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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by creatonez »

rwmj wrote: post #706
creatonez wrote: post #693

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So Rule #0 is be silent about the absolute shitshow you are running away from, even when that shitshow is about to ruin many more lives? I think that reflects more poorly on someone than a break in pro-corporate decorum.

Yes, it's exactly that. Most likely as she was a senior executive she'll have signed an NDA containing a "non-disparagement clause". That's the deal with the devil that you make in return for being paid $millions each year. Edit: A few examples of these clauses: https://contracts.justia.com/contract-clauses/non-disparagem...

Doesn't prevent you from reporting to the authorities the flurry of illegal activity Twitter has likely engaged in. And if you're someone with ludicrous wealth... become a whistleblower and then fight NDA enforcability or pay the settlement if you have to. If you have any guts to put others over yourself and your terrible employer.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by fastball »

calmbonsai wrote: post #988
fastball wrote: post #675

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Yes, owners of companies obviously control them. That doesn't make the CEO a figurehead. There isn't a company in existence where the (hired) CEO has more power than the person who owns the company .

In order: - No. There are many companies that have board mandates such that one single entity can never have a prima facie super-majority of voting power. - Yes it does. Under this structure, the CEO has no voting power on the board or right to initiate matters before it. Usually, a CEO has at least 1 vote and that right. - Not true in corporations where there are distinct cohorts of stock classes such that the owner…

- I didn't say a single entity, I said "owners". In the case of X there are many owners, Elon Musk with the most power. Nobody who is not an owner controls the company, which is what you would need to demonstrate to invalidate my point.

- A "figurehead" is someone who cannot make meaningful decisions / impact. This does not automatically apply to any CEO who does not having voting power on the board or with shares. You can very clearly run an entire company in a very real way without a single board seat or share. Many CEOs have done it in the past, many will do it in the future. Just like how you can be the manager of an auto-repair shop without owning a bit of it and you're not automatically a "figurehead manager".

- A CEO who owns a majority of preferred shares is in fact the/an "owner" of the company. One owner having more control than another is obviously not the purpose of this conversation. The question is whether a hired CEO without voting power (whether via the board or with shares) is automatically a figurehead. Demonstrating that a CEO can be an owner with more power does not change that, because the question is about CEOs without meaningful ownership. This is obvious to anyone not trying to create a "gotcha".

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by defraudbah »

_23sd wrote: post #962
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #918

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Because a lot of tech sucks lately? Everything now is just new kinds of ways to spy on people or the same old shit repackaged in a new format. I'm dying for some actual innovation. The only new product in tech I actually like lately is the Steam Deck and later, the Ally X. Making PC gaming mobile is incredible, and I guess you could say there's nothing revolutionary there, but I dunno, it's new at least and not flagr…

I think the person you replied to was just mad their opinion was unpopular, but your comment really does seem excessively negative. All the new tech sucks? We just got tech that can write an email, code a simple program, and potentially more. We got laptops with battery life measured in days that generate almost no heat or noise. We’ve had some awesome advances in memory safe programming languages. All sorts of hacke…

yeah, I am mad :D, actually quite fine with people disagreeing and throw _hit at me. What I am not getting is why every opinion people disagree with gets downvoted, Maybe I don't understand how voting system is supposed to work here. What's wrong with grok becoming a mecha or liking new twitter payout model? I think it's fun and helps people, why be angree about it?

I can flame asses here and have fun, but I don't want to, I want people to be happy and enjoy their life.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by defraudbah »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #918
defraudbah wrote: post #887

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HN has become a new reddit :D I have no idea why people are so negative here

Because a lot of tech sucks lately? Everything now is just new kinds of ways to spy on people or the same old shit repackaged in a new format. I'm dying for some actual innovation. The only new product in tech I actually like lately is the Steam Deck and later, the Ally X. Making PC gaming mobile is incredible, and I guess you could say there's nothing revolutionary there, but I dunno, it's new at least and not flagr…

> Because a lot of tech sucks lately?

people are negative because tech sucks lately? ahahaaha

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Post by taurath »

baby wrote: post #482
taurath wrote: post #172

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There's no technical reason that one couldn't move from platform to platform and link identities - the restrictions around IP and platform lock-in only benefit the platform owner, ensuring that competition will be stifled rather than the platform made useful for its users. The sad part is that ad networks know more about our connections across platforms than we're allowed to.

how do you move platform when you have >10k followers on twitter?

If you can be found on any other platform, your followers will be able to follow to those. There’s no benefit to being on one platform.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by baby »

taurath wrote: post #995
baby wrote: post #482

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how do you move platform when you have >10k followers on twitter?

If you can be found on any other platform, your followers will be able to follow to those. There’s no benefit to being on one platform.

Things you can say when you have 10 followers on twitter

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Post by lukas099 »

empath75 wrote: post #853
lukas099 wrote: post #388

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Could you use one LLM to filter out such bad training data before using it to train another one? Do they do this already?

You don't actually want to filter out "bad" training data. That this stuff exists is an important fact about the world. It's mostly just fine tuning to make sure it produces output that align with whatever values you want it to have. The models do assign a moral dimension to all of it's concepts, so if you fine tune it so that it's completions match your desired value system, it'll generally do what you expect, even…

Interesting, thank you.

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Post by lowsong »

dinkumthinkum wrote: post #873
lowsong wrote: post #863

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Unfortunately the Economist has shifted from "center right" to "far right" over the past few years, along with a general decline in reporting quality.

Is this actually serious? This is pretty unbelievable and I can only wonder if it is parody. However, I am also aware that some can be so far left that they they think other leftists or even far leftist are mad right wingers but that is a very delusional level of thinking. I don't see how even a plain reading of their article headlines could yield that conclusion.

I appreciate that when you're on the extreme end of far-right anything less extreme looks like "leftist propaganda".

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Post by CydeWeys »

fourside wrote: post #899
CydeWeys wrote: post #869

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I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years. It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

Sadly there's a bunch of interesting communities on there that aren't really available anywhere else, plus some of the competing platforms are even worse just in different ways (though their ads are for sure better).

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Post by gorwell »

rtkwe wrote: post #251
gorwell wrote: post #188

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X is still ground zero for news, and it saved free speech. In the fullness of time and distance it will be viewed by historians as one of the most important events in history.

Your post gets shadow banned for the word cisgender on X... the only speech it saved was low effort trolling, misinformation and hate speech. Musk's version of free speech is just changing the dials on the moderation machines to boost speech he prefers and shadow ban speech his doesn't.

Not the same. Posts get reduced visibility and reach for using slurs, and Twitter used to go further and delete slurs and even ban the poster.
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