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He may be right that people self sensor to keep a clean image of themselves in the eyes of their peers, but Orwell did not live in a time of cell phones.

If you people still don't believe you're all under deep surveillance, after Assange and Snowden leaks, then you all are mentally ill.

We now know that this government is willing to subvert the first amendment by forcing shadowbans. Orwell's books doesn't come anywhere near what the current government does. Just because you all aren't in interment camps now doesn't mean they won't use the data they gather to be used against you in the future.

So now people that want to speak their minds are either censored by the sheep that downvote or the government that forces censorship.

> Meyer's mother, Joan Meyer, collapsed and died one day after police raided her home.

So will the Stasis be charged for manslaughter? Oh right this government is totally corrupt.

Agreed with everything Feynman wrote. Monkey see, monkey do.

Even if someone questions what everyone else believes is true because "scientists said it", they will only be downvoted and censored.

Can we all please start building decentralized tools now.

Stop giving these crap companies power over you and your data. You don't know what they'll do with your data in the future (think George Orwell).

As we can see these companies can out of the blue force other companies to delete their old articles. There goes freedom of speech just to rank higher on a shi*y search engine that no one smart even uses (I use brave search). Then again, these companies kowtowing to Googl mainly write for the brainwashed sheep. I personally don't use any of their privacy invasive analytics on my blog.

Strange that you got downvoted for stating that people should have power to hold politicians accountable.

Look at the top comment and see how illogical it is:

> I'm happy to pay a premium and be locked into their walled garden for some things if it means supporting a company that has the power to shift policy in favor of human rights (privacy in this case).

Morons like this actually believe taking away human rights and privacy will make them safer. News flash, the danger are people in power that can't be held accountable. Lastly, be skeptical of anything Apple says as they work together with governments to take away your privacy. Psychopaths will say anything to get you to trust them.

Yes these companies use tricks to get you addicted to using their low quality products for as long as possible and spending as much as possible.

But people fail to realize that the bigger issue resides in society. These people are escaping reality to virtual spaces where they feel they have power or have value.

Just look around you and you'll see what these people are escaping from. Churches at every corner spewing out lies and hatred. Propaganda spewed out by governments on the television. etc.

These people are searching for a safe space away from the cancer that is society. Prove me wrong.

Why is everyone ok with ChatGPT scraping Reddit's data and selling it back to you for a $20/mo subscription, but cringe at the thought of Reddit making a profit from their API?

If anything the users creating the content should be the ones being paid.

Your neural nets (which are not intelligence) and 3rd party apps wouldn't work at all if normal people didn't take their time to post useful content.

Great read for beginners. I've read about Robert Fano being the creator of Project MAC that turned into MIT's AI lab (CSAIL).

I'm sure AI will end up the winner in compression in the end.

I began my journey into functional programming a couple months back with Erlang. Interestingly this language helped me truly comprehend the functional like ways of Rust.

My only gripes would be that I've had to switch to Elixir as it's more developed for web development. I actually like the syntax of Erlang more (I don't come from Ruby) and it's a shame that they're split. Also, in Elixir, I attempted to write the fibonacci sequence using memoization and the solutions I saw online were horrendously ugly. Maybe it's because I'm still a beginner but I did see an example in Haskell and it looked so much cleaner.

I love how simple the actor model is and how it just works in Erlang. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Is he referring to writing code or books/essays?

For code I think he's forgetting that the people using ChatGPT to write code for them aren't really good programmers. These are mainly people using frontend frameworks that have horrible documentation and use ChatGPT to help them parse the garbage into something that just works. These people would never learn a functional programming language or any assembly. They simply copy the tech that others are using in order to stay employed. What type of code could these type of people, on their own, without ChatGPT produce that is actually useful for others to read or use?

I love how on mobile Brave browser you can add YouTube videos to your Brave playlist and then play them while your screen is locked.

Also I switched from StartPage to Brave search, but I do wish Brave search had a translator feature. Like on StartPage I just search "translate" and get an input box. I find it better than most other browsers' translators.

I didn't listen to the entire podcast, but I'm sure he didn't mention a single thing about Aaron Swartz one of the co-founders.

Edit: at the 34:00 minute mark he mentions him.

Obviously I'm not condoning clicking on your ads a few times to get the payout. My account got banned and I haven't used adsense since. Everyone uses adblockers anyhow now... But to PERMA ban someone for this small offense (compared to actual fraudsters that use malware to get ad clicks) is insane.

Especially when your company basically controls the internet. I'll repeat what I said before, Google pick on someone your own size.