_Algernon_

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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
People go on hikes in areas where there are multiple days between charging opportunities. Hiking often also occurs in areas with bad or no coverage causing higher battery consumption with the phone trying to connect. If you don't mitig
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Apple was also in the list, so still relevant.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Cant wait for Bendgate 2025 edition
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Here is an English translation of the Norwegian law around this topic: https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2020-05-29-59 (Chapter 4 is of particular interest for this discussion) I assumed the US had somethin
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
I should have said liability, it would have been more precise, but I'd argue that liability is a form of responsibility so I don't think your correction is warranted.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
We do put additional editorial standards on news publications. This puts legal responsibility for the published content on the publisher. It doesn't seem like that big a step to apply a similar standard to advertising platforms. Advert
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Stealing a physical thing = the previous owner can't use it. Copying a thing or accessing a platform = the previous owner can still use or sell it. Even if you consider it unethical access, the comparison to stealing really misses the
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
It requires less political capital to repurpose an existing system than to introduce a new system for a specific purpose. See for instance the number of times Chat Control has failed to become law.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Reverse chronological + subscription (ie. the user must actively make a choice to follow some channel or creator to get them in their feed). This is how most platforms started, and while there were still issues (eg. rewarding frequent posti
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Say you want to quit sugar or smoking. Would you still buy cigarettes or chocolate and carry it around in your pocket everywhere you go because you should rely on willpower to beat the addiction? Very few people do that because you become v
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>Wasting peoples' time and attention for not using one (out of personal choice or necessity) feels like overreach. This already happens with every ad successfully shown to a person. Why don't you criticize the ad business for m
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
They have invested huge amounts in the AI bubble which they have to justify to shareholders and / or investors. The easiest way to do this is to integrate it into existing products which already exists so they can claim millions of dai
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Who is to say they don't? Most of those areas have a less developed health infrastructure, so I'd expect the statistics on dementia diagnoses to systemically underreport the issue. The average age in developing countries is also l
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Git is designed so that you always have the full code you're working on copied to your local machine. Github being down for a short time from time to time should be only a minor inconvenience.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Sunc cost fallacy. If they admit that people don't want it (at least enough to cover the costs of it) share holders will question all the investments into Copilot. So instead they push it down our throats.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
As long as they haven't been bullied into the corporate equivalent of suicide by the "justice" system it's not disproportionate considering what happened to Aaron Schwartz. If anything it's too little based on prece
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Multiple uses of em-dash. Must be written by AI.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Who passes those laws? The politicians bought and paid for by the same companies?
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
One issue with capitalism — and every alternative system would have its own variant of this problem — is rent seeking. Players become so powerful within the economic system that they no longer play by the rules, but rather write the rules t
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Paper?
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Even if pw and 2fa secret are stored together you get better protection against phishing because you never enter the full 2fa secret into a website.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
We've literally had convenient online banking for two decades at this point without any DRM. Don't rewrite history.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Publishing publicly doesn't surrender copyright…
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Wikipedia continued existence is not dependent on ads or clicks.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
If AI kills the ad-funded business model of the internet, it will be one of the few good outcomes from AI. Good riddance.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
As a consequence of the freedom of driving cars we got seat belts. But we did not prevent everyone from driving.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Even the self-proclaimed bastion of libertarianism, the US, has laws against booby trapping, so that is obviously not true.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
That's not what world model means, neither in psychology or artificial intelligence — two fields Scott writes a lot about so he should know how the term is used or define how he uses it if he uses a non-typical definition.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
We need that user data is only usable within the ToS under which they were originally collected. No more unilateral altering of the agreement after the fact. Collecting user data should be a liability, not a enormously profitable endeavor.

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