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by phatfish 9mo ago
If they are persistent enough, no. But then everyone knows it's not going to stop every child in every situation. It sets a president for what society thinks is a sensible limit though, and society raises children not just individual f
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by phatfish 9mo ago
A digital ID, like someone said below. But people (in the UK at least) go mental about that, despite the government already having all the information anyway. Creating a easy way to securely share that information with a 3rd party for onlin
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by phatfish 9mo ago
I see lots of claims about governments using age gating to "track" people, but no evidence. Your last point about uploading ID documents to random online services (which i agree is a privacy risk) would be solved with a government
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by phatfish 9mo ago
One of the big issues I have with LLMs that when you start a prompting session with an easy question it all goes great. It bring up points you might not have considered and appears very knowledgeable. Fact checking at this stage will show t
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by phatfish 9mo ago
It's a rational way to deal with their energy needs, reduce pollution and their impact on the climate. They have small gas and oil reserves if I remember. Unfortunately, if they were sitting on Venezuela or Russian style reserves or oi
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by phatfish 9mo ago
25 years time. "I remember the LLM bubble, everyone knew we were in a bubble but they carried on as if the music would never stop. Don't worry, our situation is nothing like that, there is no talk of a bubble."
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by phatfish 9mo ago
I enjoy looking back at what I had been listening to in previous years as well. But playlists in Spotify have a "Date added" column, so you get a chronology from there. I guess splitting them out into years means you can shuffle a
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by phatfish 10mo ago
BYD is very much present in the UK (Telsa still seem the most common, but BYD are getting close), it must be the same in mainland Europe unless the EU is blocking them more aggressively. The Ford dealer down the road from me turned into a B
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Western corporations optimise for share price. The way to do that is by pulling strings at the government level to block your competitors and by getting nice tax breaks; not by having the best product for the consumer. China and Chinese com
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Maybe because the hype for an next gen search engine that can also just make things up when you query it is a bit much?
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Is there any danger an LLM is going to create a working photo torpedo?
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by phatfish 10mo ago
I want to know what the "intelligence explosion" is, sounds much cooler than AGI.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
The whole reason for GOG existing was they strip dead DRM from old games so the work again without "warez scene" cracks; and fix all the OS/driver incompatibilities along the way. As far as I know all the games you can buy on
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Well, you don't "stop using Steam" unless you don't care about playing most games released in the last 10-15 years. But the premise is solid, given that GOG has no DRM. Steam did get DRM "right" though. My prob
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Don't bother, getting arrested and spending 2 hrs in a police station is the same as political prisoners going to a Siberian camp for 5 years, in the eyes of Americans. It is scary how Trump has really taken over America. This war on E
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Ah yes, that famous "joke" which evolves a Nazi salute after antisemitic phrases are said. I think Israel is undermining the Jewish cause with their current label-everything-we-dont-like-as-antisemitic rhetoric. But this "jok
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by phatfish 10mo ago
The "the UK is a police state" meme is something amplified by the US right wing (it's always people from the US going nuts about it on HN, or those that consume too much American media). Like you say, it's dumb that the
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Come on, "an unbelievable life improvement", was this said with a straight face? Maybe i'll wade through the substack hyperbole and find the source.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
The AI simps are out in force on this topic. Never seen so many green accounts.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
"Separately, LLMs have been an unbelievable life improvement for me. I’ve found that most people who haven’t actually played around with them much don’t know how powerful they’ve become or how useful they can be in your everyday life.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Youtube and Instagram were useful and fun to start with (say, the first 10 years), in a limited capacity they still are. LLMs went from fun, to attempting to take peoples jobs and screwing personal compute costs in like 12 months.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
It should be regulated similar to online gambling in the UK (so barely, but it is a start). The key being age verification. Under 18, or maybe 16 accounts have: Mandatory blackout periods (after 9pm most account functions stop working, pare
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Spite? It's standard practice for corporations to take the ball home when they are forced to play fair.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
That is what the "free market" was supposed to do, if you believe capitalist lore. Shareholders getting a cut was the side hustle.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Maybe because they are the only organisation able to act against the massive (foreign, if it is anything tech related for a European) corporate entities nowadays.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Valve seemingly has no concerns with using the same tactics casinos perfected to hook people (and their demographics are young). They are not Meta level of societal harm, but they are happy to be a gateway for kids into gambling. Not that t
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by phatfish 10mo ago
Which Europeans have you "talked" to? Discord and twitter don't count. People moan about the EU like they moan about their own national government. Opinion polls on actually leaving the EU show a minority in favour. Most Euro
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by phatfish 10mo ago
The question is, is the scammer taking donations from kids with cancer or Google the more worthy entity to profit from the situation? It's a tough decision.
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by phatfish 10mo ago
1/2 the country would be right. Do you not think if social media was disappeared society would be in a better place?
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by phatfish 10mo ago
This take is really detached from reality, I get down voted for this whenever I ask, but do you have kids? If not sorry, but your opinion means nothing. We all exist in a society and (as the other comment says) it take society to raise kids

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