swed420

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by swed420 8d ago
> We have big problems for humanity. The biggest problem is that we're conditioned by a paradigm that frames these as problems.
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by swed420 9d ago
> This is how Republicans have a reputation for being economically savvy despite actual evidence to the contrary, because the general population doesn’t understand that economics runs on a time delay. And it's how Democrats have a r
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by swed420 9d ago
> Complaining about perceived LLM writing adds nothing to the conversation. Yet complaining about the complaining somehow adds something?
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by swed420 11d ago
This thread started with me citing a counterexample to your wide sweeping attempt to lump self-interested corporations in with humans who tend to be generous under many circumstances. I've made my point, so I'm done here.
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by swed420 11d ago
Pure cope and baseless assumptions.
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by swed420 11d ago
> There also is the fact that a large amount of FLOSS is an exercise in resume building (FLOSS contributions is SWE resume building 101) Not all of it. Plus, we could say the same thing about the typical worker at the average modern comp
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by swed420 12d ago
EFF article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699308
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by swed420 12d ago
Quite the mental gymnastics to simultaneously acknowledge the bootstrapping problem when it suits you, and pretend it doesn't exist otherwise.
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by swed420 12d ago
That exchange might be believable if bots didn't exist on X, but they absolutely do, hence the search for other explanations. Considering who owns it, it'd be weird if they didn't want a carefully curated echo chamber of sa
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by swed420 12d ago
It's not though. That's literally the point of the article.
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by swed420 12d ago
> they need to do something to get something, which is just how life is FLOSS invalidates that statement. Many people are happy to contribute to something greater than themselves. They also happily acknowledge they're standing on th
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by swed420 12d ago
Convenient that your "principles" disallow you from seeing critique of said principles.
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by swed420 12d ago
> A website that allows you to skirt paywalls, is immensely profitable to the end user. login wall != paywall As for your apples:oranges comparison about maximizing money, which group do you suppose has an unfair advantage these days? M
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by swed420 12d ago
> My point is: companies stop making your product suck, and people won't have a reason to try and fix it for you. That assumes the company's behavior is rooted in ineptitude rather than malice, which is too generous at this poi
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by swed420 12d ago
> The problem companies have is that "doesn't suck" generally means "it's free with no ads". There's no reason you can't abolish login walls while still serving ads. > The internet has this inna
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by swed420 12d ago
Reddit is still viewable, though they did finally axe "old" reddit for those not logged in. But at least reddit still has lots of nitter-style mirrors as an alternative.
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by swed420 12d ago
> users that will likely never sign up to X, but who want to read/watch some content They probably don't want their echo chamber leaking to the wider internet, because external discussion of the content would reveal it for the
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by swed420 14d ago
> are slaves to a misaligned reward function that encourages optimization of a metric (profit) over human values, even at what they claim is the risk of extinction This was already the case even before the "frontier AI" age. Th
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by swed420 14d ago
> They are still liable for its actions and the OAI board should be charged with a felony/felonies for this. You're right in theory, but in practice this hasn't been the case, at least so far.
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by swed420 14d ago
They just need plausible deniability, which is trivial to manufacture at this stage of the game. "Oops our black box went off the rails. We'll add better logging and alerts next time around."
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by swed420 15d ago
> It's probably lot more efficient to actually openly embrace shorter work hours This bill proposes that: https://www.newsweek.com/new-bill-32-hour-work-week-how-it-w...
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by swed420 15d ago
> It is way cheaper long term. Plus the collection can be inherited by somebody later. If they don't want it, it could be re-sold at second-hand prices.
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by swed420 16d ago
For some people it might be hard to tell or may even be non existent in their sphere of it. But if it's blanket rejecting certain signups based on identity, that suggests the company is interested in censorship and echo chambers, which
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by swed420 16d ago
> that doesn't want this to be a big story That's a bipartisan sentiment as far as politicians are concerned. They pass it around like a hot potato and give it brief lip service only when it suits them.
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by swed420 16d ago
Anything to distract from class politics. It seems to have worked. (certain strains of feminism do acknowledge the relevance of class variables, but the mainstream ones avoid it like the plague)
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by swed420 16d ago
Your experience resonates. This gives me a ray of hope, if a bold enough group of people are willing to give it a shot: https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
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by swed420 16d ago
The problem with X is it forces you to hand over personal information to sign up, and even then many have said it leaves them in a "we're having difficulties" loop. It might be a fair trade if this exchange of info helped the
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by swed420 16d ago
> Deep pockets + simple control = perfect culture to just hire talent and let them go wild without worrying about financial viability, as long as the king CEO is fine with it that is To expand, he also has knowledge and hands-on experien
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by swed420 18d ago
My goal was to share complex things I've learned through IRL experience, and explain them in detail. Unfortunately in my case, I can't justify the distilling/production time sink unless there is some kind of monetary incentiv
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by swed420 18d ago
I need at least some form of income to make it worthwhile, though. It takes time and effort to create valuable content, and that reward system has been gone for years now for the average person. Just isn't worth it.

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