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Post by seanmcdirmid »

hot_gril wrote: post #201
bpm140 wrote: post #186

About a year ago, I stopped consuming news cold turkey (save technology and movie news [the former work-necessary and the latter a personal vice]). I took the extra step of banning Twitter and Memeorandum at the router level, so that I couldn't revert easily. I didn't read a single political news story in the ensuing six months. Some of the happiest months of my life. These days I will read the section headlines on M…

I went the other way, expanding the news I read to include more international stuff. Really makes me see the partisan stuff in the US as silly, so I don't get heated about it, just lazily keep up with what's happening. International propaganda is easier to spot cause I'm not living in it, which helps me identify it more at home. Anything I consider real news is still too far away to really upset me but important enou…

I only read biz/economic news religiously, like stock market crashes, bank failures, layoffs, etc…because they are more likely to affect me and I can act on that news. Business news also seems to have less bias, since they are judged on their ability to help their consumers make and retain money, rather than just cater to their cognitive biases.

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Post by pdimitar »

username3 wrote: post #258
pdimitar wrote: post #220

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Over the course of the last 3 years I found myself clicking on less and less HN stories. This place definitely feels like it lost the inventor spirit and the clever "how to" articles. A lot of stuff is either political or has very close political outcomes, and the rest is blind hype (ChatGPT won't revolutionize almost anything, and I'll stand by my words, bookmark this comment and show it to me in 5 years, I dare you…

Can you favorite the 2-3 good articles you find, so we can follow your recommendations? https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=pdimitar

Eh, favorites to me really means favorites, meaning I don't want too much in there.

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Post by galaxyLogic »

pdimitar wrote: post #251
robswc wrote: post #247

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>ChatGPT won't revolutionize almost anything, and I'll stand by my words, bookmark this comment and show it to me in 5 years, I dare you 1. I'll actually take you up on this, because I'm interested to re-visit the discourse around launch, 5 years from now :) 2. I do agree it's overhyped to a degree. I think it will revolutionize _some_ things but it could turn out like VR. I do use it every day and I don't see a reas…

My problem with the hyped up stuff, ChatGPT in particular, is that AI actually does not exist. The practitioners of the area of course have a vested interest to argue until the end of days that ACTUALLY AI does equal ML/DL and stuff but I am like "I see no Skynet so get off my back, we have no AI and that's that". :D But, I guess in 5 years we could argue whether certain progresses are indeed attributed to ChatGPT or…

It's very artificial you know. There's this connotation with the word "artificial" that it is not real, but artificial.

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Post by MaxHoppersGhost »

martin82 wrote: post #256
bpm140 wrote: post #186

About a year ago, I stopped consuming news cold turkey (save technology and movie news [the former work-necessary and the latter a personal vice]). I took the extra step of banning Twitter and Memeorandum at the router level, so that I couldn't revert easily. I didn't read a single political news story in the ensuing six months. Some of the happiest months of my life. These days I will read the section headlines on M…

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> And just recently your bodily autonomy was invaded by forcing you to take an experimental drug

This is very true and terrible

>(that has now proven to be extremely dangerous)

This is not true, how can you say this? Proof?

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Post by galaxyLogic »

muglug wrote: post #260
martin82 wrote: post #256

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That mostly-harmless virus killed upwards of 6 million worldwide

In the US alone it is > 1 million Covid deaths by now.

When anybody says millions of deaths is "mostly harmless", while the vaccine that helps fight those deaths is "extremely dangerous", I believe they have a political agenda.

Whereas healthcare professionals who give us the statistics and vaccines do not have a political agenda. They have a healthcare agenda.

So it's really not like "both sides are bad". Whoever pushes unproven facts is working for the bad side.

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Post by sacnoradhq »

No shite! :)

Actually, it's much more specific than that: outrage.

Novelty makes it more viral.

Propinquity also increases the response (similarity between reader and subject).

In terms of manufacturing consent/sentiment, people who watch more local news tend to drift their views of police and authorities to more favorably. And everyone should know what the effect is of Fox News on its viewers.

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Post by x49asvk »

IIAOPSW wrote: post #254
pdimitar wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Over the course of the last 3 years I found myself clicking on less and less HN stories. This place definitely feels like it lost the inventor spirit and the clever "how to" articles. A lot of stuff is either political or has very close political outcomes, and the rest is blind hype (ChatGPT won't revolutionize almost anything, and I'll stand by my words, bookmark this comment and show it to me in 5 years, I dare you…

Replying here so I have a url for the remindme bot. see you in 5 years.

See you in 5 years! Though I almost agree with ChatGPT not revolutionalizing anything.

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Post by IIAOPSW »

x49asvk wrote: post #268
IIAOPSW wrote: post #254

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Replying here so I have a url for the remindme bot. see you in 5 years.

See you in 5 years! Though I almost agree with ChatGPT not revolutionalizing anything.

Depends how loosely we interpret this. Do we mean online AI language models which are part of a continuous lineage tracing back to the present chatGPT will not have revolutionized anything, or do we mean that OpenAI and their product line known as chatGPT in particular will not have revolutionized anything? Let's disambiguate now so no one says we are equivocating in 5 years. I'm understanding it to mean the former.

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Post by whitemary »

Dalewyn wrote: post #188
bpm140 wrote: post #186

About a year ago, I stopped consuming news cold turkey (save technology and movie news [the former work-necessary and the latter a personal vice]). I took the extra step of banning Twitter and Memeorandum at the router level, so that I couldn't revert easily. I didn't read a single political news story in the ensuing six months. Some of the happiest months of my life. These days I will read the section headlines on M…

One of the most common bit of wisdom I've heard from older folks is to ignore the news. Don't read the newspaper, don't watch TV news, don't listen to radio news, etc.; they all say nothing in them is worth our time. It's among the most useful piece of advice I've ever had.

I don't think the reason to be informed is to feel good.
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