evanextreme

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by evanextreme 1y ago
Sorry, should have clarified. By "no person in the loop" I meant from the side of the language model itself. The person is interacting with a thing which produces content for it, and the only person engaged in that process is the
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by evanextreme 1y ago
Great point, actually. In many respects these language models doing this could be similar to how YouTube used to platform Alex Jones before removing him. Regardless, I still believe its the responsibility of the creators of these models to
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by evanextreme 1y ago
Agreed here. My personal opinion is that this is fixable, but it would require reinforcement into the models that counteract the sycophantic stickiness that most companies use to drive engagement, so it won't really ever be a priority.
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by evanextreme 1y ago
I disagree, because the television was never talking back to you. By the medium directly engaging with the person, the responsibility / enablement of this issue is more on the company than previous non interactive mediums. It would be
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by evanextreme 1y ago
areweanticheatyet.com has a good list
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by evanextreme 1y ago
As a visionOS user (somewhat) what is so funny about all of this is that the translucency effects in visionOS are significantly toned down compared to liquid glass for this specific reason. The glass is heavily diffused, you can maybe get a
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by evanextreme 1y ago
To add some validity here, I think to an extent we already see distributions aimed at converting Windows users moving in this direction. Zorin OS has Wine support for .exe's almost out of the box, and there's Steam OS / Proto
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by evanextreme 2y ago
Was working on a similar thing last year! Might as well open source at this point too.
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by evanextreme 2y ago
I highly recommend taking a look at some tech starter packs, as i've found them to be very helpful in moving away from that feed. I agree that the political discussion is definitely still in that stage though
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by evanextreme 2y ago
At least in my experience, this is also how Azure continues to function. Certainly reduces stress in the working environment
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by evanextreme 3y ago
I am just a software engineer that wants to organize my tabs (documentation, repositories, pull requests, on call incidents) in a way that my brain can comprehend. I don't see how that makes me "management class"
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by evanextreme 3y ago
Bard has certainly become better over the past few months, and while as a product it is worse in some ways (seems to have a purposefully low understanding of the previous context in a chat) it is up to date with somewhat current information
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by evanextreme 4y ago
I'd argue Twitter is just as complex, because Twitter's product is its users and the content they create, where the others are governed by the laws of physics and making a good car (i have one, they're good!). What you have i
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by evanextreme 4y ago
If the former president of the United States with a distortion field around his politics and the largest cable news network backing his every word couldn't succeed in launching a platform, I doubt Elon can. Unlike Elon, Trump has const
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by evanextreme 4y ago
The guy has launched more than 2 companies. Last I checked there aren't any super tunnel sleds under LA fixing traffic there yet, and my car was supposed to be able to autonomously drive itself a solid 4 years before I got it. It'
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by evanextreme 4y ago
well, sure. but unless you're hyper obsessed with far-right circles you're likely either in my boat, or just dont use twitter altogether.
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by evanextreme 4y ago
the problem is that said "new platform" is doomed to fail, just as every free speech twitter competitor before it (gab, parler, truth, etc). this is an idea thats been attempted numerous times but doesnt succeed because no one wan
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by evanextreme 5y ago
i think the other problem with crypto, is that all of those things sound like great solutions that either involve significantly more hoops for a user to jump through or are problems the modern banking system have already solved for most peo
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by evanextreme 5y ago
I wouldnt say thats a correct analogy though, a traditional bank / cryptocurrency provide similar user experiences these days with how their mobile apps work. At the end of the day even in crypto an overwhelming majority of users inter
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by evanextreme 5y ago
comparing the switch to the deck is akin to comparing a ps5 to a top of the line pc, in terms of both UX, time / effort required to run games, price, etc. consoles are _always_ underpowered and restricted in terms of graphical capabili
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by evanextreme 5y ago
Ah yeah 100% agreed there
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by evanextreme 5y ago
iOS doesn't do that anymore. Local network access has been a permission that apps need to be granted for at least a few years now
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by evanextreme 5y ago
no as in, "computational photography has been a staple of every modern smartphone sold globally for the past 4 years, and this is one of the only examples of problems ever happening for anyone" lunch
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by evanextreme 5y ago
alright, then in the suburb of new york i lived in (which was, mind you, in the middle of a forest), i could call up the local taxi company and get a cab to me in like... 30 minutes or so. really the only convenience is that it saves me a p
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by evanextreme 5y ago
> Uber is literally life-changing I might be only 26 years old, but even I have memories of my parents easily flagging down taxis in Manhattan. More convenient? Absolutely. "Literally life changing" seems a bit much, though.
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by evanextreme 5y ago
from an operational security standpoint i find it hard to argue that workers in the healthcare industry should be able to refuse something which significantly reduces their risk of being a vector for a harmful disease and transmitting it to
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by evanextreme 5y ago
_you_ might have food, yet over 10% of american citizens do not ( https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/the-united-... ). the later two categories you mentioned are classified as public utilities by the feder
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by evanextreme 5y ago
the problem is that something as critical as people's health is allowed to exist as a commodity on the free market. when your life is at stake, there's no price that remains in the way. so these companies gouge out the consumer, p
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by evanextreme 5y ago
No one is saying this should be the case, just that the feature is not what the company advertises (the ability for the car to fully drive itself) and that said feature is further away from completion than many might lead you to believe. as
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by evanextreme 5y ago
Backbone on iPhone is an amazing experience. What shocked me was how well they nail the software side of the "game console". it has a full home button and button based UX for selecting games

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