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by probably_wrong 5d ago
A major factor is that the companies pushing for this technology are spending significant resources into making sure your consent isn't relevant. From this article [1] about Meta and smart glasses: > Five years ago, Facebook shut d
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by probably_wrong 6d ago
I'd like to throw an idea to those who know better than I do. Ever since I started living on my own I've lived in apartments, none of which had a backyard (one of them had a parking lot). None of my friends owns a house either. I&
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by probably_wrong 6d ago
> The Children’s Television Workshop, the maker of Sesame Street, entered into talks with Psygnosis about a Lemmings television show. (…) Television shows, whether aimed at adults or children, are built around memorable characters. (…)
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by probably_wrong 8d ago
> The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more. If that were the case then photo competitions would have been upended by now by t
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by probably_wrong 8d ago
First, to get it out of the way: I'm seeing comments here that clearly haven't read the article. I encourage you all to do that. I feel the article gets it right when suggesting it's the amount of (not always accurate!) data
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by probably_wrong 8d ago
x and y are common shorthand for inputs and outputs respectively. Saying "y=LLM(x)" denotes that the input tweets (x) are fed to a black-box function (LLM) that returns a classification (y) for that input. Given that we're ta
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
> How else are they to monetize text outputs? Sam Altman famously said in 2024 "I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." So perhaps we could ask him first what his other plans were and why they di
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
The fact that ads are one of two types of content for which people regularly install blockers (with porn coming second) speaks volumes about how useful they really are.
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
> Because what else can you do? You can resist. Upvote quirky projects, call out fake hype, make your disapproval visible, call AI slop what it is. The term AI has become a liability in some circles, so let that be proof that you don&#x2
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by probably_wrong 11d ago
I was wondering this myself so I wrote a script that shows that there are duplicated puzzles if you count a rotated Sudoku as being equivalent. Here's one example: Puzzle 2 is 1234 3412 2341 4123 If you rotate it countercl
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by probably_wrong 12d ago
There's no need for a new crime when we already have reckless conduct, namely, "conduct that creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm to others and involves a conscious disregard of, or indifference to, that risk"
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by probably_wrong 12d ago
The explanation I got from my doctor was that one shouldn't fix posture problems by raising the inner part of the insoles a random amount because all that achieves is making you run "weird", putting pressure in the wrong part
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by probably_wrong 12d ago
Semi-related: I did the gait analysis thing when I started seriously training for a half marathon. The guy showed me the video and reached the conclusion that, since I run with my knees flexed inwards (true) I needed a certain shoe that wou
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by probably_wrong 15d ago
No. You will have your slop and you'll like it, too.
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by probably_wrong 16d ago
I couldn't finish the book because my Kindle died halfway, but based on the opening chapters I agree with you. I admire her for the stance she's taking today and the personal sacrifice it's costing her to this day, but I won&
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by probably_wrong 18d ago
Perhaps that's the way to go: if we build our social media in agent-only forums no one will mine it for training. The only downside will be the inevitable "Are you a robot?" captchas.
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by probably_wrong 18d ago
I often read here comments along the lines of "there will be plenty of jobs for AI-unfuckers" [1], but I fear the truth may be closer to "sometimes things are broken, are then fixed with a broken solution, and will remain bro
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by probably_wrong 19d ago
I'd like to see a citation for "most of the west".
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by probably_wrong 19d ago
I'm going to disagree with your law of "conservation of filth" on the grounds that it's pushing things too far. Whatever amount of feces comes into your system via walking downtown on a regular day and then bringing the
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by probably_wrong 19d ago
Coming from a shoes-on culture I can give a couple points. First, in the rare cases you describe (when was the last time you stepped on feces?) one would indeed leave their shoes outside. But in the day-to-day your shoes have some dust on t
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by probably_wrong 19d ago
There's an article somewhere (read it many years ago) with the story about the first days of Tinder. The way they got their first users was to send (IIRC) the marketing strategist (a woman) to talk to attractive young women in bars and
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by probably_wrong 24d ago
I clicked on a couple ads once because I was desperate - I needed a cheap flight with a tight deadline and my usual search engines didn't help. I thought "if these ads deliver what they promise, I'll never book anywhere else&
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by probably_wrong 24d ago
For starters, it breaks two rule of the thread: "Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here" and "please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities". Not that you don't get spammed
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by probably_wrong 25d ago
Mildly related side note: my Kindle DX died this year (it won't charge nor reset, even with a new battery) so I've been looking for a replacement. I'd like a second-hand one but, based on my eBay experience, barely anyone is
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by probably_wrong 27d ago
The problem of "what actually happened" is that we don't have enough information to properly understand what happened, what's new, and what's not. We do have language to talk about emergent behavior, with "evol
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by probably_wrong 27d ago
Do you remember that time in 2017 when Facebook reportedly shut down AIs after they started "talking to each other in their own language" [1]? Instead of reporting the story as "we set the parameters for our optimization pro
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by probably_wrong 29d ago
If a fireman is trying to stop a house fire and suddenly they catch fire themselves, no one would argue that they need to focus on the house fire first. Antidepressants are the same: they won't stop the bigger fire by themselves, but b
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
I'm not convinced by the author's point that ACs do not impose a burden on the electrical grid. They write that ACs have gotten more efficient, which may be true, but that's the same Windows developers have been saying over y
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Having seen the increase in suicide rates for girls and young women [1], and having read the arguments for why no other explanation fits that data, I am convinced social media is indeed to blame. But as someone else put it once regarding gl
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
If we're reinventing sayings, I suggest Clarke's third law first: Any sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from malice.

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