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by shkkmo 2y ago
I would guess it would be more lie your solicted reviews should not deviate significantly from you unsolicited reviews. Perhaps there will be a market for "negging" reviewers? Those who criticize but only in the ways that don&#x27
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> In my opinion Kahle was wrong; the existence of one orphan works clearinghouse would have encouraged Congress to grant more libraries access instead of doing nothing Maybe. I think that is a pretty optimistic view of congress and our p
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by shkkmo 2y ago
I'm using the word "fanatic" becuse I think it's meaning is the closest to what I am trying to describe: "a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause." It isn't inten
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Why would a coupon be a way around this? I think that document is specifically about taxes and coupons. It is not intended to define "compensation" for every statue in California and certainly not for federally issued rules from t
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The evidentiary standards for Google search ranking changes is VERY different than the one used for FTC enforcement actions. I'm pretty sure getting caught for trying to frame a company for buying reviews would bring criminal charges t
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The rule also prohibits implicit compensation, but we'll see if it's enforced/enforceable.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed. So implicity only offering review units to positive reviewers is still not allowed.
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I couldn't find anything on that site that wasn't marketing material. I didn't dig deep into that organization but it appears to be run by the type of fanatics that I am talking about. It is dedicated to advocating for a cert
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> ketogenic therapy is evidence based medicine There is only anedotal evidence and an animal study that a ketogengic diet reduces ADHD symptoms. There are reasons to be hopeful, but to call this "evidence based medicine" is a l
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by shkkmo 2y ago
You are no longer allowrd to provide compensation for reviews. So companies can still send out stuff for your to possibly reviews but it can't make recieving items dependent on actually writing a review, even 'implicitly', th
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by shkkmo 2y ago
They chose to stop serving archives of a site that had started explicitly using tham as a distribution mechanism to get around much a much broader attempt to censor them. I'm curious what other information on that site you think was va
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> don’t need a universally justified definition, I’m just looking for an objective, scientific one. A definition that would help us say for sure that a particular cognition is or isn’t a product of reason. Unfortunately, you won't g
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> In a sense it embraces blame but eschews accountability. The two concepts we are talking about are each talked about under each label so there is enough ambiguity in both words that this is true. However choosing to use 'blame&#x2
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Sure, when humans use multiple skill to address a specific problem, you can sometimes outperform them by scaling a spefic one of those skills. When it comes to general intelligence, I think we are trying to run before we can walk. We can&#x
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by shkkmo 2y ago
That wasn't a thought I had articulated before I read your comment, so your comment was also very productive for me.
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You can't breakdown cognition into just "search" and "learn" without either ridiculously overloading those concepts or leaving a ton out.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> LLMs absolutely 100% can reason, if we take the dictionary definition; it’s trivial to show their ability to answer non-memorized questions, and the only way to do that is some sort of reasoning. Um... What? That is a huge leap to make
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by shkkmo 2y ago
I think you are conflating accountability and blame when I don't think those terms can be used interchangeably here. Accountability can be used as a way of assigning blame, but that isn't all that it is good for. Accountability, a
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> No. Censorship is when the government kicks down your door to arrest you for your wrongthink. People getting banned from some site or project because of obnoxious behavior is not censorship, it's just normal social activity and gr
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Given the numbers of times I've had to disable ad blocker to fix some janky page I have to use, I don't think installing an ad blocker without explaining or even mentioning it is a friendly act.
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> Surely that would be a good thing if it incentivizes prosecutors to track down the purveyors and distributors instead of just stopping with easily targeted consumers It would make it harder to prosecute purveyors and distributors. Argu
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Allowing AI generated realistic CSAM while prohibiting real CSAM creates a real enforcement problem. Do prosecutors now need to find and identify depicted victims to prove a CSAM charge? Does believing material was AI generated serve as a d
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> The difference between running a scam and running a failing business is just a matter of intent Perhaps in some cases but "running a failing business" becomes fraud when you start lying, even if your intentions are "good
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Your link is broken, should be: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Cos.,_... . You missed the final period
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Minecraft took the moral approach of allowing independent servers and mods (in the Java edition.) Roblox took the scummy approach of monetizing child labor and taking a cut. I am so glad, despite the other bad things Microsoft has done with
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by shkkmo 2y ago
Roblox is a destable scummy company that depends on the exploitation of children to make money. They took the exploitative practices of microtransaction based games, targeted them at children, then decided to use child labor to create conte
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by shkkmo 2y ago
The Patriot act was reauthorized (in part) several times, but expired in 2020.
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That article, disapointingly, doesn't provide any arguments as to why we can't build AGI.
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The offline lookup is just for passwords (the pwned passwords service) and is used to prevent people from using known breached passwords. There is no offline availability for the Have I Been Pwned data on which emails were present in which
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by shkkmo 2y ago
> In my apartment, my deadbolt was so sticky that it was hard to turn even with the door half open. Two spritzes (keyhole and the bolt) with WD-40 classic, and it moved easily, and continued to turn easily for the remaining 6 months in m

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