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> At least in this configuration ads are separate from answers. As a frog would say: at least the heat is separate from water, for now.
Funny that people still perpetuate the myth about boiling frogs; they absolutely jump out at a certain hot enough temperature regardless of how slowly it is heated.
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When I walk around my increasingly billboard-infested hometown. I observe that almost every ad actually nudges me in some way: whether I should switch internet providers, whether my financial strategy is fine, what kind of scam this tabloid newspaper is running, etc... I believe most people are influenced by these constant micro-impressions far more than they realize. My best defense is to build a resentment towards…
> I believe most people are influenced by these constant micro-impressions far more than they realize. Your feelings are fair, but if this were the case then we'd see far more consumers changing their preferred phone/electricity/TV provider on a regular basis, and we could correlate this with (lagged) advertising spend. But there is very little evidence for this. Like, I have a doctorate in psychology, and behaviour…
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May I interest you in Jevon's paradox: if a thing becomes cheaper or more efficient, usage tends to go up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
How will increased energy use from *carbon-neutral sources* cause climate change?
Even though you do have less greenhouse gases to trap the heat, you will be pumping more of that heat into the atmosphere, seas and oceans, warming everything up.
You're removing one aspect of climate change but not all aspects of it, still affecting the climate and ecosystems.
Also, for example, we still can't fly passenger and cargo planes with electricity for now, so you won't be able to remove all greenhouse gases, yet.
Look at the data [0]. Yes, energy production and heating is the biggest contributor, and even if you manage to remove it completely with the transportation sector via electrification, half of the emissions are still there.
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1. Open AI reported 900M+ weekly active users in February. [0] 2. Consistently ranks as the 5th most visited site. 5B+ visits last month. Only Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram rank higher. [1] [0] https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/ [1] https://www.semrush.com/trending-websites/global/all
Those numbers seem in conflict. 900M active users per week, but less than 6B visits in a month. Those users don't seem very active.
I don't mind it if they bring me a top-notch model for free
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Did you go out of your way to buy a non-Chinese-made phone? You technically have a choice there, but not much of one. About as much of a choice as you have in the search engine business.
Like I wrote, and what you seem to say again here, I agree that it is unfortunate how tough it is to be an ethical consumer these days.
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But companies tightly coupled to the White House are fair game? Seems pretty inconsistent.
It is not really inconsistent. Despite all the flaws of the current US government, USA is still a relatively free democracy. Russia is a full-blown fascist dictatorship. Russia is also a much more acute threat to me than Trump's USA, because I am from central European country formerly in Soviet Union's sphere of influence, that would be next on the chopping block if Ukraine falls.
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Why is the Ukraine war the only war that matters? Shouldn't we also stop helping prolong the Iran war? I'm not diluting one event - I'm saying we need to care about all wars.
It matters within the context of this comment thread about a company using assets from specific state commiting genocide that had caused more than 2 million casualties in 4 years. We're talking about cities razed to the ground, more than a thousand medical facilities destroyed, and of course the systematic and deliberate attempt destruction of a culture - just because they wanted to be a sovereign democracy.
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These comments feel like llm authored astro turfing…
You know who else sounds like LLM from time to time? ESL - English as a Second Language. People learn English from books, and get introduced to phrases through reading or interacting with others within the same community. So, it sounds like you're using the LLM argument as a way to diminish their voices as well.
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You know who else sounds like LLM from time to time? ESL - English as a Second Language. People learn English from books, and get introduced to phrases through reading or interacting with others within the same community. So, it sounds like you're using the LLM argument as a way to diminish their voices as well.
That's because many (most?) LLM chatbots were pre-trained by Kenyan ESL people