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by chaosjevil 3y ago
That sounds considerably more expensive than Microsoft's usual "embrace, extend, extinguish".
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
It's a bit off-topic, but the role of urine in teeth cleaning reminds me one of Catullus' poems, poking fun at someone who was a bit too eager to laugh/smile as trying to show off how much urine he drunk. For context: Celtibe
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>I posit that one should be afraid of fighting an ant because the ant is weaker than you. The fear in this case is not of being defeated or humiliated, but of being cruel and unkind. So simply, what kind of character are if you can only
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Relevant tidbit: hot mixing with quicklime was key for this self-healing property[1], as it allowed the creation of small lime clasts across the material. [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/ancient-ro
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Contrariwise to your assumption I was not trying to bring a flamewar up, even if feeling the need to point that out. With that in mind, your silence towards the potential nationalist for doing something that _also_ goes against the spirit o
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Nah. It's either the 2nd biggest communication problem, or a side effect of a bigger problem. Depending on how you analyse it. The biggest communication problem is that you always need to take into account that your reader might be bra
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
TL;DR: AI doesn't understand human language prompts, it's just associating specific tokens with specific outputs.
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
I don't think that the internet is currently dead ("dead" = "bot activity mistaken for human activity greatly surpassing genuinely human activity"), but that this is a real future concern. One thing to take into a
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>Web advertisers seem like a classic case of taking miles when given an inch. I agree. And for me they're also two (!) good examples of tragedy of the commons. From the side of the advertisers, your ads are only competitive if they&
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
The author might call Nichomachean Ethics "ancient"; I'd call it "unrefined". >Virtue is a state “consisting in a mean,” Aristotle maintains, and this mean “is defined by reference to reason, that is to say, to t
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
I read it. (Although I wish that I didn't. Reddit exodus is taking its toll on other sites, it seems.)
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>A fallacy is saying that something is wrong because of fallacious reasons. A fallacy is a basic flaw of logic reasoning supporting or ditching a claim, view, statement or position. The post above does it, implicitly, as yourself ackno
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>A lot of the AI doomerism comes from folks who do not understand the real complexities in making systems which really can function in a fully autonomous way in an environment which is hostile and dynamic. That's a rather interestin
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Nah. Human utterances convey purpose on a discursive level; including your comment or mine. We say stuff because we want to do something, like showing [dis]agreement or inform another speaker or change the actions of the other speaker. This
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Archive link for the same thread in that dying site: https://archive.fo/qr5dZ Because once July 1st hits the site will be likely filled with more trash than actual content. It's unwise to rely on it.
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
It's clean because they don't need to obfuscate anything to avoid people blocking ads.
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
I've been among those users creating replacement communities. Mostly about topics that I wanted to speak about, even in Reddit, but prevented myself to do so to not feed that awful company and environment. It feels good - you feel your
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
It's a bit like watching snail courting rituals on Discovery: you're watching something sloppy, between practically brainless entities, and really slow. And you know that one of the sides will be eventually fucked, perhaps both. B
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
That reasoning is similar to the one that I've found in r/RedditAlternatives: they're proposing to replace the content with random crap from a conlang generator. EDIT: found the pic https://i.imgur.com/45M3a8c
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>It's like apologizing for something that you said as a teenager that was found on social media: the only people asking for the apology don't really care whether or not you apologize. It's more like apologising for somethi
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
They won't last in Discord. Too messy, to sync for anything that Reddit used to be good for. They'll be either in some random alt or back to Reddit.
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
I think that they do. Third party apps need to do a lot of API calls, every time that the user sees content, upvote content, comment content. If you're just retrieving it though? We can simplify it to one API call = one comment. With t
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
"Must" [as "be necessary"] and "should" are ultimately meaningless when you're dealing with corporate. Corporate only understands "allowed", "required", and "forbidden". Handl
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
This is another reason why it's good for everyone if Reddit dies. At those times I wish that I could be as eloquent as Cicero was, when he tells Lucius Catalina that his death has been determined by the Senata. I'd tell Reddit the
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
>Put those together and it's plausible that Reddit wants to go from a discussion site with cats to a cats feed site with meaningless discussion, and a bunch of ads mixed in. What the current decision makers within Reddit Inc. want i
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
The main problem with this article is that it's only handling the current events, without taking into account that Reddit has a long-standing history of user-hostile decisions. For example... let's talk about The_Donald, shall we?
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Ah, Brønsted-Lewis. In defence of the OP: People informed on Chemistry usually take "acid = you'll get H₃O⁺ in water" and "base = you'll get OH⁻ in water"; that is, the Arrhenius' definition, updated for m
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
One thing that I often repeat is that stupidity is worse than malice. And by "stupidity" I don't mean lack of knowledge; I mean lack of reasoning. The people who are malicious but smart will only cause you damage when it bene
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
Discord only competes with Reddit partially, as much as going outside does. It isn't really suitable for the sort of forum-like discussion that Reddit has [or used to have - things are getting pretty nasty there.]
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by chaosjevil 3y ago
I've thought about this in the past. If we model each user as a perfectly rational agent, the user will migrate once the perceived subjective value of the new platform is higher than the one from Reddit. Since the network effect (the a

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