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by jwie 3y ago
I'd believe the thing about the carrots was about marketing for carrots before tricking the Germans. It's not like such things haven't been done. In the states there are plenty of scams (marketing) to convince us to eat more
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by jwie 3y ago
The problem is not that elites exist. The problem is that the current elites hate the people they rule over, and conspire with capital to rob everyone. The dreamworld is not a classless society. But rather one where the leaders love those t
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by jwie 3y ago
SEO won a long time ago. Google fights a hopeless war against legions of soulless locusts. For all its resources it’s incapable of improving the situation. Since it only understands proxies of quality and truth, and these things can be manu
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by jwie 3y ago
There are two aspects to that saying. The word adequately, and the fact it was made when presuming good faith was more reasonable. These days it's better to assume everything is theft, fraud, or marketing.
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by jwie 3y ago
There’s a gulf between the lack of expectation of privacy and that information pushed into a social media platform. Sure, I don’t have an expectation of privacy. But I do have an expectation of not being made into content for anyone to cons
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by jwie 3y ago
Thank you! LLMs have raised the floor; not the ceiling. It's much easier to do stuff that was already kinda easy, but not easier to do things that were hard. Maybe LLMs free up intellectual bandwidth for some, but what will we do with
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by jwie 3y ago
If they can buy it then I can opt out. It is an unconstitutional practice. If they didn’t think it was they wouldn’t go through the extra steps to get the data. Outsourcing one part of the illegal enterprise doesn’t make the whole thing leg
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by jwie 3y ago
It’s a segmentation issue. The ad buy was for “people going to restaurants” but it might have been “people going to {type} restaurants.” Thought it’s probably not that simple. A naive ad buy might not care to target, or targeting is too exp
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by jwie 3y ago
Easy thing to do would be very low maximum word counts. ChatGPT is incapable of brevity.
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by jwie 3y ago
Dolphin on the Steam Deck in an officially supported capacity is likely the concern. That’s a strictly better Switch running exclusive Nintendo games.
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by jwie 3y ago
It's far too early to say Sam Altman has succeeded at anything. We must imagine "replacement Sam Altman" who does the same things with the same resources and obtains lesser outcomes, or totally fails. There's a Sam Altma
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by jwie 3y ago
Switzerland seems to be doing great with its drug policies. Why is that strategy so effective and other nations seem incapable of noticing or trying something similar?
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by jwie 3y ago
“AI” eating itself is the best outcome for everyone. It’s a mass energy balance. The inputs equal the outputs; garbage in, garbage out.
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by jwie 3y ago
SEO is kinda dead. In an honest form it’s “don’t confuse the crawler.” In its actual form it makes the web worse. Even if you create a strategy that works Google will eventually shut it down. It’s an adversarial relationship. The search eng
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by jwie 3y ago
No to all questions since there’s probably a way in which doing any of those things still obeys the rule. The rule is about achieving the intent of the rule, not rote obedience. The park might contain a parking lot, or an area where skatebo
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by jwie 3y ago
That's unfair fair to the oil companies. They at least produce power and a wide variety of very useful materials for industrial applications. The AI tools generate spam. Oil has a trade off that's at least intellectually defensibl
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by jwie 3y ago
The time for Reddit to have gone public was with all that other spac mania during the pandemic. These days pesky investors are going to demand things like, a business model and a profit opportunity.
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by jwie 3y ago
There will always be tension with an interface for a freemium product since it’s bad on purpose. The Apollo interface is better for the consumer, but worse for Reddit. Their interests are not aligned. Even if Reddit were to purchase Apollo
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by jwie 3y ago
I did more or less. I said I’m the instructor of record I can decide how I take assignments. Next thing was “paperless” complaints. I was “using too much paper.” After a little back and forth they got tired of me, handed me a degree and tol
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by jwie 3y ago
It’s so much worse than you think. Many textbooks come with license keys specifically so you can’t buy used books anymore. Students who do buy a used book are typically coerced into buying the license key to do digital homework, or whatever
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by jwie 3y ago
In a world where the people trust their government to serve them and look after their interests such a system could work. Until then, no.
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by jwie 3y ago
This sort of stuff is the natural consequence of the verifiability over truth approach Wikipedia has foolishly embraced.
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by jwie 3y ago
ChatGPT detectors don’t work at all. Why would I believe a study about detection needing to be more equitable when the whole thing is bs from the start? Come up with different ways to assess students. Writing samples don’t work anymore get
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by jwie 3y ago
It really depends on the country, and the particular school district. In the US our problem is cash being syphoned off into "not really education." Around 10-12k worth of education dollars are spent per year per student at a publi
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by jwie 3y ago
This quirk of the west should really be addressed. The feds “own” far too much of the western US.
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by jwie 3y ago
Turkey’s mistake was not using an extra layer of indirection to accomplish what they wanted. They were too straightforward. Suppression is just around the corner you only need outsource it to “non” governmental orgs.
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by jwie 3y ago
I’d had a site in a similar state, and I did figure out what it was doing. Client had launched a product that was a bit more successful than typical. Nobody could access the site though. I dig around a little, come to find a neat little sni
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by jwie 3y ago
Not all radiation is created equal, and the delivery mechanism is very important. Breathing in material emitting an otherwise harmless amount of alpha particles (essentially a helium isotope particle stripped of electrons) is very harmful.
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by jwie 3y ago
Landlords should be required to publish what capital they’re putting into a property, including interest. This data point alone would make it clear how good of a landlord you have. There are two tough spots for landlords. There are some tru
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by jwie 3y ago
That’s hard a lot of this is knowledge from my Classics days. There are other theories about Homeric verse. Scholars are pretty sure about formulaic composition explaining some features of Homer. It passes the sniff test and is a simple exp

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