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Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by halyconWays »

swader999 wrote: post #378
halyconWays wrote: post #278

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Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. I suppose there were warning signs, like every previous Internet technology eventually being used for advertising.

Just wait a couple years when truth becomes too difficult to discern. Fairly easy to plug up forums, science journals, YouTube etc with whatever narrative you want once AI gets a little better.

It's surely already happening now. Nietzsche worried about The Last Man, well, I think we've reached and passed The Last Dataset. Everything from here on out has some subset of once-digested AI slop, and each iteration will include more and more. Like an image that's bounced back and forth between two mirrors, we'll get further and further from ground truth. Maybe everything will tend towards the latent space equivalent of a grey blob.

Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by consteval »

alsetmusic wrote: post #365
hnpolicestate wrote: post #348

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The HN crowd is far right but they would never admit it. Most people are unaware of how political parties shift in composition and ideology over the decades. The contemporary American software engineer resembles the professional class Reagan Republicans who dominated the suburbs in the 80's and 90's.

Center-right, I'd argue, but that's true of the Democratic party. HN is very far from far-right in that bigotry and racism isn't tolerated here (nor should they be). But HN is USA in origin and USA politics are further right than most of Europe.

Sure nobody says slurs. But I see misogyny and what I would classify as racist every time I'm on hackernews.

Complaining about Indians, complaining about women. But they don't even know that's what they're doing so you can't say "hey stop being sexist". They're surrounded by men all the time, of course it will never click in their heads.

Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by dfxm12 »

object-a wrote: post #184

It's funny because Facebook's news feed in the last couple years is unusable, filled with AI slop and clickbait. Twitter similarly requires aggressive use of block + mute to eliminate scams, clickbait, and other content I'm not interested in. I don't know if this is due to their changes in moderation policy, or if AI has overwhelmed them, but I vastly preferred the old news feeds

It's a combo of AI making it easy to flood the feed with engagement-bait (that you aren't interesting in engaging in) and users who post stuff you would engage with leaving the service or simply not posting that stuff anymore.

What's frustrating about Meta, and probably other companies that run social media sites, I'm sure, is that no matter how many times I swipe away posts I don't like on Threads, which is marked as a signal to show me fewer posts like this, I still get served similar posts or posts from the same account. Blocking takes too many pokes, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. :)

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Post by kcb »

skepticATX wrote: post #427
kansface wrote: post #313

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> I think this is a great idea personally given what these people are doing to avoid paying tax I very strongly believe you to be wrong: 1. Unrealized gains is unworkable. Billionaires will spend tens or hundreds of millions yearly to avoid paying literally billions in taxes because the expected value is net positive. The IRS won't win chasing down money scattered across the globe. This is not a productive use of cap…

Why does no one read the actual proposal before commenting? It specifically states that this only applies to individuals with 80% of their wealth in tradeable assets. No founder is going to lose control because this doesn’t apply to them!

Surely that would just mean no IPOs ever again right?

Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by infamouscow »

lispisok wrote: post #538
Gud wrote: post #400

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That Facebook would turn into a soft core porn site was pretty unexpected, at least for me.

That seems to be what every social platform eventually turns into

Like all other physical systems, social networks are subject to entropy.

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Post by kcb »

andy_ppp wrote: post #120
Terretta wrote: post #119

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Do "these people" include entrepreneurs with equity in startups with rapidly increasing value but no way to take money off the table? It doesn't take much to cross "$100m in assets" as a startup, say, $2.5M in revenue at 40x valuation (or $5M at 20x, etc.), even while loss-making. How should the founders and equity investors in a bootstrapped high growth unicorn that is neither public nor profit-making handle this pr…

> Do "these people" include entrepreneurs with equity in startups No it doesn’t, you’re arguing using a straw man here. They need to be publicly traded securities to be taxed as I understand it. Also paying taxes is a public good, even if you’re exceptionally wealthy.

So no more publicly traded companies. Now they only way to invest is to be in an elite social circle.

Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content

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Post by jjeaff »

h3rsko wrote: post #395
somewhat_drunk wrote: post #359

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>he sees the tea leaves in where things are headed in November Things are headed strongly in the opposite direction you're implying.

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What polls have trump in the lead in the swing states right now? I haven't seen any high power polls that have trump in an obvious lead.
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