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by lurk2 1y ago
Context?
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The big losers with AI are people who try to monetize user contributions. Users themselves were already making contributions to Reddit, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia for free. Traditional bloggers (not the Google AdWords people) wouldn’t car
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The issue the grandparent post is alluding to is more a change in consumer habits and technology. Even in 2005, recommendation algorithms were barely impacting the content you saw online. Facebook was chronological until around 2009 from wh
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This style of commentary is incredibly obnoxious and doesn’t belong here.
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> I think you want issuance by place of birth to make the comparison OP is pointing out. I’m not seeing a year to year comparison on the page you linked. It’s calculable from the monthly figures, but I’ll wait and see if the GP responds
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> You can easily see it by immigration application numbers by country. Where are you getting this information? Visa issuance more than doubled between 2020 and 2024. https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas&#x
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“Now” implies that this wasn’t being done before. It has always been legal to deport a green card holder over criminal convictions. Are you suggesting that ICE is rounding up these green card holders for the crime of being Mexican and throw
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> Trust in the justice system has severely degraded. Among whom? By how much? Since when? > Trump's deportation program. The people being deported are not lawful residents. It is not even remotely comparable to the situation the
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I had always read misleading to mean deceptive. That’s embarrassing.
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I’ve seen a few submissions have their titles changed in the last few months. I was led to believe that submissions should not deviate from the original title under any circumstance other than those described on the guidelines. > Otherwi
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Unironically demonic.
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It’s notable that the existence of the watchman problem doesn’t invalidate the necessity of regulation; it’s just a question of how you prevent capture of the regulating authority such that regulation is not abused to prevent competitors fr
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>but that sounds like a good thing in this case? Who decides when someone is doing something evil?
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> Most people that work in offices fit under this definition. Not at all. The majority of office jobs can't be automated by current generation LLMs, because the jobs themselves serve either creative or supervisory functions. Generat
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> Even if you fire 50% of your employees, realize it was a terrible mistake, and hire most of them back, it's a net reduction in payroll costs. This is inane. If an employer hired most of these employees back it means that firing th
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ChatGPT (might have) made a few superfluous email jobs obsolete and the people responding to this comment are acting like we’re standing on the threshold of Terminator 3.
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The chief use case is saving the titles of YouTube videos so that you can reconstruct a playlist when the videos are removed.
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> some eventually got jailed. Who are you referring to?
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You actually need to have it scale beyond a flat percentage to be punitive. Someone getting fined 10% of their fixed income can end up homeless. A billionaire getting fined won’t see their lifestyle impacted at all.
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> Focus on actual value creation? Nah, let's just mind-hack everyone into buying the product. Are you mind-hacking your friends when you text them “Good morning”?
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But then why offer the ability to unlock the engine’s full power on a model that isn’t engineered to accommodate it?
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So if I’m understanding you correctly, the play here is: 1) Build engine with $market_leading_horsepower. 2) Throttle engine so that base models of a car have $market_leading_horsepower - $throttle_amount. 3) Price discrimination for enthus
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Most professional services already have a moat around them in that you need to be licensed in order to practice the profession; AI can’t disrupt these industries because A) after three years, the hallucination issue has not improved and B)
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BMW tried doing the same thing two years ago with heated seats.
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> The overall idea is simple --- reduce the sticker price to a competitive level and try to increase profits with prepaid maintenance, insurance, data collection and other "subscription" services. Passenger airline carriers and
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> Car manufacturers already give you the same powerful engine that you can't afford/don't want to buy and "shrink" it with SW. If you jailbreak it, you lose the warranty and bye bye insurance. What was the point
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This is AI.
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Acquisitions can be considered anticompetitive. The only thing that appears to differentiate this situation from an acquisition is that the investors didn’t get paid.
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This was my theory initially but it doesn’t pan out due to the decline being observed among all income and education levels; you would also expect to observe a steeper decline among women with advanced degrees, but women with master’s degre

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