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by gdulli 3d ago
A lot of questions being raised today can be answered by the recently inverted power balance between users/customers and corporations. People have not yet internalized that old assumptions about how corporations fear losing customers a
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by gdulli 3d ago
The typical person has not had to meaningfully learn math since the invention of calculators. Think about the consequences of that. Now imagine the effect of them ceding general thinking and creating.
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by gdulli 3d ago
My car is much older and I used to hope it would last forever. But now I hope it dies soon enough that when I go to replace it, the options for non smart cars haven't gone away.
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by gdulli 5d ago
I have a cron job that logs in and hides stuff based on a big list of keywords and domains I'm not interested in.
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by gdulli 6d ago
Steam trained a whole generation of gamers not to expect real ownership with resale rights. It's sad. The population old enough to even know this is how it used to be is shrinking.
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by gdulli 8d ago
That doesn't relieve people of the responsibility of having enough scientific literacy to understand that 30 years is only an instant on geological time scales. And the fact that we see meaningful change at all on this time scale is ve
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by gdulli 10d ago
Probably.
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by gdulli 10d ago
You're an employee. This use case is for people much richer than you.
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by gdulli 11d ago
It's like trying to argue with someone saying they actually are going to build the whole plane out of the black box. At some point we should just cut our losses.
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by gdulli 11d ago
People refuse to accept that there's more bad code/behavior/people that AI will empower and amplify than good.
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by gdulli 13d ago
Likely an Amerocentric comment, yes, that assumes gambling can only be as destructive and predatory as it is in the US. I don't know anything about how it works in the UK but it's plausible to me that it's not as harmful a fo
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by gdulli 13d ago
Imagine two siblings, one who can handle the freedom of choosing their own bedtime and one who cannot.
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by gdulli 14d ago
> What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs? You're talking about a scenario that won't blow itself up in the next few quarters, so it's of no interest to them.
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by gdulli 19d ago
If not illegal, what if it's used as justification to further lock down browsers and operating systems? Apple makes a ton of money selling traffic to Google and has a vested interest in preserving the effectiveness of targeted advertis
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by gdulli 21d ago
What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?
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by gdulli 22d ago
After social media, streaming, crypto, what have you, too many of us have come to understand that advances in technology in this era are going to be used against us more than for us.
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by gdulli 22d ago
I agree. I think of these alternatives as off-ramps, not replacements. In 2023 I ditched my Reddit and Twitter accounts thinking it would be very difficult. Today, the idea of losing the off-ramps no longer bothers me.
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by gdulli 22d ago
What does it even mean, period? MAGA losers are free to establish a community on Bluesky, the only difference between that and Twitter is that Bluesky isn't built to optimize for ragebait and culture war fighting. But they can still so
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by gdulli 22d ago
The biggest social networks can only die slowly. They have too much momentum for the the type of sudden exodus that was possible when the internet had not yet absorbed the entire population.
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by gdulli 23d ago
I've many times seen it wrong but more often the same item will have some tags expressed on cost per ounce, others per lb, etc. To discourage comparison. But I dont think people are paying much attention to those numbers anyway. Math h
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by gdulli 23d ago
That's a very good point. People don't pull out their calculator in the grocery store to do analysis of unit costs or whatever, it's too much of a hassle for that small kind of analysis. But calculators have robbed us of the
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by gdulli 25d ago
Tokens for the poors, real teachers for our kids.
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by gdulli 29d ago
One strange form that the post-truth era takes is deciding that stances you don't believe in aren't even real. Saves you the trouble of having to engage with them meaningfully.
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by gdulli 29d ago
This plus the login-walled reviews is unfortunate because once I stopped buying from Amazon I'd continue to go there to browse before buying elsewhere.
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by gdulli 1mo ago
TV has unskippable and targeted commercials now. The list goes on and on.
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by gdulli 1mo ago
Exactly. I always think about the ways consumers make terrible decisions with everyday purchases at the grocery store etc. If people could easily estimate unit costs in their head for example, a lot of predatory options would have to go awa
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by gdulli 1mo ago
Maybe their goal is to be able to point to the untrustworthiness of the source material as cover when they're accused of hallucination.
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by gdulli 1mo ago
People who are trying to sell you AI and people who are now dependent on it are desperate for you to believe in its inevitability.
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by gdulli 1mo ago
It's amazing how people think Apple has a clean reputation because they've added a thin layer of indirection to their participation in the surveillance ecosystem.
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by gdulli 1mo ago
We were warned very early on, by people more prescient than me, of all the secondary harms to society like this one that were going to come with LLMs. We can't be surprised.

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