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I guess the question could be: "how much Meta did by directly or indirectly damaging people mental health in New Mexico?". Note that the damage could be more or less subtle: someon…

I'd gladly pay for the OS if this guaranteed abstaining from unnecessary changes and/or from removing useful features (eg 2d Spaces in Leopard and Snow Leopard, replaced by the inf…

Those living the longest are those born 75-85 years ago. Later generations will have to wait to assess how it ended for them.

I think that to sum things up, we will have to wait until we can evaluate the cost of the mistakes. You could be lucky but you could also end up with a very negative output value i…

I've been a paying customer since their early days. Their value, at least in my view, lies precisely in that they are just a file storage SaaS. They are focused on doing one thing …

no, they should not, since we already know that the contract won't stop them from using that data for other purposes and other governments. A government should act in the interest …

Maybe it's borderline because it's coming from the other direction. Corruption presumes some kind of "covertness", when you break all the rules without even trying to be discreet c…

> Choosing OpenAI does not harm the republic if we consider AIs as "force multipliers" as we do with coding agents, it's easy to see how any AI company can harm the republic if the…

Not everyone shares this view. Some have a different definition of winners and losers.

StanLLM-generated hammer: "Dear valued customer, our automated systems have flagged activity on your StanLLM account that appears to be non-compliant with our Acceptable Use Policy…

It is actively working to make the world a worse place and to degrade the fabric of society that makes them an enemy.

that's true only for as long as we allow that to be true. Users can live without Spotify (to cite just one representative of the mentioned categories), but Spotify can't live witho…

Of course. According to Andreessen if you are not optimistic and worry about the environment are an "enemy" for the bright future ahead (while at the same time he puts Nick Land in…

I think some forms of entertainment can have also redeeming qualities. A novel can be seen (also) as a form of entertainment but it can also be a vehicle for a message. The differe…

Those things happened under different historical contexts. In those times the means to control the serfs thoughts didn't exist.

At some point we'll have to admit that worse is actually worse.

There have been electoral fraud and a massive disinformation campaign operated by a foreign country. This is not democracy.

There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especial…

And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of informat…

But how to get these guarantees from the upstream vendors? Or do you run the LLMs on premises?

How do you handle the privacy of the scanned documents?

I have been thinking about these lines for a long time. Humanity would be much better if we went back to pre-social network internet, populated by small human-moderated and vertica…

The money from investors went somewhere, there are people that got richer...

If you are spending billions, surely you can bring in some people that speak both Chinese and the local language. Heck, there are even real-time translation services now. No, the p…