kmlevitt

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by kmlevitt 3y ago
If they are as competent at their jobs as they think they are all the dumb, blind investment going on around them should just help them out.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
>” That suggests a strong, long-term Iranian focus on strengthening Houthi anti-ship capabilities and a potential attempt to export Iran’s model of naval coercion from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the geopolitically impor
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
>What I saw this as was a group of people who had real concerns about Altman's leadership, and some of those concerns ended up sounding pretty valid, but who didn't have the experience/maturity to understand how to go abou
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
You need to teach it what kind of stuff you like. If you go on Twitter and look at peoples’ bios, they often list their blue sky handles. Start following tech journalists such as https://bsky.app/profile/gergely.pragmat
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
I think I’ve figured out what he’s doing. He knows Twitter is going to flop due to its tremendous debt, dwindling audience and the failure of his paid premium subscription scheme. But this way, when it happens he gets to blame all of that o
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Pretty confusing considering he actually is getting a literal judge involved in this right now.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Many of us might feel that way internally or in private when we’re frustrated, but few would go up on stage, say that in front of the whole world and wait for applause afterward. Regardless of his political opinions or personal temperament,
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
The scary thing is he got an extremely pro Trump judge in Texas, who is famous for making nonsensical rulings that even the current Supreme Court heavily disagrees with. So there’s a good chance he will win this and it will drag out in cour
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
The argument is that you had to press refresh on your browser several times before a neo-Nazi post coincidentally lined up with an ad from Disney, and media matters just kept on doing it until they got the desired result. But aside from tha
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Bluesky is pretty lively and active considering how slow they roll out invites. Closest thing I’ve seen to a credible Twitter replacement so far. Lots of good accounts have already migrated there.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
He seems to contradict himself. On one hand he says “fuck you“ to anybody pulling advertising like he’s throwing caution to the wind because he just doesn’t care, but on the other hand, he says the company is doomed if advertisers pull out,
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
The Sorkin guy said maybe advertisers don’t want to be associated with it, and he said “let’s see what the courts say“. So he’s going to sue people for not advertising with him? How can anyone who says this kind of thing claim to believe in
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
This is true. But we are also up in terms of page views per month, unique visitors, etc., etc. reddit has probably been getting gradually bigger each year for as long as I can remember, and it doesn’t look like that trend has peaked off yet
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
At the end of the day it comes down to the upvotes, though. If the other users are on your wavelength, you’ll probably like whatever they recommend. But over time you could have less in common with the average user there, meaning what they
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
>People don't want low end housing built in their neighborhoods. The problem with this reasoning is that housing has gotten so expensive in many cities that anything that costs less than $750,000 can be considered "low end&quot
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
I'm on reddit a lot less these days, but subjectively it seems about the same for me, except most of the old subreddits I'm a legacy mod on are way busier than I remember. They're definitely still gaining users. It could just
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Only now are we starting to see actual democratic referendums on these topics. For a long time everybody was brainwashed into thinking more construction = “greedy developers”, so nobody treated adding to supply as a possible solution. But t
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
In practice, the people that block new housing in the neighbourhood are a handful of crotchety retirees that go to the community meeting and raise a fuss. Most people can’t do that because they have more important things to do all day. But
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Japan is a pointless comparison. Their reluctance to expand immigration has nothing to do with their reasonable zoning policies. People try to bash something they got right by bringing up irrelevant things they get wrong. Your first propose
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
This is such a cop out response. Even if we want to pretend there are no other investments, the real question is why don’t we just upzone cities end build more housing instead of artificially constricting supply so the baby boomers can get
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Yeah if their AI commenting is all that good/convincing they should get out of social media and start the next trillion dollar company.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
I don’t go on Reddit that much anymore and I haven’t been active as a mod on that sub for a very long time. But based on my experience doing it, users are quite good at identifying stupid bullshit and reporting it to mods, which makes it ea
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Yes, still. I’m a mod on a few other decent sized subs (30k-ish) actually and most of them are still growing, unless the topic at hand is clearly outdated.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Wouldn’t those same people just do the same thing everywhere on social media across the Internet though? Because if so it’s still doing well in the relative rankings.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
It's one thing to add stories to a startup website and created the illusion of a couple dozen users instead of just zero. But all these years later Reddit has millions and millions of unique users per month and is still one of the top
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
>Maybe 81 of the 84 comments were either third party bot comments, or a Reddit-run LLM designed to make the sub look more active than it really is Even if this was true (which I seriously doubt), how can you prove that, and what makes yo
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
I still have mod status on a large-ish (70k+) subreddit so I can view reddit's internal traffic statistics for it, and these estimates are definitely wrong. These stats claim the sub has had 10-20 comments per day in just the past mont
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
So to be clear, There is no evidence that the SEC takes this seriously at all or is anywhere near conducting an investigation. That’s just what redditors hope will happen, but the reasoning doesn’t seem very strong. Given the value of Micro
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
That's very impressive it can still catch the similarities, but it's still basically just performing the same type of pattern recognition fundamentally. The point of this new breakthrough is that it is actually using its own deduc
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Saw a video of Altman talking about this progress. The argument was basically that this is a big leap on theoretical grounds. Although it might seem trivial to laymen that it can do some grade school math now, it shows that it can come up

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