medion

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by medion 4y ago
Both of your examples seem to be pretty productive people, no?
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by medion 4y ago
I'm not looking for counterculture, I'm quite happy doing my own thing in relative obscurity. I'm merely being nostalgic for when it used to be a lot more visible (physically). Punks, weirdos, hackers, oddballs, flâneur'
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by medion 4y ago
Counterculture in general seems scarce, everything and everyone feels so hyper normal these days.
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by medion 4y ago
Chomsky, in a recent interview, said if students are cheating with these tools, it’s the fault of the teacher for not creating work that is interesting enough to be absorbed by …
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by medion 4y ago
A multi billion dollar company full of some of the brightest minds in the world, and this is what they come up with, basically just copying Twitters strategy? Sigh.
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by medion 4y ago
How do YouTube creators get paid from premium subscribers, is it fractions of a cent per minute watched or something?
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by medion 4y ago
I didn’t mean he could echolocate while driving, it was just a memory of this kid I had, is all.
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by medion 4y ago
I grew up with a blind kid who made a ticking sound with his tongue - he could navigate through the world quite remarkably. It was extraordinary to watch. I remember teaching him how to drive stick - we would drive around a big paddock and
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by medion 4y ago
Their ability to transform things (art, text, whatever) at incredible speeds, means chasing copyright is going to be a game of Whac-A-Mole. Also, what percentage of transformation of copyrighted works is still infringement? A GPT can ingest
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by medion 4y ago
But GPT’s can restructure copyrighted text to make it different enough for it not to be direct theft. It won’t be long till you can get an entire book, feed it in and prompt it to regenerate the book in a different style. Then what happens?
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by medion 4y ago
Yes, this is a serious concern. These GPT's have stolen the collective knowledge these places have created, particularly Wikipedia - MS will refactor it and spew it out through a Microsoft portal. In effect, ChatGPT becomes a new windo
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by medion 4y ago
There are thousands. Plus, just look around.
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by medion 4y ago
So… stop using it?
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by medion 4y ago
I understand this much. But, the world is pretty weird at the moment. It seems more complex now than just moving interest rate levers around to manipulate the economy.
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by medion 4y ago
Out of curiosity, can you wax lyrical a bit more on construction? I’m about to build a house but I’m considering holding off for 12 months to see what happens with materials prices. Particularly steel. Not too concerned about contractors as
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by medion 4y ago
Chat bots are a scourge and I can’t believe any company seriously puts them in front of customers.
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by medion 4y ago
This has triggered a memory, whereby I had spent probably a similar amount of time getting a custom template done - then, by the time my book was finished, there was an upgrade and the template vanished/became unusable - and then the w
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by medion 4y ago
I wrote a book in Scrivener - loved it, but when it came to prepping it for print and various ebook formats - what a total nightmare, I couldn’t get anything to distill how I needed - really needs basic functioning templates for print and A
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by medion 4y ago
Sad and true. Attention and value extraction from every aspect of human life is the only goal in corporatism. It’s never enough for these companies, endless growth is all that matters.
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by medion 4y ago
Didn’t Buckminster Fuller talk of the holistic energy cost of going to work? Summarizing that it cost less energy if you factor externalities to just stay at home? I can’t remember exactly, but something along those lines…
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by medion 4y ago
Why does it need to be replaced? Pizza shops can deliver on their own like they used to. Lazy people can go out and pickup their own food. Not everything needs to be centralised and appified and run as a giant VC gamble.
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by medion 4y ago
Classic investment driven startup with likely no true profit, utilizing workers without contracts who work all hours of the day, and can be dumped without a moments notice. Cute little apology about not being able to serve customers as well
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by medion 4y ago
Uber eats I guess.
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by medion 4y ago
Same thing happens with construction planning - very hard to get anything “unusual” through planning departments if it doesn’t just conform to existing methodologies, design, and often even size. Hence why movements like the tiny house move
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by medion 4y ago
I really don’t think Jobs would have created and maintained a presence through social media - I don’t think he needed or desired the attention like Musk does... But anyway, who can ever know.
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by medion 4y ago
If you want to learn sword smithing, do you take notes from a sword smith who can barely make a sharp blade? Or a master sword smith who embodies their craft to the highest level? I suppose the former might have some unpracticed insights by
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by medion 4y ago
I wasn’t intending on enlighten anyone, I was merely responding to a comment.
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by medion 4y ago
Why is it still sound if they themselves could not live and follow their own philosophy? I am wary of anyone who professes something that sounds technically sound, but which they themselves cannot live up to.
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by medion 4y ago
Tanker bound for Panama from Hong Kong, not keeping watch. Woke up to engines and lights. Sailing boat off American Samoa maintaining watch, but watch crew unable to change course (we did). Near miss with unidentified floating object.
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by medion 4y ago
Domestic cats should be illegal anywhere outside of a major city. It’s such low hanging fruit in reducing loss of small native animals, with virtually no downside.

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