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Comment · 7 days ago
I suppose the implication is that you cannot presume human care with evidence of LLM use, it's considerably more likely that it's an indicator of lack of care, unfortunately.

It's like saying "but a lot of human care goes into factory made X" when comparing it to handmade X. It starts on a lesser footing unless evidence suggests otherwise

Comment · 20 days ago
Neurogenesis slows for a similar reason
Comment · 28 days ago
4% of my disk on a computer with soldered storage hardware?

Is the marketing really getting this good?

Comment · 1 month ago
If the safeguards are this bad, yet they hire the best in the world, the only explanation is that it's deliberately and carefully engineered to happen
Comment · 1 month ago
Nothing here, UK
Comment · 2 months ago
I think the presumption of harassment is a little telling, but if your post was in good faith, merely advertising people's cars (as in the group pays for ad space etc) freely and legally very much like the musk plane tracking app would have the desired effect
Comment · 2 months ago
Why would I use this over browser version or CLI
Comment · 2 months ago
If you think Microsoft is generous, you are extremely naive. LLMs and their produced content are less interesting to MS because they don't present original human data for training.
Comment · 2 months ago
Ublock Origin's creators are absolute god-kings for their consistent work to help me (for free) not be forced to engage in psychological conditioning all day via my eyeballs. I never used to have an issue with ads, but because of capitalism, they simply cannot exist without cancerously taking over everything. They start as a banner, then before you know it, you have full screen unskippable paywalls to the content, with extreme discomfort placed on the user with deliberately engaging bright colours and sudden sounds played without my consent. Sure, if I like the product such as facebook as a free platform I might consider a premium licence for some conveniences, but adverts are simply the direct representation of societal rot for profit. I paid for netflix, then eventually they started showing me ads on netflix. It never ever stops.
Comment · 2 months ago
Peterson before he went nuts covered the research on this quite bluntly:

Lifetime earnings is most strongly predicted by IQ, then conscientiousness. So those with both are considerably more likely. Social connectedness is entirely dependent on personality as well - extraversion predicts this, and extraversion also predicts ones interest in financial incentives rather curiously

Comment · 2 months ago
Linkedin used to be good(ish).

It's offering was: "Talking about my CV/resume and engaging with potential employers have to be so stiff, corpo and outdated. Why can't it be more casual and easy to do like a Facebook Bio but still usable? Also, business cards suck and get lost. Another thing, working in <insert industry> is demanding and going to networking events is awkward and too full on. I wish I could maintain connections and have occasional conversations with people and actually remember who they are"

This worked for a while. In 2012 to 2015 getting jobs entirely via recruiters and conversational interactions on LinkedIn often led to interviews and other things. Then they started needing to make money, so adverts became a thing, the premium became a thing, then marketing departments caught up and started aggressively promoting crap, then later influencers arrived, and now AI. It's a death by 1000 cuts, it's fundamentally made out of low-stakes dishonestly from people just trying to keep their career going. But the end state is that it's probably the most dishonest social media platform to date. When you have Instagram and Facebook to compare it to, that's quite an achievement.

Comment · 2 months ago
It's almost like a claudeism
Comment · 3 months ago
They did a small set of tests with one Pilot IIRC?
Comment · 3 months ago
I read this in Linda Hamiltons voice
Comment · 3 months ago
Power consumption?

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