philipov

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   by philipov 3y ago

   In the case of social network platforms, you have to do more than than convince someone to switch one person at a time. Using one social network platform over another is a group decision and you have to convince an entire group to switch
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   by philipov 3y ago

   Maybe there's a benefit to not needing to spend the energy or raw materials needed to synthesize something yourself? The large amounts needed might reflect that outsourcing the production is inefficient.
3. 633.▲
   by philipov 3y ago

   Network effects. It's the same reason people are locked into twitter, even if they want to leave. They can't leave until the other people they depend on leave, and those people are in the same situation. A social network is a mole
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   by philipov 3y ago

   We need a law that mandates commute time be counted as billable hours. Those two hours of commute should come out of the 8 the employer gets.
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   by philipov 3y ago

   Remember when they asked AI to improve the US transportation system and it said trains? And then they deleted trains, so it invented trains. And then they told it not to invent trains, and it invented things that weren't trains, but we
6. 636.▲
   by philipov 3y ago

   Is it a squid or a k̶i̶d lamp?
7. 637.▲
   by philipov 3y ago

   The site appears to have been hugged to death.
8. 638.▲
   by philipov 3y ago

   What I mean is that people who actively participate in the service are more engaged than those who passively prune the output of a recommendation engine. Agency arises from having to do it yourself.
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   by philipov 3y ago

   Imagine, getting force-fed posts by a company whose business goal is to eliminate your agency in favor of their algorithm isn't very engaging. Add user agency back in, and you get engagement. It's almost like they're the same
10. 640.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    No one using ChatGPT to write their homework cared about the original article either, so that's irrelevant.
11. 641.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    I thought he lost that title after he bought twitter and cratered their debt valuation.
12. 642.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    So, ChatGPT isn't a technology, it is a service.
13. 643.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    Are there enough people like you to sustain their valuation?
14. 644.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    And here I thought Hawking was a quantum field theorist.
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    by philipov 3y ago

    Inconceivable!
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    by philipov 3y ago

    Did you... just ask ChatGPT to translate the parent comment into pirate speak?
17. 647.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/125360998968
18. 648.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    What if we paved the earth? The entire earth!
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    by philipov 3y ago

    I think their point is that the original failed, because it became what it is now. We need something without the same vulnerability.
20. 650.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    Uh... is there some way to use this without connecting to a server? Like, for a game that can be played offline? Finding a way to make the machine learning piece a completely self-contained library that can be shipped at scale to run on ind
21. 651.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    Not having to move is itself a good that the markets should optimize for. Productivity isn't an end, it is a means. But having stability in your life is an end.
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    by philipov 3y ago

    We have a winner!
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    by philipov 3y ago

    What do they stand to lose? Cushy industry jobs.
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    by philipov 3y ago

    Nevertheless, by what reasoning does he believe this? Perfect knowledge is impossible, but persuasive argument is not.
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    by philipov 3y ago

    Just like Porfirio Diaz promised to step down in his last election, right?
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    by philipov 3y ago

    Why does God need a spaceship?
27. 657.▲
    by philipov 3y ago

    and in programming languages like Lisp, "Code is Data" is a mantra that forms a fundamental design principle.
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    by philipov 4y ago

    I tried disrupting my lithium battery, and it blew up.
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    by philipov 4y ago

    Whether or not it's applied consistently doesn't even help the situation. The goal is clearly to muddy the waters on what we mean by state-sponsored media. Even if he labels everything consistently as state-sponsored, it nonethele
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    by philipov 4y ago

    When I first saw this, I thought it said "The Otherworldly Composition of an Ethiopian Nun", which sounds demonic. Where are my glasses...