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by xg15 8mo ago
I worry that some fraction of those 1%ers have the hope that this is where AI will lead to in the end: You don't need the 99% if they can actually be replaced with robots. Or, if that doesn't work (because the robots are too dumb)
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by xg15 8mo ago
This is my suspicion. I imagine, if you don't care about the majority of the population, you might as well reduce the economy to circular transactions between corporations and between 1%ers and the businesses catering to them.
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by xg15 9mo ago
Which would be? The harmful effects of social media are a topic of public discussion for at least a decade now, if not more. I think if there were an effective grassroots/civil society way to address this, it would have been found by n
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by xg15 9mo ago
From the article, which quotes an internal study of Facebook itself on this: > An internal 2019 study titled “Teen Mental Health: Creatures of Habit” found the following: - “Teens can’t switch off Instagram even if they want to.” - “Tee
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by xg15 9mo ago
I like how everyone on this thread is up in arms about Zuckerberg - until the moment where regulation is mentioned. Then it's suddenly "oh well, they could just, like, not use it, couldn't they?" There is also peer press
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by xg15 9mo ago
So then, what should be done instead?
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by xg15 9mo ago
Wasn't there an article on here a while ago that this "autocorrect" had a bug and was actually supposed to trigger only after several seconds of no user input, not immediately?
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by xg15 9mo ago
I don't know much about glibc's specifics, but in general: Security comes before a lot of things but not before accidental breakage. If you say "our compat guarantees are so strong you shouldn't keep track of versions at
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by xg15 9mo ago
By the same logic, you could ask "what part of a computer 'is' the computer? The CPU? The hard drive? The RAM? The TPM? The power supply? The sum of all peripherals? Etc" You could ask all kinds of philosophical question
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by xg15 9mo ago
Yeah, this seems like a weird niche where an agent has to interact with an existing browser session. That, or they expect that MCP clients should also be running a headless Chrome to detect JS-only MCP endpoints.
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by xg15 9mo ago
My condolences.
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by xg15 9mo ago
Yeah, I understood it such that the information was first moved from standard to verbose mode, and when people pointed out that they will drowned out in noise there, tge response was to cut down verbose mode as well. I didn't know abou
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by xg15 9mo ago
> Cherny responded to the feedback by making changes. "We have repurposed the existing verbose mode setting for this," he said, so that it "shows file paths for read/searches. Does not show full thinking, hook output
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by xg15 9mo ago
You can have one of "they're so serious about forward and backward compat you should remove version pins because things won't ever break" and "well, I'm not counting intentional breaks" but not both.
825.
by xg15 9mo ago
By that logic any and all regulation would be pointless because people will try to circumvent the regulation.
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by xg15 9mo ago
The "problem" (for corporations) is that the process of signing up for a subscription is itself a major obstacle in user flow and can serve as a point where users "wake up" and realize what they are doing. Sure, you can
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by xg15 9mo ago
> I also prefer this to a ban because a ban would be incredibly destructive and regressive while this regulation will be merely ineffective. So what would be your solution to the addiction problem then?
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by xg15 9mo ago
The first part sounded good, the "every platform is different, we have to decide everything case-by-case" and the specific focus on TikTok less so IMO. Keep in mind that in Europe, TikTok is still run by the original owners with C
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by xg15 9mo ago
I think ad networks and tracking companies have a pretty good idea about what advertising is.
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by xg15 9mo ago
Yes, but if we're talking about incentives and "primordial domino tiles" then compensated advertising is what createa the incentives for the whole attention economy and addictive design in the first place. Feel free to keep d
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by xg15 9mo ago
What do you mean with "how all this works"? Do you want to know how program code works, or how LLMs turn natural language into code? For the former, I think some hand coding will get the best results. A large part of "thinkin
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by xg15 9mo ago
If the "marketplace of ideas" with regards to civilizations had been some sort of borderless utopia where people would just naturally emigrate to the best civilization and become members in equal standing there, you could argue li
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by xg15 9mo ago
So how long until exploit toolkits include plugins for fully automated xz-backdoor-style social engineering and project takeover?
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by xg15 9mo ago
> Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/ I think we're just finding out the flaw in that strip's logic in realtime: that "engineered to maximize helpfulness ratin
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by xg15 9mo ago
Silver prices just went through the roof a few weeks ago. Hmmm...
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Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts)(practical.engineering)
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by xg15 9mo ago
> the writing has too much emotional bait of "Look how evil they are! Don't forget, we're the good guys!" I mean, that blog seems to be an official Air Force publication. I don't find it very surprising that an
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by xg15 9mo ago
> They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s making system calls to an OS kernel that’s scheduling threads across cores they’ve never thought about, hitting RAM through a memory
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by xg15 9mo ago
Ok, but at least expert witnesses are constrained by the basic state of science in the field: They can certainly have a biased opinion but they can't go against established knowledge - and the other party can also interrogate them and
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by xg15 9mo ago
I get the reasoning behind that kind of jury selection, but yeah it seems this would also select for the most gullible people to be in the jury - especially if you want people without domain knowledge.

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