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by netcan 6mo ago
Imo, there is a real question about the value of better here. Also, the ability and likelihood of the enterprise to actually leverage better. This dynamic is not new. Unsophisticated enterprise buyers making bad decisions in a bad way. We h
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by netcan 6mo ago
Because they offer an attractive job/package relative to other opportunities... same as any other job people take.
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by netcan 6mo ago
Meta basically "pivoted." The core business is still meta ads, but Zuck had decided they needed big investment into a new business for future-proofing, growth or whatnot. That business was initially the meta stuff. Now it is Ai. T
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by netcan 6mo ago
> If you are looking for a sympathetic ear to explain this phenomenon, certainly do not seek counsel from your local economist Funny, considering this is an article by an economist. But, isn't "psychology" responsible for
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by netcan 6mo ago
>With this new InfoWars, we will democratize psychological torture, welcoming brutal and sadistic ideas from everyone, even the very stupidest among us. It will be like the Manhattan Project, only instead of a bomb, we will be building a
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by netcan 6mo ago
"The Medium is the Message" applies... or some analogy to that idea. Yes, individuals have choices. But in a collective, dynamics occur and those dynamics can't usually be overcome by individuals. Social media could be used
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by netcan 6mo ago
Yes. I agree. There is a context and it makes sense within this context. But, the economy or industry is not there to produce accountability, liability, court-legibility. These are support structures, not end goals. I said this in response
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by netcan 6mo ago
In some sense, technology is "not normal" regardless. If we think of the digitization tech revolution... the changes it made to the economy are hard to describe well, even now. In the early days, it was going to turn banks from bi
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by netcan 6mo ago
The danger of pastiche.
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by netcan 6mo ago
True. That said... the term "underlying nature" may be part of that backwardsness. We intuitively model human behavior as underlying beliefs and stuff leading to a rationale, leading to behavior. But really, it's often the ot
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by netcan 6mo ago
Anthropic generally seem more into living within market discipline and market signals of some sort. Products with margins, even if it's sort of irrelevant considering R&D costs and capital inflow. That said, there's nothing li
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by netcan 6mo ago
Anytime you bring God into it... the concept of truth has the option of getting very abstract. It's pretty common, for example, to believe that God is on our side and we will win the war or somesuch. Actually walking onto a battlefield
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by netcan 6mo ago
Idiocracy hit a lot of superficial/thematic nails on the head with its silliness. "Don't Look Up" captures a lot more of the actual dynamics. Instead of anti-eugenics making brains feeble, the people are just normal huma
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by netcan 6mo ago
My tendency is to believe that the individuals do not what matter as much, when it comes to the biggest risks. I'm not sure if this is a bias or a theory... but I lean to some sort of "medium is the message" determinism. >
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by netcan 6mo ago
Sure... and it would help if there was more consistency in general. But given that there isn't, we should at least maintain internal consistency. That's what I was commenting on above. You can't use one conceptual framework
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by netcan 6mo ago
Heidlebergensis is no longer thought to be on the sapiens lineage. It's probably the ancestor of neanderthals and denisovans. 400kya is around the time of this divergence, based on recent genomics. They were the same species at this ti
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by netcan 6mo ago
>Did they really die out, or did the population just merge with modern humans. Most populations die out. Most sapiens. Most neanderthals. Most everything. The chance of becoming an ancestor is very, very low. Neanderthals were not slowly
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by netcan 6mo ago
In captive breeding, it's a brutal way to "improve stock" but in wild populations this is pretty normal for large mammals. It also generally happens more slowly... so isn't that different from every other ambient proce
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by netcan 6mo ago
>somehow Neanderthals managed to survive across most of Eurasia for nearly 400,000 years, longer than modern humans have been on Earth. These narrative simplifications end up just being confusing. Neanderthals from 400kya are often class
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by netcan 6mo ago
Parrots are definitely smart, but birds generally pack a lot into a small mass. That's required for flight.
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by netcan 7mo ago
>It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it. And the way the resteraunt this right is by covering their walls with TOS text like an Egyptian tomb.
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by netcan 7mo ago
I remember various judges writing ope-eds about being presented a 40 page TOS for updates. Southpark also did an episode. TOS simultaneously became extremly important, commanding CEO attention and became completely ritulized. I'm sur
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by netcan 7mo ago
Interesting. It's been a while since we've had excitement at the "cheap and cheerful" end of the spectrum. Anyone remember the initial Eee PC... and the problems it created for MSFT during the Vista transition?
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by netcan 8mo ago
>Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck. For me this is a crux, at least in principle. Once online media is so centralized... the from argument freedom is diminished. There are differences between national government power and internatio
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by netcan 8mo ago
I suppose this is banal/obvious to many, but I found this very interesting given the practical context. >I write code with AI tools. I expect my team to use AI tools too. If you know the codebase and know what you're doing , w
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by netcan 10mo ago
If you're cofortable enough to share a hotel room, you should be willing to watch them poop. Lighten up.
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by netcan 1y ago
>I also think it would take some doing to get advertisers to jump on a new platform when YouTube has almost all the viewers. Volume isnt even your main issue here. YouTube ads are powered by adwords... that all advertisers already use. I
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by netcan 1y ago
>the problem is that in order to develop an intuition for questions that LLMs can answer, the user will at least need to know something about the topic beforehand. I believe that this lack of initial understanding of the user input I thi
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by netcan 1y ago
Im not sure that advertising specifically is the issue. I think a lot of the ills of social media are ills of the medium itself... once it reaches "everyone scale," game theory maturity and whatnot. Anyway the way past it is proba
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by netcan 1y ago
Yeah... i think that's pretty clear right from your title.

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