palmotea

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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It's space you can't use for anything else, dedicated entirely to objects most people open once or twice and never touch again. It worth noting that books can be decor. To the point where people who don't read buy them f
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Why? Books are to be read, annotated, lived with and lent out, not treated as precious objects in a way that is completely orthogonal to their use-value. I'm not being black and white like that. Some books "are to be read,
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Why don’t we go out in the streets and protest? We'll then they'll just send the kill-bots to deal with the problem (you). Real reason: political polarization and social media has fragmented society, isolated people, and inst
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It's nice to own books. Read them multiple times, dog-ear the pages, scribble in the margins, risk reading them in the pool. Responding to the dead child comment: that's what common paperbacks are for. Don't don't m
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding. Use uBlock and block javascript by default with NoScript. I saw nothing about cookies and just got the article.
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I'm loathe to defend Facebook but most people's experience is not yours. The algorithm pushes content you're most likely to engage with, in your case it has nothing to go on so probably pushes whatever causes the most re
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I'd argue that this is something that is more about the state of play, than tech itself. What do you mean by that? It seems inherent to the technology under capitalism: it allows a flood of slop and anything public and valuable
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I believe what their point is is that if you give people a "extract-needle-from-haystack" machine and then tell them they have to manually find where in the haystack the needle was, it defeats the purpose of having the machin
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Verified content will always be relatively expensive when compared to AI content.... > Visits to wikipedia and most sites have dropped. Rtings has gone full paywall. Ad revenue for producing Verified content will be too meager to al
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> the genuine value in Reddit or any other human social media is honestly pretty low from my estimates. It's great for seeing how humans talk but in terms of 'nutritional' value for truth or answers... > ... > scrapi
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> "Progressive fantasy" would be AOC and Bernie, and we already have that in real life. That's not the kind of fantasy I'm talking about. I'm talking about the kind of fantasy person that could cause a progressiv
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> If we reduce land use for food production, it's not like that land will turn into a parking lot. Other plants will grow there, hopefully with richer biodiversity than an agricultural monoculture. If current trends old, it will tur
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> However, the tech exists for a reason and is not inherently bad, the issue is the lock-in, the lack of choice and interoperability. The problem is computers and software enable lock-in, because of their flexibility and communications
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Kind of depressing. As much as I'd like to think something like this would die, let's be honest: it won't. Yeah, it will be an uphill battle. How many of us have the wherewithal to resist a demand like this? Refuse and i
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It doesn’t explain why so many more fall for it. It's pretty easy: he started out trying to create a "hot girl" influencer, then refined that. It could be his starting point was biased towards filling a certain type
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> He said he also attempted to make a liberal counterpart for Hart on Instagram, but “Democrats know that it’s AI slop, so they don’t engage as much,” he said. > “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people — like, super-dumb people. And
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> I think people simply stop caring once it's just a 9-5 job, plus it is never rewarded anyway. So you get random results. I can kind of see that, if you're so disengaged you don't care if your job is hard or easy. Then
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Sadly I have rarely seen people doing this. These shadow knowledge usually went away with their owners when they left the company, left other people scratching their heads. Some of that's inevitable, but I'm continuously surp
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Of course don’t go by marketing buzzwords on trash markets like Amazon. Professional means used by people who rely on the product for their profession. Often these are products or brands that laypeople have never heard about before. Th
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Is there any reason to believe that the same carpet-pull won't occur with those brands? No, but nothing's forever. The important piece of information is "is this brand good, right now , when I'm looking to make a p
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Yeah, isn't the joke that "military grade" means made by the lowest bidder?
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Please address the criticisms that this is AI written slop here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850659 . Why are you writing this and what's your goal? Are you actually checking every fact in the articles? I th
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Just but either professional (as in practitioners of a trade us it) or military products — those tend to be much better than “consumers” products. They cost more but they will last a lifetime. Eh, I'm not sure that's such goo
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Can we have something like this blog that's not AI slop? Please! This is an illustration of why AI is terrible: it just destroys trust. Is the blog good or bad? It's really hard to tell without putting in more work than it'd
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Super interesting -- outside the premise which we all know to be true. Obviously we do not "all know it to be true," since this business model works. > What is their goal here -- to crowdsource information so that we have
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> Helios? Altman? I think you mean Helion, the fusion company, not Helios (quantum computers). Either way, that’s a pretty hilarious example to use when you’re criticizing VC foolishness. Anyone doing due diligence wouldn’t go near those
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> You should start your own VC firm, solicit cash from LPs, and invest in companies like Helios. Go ahead, no one will stop you. Why would I want to do that? I think they should be disciplined until the perform a more socially useful fun
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> It's funny you can take something that every major multinational company does and slap "Tesla" on it and then write a whole news story. What's your alternative? Never write about these practices after the first inst
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by palmotea 6mo ago
Great job guys! Almost halfway there! Keep working hard and we can make it to 100%! Remember: AI use is mandatory and non-negotiable. Hopefully the Trump administration will be rolling out AI-use metrics for the whole population, so we can
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by palmotea 6mo ago
> You’re sanewashing Trump’s absolutely bonkers behavior by focusing on the critics. I think it's legitimate to focus on his critics, because they've been oddly ineffective. His 2024 victory should never have happened, but it d

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