mindcandy

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by mindcandy 6d ago
Check it out: As millions of people have recognized, we have a new discoverability problem! How about, out of the 9 billion people on Earth, we figure out how to get a few dozen of them motivated to work on that instead of sitting and mopin
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by mindcandy 26d ago
They are ridiculous because the reality of the situation is boring. Boring doesn’t drive engagement. So, all the clickbait headlines and ragebait comments imply scandal. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t get attention. After being clickbaited a
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by mindcandy 27d ago
I’m trying to imaging what giving credit would look like… “Credit: Everyone who has made anything freely observable on the internet.” Would folks be less upset if that was included? Frankly, I should have been putting something similar atta
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by mindcandy 27d ago
Lots of wild guesses about mixed human-AI copyright in here. Last time I read the copyright office’s statements in this, their stance was basically: The human owns exactly what they contribute. The rest is public domain. Yes, that is vague.
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by mindcandy 29d ago
You are reacting to the author reacting to Zuck reacting to Zuck's daughter mentioning she uses AI to help plan recipes. It's a one-sentence, third-hand anecdote in a large article that folks in here are fixating on because of bik
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Sure, it's possible. But, rent control is a serious disincentive to housing development. It requires correspondingly serious investment from the politicians to overcome that. In practice, what is done is to disincentivize for short t
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Exactly. The problem I don't know how to fix is that voting for rent control is short term thinking that ends up causing rental pressure to become much worse in the long run. There are few things more difficult than convincing large nu
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Economists don't say no one would ever need to move without rent control. They do say the situation is a whole lot worse for all of the other folks in your neighborhood because you have rent control. And, in the long run, rent control
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Does anyone have any numbers on what percentage of recent datacenters don't follow those rules? Those are completely reasonable requirements. But, the high-pitched online discussion tends to imply building a datacenter requires doing
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
I don't think outside intervention is necessary. When I see stories about how a hardware startup like SpinLaunch has had to move over and over because no matter where they go, locals flood the town hall meetings to declare their relati
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Are you talking about the Box Elder County Stratos project? I did some digging into that. AFAIK, they are mostly going to be powered by a natural gas pipeline. I haven't heard of them using nuclear. Got any links? It is in a remote val
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by mindcandy 1mo ago
Maybe my feed is biased. But, I’ve been seeing good arguments lately that “The rent is too damned high!” is largely a problem created by voters. And, I don’t know how we’re going to fix that. Ex: https://youtu.be/yoT76zITRx8
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
I find what people want from the data center build-out is pretty reasonable: 1. Don't build loud machines across the street from someone's house. 2. Don't drive up water/electricity bills by pulling from the municipal gr
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
Good points all around. Hey! Thanks for the fun, good-faith argument! Such a rarity these days that most folks seem unaware are that arguments even can be collaborative.
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
I must disagree. One could argue that a human body with a mostly-functional brain that will never again be conscious is human but not a person. And, simultaneously argue that a few million human stem cells, none of which are neurons yet, is
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
A human is born, lives a life, ingests the wrong chemical and becomes brain-dead. Now you have a human that is alive, but the person who was that human is permanently gone. To avoid murder, are we obliged to keep the body alive as long as p
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
With datacenters there is a huge amount of ragebait in the news and social media. People are anxious about jobs and reporters and influencers are cashing in on that anxiety by running headlines that imply doom. Datacenters are hugely proble
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by mindcandy 2mo ago
A moratorium seems excessive when the requirements to make a majority of people happy are pretty clear. The easy ones are: 1. Use energy and water independent of the municipal grid. 2. Don't build so close to homes that they hear the f
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by mindcandy 3mo ago
Lots of folks in here calling out the "billion scans a month" and skipping over the "capable of" part. They're not claiming they'll perform a billion scans. They're trying to build enough machines that if
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by mindcandy 3mo ago
AFAICT, the "Rising layoffs year after year" news lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the hiring spree during COVID stimulation" https://blog.glassdoor
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by mindcandy 4mo ago
> AI takes in all the input, whether the original authors have consented or not, and do some "learning" What would it mean for authors who publish content publicly to the web, without access restrictions, to provide consent for
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by mindcandy 7mo ago
The DoW is engaging in simple crybullying. In my time as an online moderator I see it all the time. “You are impinging on my freedom to force you to participate in activities you have expressly indicated it is against your will to engage in
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by mindcandy 8mo ago
I would very much like to see us return to something resembling the original copyright terms. Like: Manually file for 22 years of enforcement. Then manually file 20 years later for 22 more. You could create some great masterpiece at 18 and
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by mindcandy 9mo ago
My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public. The best public report I can find is https://www.sciencedirect
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by mindcandy 9mo ago
> especially if you are willing to wait for some days or weeks after launch (an important sales window for the publishers). “Important” is an understatement. Even for long-term success stories, the first three or four months often accou
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by mindcandy 9mo ago
Is the content of the comment productive to the conversation? Upvote it. Is the content of the comment counter-productive? Downvote it. I could see cases where large walls of text that are generally useless should be downvoted or even remov
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by mindcandy 9mo ago
“About half of all food deliveries globally are shorter than 2 and a half miles, which basically means that all of our cities are filled with burrito taxis” There is a future where a city's burrito taxis are replaced with drones rollin
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by mindcandy 10mo ago
> in fact they can start doing so today In fact they already have. There are 10s of thousands of forks of Bitcoin. Only a handful ever got significant attention. And, the original is still much larger than all of the forks combined.
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by mindcandy 11mo ago
There are at least two reasons to buy Bitcoin: 1. You need it for use as a collateral asset for smart contracts. There are no crypto cops or crypto courts. Only collateral gives contracts teeth. There are many options here. Just like there
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by mindcandy 11mo ago
At a logical level, Bitcoin should be decorrelated from stocks. The fundamentals of Bitcoin network adoption and utilization are largely separate and independent. But, at an emotional level, Bitcoin is considered a high-risk asset. So, when

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