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Comment · 4 months ago
Love the work you do. Happy to see the debit from my donation every month
Comment · 1 year ago
There is a new term, AI Psychosis.

AI chatbots are not humans, they don't have ethics, they can't be held responsible, they are the product of complex mathematics.

It really takes the bad parts from social media to the next level.

Comment · 1 year ago
Companies have official discords to respond to requests or questions. They attempted to call out a company (presumably US based) for this concern and got the specified response
Comment · 1 year ago
If Youtube's services (streaming/storage) are not paid for, they can't pay content creators.

When people do not pay for services directly with a credit card, they pay for it indirectly with ads and data collection. The internet would be a better place if companies didn't have to worry so much about monetizing indirectly. Plus, the only companies that can give out free services often have monopolistic intent.

This whole debate embodies why the internet has become what it has.

Comment · 1 year ago
It is very likely that you are a customer that youtube would rather not have to deal with, so the feelings would be mutual
Comment · 1 year ago
increasing friction for ad blockers will increase ad views will increase revenue.

It is pretty easy for a company whose existence depends on ads to see people that use ad blockers as leeches or freeloaders or other derogatory terms to justify making their lives more difficult.

Youtube premium is around $15, and depending on people's video usage, it pays for itself

Comment · 1 year ago
The Israeli pm that negotiated the Oslo accords (an important step in the 2 state solution) got assassinated by an Israeli ultranationalist.

It is a crazy situation they got there

Comment · 1 year ago
What are the chances they just have everyone's private keys?
Comment · 1 year ago
What AI? ML with gradient descent? Neural nets with deep learning? LLMs? Or the abstract concept of AGI that may or may not possible, but definitely isn't here yet?

Hedge funds and investment banks are already using these tools to the max, and the markets are plenty profitable for everyone

Comment · 1 year ago
I think its about sapping as much user data from competitors. A company seeking to use an LLM has a choice between OpenAI, LLaMA, and others. If they choose LLaMA because it's free and host it themselves, OpenAI misses out on training data and other data like that
Comment · 1 year ago
I think they are stupid for broadcasting the program and threatening Israel with it.

Believe people when they tell you what they are going to do. Even if Iran wouldn’t use it if they had it, threatening to use it shifts the probability for them using it.

Khomeini isn’t on Kim jong un’s level

Comment · 1 year ago
I really think the incoherence of modern reform movements (Occupy, BLM, Defund Police, etc) is the result of modern political suppression groups having enough tools in their toolbox to eliminate leaders of these movements.

Without a strong voice, the movement devolves into contradictory platforms, which results in no action.

Comment · 1 year ago
no biases detected
Comment · 1 year ago
Also, his article on why the internet is going nowhere. Definitely missed a few things
Comment · 1 year ago

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