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by techorange 2y ago
It feels like the only way out of this is some massive long lived catastrophe that is unignorable. Like way beyond 9/11. Great depression or world war 3? I took this class on Trauma, and I remember the thing that stuck with me the mo
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by techorange 2y ago
The mythology in Silicon Valley is interesting, on the one had I do think that Elon Musk is a once in a generation entrepreneur who’s built these amazing companies (even if he’s a bit over his skis at the moment) But I don’t believe the cra
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by techorange 2y ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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by techorange 2y ago
But they’re programming grok not just to regurgitate what it sees online, but to be maximally truth seeking, even when politically unpopular.
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by techorange 2y ago
People compare the birth of AI to the birth of the computer and the internet, saying that the next 50 years in AI development will necessarily explode in productivity. But it feels different to me. In part because —- does it actually crea
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by techorange 2y ago
In 2016 it seems like there was really this idea that there was a Reckoning that there was this big group of white working class ignored by the Democratic Party and Trump had successfully catered his politics to try and help that constituen
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by techorange 2y ago
I think there’s a lot of variance in essentially people’s constitution. Marc Andreesen used to say the ideal lifestyle was like 12 hours of coffee followed by 6 hours of alcohol daily. That would kill me. But for the first I dunno 25 year
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by techorange 2y ago
My greatest aspiration in life (yes, hyperbole) is to retire and get rid of my smartphone, and I can imagine it’s just going to be harder and harder as time goes on. I went into a restaurant recently and asked for a menu and they looked at
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by techorange 2y ago
I mean, I think anthropomorphism is appropriate when these products are primarily interacted with through chat, introduce themselves “as a chatbot”, with some companies going so far as to present identities, and one of the companies buildin
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by techorange 2y ago
I’m really excited about this device but haven’t read many perspectives on this that think it’s little more than vaporeare. Anyone have any contrasting perspectives or do we just have to wait like a year to see what happens. Does the foun
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by techorange 2y ago
The article opens with Musk’s claim that: [grok is] “maximally truth-seeking… even if that truth is sometimes at odds with what is politically correct.” There’s a thread on Reddit, where when asked who in the world is most deserving of the
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by techorange 2y ago
I mean, if Mark didn’t so clearly spend the past few years working on his image, I might agree with you, but seems odd to ignore.
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by techorange 2y ago
I've generally speaking considered myself an athiest, and I don't think that theism is the only way about this, but as I've gotten older, I've sort of chosen to... let's say practice a belief in God, as a way to sor
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by techorange 2y ago
What are you getting at? Didn’t you answer your own question? “Apple recalls 2 billion iPhones for security fix!”
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by techorange 2y ago
I mean, the more we use the word, the more people will figure it out right? Also, it seems like we should differentiate between a software update that puts new features in your music app and one that fixes power steering.
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by techorange 2y ago
> I think this is going to be the first large-scale "test" for lack of a better word of Trump's base. Because if voters didn't want this it's gonna hurt. I assume they’ll roll this out in a way that provides plau
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by techorange 2y ago
Wouldn’t this increase the risk, for say people who were retiring in 2008-ish?
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by techorange 2y ago
I’m really not trying to be overly negative here, but I read an article recently that said, maybe counter intuitively that intelligent people were more likely to believe conspiracy theories, because their mind can quickly fill in the gaps.
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by techorange 2y ago
It’s interesting they thought the Amazon name would be a draw. I’m not a huge gamer or anything but my gut instinct would be that the name Amazon would be something to overcome to appeal to a fickle subculture like gamers.
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by techorange 2y ago
> Many of the replies so far seem to be focused on how dumb/evil/selfish/etc the entire right is. I wonder if thats the nuance you were looking for? Decidedly not
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by techorange 2y ago
So, in response to public health officials being wrong about X, we get new public health officials who are wrong about Y? I totally understand what you’re saying, but it doesn’t sound like they tried to explain that this was a bad campaign
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by techorange 2y ago
I didn’t find it misleading, but maybe the context on the word campaign is different for me?
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by techorange 2y ago
Are there sort of nuanced or structural reasons why the right seems more antivax especially recently? Or is it more just that’s the way the politics has sort of played out.
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by techorange 2y ago
It’s so interesting that, like if Musk wanted to rest in his laurels a bit that he would still be known as one of the greatest innovators/entrepeneurs of all time, but yeah, I think two things are true that he is and that he’s way over
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by techorange 2y ago
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this ship.
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by techorange 2y ago
Are they going to look into X/Twitter banning far right influencers like Laura Loomer? I’m curious if this all ends in a vaguely misguided ending of Section 230.
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by techorange 2y ago
“Now at least I get to watch horrible people get a dose of their own medicine” Doge is not being this careful, in fact I’d argue that Doge will disproportionately impact people not on your target list. All the “horrible” people you don’t li
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by techorange 2y ago
Ironically USAID might help Americans more than foreign folks, and disproportionately Trump’s own supporters - if the money is being spent to buy American products, particularly food, that is then shipped overseas.
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by techorange 2y ago
This is sort of the group that interests me the most, there is some notion of the government as sort of an employer of last resort in some areas which is a progressive/liberal idea, though id imagine with the areas most impacted by off