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Low trust world, I guess. If I'm poking around to see whether I like something or not, no way am I giving it a real email.

this is a _very_ false dichotomy

The problem with facebook isn't that individual users sometimes do bad things on it's platform.

Compare to trademark genericization, where a brand name becomes the word for a whole product category, and loses trademark protection because our use of the word is more important …

> This will be easily proven by people moving from Reddit to an alternative. Or disproven by not moving to an alternative. This ignores the nature of network effects. The value of …

In regards to the idea of reddit rent-seeking - the primary value of reddit is not something they create, it's something they _host_. It could be anywhere, but by dint of network e…

I was absolutely not using the term in a legal sense. Is "commons" even a legal term? I suppose I should have said "should be a commons" - as in, a publicly generated and maintaine…

We could fight about the actual value of the CPU, HDD, network, etc is. Not literally zero. The manpower to keep it running is a stronger argument, but I still think it's missing t…

I keep seeing people talking about chatgpt hallucinating when it's wrong, but not when it's right. Maybe I've misunderstood, but isn't it just always hallucinating? It's not like t…

I've seen this conversation before, but I've never been clear on what exactly the consequences of the SSO are. I imagined, it might be that the provider gets an IP address when you…

What precisely are the consequences of the third-party auth? Is it, they get an IP ping each time a device connects or does anything? Or, does that only happen once, but they can r…

> sperm rates in women remain constant

> Remember, you're part of the government. This is a really important idea, and I don't think I've seen it expressed so clearly before. Thank you.

Easy: anyone who isn't specified gets the higher rate.

Exactly this. Assuming that shadow-profiles are derived on-demand, the only way to "delete" one would be to delete the datapoints it's built from. We know that facebook can use con…

> The majority of people need a truck a few times a year at most. There's a big grey area around the word "need". The list of things that can be done with a truck, that can't be do…

From outside, there's no fundamental difference between a good argument and a persuasive one, even though they're ideally orthogonal. If there's an argument that seems good, and yo…

We don't need it to simulate the universe for a billions of years. We just need it to simulate your belief that it happened for a couple of seconds.

Bet you I can!

Doors it follow that everyone wandering into that radius for the same text?

Ha! Bet they don't. This is exactly how superstitions are made.

Well, I mean, you have to consume enough power to get a jumbo jet up to cruising speed.

Alright, but now you trust that person. Which might be fine, but as an exercise in paranoia is not the greatest answer. As a social proof, somewhat better - create the opportunity …

But, at some point there must be trust. If you don't trust software, you can try to sandbox it, but now you have to trust the sandbox. This devolves very rapidly. Open source at le…

Systems designed to prevent black swan events need to be evaluated against a higher standard than "there haven't been any since we started". That's not success, it's exactly what w…