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Is there anything that prevents Kagi from doing an OpenAI and going for profit?

> completely excluded from their social circles. If it does, then I'd argue those weren't their friends to begin with. I believe you underestimate the power of being "in". Even if …

Yeah that's fair. I still don't believe that it's worth it, with the exclusion from their social circle causing a bigger health issue than social media, but I get it.

Sure, but the natural consequence is that they will be more inclined to distrust society, authority, and vote for anti-estabishment populist parties. To quote a great man, we live …

Fair. I suppose a "highest upvote" kind of feed would also be acceptable - so we don't kill reddit or hacker news

Agreed, the problem is capitalism /s But seriously agreed, that's why I propose what I propose - when it's banned no-one can do it and no one can eat your lunch (*) (*) Subject to …

The funny thing is, they don't even have control. They can't push propaganda. They can just accelerate human desire. Through all the brain rot they have created, they didn't even g…

> I think you're putting too much emphasis on The Algorithm. It's a problem, and I agree it's probably the worst offender, but similar problems were observed decades ago with child…

> Why not educate the users about the dangers misuse and abuse lead to the attention span, instead of banning things? Because social media is precisely in the short term benefit x …

Yes!!! That's why I would ban just the "addiction-optimized psychological experiments". I would also ban them globally, not just for kids but like I'm sure that would be a whole 'n…

> I don't think DARE-style assemblies for both students and parents would be the worst idea to warn both groups about the risks of these platforms, provided they were done honestly…

> why is it so hard for society to consider treating smartphones, social media, and highly-immersive video games like MMORPG's, with essentially all of the same effects, the same w…

To be honest I would, if only to be consistent with the above policy.

Because phone is just a box of wires, without apps it's inert. It's the apps, which corrode everyone's attention span. And unlike weed, I doubt there will be "algorithmic feed" dea…

I never said ban platforms? TikTok, Facebook could still very well exist and still make more money than any of us ever will. Just without the brain rotting engagement algorithm

For what goal? Just for them to get instantly addicted once the ban is lifted? For them to lack any communications with their friends and to be excluded from their social circles d…

No. It's not the smartphones that are the problem. Smartphones are a wonderful invention, capable of connecting anyone anywhere. It's the apps, which overcharge everyone's (not jus…

> just go back to having some sort of Debian-based GNU/Linux on a smartphone Two years of full time engineering man hours > Just create a really great mobile interface on top of th…

I wonder if the memecoin promotion helps the Argentinian economy at all https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=milei-memecoin-promotio...

> Its like vegans "quitting" meat. Not a cow was ever saved by this gesture. There are sufficient cow eaters to make such a gesture irrelevant Oh? Do you vote? Because there's suff…

Yeah fair. In unix tools I usually lean on AI too. But also pandas has much better docs than man pages tbh. Maybe pandas is just simpler than the unix world hah

Perhaps there's something wrong with traditional docs, how we write them, when junior devs are so insistent on using AI?

I always die inside a little when junior dev at my company uses Windsurf to tell him how a specific pandas function works. Like you're just using it as an expensive documentation r…

I would argue the exact opposite. Language specifics you can look up and confirm easily. But recent gpt-4o tried to convince me that Python added a pipe operator in 3.13. Even had …

But opening the interface would be horribly insecure though. People could make competing products to Apples own offering!