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by watwut 3mo ago
Google is not discovery mechanism for them anymore. They amount to free labor for Google. Basically, there are two futures: a.) they do free labor for google without being discoverable through them b.) they are not discoverable on google wi
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The winning monopolies and CEOs seem to be intent into turning into some kind of techno fascists feudalism with the most corrupt government on earth, uncontrollable start the war machine and increasingly less and generally destroying democr
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by watwut 3mo ago
Low-effort dismissals that crypto threads turned out to be correct. Is that what you meant to imply?
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> It feels like every big co is giving up on big questions (e.g. what happens when AI replaces more and more jobs? what happens to education system?) because searching for an answer to those questions was upsetting a lot of people. They
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I find the 2 being framed as fault of "us" weird. It seems completely normal to me to want to read a specific book rather then "just some" or see a specific movie rather then "any movie will do". Watching thing
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To large extend, that content stopped dying after Google deprioritized it in search results. People stopped being able to find it, sites/communities stopped having views, authors gave up. I stopped caring about my blog about that time
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Nothing at all, because all the things you claim dont exist ... exist.
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> Honest question, what are kids supposed to do all day? We're taking away social media but it's not like we're rebuilding anything. The worry that kids have nothing to do at all except social media means things went reall
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Isnt comgress partizan locked and powerless? All power is in president.
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Those were told "find another job" and in fact they were able to find different jobs. AI companies are gleefully bragging and "making humans obsolete", "permanent underclass" and 40% unemployment rates they pla
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by watwut 3mo ago
They cant make regulations. They have only limited political power, Karp and Thiel certainly have more. So, what you say amounts to "it is true, but do nothing at all". What they do is "do the thing we can do". You, CEOs
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by watwut 3mo ago
> We should call data centers what they actually are: surveillance centers designed to put us all in a digital prison by 2030 I mean, isnt that what Karp, Thiel are openly saying and one of the things Antropic doom trolls about?
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> There was an amusing story about how data center protestors had to organize expensive bus trips to get the protesters out to the data center site because it was so remote. How did they get in?
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> Now it's an AI mistake, and people HATE AI mistakes. Even if the number of AI mistakes is fewer than the human mistakes. I dont know. We have this hype cycle where ai or cars are talked about flawless or so much better then people
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It does not seem so to me. There does not seem genuine wish for protection from danger as much as genuine wish to see the leader to be cruel to others or take advantage as others.
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I would argue that their situation straightforwardly sux. And no amount of gadgets, fridge connected with wifi, etc etc will really unsux it.
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> If worse comes to worst, you can move another hour or two away from the big city. I would loose a job, easy access to friends, access family nearby in the process. All those matter, I value all three. Meanwhile, if I dont buy latest to
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The articles with similar claim I have seen attributed disproportional value to, basically, stupid crap: better phone, more entertainment (streaming movies), cloth I buy once in a while, cheaper gym nearby, some or other luxury I would miss
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> What's your mental model for bigger company = worse movies? Monopoly => lack of competition => enshittification and abuse. > Imagine the extreme where every movie was owned by a different owner. Netflix would not be able
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I dont think anything you wrote in that paragraph has anything to do with actual public anger as it exists. It is just Heritage think tank advancing their authoritarian dictatorship agenda yet again, this time more openly. As far as they ar
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Fertility is going down was my answer to your "why would anyone take such a burden" question. The answer is, people largely don't. I described how experience of motherhood was and its real impact on people. I did experienced
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> Although you seem to make you case a bit too extremely, as having two or three children doesn't entirely destroy free time and social life I described what experience of having one or two children is. All those are real effects on
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Authoritarian are not high trust. And people who call for authoritarian societies are not calling for high trust. They call for control and subjugation.
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It is not about percentage of the population, but about whether the bad actor rise to the top. > The other problem you have is that a lot of crime tends to be financially rewarding, so if left unchecked it will tend to grow over time as
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Anthropic and OpenAI talk about humans being obsolete and about replacing human workers too. Permanent underclass is expression for that.
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Paid servitude and working for salary are two massively different things. And over the course of history, free men worked for salaries, were free, were happy and it was not the same thing as being a slave.
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Iran is the norm now? And the USA self reporting about their own civilian victims (or military victims) is somehow to be trusted? USA is attacking desalination plants and civilian infrastructure. It was doing it in the first stage of the wa
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by watwut 3mo ago
> that depends on what your dreams and hopes are, and what you think are valuable goals to pursue, and ultimately your idea of a worthy life. You are talking about grand ideas here, but I do not mean like that at all. I mean things like
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> f Anthropic doesn't make money because of distillation attacks, how would they convince investors to invest in them, I dont care if that company dies. Or if OpenAI dies. I dont mind investors investing into other things either.
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You dont need large grass field to kick the ball, play with the ball and play soccer. Poor kids worldwide do it on whatever is available around - including streets themselves. Backyard, driveway, classroom during the break. Soccer became so

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