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sonicvroooom
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About sonicvroooom
I will not engage again.
I thank those who deserve it. With a bow. And a smile.
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Comment #48871879
> to appeal to a wide audience. ... to appeal to the widest of audience(s) at the same time. > filtered and averaged ... feeds, websites, news, ... everything is filtered and avera…
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Comment #48862597
> We have not yet seen* the kind of large-scale, individually targeted psychological manipulation that cloud AI products can deliver. We did. Pre-WW II ..., and afterwards, the old…
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Comment #48861965
The mother of social media is free TV. We tend to forget that both, the social and the media part, input and output, are interpersonal, first. Ad targeting doesn't need improvement…
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Comment #48860934
... and shouldn't this backfire hard? All the signals that are missed by the (f)MRI are never "mirrored" in the digital twin even though on screen it will look like it. Bam, Experi…
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Comment #48013653
yeah but that's a way they want you to behave in order to set up a control group within the target group that continues to behave as expected. the questions to be answered are not …
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Comment #48002789
> emotional dysregulation Not having enough sex is hard to formalize as a diagnostic criterium. Joke aside (which is on me), I have doubts that it's about psychiatry being an epist…
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Comment #45810547
vectorized thinking in vectorized context is math. coding logical abduction into LLMs completely breaks them while humans can perfectly roll with it, albeit it's worth emphasizing …
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Comment #45810505
depends, they definitely didn't build "the streets" they plaster with ads but if it's their channel or their website, it's up us to pay for blockers, put effort into doing ourselve…
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Comment #45810428
it's a form of slavery when someone is profiting off the looong and hard, concentrated work of others without reimbursing them adequately. that's why piracy Robin Hood Style is fin…
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Comment #45794685
one single noticeable ad and I'll drop all AIs right away.
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Comment #45794657
You mean the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine? How much did you (or anyone) hear from them in the past 15+ years?
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Comment #45794637
bus factor.
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Comment #45794611
200 good software and marketing engineers that ignore studies and fight for a good, evolutionary rational cause ... as good as they make proxy farms for scraping ... damn ... so mu…
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Comment #45679741
Just another step in cultural and cognitive speciation. Brains & bodies, the minds that run on them, as well as the levels of consciousnesses with their context-switched/hopping aw…
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Comment #45338946
You understand it's "just" "that".
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Comment #45338941
You still know the truth. Without the necessity for quotes.
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Comment #45338937
If you did not get poisoned as a child.
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Comment #45338933
I don't understand why people are afraid. Rape. Torture. War.
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Comment #45338922
because I would be right. Especially if you were one of those mythological economists
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Comment #45315952
I second that. > short, simply constructed and direct [sentences] require an honed writing skill; a finely tuned feeling for language, reading flow and contiguous thought; and whil…