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Because I don't have a few billion dollars in my back pocket and even if I did, planned obsolescence and dark patterns are infinitely more profitable thus regulation is needed to a…

You mean the internet you pay to access and which was around before the ads were even on it? That internet? I'm not trying to be mean I'm just trying to historically parse your sen…

Even theoretical AI still has the other mind problem from economics. Communicating and predicting desires, preferences, thoughts, feelings from one mind to another is difficult. Fu…

Surely the correct conclusion is to question the value/veracity of those degree issuing institutions and rituals? And if you previously were unaware of the insanity and irrationali…

The issue is that your standard is borderline setting up an impossible strawman, and when we actually do textual (and/or biblical) analysis and historical science, we never really …

What on earth is it about intellectual property that breaks someone's mind so much that genuinely, when presented with a translation of a 2000 year old text that itself is based on…

In practice, I find it depends on your work scale, topic and cadence. I started on the $20 plans for a bit of an experiment, needing to see about this whole AI thing. And for the f…

Ah yes, but that results in two problems. Firstly a fish without legs objectively does not have legs, but we do not necessarily call it disabled, even though it clearly lacks a fac…

But going by the strict notion of DSM-V criteria of providing a hindrance, we hit the somewhat problematic definition whereby a person can have autism at one point in their life (w…

I think it depends on how one interacts with it. As far as I know it doesn't have a personalised feed and I'm seeing the same front page as everyone else. So I mainly use it to sca…

I find it much more intuitive to think of LLMs as fuzzy-indexed frequency based searches combined with grammatically correct probabilistic word generators. They have no concept of …

As someone who has an android personal phone and an iPhone for work for several years, I literally do not know what the hell people mean by "polish", beyond just the informal emoti…

As a comparatively politically aware Australian, I had absolutely no idea who he is/was, but then I don't have any Twitter or general social media presence or consumption.

I don't know where you live, but it quite clearly is where I'm from. Oooh, to be sure they don't call them IQ tests explicitly, but the psychometric capabilities and performance te…

Honestly, imo clinically in aggregate the actually score itself provides very little information beyond what a 5 minute conversation would achieve, and the result could be better t…

Well yes, but that's not actually empathy. Empathy has to be felt by an actual person. Indeed its literally the contrary/opposite case. They have to emphasise it specifically becau…

Presumably for the same reason Google doesn't let you block or filter shit sites. If you genuinely let user's preferences be taken into account, it's incredibly hard to make money …

Except its a bit like that PERL quote. You have a problem. You want to figure out a way to get people to pay for things like news, investigative reporting, art, community and posit…

So i guess overnight we have a new floor for unempirical projections of future project profit :D A lot of made up numbers now have a min(50.0) equivalent somewhere :P

See this article: Why do econ journalists keep making this basic mistake. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-do-econ-journalists-keep-m... Source: am economist, and the writer of th…

Well, I think surely the entirely fair thing to do is to just admit we don't know rather than make any attribution or imply any possession of an answer to those questions?

Your countrymen literally voted in Trump, and they did it with broad support across many parts of the country. You can argue that a significant proportion didn't, which is true, bu…

Yes, this is product differentiation, features, demand elasticity, network/ecosystem lock-in, loyalty tax etc. Just as software and internet also has a mixture of free to use, once…

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around someone someone in business not understanding charging fees. You charge fees to get money. Banks are there to make profits. You say t…