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Comment · 7 years ago
> Reddit got rid of default subs years ago.

The only thing in your entire comment that's not opinion and the only thing worth answering for the rest of the readers.

Despite there no longer being default subs, most of the userbase is still subscribed to default subs. Which drives activity to them. Which causes new users to subscribe to them.

The top 10 subreddits by activity are: askreddit, politics, funny, pics, awww, worldnews, todayilearned, relationship_advice, amitheasshole, memes. 8 of them were defaults. This isn't going to change any time soon as there's a positive feedback loop perpetuating it.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'm sorry you said the inversion is poor so I assumed you had a better one in mind.

Please, give me a pair of left/right wing variants of the same general concept that you think are not 'poor' and lets have a look at what that yields.

Otherwise stop saying the inversion is poor or malformed.

Comment · 7 years ago
Reddit is overwhelmingly left-leaning. Take one look at default subs like news, politics, worldnews to confirm.

Any time someone posts core right-wing views like anti-abortion sentiment or even support of homeschooling, they're downvoted into the ground. Atheism is a default sub. Opponents of gun control are downvoted. etc.

Tumblr is alt-left. A different beast entirely.

Comment · 7 years ago
You're welcome to propose a better inversion and I'll check the output and report back.

It does need to be an inversion though, not a complete change of prompt.

It's a general theme with this model though. When you try to get it to do left-wing propaganda, it has a tendency to flip back to right-wing because of the bias in the training data.

Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
There was a story a few weeks ago of screwup in IVF involving not-father's sperm combined with mother's egg by accident. The resulting child is now unwanted by the couple.

Between that story and TFA, maybe it's time for regulators to step in and force DNA testing as early as possible in the process to positively confirm the match. It already costs an arm and a leg, what's another few hundred dollars to avoid creating black mirror situations.

Comment · 7 years ago
Anonymous yes, random no, at least not that I have ever heard of. You get a catalogue of various physical and socioeconomic traits from anonymous donors and pick the one that you want. Replacing that with any other is certainly fraud.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why is DNA testing not a mandatory part of the process? I thought embryonic genetic testing for show-stopping diseases was one of the major selling points of IVF. Would that not immediately set off alarm bells for paternity/maternity mismatch?
Comment · 7 years ago
> It seems none of this turn people into peon services at behest of capitalists are really sustainable

Like the entire employment sector?

At the core of it, all Uber/Airtasker/AirBnB etc. are doing is cutting out the middle man and replacing it with a far more efficient technology. Regulations will come, but they won't undo the existence of these platforms because they're more efficient and better for everyone except the middle man.

> stealing tips in order to make them seem like they are sustainable or growth businesses

Like the US restaurant industry?

Comment · 7 years ago
What were the scandalous bits?
Comment · 7 years ago
> I haven't seen clear, unambiguous cases of abuse beyond that.

That's the power of these things. Would you know you're reading a social media comment generated by something akin to this? No, at best it would be ambiguous.

There is no way for an everyday person to tell how much of their life is impacted by ML at this point.

Comment · 7 years ago
Where did you get 500k from? They said 50k. In estimated cloud compute costs.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yep, that's the one! Thanks for reminding the name.
Comment · 7 years ago
I saw a tool that handles JS to a limited extent by capturing and replaying network requests to accommodate said JS. It records your session while you interact with a site, and is then able to replay everything it captured.

This tool was able to capture three.js applications and other interactive sites quite well.

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