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by somethingreen 3y ago
Before: denial of violent events gets you blocked, disinfo accounts get marked and shadowbanned. After: reporting on e.g. Russia invasion of Ukraine gets you shadowbanned, troll farm accounts get boosted once they pay for Blue. Definite imp
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by somethingreen 3y ago
The idea that any of these would normally worry an average young teen is hilarious to me. I grew up during cold war, USSR collapse, multiple wars in the region. At no point was I (or any of my peers to my knowledge) gravely concerned for ou
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Sure, there is a distinct possibility that emergent abilities of LLMs are an illusion, and I personally would prefer it to be that way. I'm just pointing out that AI optimism without AI caution is dumb.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Capcom has been providing demos for most (all?) of their big releases for a while now. Seems to be working out fine for them.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
The whole "LLMs are not just a fancy auto-complete" argument is based on the fact that they seem to be doing stuff beyond what they are explicitly programmed to do or were expected to do. Even at the current infant scale there doe
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by somethingreen 3y ago
From user side Youtube discovery is almost completely broken anyway. I ended up removing both home feed and recommended videos block via extension because they didn't contribute anything besides frustration and page load time for a cou
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by somethingreen 3y ago
So you are ok with using an automated censor as long as you are able to review (transparency) and revert (recourse) it's results. Like I said, just make it good. And sure, we can't verify factuality of every claim, but I do believ
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by somethingreen 3y ago
> most kids are already way more tech-savvy What about those who aren't? Public education is designed to pull those struggling to average level, not leave them behind.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
The benefits of censoring misinformation are obvious if you think about it for even a couple minutes. If you run a community tech support forum and someone starts suggesting deletion of windows32 directory as a solution to other users issue
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by somethingreen 3y ago
I don't think there is an agenda, but design by committee has gotten to the point where it does look like there is one. If you are hell bent on checking the same set of was-well-received-before boxes in every piece of schlock you pump
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by somethingreen 3y ago
> In communist countries, I suspect that regular people form strong friendships because there are no good mechanisms to extract resources from each other It is the opposite. If money doesn't buy you anything, it is knowing people th
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by somethingreen 3y ago
It is true, we can't force people to think the way we want, nor should we want to. What we can do, hopefully, is make them live with the consequences of admitting the way they think, whatever that entails. There are countries where it
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by somethingreen 3y ago
It is not a jump. When it comes to genocide, you are either for it or against. There is no center, no above, no neutral. The only other option is being unaware. What is being done in the west is people continuously being made aware and forc
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Now go to Steamcharts, find first game that isn't a game-as-a-service and calculate ratio of its hours played in relation to everything above it. Then do that for the second and third - see if the ratio grows or shrinks further. The fa
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by somethingreen 4y ago
There absolutely is a pressure on women to look a certain way, but I don't think number of pockets is in that category. I personally can't think of a single time number of pockets on a woman was addressed critically by either a ma
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by somethingreen 4y ago
It has little to do with privacy - it's about adversary controlling a Skinner box which millions of your citizens have willingly put themselves in. It's just, how do you encode that into law? So privacy it is.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
That's how I see it too. Big neo-luddite movement, anti-AI unions, "AI Free" labeling with corresponding certification, registries of AI users (and witch hunts of course), AIs being weaponized to destroy or corrupt other AIs.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Just use BankID/GovID/whatever verified OAuth service and request a single age/date of birth data point once. No need to authenticate or store anything.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
In order to be able to make use of the code produced by AI - be it review, validate, fix, integrate or iterate - operator needs to ultimately be better than AI at making software. (Unless we abandon the idea of understanding what exactly so
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by somethingreen 4y ago
If there is a way to produce senior software engineers without years of work experience, why aren't we doing it now?
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Not sure why the downvotes, as, yes, Yandex along with several other russian internet service companies is blocked in Ukraine and it is almost certainly why it is not being set as default, because doing so would straight up break search alt
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Over here you aren't allowed to park rear of the vehicle towards sidewalk if it's directly adjacent to parking spot. Sadly the rule isn't enforced and my grandma once got hit on a sidewalk by a food truck backing up to unload
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Yea, the stumble is usually at the step of gaining control of the whole board or keeping money in the chunk of the board you control.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
It's probably this. Best things about cars are luxury, not strictly utility. Having to own a car and drive it everywhere every day can be pretty miserable. Being able to afford owning a car and not having to drive it all the time is wo
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Watching porn is a hyperdopaminergic activity and the industry is highly exploitative to everyone involved. Sex ed is to porn what biochemistry class is to cocaine.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
Opt-in telemetry not executing for users who would like it to be executing, because they don't know about it or forgot, makes it an under-advertised feature. Opt-out telemetry executing for users who would not like it to be executing,
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by somethingreen 4y ago
The amount of effort you people put into not hearing what russians have on multiple occasions in plainest of words claimed to be the goal of the war is honestly mind boggling.
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by somethingreen 4y ago
These terms come from Sakuga scene where artist attribution and appreciation are a big part of it. See also "Yutapon Cubes", for example. Also we absolutely do identify art styles after their creators if the style is distinct enou
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by somethingreen 4y ago
They don't because since React set the bar, any new framework that didn't solve the problem VDOM did in some way, was dead on arrival. If Svelte way is better at minimizing and batching DOM updates, they should probably argue and
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by somethingreen 4y ago
I found most of them did have at least one interesting take or a perspective. Listening to people able to talk on serious topic for hours going deep into nuance was refreshing. And then there was Eric Weinstein, who could do that on seeming

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