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The root cause? You've missed the giant elephant that's standing right there in the room. It's strange how the elephant managed to make itself invisible. I agree the elephant shit is really bad and really stinks, we should do something about the shit, but we should also do something about the elephant.
What's the elephant? I feel like we agree, but we're talking past each other.
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What's the elephant? I feel like we agree, but we're talking past each other.
Either a “veiled” political jab, or someone implying that money is the elephant, and as soon as we cure that pesky human nature thing all the problems are solved.
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You misunderstand what I am saying. I LOVE reading and learning. What I said what I like to tell the bots to give me a python snippet to do a chore, and explain to me how they are doing it and teach me along the way, and document the functions so i can learn, and read them and know what they do, For example, and HNer posted their VanillaJSX Show HN: today - and it had some interesting UI demos -- so I am right now bu…
But why would you use AI for that when it's inferior to the Flask docs and the VanillaJSX example code? I've written projects with ChatGPT in the driver's seat before, you end up spending more time debugging the AI than your software. For topics like history or math I would expressly argue that relying on AI as a study partner only makes you dumber. The way it represents code really isn't too far off either. Again, i…
When I pickup a hammer, I dont expect it to build the actual house. But when I Intent and WIllfully use it on its designated task, its the same as weilding a GPT/AI - you have to be really specific.
I admit I totally agree with having to debug the code that it generates. But since I know how to goad it into my intent for learning a thing.
Also - I wrote up extensively about using a discernment lattice to attempt to corral the AIs "expertness" as much as possible to keep it on a subject.
I also force it to use, cite and describe sources I tell it to use when I am telling it to be an expert.
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I've opted to just incognito the majority of my browsing. Likewise it's annoying to keep logging in and sometimes I wish I had something from my history. On the other hand, I never have to worry about cookies
Except even incognito persists and shares cookies across all incognito sessions for as long as at least one incognito window is open. Cookies will not be erased until you close every window.
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Ads literally dictate what you see online. They don't create the desire for power and influence, but they do create the structure for achieving power and influence.
You think ads are the only way for power and influence to be achieved?
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You only have to mess up once. Google has programs where they can identify budding extremists and correlate behavior to medical diagnoses without HIPAA exposure. If your secret weird shit that you’re doing with Tor is of interest, they’ll eventually get a profile. Using Tor is like setting off the bat signal.
what is this program called? The fact that we tolerate this shit is unbelievable.
They did similar work with ad campaigns to defuse individuals who were in danger of becoming extremists, etc.
Why would you exhume an 11-year-old article full of half-information about the state of a fast-paced arms race?
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Autodelete is old tech if you ask me. If you open the sites before the autodelete happens, then the tracking still happens. Temporary Containers is an addon that solves this elegantly.
Block third party cookies will end most tracking. Block their JS and you get the benefit of a faster browser.
