The term blacklist comes from the term black book, which originated in the 1400s as a reference to "a list of people who had committed crimes or fallen out of favor with leaders". It is called that because King Henry VIII used a literal black book. Not everything is about skin color. Not everything is about American racial dynamics. Stop projecting your issues on everything.
The black book was basically an accounting book. Stop twisting history to suit a narrative you'd like to be true.
How is that twisting history? It being an accounting book fits with the definition of blacklist.
Has the US downgraded to a third world shit hole that people/companies tend to be concerned with this kind of stuff? Disclaimer: I live in such a place and this is normal.
Zilla here (one of the Sad Bastard Cookbook authors). Thanks so much for your support ... I'm lowkey dropping "front page of Hacker News" when I talk to Amazon Service reps now, in the vague hope they have any power to actually help me. I think I've reached at least one real person, but in the days of AI voice chat, who can tell? Many of you asked why we use Amazon as the exclusive printer/distributor of the print ed…
Indie publisher here. Sorry to hear about this. Among the numerous frustrations that publishers and sellers report when dealing with Amazon, automated lockouts are near the top of the list. Inability to get a clear explanation or knowledgeable human support are close behind. I always tell other publishers that Amazon's seller tech is like a rickety roller coaster with lots of kludged together components - built to go…
Thank you for the advice! I'm sad to hear it hits indie publishers as well as self-pub, but I guess that's the way.
>My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Maybe not. If you go by the screenshot of the email from Amazon in the Mastodon link, the book was removed for violating "Community Guidelines" instead of the actual content of the book itself. This is the "Community Guidelines" url in that email: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... So taking Amazon's reason at face v…
> So taking Amazon's reason at face value Having dealt directly with managing abuse and handling account terminations, the reason you are told is never the actual reason. As annoying as it is for the 1% of false positives to not get a straight answer, the net effect is the 99% of bad actors don't know what they did to get booted - which means they can't adapt as easily.
Major [citation needed] on that 1%/99% separation there.
> Domain experts get the most out of it. The average person really can't use it well. This is the exact opposite of what research has shown so far. Top performers show productivity _decreases_ with LLM assistance, lower performers and less experienced users show a modest improvement. [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161
I reckon the midwit meme applies here. Noobs think AI is amazing. Midwits who never bothered to try to leverage it or can't evaluate it or just regurgitate what they hear think it's shit. I wager these people don't create much so they don't have a domain to really apply it, so they rely on others to report how good/bad/useful/shit it is. Then there are creators or tinkerers who've leveraged AI to do obviously time-sa…
So what do you find ai so useful in that you are an expert in?
> Domain experts get the most out of it. The average person really can't use it well. This is the exact opposite of what research has shown so far. Top performers show productivity _decreases_ with LLM assistance, lower performers and less experienced users show a modest improvement. [0] [0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31161
I reckon the midwit meme applies here. Noobs think AI is amazing. Midwits who never bothered to try to leverage it or can't evaluate it or just regurgitate what they hear think it's shit. I wager these people don't create much so they don't have a domain to really apply it, so they rely on others to report how good/bad/useful/shit it is. Then there are creators or tinkerers who've leveraged AI to do obviously time-sa…
Apologies for the double response. I hope you have an example of something that you can, as an expert, validate the consistent accuracy of. It would be useful to hear of others experiences that contradict my own. I’m not saying ai isn’t useful for exploring unfamiliar concepts to get ideas of things that can be researched more deeply but this fits more in the “newb” category you describe.