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The moderation system is pretty much the same as any forum. You just have to read the sidebar rules first when you're posting on an unfamiliar subreddit, as you would when joining any community.

Yeah, this is a risk.

The best approach is to take advantage of the fact that Bandcamp lets you download everything and simply download everything you buy and keep backups (as you would with any other important data)

I don't know how accurate/inaccurate the overall argument here is, but they're saying "STEM" a whole lot when their criticisms are pretty specifically about tech, and mostly software companies.

GPT4 is the only one I've used much but it really can be good as a Google alternative for certain kinds of questions. I wouldn't trust it for anything obscure and complicated though - if you ask it about something like competitive Pokemon, you'll just get a stream of confidently incorrect junk that any beginner could disprove. (Asking for sources does help this sometimes though.)

You're missing a couple important things:

- It's not just bubble colors, those don't matter. What does matter is that image and especially video quality are absolute crap when texting between iPhone and Android, and almost all iPhone users in the US use iMessage instead of another platform like Whatsapp, so the experience tends to suck on both ends when texting between an iPhone and Android. It's all for vendor lock-in and it helps no one but Apple. Look up the "buy your mom an iPhone" bit.

- Not everyone cares about the private property rights of a trillion dollar corporation. I definitely don't! I think Apple can get fucked, and I think it's cool if people find ways to exploit their APIs to do things Apple doesn't want them to do.

Yann LeCun is a clown lol. The Chief AI Scientist at _Facebook_ of all companies expects me to just trust him when he says "it'll be safe guys, we'll figure it out, we wouldn't release anything that was harmful :)"

With the hypothetical AGI, the answer is "most non-manual forms of human labor"

I don't think step 2 would have to even involve an involuntary break out

OpenAI or whoever would just go "oh damn, we can make a lot of money with this thing" and voluntarily give it internet access

Maybe Ilya realized he was acting emotionally and messed up massively by getting rid of Sam and a truthful explanation would make him look like an idiot

Or alternately, he made a well-reasoned and principled decision by getting rid of Sam, but now everyone thinks he's awful for it and he's trying to save face and avoid ruining his own career

Or a secret third thing, of course

Simultaneously irritating and "well yeah." No one likes ads or monthly subscriptions, but serving video is expensive, so why not deprioritize the users who are giving you zero dollars and zero cents?

We're all gonna get turned into paperclips, aren't we

I actually really appreciate his use of the term "woke." It lets me know early on that his opinion isn't one that's going to be worth spending my time on.

Not to say that no criticism of progressives is ever valid, of course, but the term itself is a strong signal that nothing new to me is going to follow it.

It's not even just loot boxes, but them letting people gamble with the items (which can be worth a lot of money!) on unregulated gambling sites that allow minors. It's insidious stuff.

Good video on it: https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g?si=dwotdKXKu5mHLZWg

It's frustrating but unsurprising that this doesn't mention all the similar bills in other states that were found unconstitutional. I recommend Techdirt's article on it: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/12/new-york-pushing-yet-ano...

People like celebrities and personalities. Perfect and artificial is the opposite of what they want. People like Taylor Swift because she's Taylor Swift, not just because she's a great singer. (Not to mention that, for music in particular, live shows are a thing.)

There will definitely be a role for fully AI characters when the technology gets there (people love vtubers and vocaloids already!) but I doubt they would ever really replace human performers.

Nah. Copyright law isn't compatible with small startups and independent developers being able to compete with megacorps in AI. It's unironically better to just ignore it.

Most well-adjusted AI bro

Amusingly, the community note he cites complaining some LGBT books were obscenity and therefore illegal to distribute to children is misinformation in itself. Obscenity is a very high bar to pass and there's no way the linked materials would be considered illegal obscenity in the US.

That it actually freakin' works at doing the thing it's trying to do (providing a currency with a guarantee that each account is controlled by one person)

Maintaining an employer-friendly public persona seems pretty miserable if you like sharing opinions more controversial than programming language preferences. Or if your hobbyist tech interests skew in the anti-corporate or copyright-infringement-y directions.

Are you aware that this heavily biases your hiring process against parents and other people with little free time?

Yeah, I don't get the "use Vim for everything" approach unless you're just doing it because you find the customization and configuration fun. I usually use VS Code for quick editing and full IDEs for real work with big projects.

Modal editing is awesome though. I use modified Vim keybinds for everything, even web browsing.

I'm a programmer so I waste 100% of my time on computer problems

I can't wait for this fad of people trying to use LLMs for things that require factual accuracy goes away (or the tech actually gets there, I guess)

Transformer models are capable of absurd sci-fi miracles when it comes to things that don't require truthfulness but this ain't it

>You know what was hard for almost 25 - 30 years and everyone's losing their shit right now and drinking the cool-aid? The good old AI.

This is survivorship bias, unless you own a Segway and a 3D TV

What's a social media zombie sherson (is that the singular of sheeple?) and how are they worse than a hardcore redditor?

Reddit's moderation system is among the best of any big platform because of how easy it is for people to start their own communities if they don't like the moderation on a particular sub. And these new communities actually will get traction if enough people are upset about the original sub's moderation - see the whole meirl vs. me_irl situation for an example of this. (There's also r/gamingcirclejerk vs. r/shittygaming - the original sub still gets more posts, but the large, active discussion thread community moved entirely to the latter because of the former sub having some crazy BS happen with the mods.)

You don't get anything like this on big centralized platforms like Twitter or Facebook. If you get banned by their opaque, highly automated moderation systems, you're just out of luck unless you evade the ban. The network effects and the costs of switching off them are just far too high.

Good moderation at scale is impossible[0], and the Reddit/Discord/etc model deals with this pretty decently by leaving most decisions to individual communities.

[0]https://www.techdirt.com/2019/11/20/masnicks-impossibility-t...

I would simply not believe big factual claims made by an LLM without verifying them

The con explicitly promotes transphobia, there's really no defense for participating in it. If you think it's a non-political decision to speak at a con that announces "men cannot give birth" on its about page[0] and says people shouldn't expect their preferred pronouns to be respected, that's a good signal that you're either wildly ignorant or actively hiding bigoted beliefs.

[0]https://www.basedcon.com/?page_id=85

This is cool. I'm glad they mentioned the Archive Team project to back up everything, too. I'm going to shill them here and point out that you can easily help right now (before the deletion on May 15th) by running an Archive Warrior VM or Docker image, which auto-downloads imgur links and packages and uploads them to the Internet Archive.[0] No human intervention needed, and the resource and network usage are both surprisingly low.

[0]https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior