AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off

Post by ls15 » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 11:53 AM UTC

exit wrote: post #116

ls15 wrote: post #78

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With cryptographic signatures I could at least verify that something stems from the same account that I previously agreed with, but this would require people to be able to manage their own private keys. Actually nothing would stop people from signing their own comments today and sometimes it is done. With e2ee messengers I feel pretty confident that a message comes from the right / real person after I verified their…

> but this would require people to be able to manage their own private keys a few generations ago social networking would have seemed infeasible because it would require wide spread literacy (along with many other reasons of course). widespread private key management doesn't seem that infeasible to me.

Post by jnwatson » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 11:54 AM UTC

tapanjk wrote: post #103

> but even if that hits us tomorrow, the amount of raw power that's been unlocked in the last year alone – the tech that's already here – already has the potential to change things in massive waves. If this is about ChatGPT, we should remember that it is not available in a way that you can build your business applications on top of it in any reliable or meaningful way. It is a very powerful demo of what AI can do, bu…

Post by nisegami » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 12:03 PM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #89

angarg12 wrote: post #25

Regarding the Third point, I can already see part of this movement. I've become disenchanted with the quality of the discourse. Specifically as I've entered a more senior stage of my career, I'm looking to mingle with like-minded folks in similar situations. Thing is, these folks don't usually lurk online, and even if they do, their voices get overwhelmed by the flood of (mostly low quality) content. I'd be happy to…

I've long had a theory that services that demand an upfront payment for an ongoing service will find the payment works against their growth goals and remove it. For example, businesses that involve $$$ reusable delivery containers don't work well because they want to give first-time customers a discount not a surcharge . Whatsapp was ridiculously cheap - something like $1/year - but they still decided that worked aga…

Post by citizenkeen » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 12:08 PM UTC

_as31 wrote: post #124

moffkalast wrote: post #122

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> I'd be happy to pay a fee to become a member of a community with vetted participants You better start believing in vetted online communities Miss Turner, you're in one! It may not be vetting by moderators, but HN's dated frontend definitely acts as a forcefield against many kinds of people.

I feel like Lobsters has better quality discourse nowadays though, due to its much more explicit vetting system. I am not part of that website, yet I love reading the comment section there.

Post by moffkalast » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 12:11 PM UTC

citizenkeen wrote: post #127

_as31 wrote: post #124

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I feel like Lobsters has better quality discourse nowadays though, due to its much more explicit vetting system. I am not part of that website, yet I love reading the comment section there.

What is this? My Google-fu is weak.