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Must be one hell of a prototype.
Made out of exquisite aluminium I’m sure. Use a white background, throw in as many verbs as you can and duck all the money thrown at you I guess.
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The only people I’ve ever known who actually thought Reddit ever really mattered was people in the HN sphere. Anecdata, but still. In terms of value per minute spent, it’s the same tier of slop as TikTok or Instagram, and I think most ordinary people hold that same view.
The organizations/nation states/whatever who astroturf on reddit disagree with you. It definitely matters in shaping opinions. It's not as influential as tiktok of course, but that doesn't mean it's not influential.
I think people are more critical in this discussion though, so that an apparent consensus may be interpreted by the user as the thread being bot-infested rather than there being a consensus. Thus it may be harder to get a result there, and the really interesting people that you may want to affect might actually be immune because they approach the medium as critically as it should be.
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Really? My perception (and their metrics seem to back this up) is that “normal people” are really on Reddit now. It’s the #7 most visited site in the world. It exploded during the pandemic - not just a site for internet nerds anymore.
Not even a site for internet nerds anymore. Reddit isn’t for me any longer, when they break old.reddit.com I’m done with it, I go weeks without commenting as it is.
Is there actually a thing or product here they're talking about / they made / making?
Yes, in the video on OpenAI's website, they reference a product that Altman is testing at home created by Ive. No, we can't see it yet. And there's not much description, either. Just that it's the "coolest technology that the world will have ever seen." Altman: "We have like magic intelligence in the cloud. If I wanted to ask ChatGPT something right now, about something we had talked about earlier, think about what w…
What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…
Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.
Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations!
[1] I took a strong interest in biochemistry in college and I'm no longer religious.
OpenAI announcement: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
The whole thing is almost indistinguishable from satire, without the domain name I'd have thought I'd been had. The photo, the text, the video where Sam nearly looks like CGI, and then the quotes at the bottom really make for a full package of cringe.
You truly couldn't make this up, it's so beyond parody that I don't even know what to say. It's so palpably psychotic.
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Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.
Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemis…
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One of the most informative posts here. I thought that since Altman's coup the no profit status wouldn't be a problem.
It's interesting I posted exactly this hypothesis an hour or so ago and immediately got flagged despite not being manifestly offensive or anything. Very suspicious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054452
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>something most people talk about shamefully, if at all Only if you go there for rage bait content. Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.
until you get shadowbanned. my 15+ year account is dead because I logged-out of the iOS app and logged-in to the web app on my phone, it triggered the suspicious/spam filter and boom I am dead. tried many times to get it restored, no dice. the funny thing is the only indication that this happened was keybase alerting me that my proof was gone. I can login and use reddit as usual, but nothing I do has any effect. It's…
But what is keeping you from making a new account and rejoining the same subreddits, except perhaps losing a hundred million magic internet points?
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Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.
Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemis…