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by underlipton 2mo ago
Google caused this by pushing people towards "brands" rather than individual pages. Those platforms only exposed the data necessary for SEO and Google refused to punish them for it.
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Is that what's happening? Search has sucked for a while, and I'd just assumed it was partly because they'd been pushing compute to AI-related activities.
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Yes. These corporations now run on fascist logic. (Hold up, stay with me here.) The goal isn't to right, or ethical, or principled. It's to (appear to) be strong and capable, and loud about it. You end up with horrible things happ
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Can you imagine if they'd skipped all of that and put the effort into keeping Search profitable without enshittifying it? Or even just skipped the second part?
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by underlipton 2mo ago
Indirectly. Direct application of dynamite to the human body is considerably more fraught an event than direct application of penicillin. As the fundamental goal of technology is to extend the capability of the human body, it's natural
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by underlipton 2mo ago
This is also why nothing will lower housing prices significantly. The problem isn't inventory, or that we're not subsidizing builders enough, or whatever. It's that we've decided that propping up housing values is more i
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by underlipton 2mo ago
>Pirates weren't holding back until they got really upset about something. They weren't pirates until now. This is radicalizing hubris. >If some secret torrent of piracy is somehow unleashed, they'll just unleash a secr
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by underlipton 2mo ago
GPM was amazing for keeping my library accessible on a device with all of 16GB of storage space, but for recommendations, Grooveshark took the cake. Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, Youtube... None have ever gotten close to GS in terms of showing m
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by underlipton 2mo ago
The through-line there is not a love for optical technology, but a desire for control. UMDs and MiniDiscs and the like existed because Sony thought that they could impose a monopoly on the market. On the contrary, after so many losing bets,
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by underlipton 2mo ago
I think you misunderstand. The disc was the practical tie-down and compromise that allowed gamers to stomach what was happening. Whether or not gamers actually took advantage of the opportunity, the fact that there was a disc out there that
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by underlipton 2mo ago
>They may ask about specific procedural issues that they would otherwise have no idea about that I then need to explain in greater detail. My favorite part about LLMs is that their insufficiency as legal aids (Aides? Aids.) seems to be s
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by underlipton 2mo ago
We already suspect that many non-human animals have a "sense of beauty" and a sense of humor. At least one other species spontaneously dances on the "beat" to music (parrots). I think alien intelligence would be able to
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by underlipton 2mo ago
But they only need so many robot housekeepers. And their standards are going to be higher than the average consumer's. If you're targeting that demo, slumming it with a $20k robot won't do; with the performance, bespoke servi
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by underlipton 2mo ago
>Even a 50th percentile US household is very wealthy by global standards. Not by purchasing power. We're also in a weird position compared to our "peers" in that most of them have relatively easy access to much less wealth
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by underlipton 2mo ago
We almost eradicated several diseases, usually screwed over by designating an Omelasan child (though, that's a bad characterization, because letting parts of the world continue to suffer and serve as a reservoir for those diseases was
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by underlipton 2mo ago
> While unhappy microbiomes can be unhappy in their own way, we do not have a consensus on what a “healthy” gut microbiome looks like, either. In collaboration with a continent-wide consortium in Africa, our lab helped catalogue the spec
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by underlipton 3mo ago
The hiring rate can be high while companies are still under staffed, and I think that's the case. A US that has 25% more programmers than it did prior to the pandemic is likely still some double-digit or triple-digit percentage shor
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by underlipton 3mo ago
>programmers and IT were severely overhired during the pandemic 1) I hesitate to believe that losses were disproportionately technical roles as opposed to administrative. 2) Over-hired by what metric? It's well known that hiring nev
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by underlipton 3mo ago
The same can be said for moments where avoiding savage decisions resulted in survival; when oblivion was the alternative, and where it was the result of humanity's capacity for compassion and cooperation overcoming "civilized&quot
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Most of the decision-making power within lobbying organizations lies with lawyers. Effectively, most lobbyists are lawyers, regardless of if most of the staff within those orgs are not. And lobbyists write our laws.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voir_dire#United_States
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by underlipton 3mo ago
And lobbyists? Judges? (Particularly appellate.)
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by underlipton 3mo ago
And yet not even half of what we deserve, which is the neutering of the ability of these automated systems to crush fair use and the enabling of them to actually help small creators who are having their rights trampled.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
I feel like there should be some sort of direct "judicial review" by non-attorneys. The only reason stuff like this is possible is because we're governed by lawyers; they've captured law and shaped it towards their ends,
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Chances they're planning on replacing personal, local compute with time-sharing on data center hardware that's too outmoded for AI...? You know, since they sunk the consumer component market for the next half-decade.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Does that include the capital costs of spinning up to the current models/scale or is it just running costs? Also, lost revenue from other services being degraded by shifting resources to supporting training/serving models (Google
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by underlipton 3mo ago
I connect letters that are easy to connect and pick up my pen on others. Anything that flows into the next, cursive. Anything where you have to contort and lead in or out with fiddly little bits and then just write the letter anyhow, I just
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by underlipton 3mo ago
Certainly. I will shoot you an email with this username in the heading.
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by underlipton 3mo ago
That intro makes me want to cry, because she's describing what the hope was for augmented reality before Zuck and Tim and every web developer looking for the next step on their career ladder stuck their grubby hands into its chest and
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by underlipton 3mo ago
>Holding parties to different standards of evidence is a horrible idea We already do that. Plaintiffs can introduce whatever, and as long as it's plausible, defendants have to directly prove it's a falsehood or otherwise inadmi

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