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sonicvroooom

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About sonicvroooom

cheap. bitter. there is no "afterlife". but there is a second. a third, an nth... just not for everyone ... how would you design that framework? be honest... sorry, "try" ... to be honest ... play THE game.

I will not engage again.

I thank those who deserve it. With a bow. And a smile.

Recent public activity

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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…