start
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by jtode 3y ago
Got me too, I was literally following my mouse cursor to the down arrow with my eye and I saw this comment. I'll never be the guy telling a comedian what they can do, but damn mang, that was rough...
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In other news, the sky is falling.
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I dealt with almost the exact same thing at my last job, but in my case, the power dynamics were split between two offices and I had a defender pretty high up who had watched me get to work and figure stuff out by being down the hall from m
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for whom?
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And that's one reason the platform has no legitimacy. You say YOU only use it on a certain type, but it got used on me. Have a look at my comments here, I'm far from perfect but I'm neither of those things. I outlined in a di
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by jtode 3y ago
An issue that has no relevance to the discussion of silos vs fediverse. If anything, the fedi is probably going to allow for slightly more actual free speech in the end; nobody is gonna kick Trump off truth.social, for instance, and people
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by jtode 3y ago
Even in the case of the incessant troll, the shadowban is just pretend. I identified after three posts with no engagement that something was afoot, and in order to see it, all I had to do was log out. It is incredibly petty, and even more i
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Could take a finger off with a snowblower too, I get nervous when I change out shear pins even with the starter key in my hand. You gotta have a sense of yourself obviously.
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I also got into a small argument in another thread about low effort sites. Another constant criticism of fediverse sites I'm seeing here is equally weird, this idea that responsibility for finding the right instance is given - not fo
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by jtode 3y ago
Suffice to say, there's a lot to unpack in there, and I have a long list of yard tasks to get done. A lot of what you're describing is gonna happen everywhere, it happened on usenet, it happened in web forums, it has always happen
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by jtode 3y ago
Maybe you need to read my statement more closely, specifically the words "on this one". I said in a comment to someone else a few days ago, I had no idea who ran this forum until about a week or two ago - I could see that there we
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by jtode 3y ago
Well, this one got a lot of response heat, I'm picking you to respond to. Twitter is also the current textbook example of the problem with low-effort platforms that are controlled by capital. Like, do I even need to explain this to any
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by jtode 3y ago
I do agree with you, though if any of them are reading this, I have to also validate their experience, if not their conclusions; I was shadowbanned in r/Winnipeg, my hometown and nearest city, and not because I'm an alt-right trol
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Interesting... I might still be getting the concept clear in my own head but that can definitely work. It does seem to me that it will shake out with larger communities still under the control of a specific instance, like, I'm sure the
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I love this piece. I had a moment of lifted delusion about a decade ago, I didn't put these particular words on it, but I vividly recall looking around at all the second-price debts I had racked up, books, instruments, pedals, even jus
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by jtode 3y ago
I used to read all the time, see videos, "you should learn to deal with small engines," but for decades I just leaned on my farm-raised friend when I couldn't get a thing started. Then I moved out of the city and came to a mo
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I keep seeing this ubercynical take that "mods are all on a power trip" from people who are clearly planning to invest in the IPO. Normally this forum has a lot of nuanced thought but on this one I'm seeing a lot of VC groupt
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Lemmy over there like "Good. Good."
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Maybe there should be democratic decision making about C-level executive hires as well.
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Perhaps low-effort users are part of the problems we're experiencing? I think maybe it's time to dial back the user-friendliness just a weeeny bit. Anyways, I see zero evidence that Reddit will come back from this conflagration in
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You're cute.
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by jtode 3y ago
Since you've got insight into operating, can you clarify for me: Does federation happen at the community level? So for instance, using reddit terminology, if I subscribe to r/gardening on your instance, do I get the same thing as

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