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I, for one, thoroughly enjoy boxing, and consider it an intangible part of our collective cultural heritage. Boxing, as a sport, goes back at least 2,000 years to ancient Rome and Greece.

That people choose to find it distasteful is fine with me.

I'm talking about Mike Tyson, the convicted rapist, not Mike Tyson as a boxer.

Sorry, I haven't followed Gibson's scandals, so I only know the drunken rant one. But I'm being kinda hypothetical here - where is the line?

I'm bringing up Ford and Gandhi because I think they're generally considered respectable, but could be accused of being in the category of those to "shun" based on verbal statements or opinions. I am not aware that either did anything. Are we shunning people because they've advocated opinions that in their time weren't controversial, but are now?

Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned on a technicality. Do we shun him even if the courts couldn't/didn't convict him?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/why-bill-cosbys-conviction...

Or similarly, "unconvicted" but alleged unsavory characters, perhaps pop musicians, TV hosts, presidents, presidential candidates, and so on.

Do you just shun everyone who has simply been accused of misconduct? What if the accusers recant or are found to be lying? It's happened.

Crystal Mangum, now incarcerated for murder, has recanted her rape accusation against the Duke la crosse players:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-falsely-accused-duke-lacros...

Interesting. Thanks for the information.

Good to see Sweden stepping up the plate.

Wow, I'm surprised to see something that recent on quality.

I recall reading an 1850's novel that talked about the demise of home clothing manufacturing, as factory production started taking off I guess.

The trade off is definitely long term quality for short term cost, not just in the seams, but in the cloth material quality as well.

I guess we need an education in clothing quality to appreciate this kind of thing?

So many opt ins are deceptively worded (e.g. "would you like this personalized just for you?") or deceptively bundled, 'if you want feature Y, you need to enable X', I could see people opting in without fully knowing what they're doing.

I suspect disabling this is absolutely the right thing to do.

But I'm curious, has anyone really made any effort to test this so-called AI first to see if it's at all useful, or lives up to any level of expectation?

Or is there some a priori evil element to justify this (Tim Cook slurping up all your data and using it for training and advertising without consent or opt out) that I don't know about?

AI has survived as a name for a few decades now.

My prediction, based on no evidence or theory other than "the future will be like today, only in the future" is that AI will be called AI 300 years from now.

Do you feel better now?

If your voting is gamed, then there is no trust in your system. Good luck.

I've looked into purchasing products made in the United States, and the price for a pair of pants can run into over a hundred dollars when I last checked. The price of other items - backpacks, shirts, etc are equally easily double or triple the price of other goods.

I would expect they would be similarly high even today

USA https://madeintheusamatters.com/american-made-products/made-...

UK https://www.madeinbritain.org/members/sector/clothing-appare...

And the product quality isn't even necessarily better, and possibly worse.

I guess I can feel better about myself knowing I didn't support inhumane factory conditions, but spending ~$1000 for several wardrobe items is a lot to pay for that feeling.

Really?

Hmmm

"The grand jury returned an indictment on June 4, 2003, charging Stewart with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, making false statements, and securities fraud." https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/...

I think she beat "securities fraud", but was convicted on conspiracy, obstruction, and making false statements:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040307121033/https://money.cnn...

So, yeah, technically she didn't get convicted of insider trading/securities fraud, but managed a felony conviction around the charges.

Good catch. So I guess we can't easily dismiss Martha from our category of people we refuse to promote.

A small cost can reduce fake accounts. You could charge a $1 and then credit them with 10 votes for 10c.

If people want the game the system they pay you. Legitimate users would likely be ok with a 10 cents charge per vote.

How do you keep people from "gaming" your vote system?

tripwires?

I recall that someone did this very thing not to long ago (the full system part anyway).

As for generating revenue I think some AI bot on X/Twitter convinced someone to invest in it's memecoin and it started a cult or something.

The server part is interesting, as I've been curious about satellite operating systems, which don't have the luxury of failing. You could set up a "failsafe" recovery OS and a watchdog reset that detects if the system has gone down and, if so, reboot into the recovery mode OS and start over (I think that's how satellites recover from pooping the bed in outer space).

gauntlet looks like GTA V's story mode pattern.

GTA2 with it's competing gangs seem to have a "state" tracker in the form of reputation scores with the game, while having an open world map. As your reputation/state changed opportunities would become available/unavailable.

I still think GTA 2's system is impressive.

Now back with AI and a new name.

I guess Adam Smith's invisible hand is so hard to see it seems non-existent.

But I see your point, I think.

I'm sure they have a compelling case against buying into their crypto model, which I don't use at all.

I only use it because it's a highly effective ad blocking browser.

Give me a better ad blocker and I'll check it out.

Is the US at war with Brussels? Figures, I don't think their sprouts are very popular either.

"Slack (eight years old)"... really?

I mean I could be wrong but I was under the impression Slack was just IRC with a fancy web interface. And IRC goes back to 1988 is wikipedia is to be believed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

If I'm right that means Slack is much older, except for the fancy UI parts, which are no great improvement over say the nice colors of BitchX with some bots that record the channel history.

And you can't take over Slack channels by riding a server split. That would be super-cool though.

I think it's 100% open source chromium, minus some unknown percentage that's closed source surveillance blobs = ~99%. That's the maths I'm inferring.

Everyone who is a fan of Pee Wee Herman has heard of the Alamo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHLoHou8uY

It sounds like you can't defend your position and resort to (I think?) name-calling, although I have no idea what a "culture war poster" is - I used to have a poster of Farrah Faucet in a red bathing suit, is that the same thing?

And I have no hobby horses, just a high horse, and you better hold your horses or else you'll be just be whipping a dead horse.

Your unwillingness to defend and advance your position is duly noted. Have a nice day.

What makes you think it's ever stopped? Did I miss the proletarian revolution comrade?

Lots of PhDs advance trivial knowledge if "advance" is even the right word.

I provide this example of a dance PhD thesis topic:

"Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying" by Rachel Gunn of "kangaroo" breakdance olympic fame.

Anyone can read a book and write an essay. Even AI can write reasonable essays these days. Is AI advancing the pursuit of knowledge?

His lack of depth is obvious even from his speeches. He jumps from topic to topic and doesn't develop his ideas or show much internal organization. He has a pithy insight and then bounces to the next topic.

That said, if a 60 minute talk can provide even one useful insight that's useful, I'd say it's a win. And I think his "zero to one" talk had at least two or three.

Honestly, I concluded GOOG was an advertising company pretending to be a "tech" company some time ago, but if I say it I'm a "troll", if Thiel says it, well it might be true, right?

You are keenly insightful in this age of the willingly blind.

Their technology products are free/low cost ways to get you to voluntarily opt in to their surveillance advertising model.

I'm glad our anti-snark overlords are being attentive. Oh sh*t was that snarky too?

I think you may be onto something.