pilsetnieks

The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is not that everything could be AI slop but that anything could. It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker. Anything you write could just be screaming out into the void, affecting no one, and just maybe adding to the training corpus for the next generation of clankers.

Just writing this made me question "what's the point" several times. If you or anyone replies cogently, I still won't have any idea if it's a person or a Chinese room.

Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most people realize – that's a genuinely important conversation to be have.

/s

It is glass

I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.

"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...

You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.

To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"

If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.

> As of June 2023 Starlink expenses for Ukraine are covered by the US Department of Defense through a contract with SpaceX.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-...

An Operation Mincemeat of our time.

You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.

The troll toll?

> Just putting the thought out there.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)

I remember that episode! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx

I was listening to it on a bus and screaming inside because I had that mp3 sitting in my library, obtained years and years ago through questionable means, and had listened to it quite a lot.

Even Olson - So Much Better (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTESaoSU_8), for the record.

> the solution is easy. Adapt your life to follow that

Those pesky employers are such traditionalists, though.

Neal Stephenson's Fall [1] is by far not his best book, however, the first part has a chilling depiction of societal divide into Ameristan and, for lack of a better word, the blue states that feels entirely plausible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall;_or,_Dodge_in_Hell

Only the US, Liberia, and Myanmar have a complete grasp of large numbers like, for example, fifty-seven.

Going off on a tangent, it's actually not that much trees wasted on paper money. Some of it is made of plastic but a lot of it should be called rather cloth money - at least the US dollar and euro are made of cotton and linen fiber instead of cellulose from wood pulp.

End up? If you listen to the podcast, you'll know that the episode was inspired by actual already happened real life events. In fact the real story was even more infuriating.

https://jalopnik.com/dennis-from-always-sunny-got-his-tesla-...

Novak Djokovic also credits absorption of energies from the allegedly most ancient pyramids on Earth in Bosnia and Herzegovina to his success. They're supposedly built anywhere from 12k to 34k BCE, claimed by a Bosnian-American shyster from Texas who "discovered" them in 2005.

In truth, they're just hills and Djokovic is batshit.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bosnian-pyramid-novak-...

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

iOS already has a Local Network Access permission, it's probably only a matter of time until it appears in macOS as well.

That's called foveated rendering, and it's exactly what the Apple headset does, they mention it here: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/

Gruber claims that it has the exact same FOV as actual human vision, and no discernible pixels.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_visi...

> We have a term for this: Privatized profits and socialized losses

We have an even older term for that: The tragedy of the commons [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

In Wikimedia's case it's more likely a matter of principle than cost. They have plenty of money despite what the donation popups make it seem. They want open source because it's open, not because it's cheap.

It's one cost of so very many these days.

These prices (per instance!) add up; there are many other pieces of software clamoring for their share, hardware costs, networking costs, labor costs. It's death by a thousand cuts.

That argument is solely about weight loss but there are many other reasons like cardiovascular fitness (keeping in theme with the article), or overall fitness level that lead to to better outcomes.

It may be true that we don't have a real fundamental understanding of what human reasoning involves but I think we can be pretty certain that it's something different from just stringing words together.

You seem to propose a "if it quacks like a duck" scenario here (aka the Chinese Room), and applying it to people who are mistaken or acting on incorrect information.

Those people are reasoning, however rightly or wrongly, based on that wrong information. LLMs are not.

It's a tired tale by now but stirring shit (whatever shit wherever it happens) is literally part of the Russian playbook [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics