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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Wildly speculating here, but if you buy that human brains have innate / evolved syntactic knowledge, and that this knowledge projects itself as the common syntactic forms across the bulk of human languages, then it’s no surprise that L
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Don’t approve any password-reset prompts—those are the first part of the attack. Do not pass Go, just head directly to your Apple ID settings. Why do I need to go to Settings? I get these occasionally and ignore them; what harm is there i
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Just like it says in the First Amendment! Congress shall make no law except… If this thing passes it’s a dead letter to at least the current SCOTUS.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Have you looked at US per pupil K-12 spending growth & absolute comparisons vs. peer nations? The problem with US public schools is not funding.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
This is the real apocalypse scenario. Not Skynet, but a model trained so well to trigger dopamine hits across the bulk of the human population that our creative muscles totally atrophy. Then we’re the stochastic parrots.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Who in the healthcare space has actually pulled the trigger on Accenture+Anthropic so that BATNA is even remotely credible? Sorry, but that sounds as mythical as Bigfoot.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
DB2 had/has excellent data compression capabilities, achieving ratios for OLTP that would only be equaled by later OLAP columnar systems. For raw performance needs, many financial services schema were going to be denormalized anyway. C
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Right. Many, many reasons why the dollar that bought the Tesla in 2026 is not quite so disadvantaged against the dollar of 1901 it’s being compared to by CPI.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
That’s ~3.17% compounded annually. Modest, stable inflation is good. It encourages investment & discourages deferring consumption for indirect monetary reasons. “Stable” is the hard part.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
You said it mattered if a product was “designed to be addictive”. I’m asking what that means. If your answer is, “Only the lawyers can tell us,” then that’s not particularly satisfying if we want to live in a world where how we choose to sp
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I’m not asking about the criteria for establishing new disorders. I’m sure there are many. I’m asking why all this fuss about the social media companies and not the video or causal game companies? Nobody’s ever written a paper about Candy C
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I also think Apple wasn’t sure 5 years ago that a product like the Mac Studio would be accepted by the market. Memories of the G4 Cube and all… But it’s a great product, does fulfill the bulk of needs for most “Pro” desktop use cases, and w
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
This is begging the question. Doritos are designed to taste good and encourage you to eat them to your satisfaction. The latest Mario game is designed to be playable & fun for as long as you have time and energy to play it. My Instagram
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
I’m actually strongly sympathetic to this argument, but I’d love to see some actual clinical research that suggests algorithmic short form video has mental and physiological effects that (say) video games do not.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
What else could “at some point we limit your freedom of expression” possibly mean?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
What do you mean by “be this way”? There’s somebody out there who’s harmfully addicted to just about anything, from ultramarathons to World of Warcraft. What’s the limiting principle on liability?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Netflix certainly doesn’t think about their subscriber audience that way.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
How would you contrast social media with Netflix in this regard?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Ah. “Can produce addiction-like behaviors”! Like, I dunno, really getting into running or yoga or fantasy football? Where is the line, according to experts in addiction-like behavior?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
So any producer of X should be regulated or otherwise held liable for the injuries of unhealthy individuals who misuse X?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
None of those attributes are necessary beyond those of an ordinary bag of Lays to meet the definition: “things which are harmful and which people have trouble not doing”
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
OK, sorry, so using behavioral psychology to encourage an audience to stay on the couch watching TV for prolonged periods should be illegal? This is the Netflix business model, right now.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
So what the heck are we talking about ITT? “I’m so addicted to Firefly !” That kind of thing?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Using behavioral psychology in commercial speech should be illegal? Good luck with that one. Somebody probably used 18th Century behavioral psychology to try to sell George Washington a horse!
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
May it have similar success!
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
The traditional solution to speech you don’t like is more speech you do like.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
What the best evidence that otherwise psychologically healthy people are becoming clinically addicted to social media? People used to spend an awful lot of mindless time watching TV. They weren’t “addicted” in a clinically meaningful sense.
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Even commercial speech regulations need a stronger basis than, “People spend a lot of time listening to it.”
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
How would you get around the First Amendment difficulties?
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by twoodfin 7mo ago
Like potato chips?

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