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by philipov 4y ago
The great irony for me is that all the conversation about how bad twitter is becoming is still happening on twitter. After all this time, people are still unable or unwilling to switch to something else. That's how strong the platform
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The fact that that much money would move a stock price a lot is an indication that it should not be used to try to chase alpha by trading securities. That amount of money should be used to create value by building new things that haven&#x
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by philipov 4y ago
I don't understand the desire to delete them. It seems to stem from the misconception that this triggers the service to delete everything in their ad targeting profiles. They don't delete everything they know about you just becaus
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???
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by philipov 4y ago
It contains information systems, but it is not an information system. It is a vehicle. Its purpose is to provide transportation.
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by philipov 4y ago
Google isn't a tech company, it's an ad company. Apple is a tech company because they sell computers, which are information systems: Hardware counts. Chip manufacturers are also good examples of tech companies.
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by philipov 4y ago
If their main business does not involve selling information technology to other people and companies, they're not a tech company.
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If he can't handle the uncertainty of shifting markets getting in the way of the binding agreements he forced on other people, if the stress of managing that many billions of dollars is making him sad, I'd be happy to take a few o
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by philipov 4y ago
True, but we don't need to assume that without a prior claim, the standard for awarding copyright bottoms out at nothing. Copyright exists to serve a specific purpose, to encourage people to make substantial investments that they would
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by philipov 4y ago
Chances are they were not involved in training the AI, and just provided instructions to a website like DALL-E. If I give you a paragraph of instruction to write a book, barring any other contracts we make, I would be surprised to find anyo
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by philipov 4y ago
What Dwarf Fortress has going for it is that the simulation is so much deeper than Rimworld that it has a much more expressive range of emergent behavior that allows it to tell other stories, too.
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by philipov 4y ago
Minecraft has an ending because people complained to Notch over twitter that it's not really a game if it doesn't have an ending.
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If you build inside a mountain, however, then the bug infestations can target you, and they're even worse. It just seems that the only story the game is good at generating is the one where you die, and that gets boring. There isn'
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The computer isn't adapting to your build, the designer of the game is. The game just has a list of events it randomly picks from (and if you save scum, you can see that because it'll give you a different event). But the random ev
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> like RimWorld but fantasy? Dwarf Fortress ;)
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by philipov 4y ago
Mature Content Description: "Alcohol consumption is required for a dwarven fortress to run smoothly, as described in text."
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by philipov 4y ago
0.0001% == 0% The only operable probabilities are "Never", "Sometimes", and "Always". Since Musk took over, the chance of imminent nonrecoverable catastrophe has gone from "No" to "Maybe".
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by philipov 4y ago
Let me help you: http://discord.com http://slack.com
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by philipov 4y ago
At this point, it's no longer a given that Twitter will still be physically functional in one year.
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by philipov 4y ago
The only reason Twitter suddenly needs to be saved is because Musk acquired it with a leveraged buyout. That was the first chaotic decision he made.
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They're not using discord, they're using slack.
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"Neither player moves first" The way that's phrased makes it sound like no one ever gets to take a turn, but they actually meant that players move at the same time.
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by philipov 4y ago
AI works the way human intuition does. Try explaining professional intuition to someone; it's not going to be a convincing argument unless they're willing to trust your expert gut feeling.
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What if the only thing that exists that can do that is (gag) Facebook?
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by philipov 4y ago
People aren't looking for Reddit or Discord. They already have these. The people using Twitter to promote their business-of-choice are already on Reddit and Discord if they want to be. They don't want Twitter because it's a g
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by philipov 4y ago
Centralization makes it harder to deal with bad actors, because the cost of moderating a huge platform is massive, and the centralized social media platforms we have today have been unable or unwilling to do it. Federal platforms like Reddi
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by philipov 4y ago
The most important quality I hear people are looking for in a replacement for Twitter is "Everyone else is on it" so they're all stuck in a catch 22. I don't think this energy to get off Twitter is going to go anywhere.
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Our theories break down at the singularity and we don't know what happens there. That's part of why quantum gravity is such a big topic of research.
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A classic example of Type 3 is Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. So determined to work hard and do his duty that he was completely unwilling to delegate, with no effort spared in coming up with the worst possible solution to every problem.
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They call this Fantasy? Looks more Sci-Fi to me.

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