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Seems like great advice. Beyond what we think are intellectual curiosities, passion tends to be the main driver.

yes, essentially. But gets hidden behind wealthier countries tucking away the debt.

The prophecies always were about water stress and food security. How that plays out, I don't know. If it's anything like the recent energy spikes it means burdening future generati…

DDG used to have a graph showing the number of queries they did daily. It was around 100 million searches a day before they removed it a few years back. They were receiving bad pre…

Because it has extremely plausible uses beyond the example you gave. More to the point it's trained on copyrighted material, so why entertain any use at all on that front if anythi…

The point being that's the solution. I didn't say it is decentralised.

I think you're around the mark. Big tech has continuously eroded the idea of privacy and copyright and explains a lot of their market caps. Mitigating seemingly has devolved to tra…

I get "content not viewable in your region", from the UK. Not an ideal image sharing website nowadays.

Fair enough view. I would take the view that social media feeds are filled with all kinds of other junk anyway and were pre-ai.

Yuck indeed. I do find it offensive when someone uses AI in a conversational manner. It's one thing to use it to chuck up content on social media to attract eyeballs, but this is a…

Not too dissimilar to googlewhacking where you'd aim to be the only result for a search query on Google. And in a more indirect way, spamming Google's autosuggest feature to shape …

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497

Same old story of centralised algorithms being abused. Github stars is akin to 'link popularity' or 'pagerank' which is ripe for abuse. One way around it is to trust well known aut…

It'd ideally be more of a peoplerank though. I think Google discovered this problem themselves when Pagerank became a well known thing. You'd want to discard a lot of the noise in …

Ah. There's a whole generation of people who never enjoyed the Intel inside / Pentium jingle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVafplZCsjU

So basically the time it takes him to make a cup of tea he's surpassed the net worth of 99% of the world.

Using alternatives surely helps. I think so many people use Amazon because of familiarity and predictable delivery costs (free IIRC with Prime). A lot of the time other web stores …

I live in his hometown, thankfully a large chunk of the population has been aware of his story since the late 80s. He's an extremely eloquent person and has worked tirelessly to ra…

seems likely. but without a scientific method to back their claims it just becomes a 'common sense' thing.

Fair enough. It's a reasonable expectation of someone that enabled Google maps 15 years ago that enables Gemini 6 months not to understand the fundamentals of how Google treats the…

I was thinking more localised. When legislation changes happened (here in the UK) the problem disappeared quickly. The UK being an industrialised country in the context of the pare…

Yes, some things would have just stood to reason in a general respect, even if there wasn't hard science to back it up.

That long ago. Surely that helped identify it as a problem even though the science behind it would have been lacking.

A necessary (?) part of progress IMO. Environmental hazards have been a thing for a lot longer too. Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example. Part of th…

I did. Specifically the part about "When you enable the Gemini API". This doesn't take into account that people may have had years old forgotten about other services they use.