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by worrycue 3y ago
China is having quite a few problems on their hands though like the implosion of their real estate market that is tied to nearly everything else due its size. Their exports are down from companies decoupling somewhat with “China + 1”. In th
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> Sounds like a description of the Western economic situation to me. How so?
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You are. I mean the similarities are uncanny. Both are publicity hounds who flip out at any perceived slight. Both are vain, petty, vindictive, and in general, seem to show all the signs of narcissistic personality disorder. Both have gone
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Or a completely novel AI algorithm.
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You never know. We could get AGI next month … The world would change overnight. The thought of how it’s all going to play out scares me. That said I think LLMs are overhyped.* If we are to get AGI, it would probably be a novel model. * It’s
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> but can it decide the weightings of the factors it takes into account to make that decision? Is there a reason why you think it wouldn’t be able to do that?
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Machines will be able to do that too. Hell, non-AI algorithms are already doing that - e.g. social media algorithms picks what should be promoted to individuals; of course they are working for the social media company rather than those indi
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> it just changed the skill set from a strong back to a strong engineering ability. When you have a machine that can do it all, there will be no skill to change to.
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Doesn’t explain the lack of romance though - which sex (or at least the expression of desire for) usually comes with. I can understand holding back on the PDA if you are making an evening TV shows watched together by families. But in PG-13
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Like?
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Quite sure even the rich have to entertain their peers - be a good host, have entertaining parties, … etc.
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> If the functionality is effectively the same If it were people wouldn't be pushing for JPEG-XL. I'm not going to repeat the advantages of JEPG-XL - plenty of posts on that already. For some bizarre reason, Mozilla chooses to
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Yet it supports AVIF, a a directly competing format ... There is nothing neutral about supporting one format and not supporting another.
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Google’s web products have always worked with Firefox to my knowledge. Maybe they run a bit faster on Chrome but I don’t recall them ever being broken on Firefox. Perhaps I’m wrong. Can you cite incidents of Google’s stuff not working right
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Frankly Firefox is barely a hedge against Chrome. When it comes to things like JPEG-XL they are in lock step with Chrome. Safari ended up being JPEG-XL’s unlikely champion. I kind of wished Apple would release Safari for other platforms aga
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Some people do. I switched back and forth. But most people are “low frequency” switchers. Chrome is ahead often enough that most people stick with them.
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That’s not how I remembered it. Chrome really was a good browser and I would argue is still a good browser (for now). IE got displaced by Firefox’s predecessors because MS got caught napping - they disbanded the IE team thinking they have w
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Frankly, I think it’s less “moving closer to the user” and more just securing control over the path users use to get to their service. Chrome was made to prevent whoever controls the browser from blocking users’ access to Google. Android wa
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by worrycue 3y ago
Maybe I misremembered, I recall LKY saying, to paraphrase, “Don’t tell me harsh punishment don’t work. I have seen it work very well during the WWII Japanese occupation”.
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> If investors decided tomorrow that they like pot, Singapore will go ahead and legalize it. Sale of chewing/bubble gum is still banned - possession isn’t a problem though. Frankly, if pot was so profitable that the gov want a slice
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> you lose nothing being enthusiastic for new tech that doesn't pan out I would be wasting attention on it. I kind of wish that the front page isn’t flooded with so much speculative news - when it reaches a certain level it becomes
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40s. I just approach “next big thing” with caution these days. It will either go nowhere or actually work but will have unforeseen fallout that we have to deal with / live with.
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Some of us are just old. We have seen countless hype cycles. Many hyped up things do not pan out. So we all have a “show me” kind of attitude now. Also for things that do pan out, they sometimes comes with unforeseen negative consequences.*
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The relationship between the worker and the organisation is different. With Amazon it’s purely transactional. Amazon isn’t promising anything but money to their warehouse workers. With Moon’s cult, the cult defined their follower’s world vi
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I was thinking about it from the perspective of changing people’s minds. With right wing conspiracy movements, are they really converting anyone or just organising people who already lean in that direction and just need a rallying flag. To
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Depends on the kind of posting IMHO. Contributing to a rational civil discussion? Maybe. Flaming, downvoting, and “collectively bullying” someone with a different opinion to enforce an echo chamber? Not so much. The latter just drives every
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> Looks AI is going to even put the webcam girls out of business. I think camgirls will survive because the interaction with their audience is part of the appeal - there is a parasocial aspect to it.
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Well, IMHO high interest rates - meaning no cheap money - also plays a role. AI blew up at a bad time while cryptocurrency lucked out.
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If they are owners, they control it as much as the other owners - following the same rules; which I believe in most companies is the majority get the final say.
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> Socialism is when workers own and control the means of production. In most cases, workers can own the means to production as many corporations are public. They just have to risk their capital to buy a share of the company - like every

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